Agricultural education and research in New Zealand

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The Presidential address provides an opportunity for the president of organizations such as ours to express publicly his ideas and opinions on any matter with somewhat more weight than they might otherwise carry. This privilege must therefore be taken with due humility and circumspection, for it is not unusual for statements to be weighed solely on the standing of the person making them, without reference to his special qualifications for doing so; nor, unfortunately, is it rare for people well qualified in certain spheres to make seemingly authoritative statements on things about which they know very little.