VETERINARY SCIENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2571, 4 August 1909, Page 5

VETERINARY SCIENCE.

DISCUSSED AT THE A. AND P. CONFERENCE. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 3. At tho conference of the A. and P. Societies to-day, Air. Wilson (president) spoke at length on the need of agricultural training, and the necessity for doing something to advance veterinary science in this country. If there was a chair of agriculture in Christchurch, he said, it was only a short distance to Lincoln College, where demonstrations aud experiments might easily be carried out in conjunction with the authorities there. If in Wellington, there was land at Trcntham, or there was an experimental farm at Levin, which could easily spare a sufficient area for experimental purposes, conducted by a professor of agriculture. If in Dunedin or Auckland, arrangements could be made to get land without difficulty, either by gift or, if nothing else was available, by renting a portion of a farm. “If,” he added, “our co-opera-tive experiments are to be extended, as I think they ought to be, how are you going to get. trained men to conduct them?” He also argued as to the need, for a chair of veterinary science, and failing that, he outlined a scheme for sending two students (scholarship) by tho Government to Victoria each year to study under Air. Gilruth, until the number'of students was ten. He showed that for an annual expenditure ot £750 we would bo in a- position of securing two colonial graduates of veterinary science every year for State work, and further, that the expenditure would bo ultimately recovered. :Ho believed that the Union Steamship Company would grant fares at reduced rates, and he hoped' that the couteionce would not rise before it had taken steps to put before the Government tho wisdom of starting such a scheme as lie had outlined.