IN TIME OF STRESS
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH. PROFESSOR'S STRONG PLEA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. In his opening address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute to-day the chairman, Professor H. W. Segar, said in timu3 of stress other nations turned to education and research, but in New Zealand there was apparently an unfortunate tendency to deplete severely the resources of education and research. Research, said Professor Segar,' was not a luxury to be indulged in when times were prosperous. It was a necessity to b6 most insisted upon when it was most difficult to provide the means. If faith in intellect as an investment was what it ought to be, research would cot be the first cause to suffer. Professor Segar referred to losses sustained during the year by the scientific world, mentioning particularly the death of Sir Donald Ross.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 3
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