The cornerstone of the Citrus Pavilion, the first of a group of buildings to constitute the Agricultural Experimental Station of the Jewish Agency on its transfer from Tel Aviv to Rehoboth, has been laid in the presence of a large gathering. Speeches were delivered by Dr. Arthur Ruppin, member of the Jewish Agency Executive, Professor Warburg of the Hebrew University, and Mr. S. Tolkowsky, of the Jaffa Fruit Company.
A cable message was read from Dr. A. I. Kasteliansky, the donor of the Pavilion, who is understood to have given about £3,000 for the purpose. In an address outlining the programme of the institution, Dr. Wilkansky, the Director of the Experimental Station, reported that three tracts adjoining Rehoboth have been purchased for the Station by the Jewish National Fund, the buildings to be situated near the Railway Station where the experimental dairy, supported jointly by the Empire Marketing Board and the Jewish Agency, has already been functioning for some three years. Experimental field work in poultry-breeding, agronomy, horticulture, rural economics, etc. is also to be centralised now at Rehoboth. The institution is connected with the Hebrew University.
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