N.Z. INSTITUTE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18347, 2 April 1925, Page 9

N.Z. INSTITUTE.

LARGER GRANT WANTED.

MINISTER SYMPATHETIC. (r&ESs association' tkumxjlk.} WELLINGTON, April 1. A deputation from the New Zealand Institute waited upon the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. B. F. Bellard) to-day to ask for an increase ia tho Government grant. .

Dr. Marshall said that the Institute represented the whole body of K»htifie thought and activity ia the BUdiion. It had branches ia the larger centres, and these brandies comprised men who devoted all their spare tun* to scientific research and peedeeed papers embodying the remits «f ttsir work, which were published ia tit* "Transactions of the lastitat*. 5 ' It was tho only body ia New Zalud that published the results of really scie*tific research and its "tiwattiwi" were the only source whenee butltto as to these results could be derived. It had been objected that the researches in question wera purely «lihiid tais not sufficiently practical, bat it was impossible to distinguish with certainty between academic and practical seicfttific research. For instance, the gmt frozen meat trade of the Doaaiaioa was entirely built up oa the results of the so-called academic reaeareh. Ia tho latest volumes had beoa published the valuablo research work done lor the officers of the Agricultural Dtpiil—< and of the Geographical aad Surrey, but if the Institute had Mrtt been in existence the results af this would have had to be pnMimhcd elsewhere. From its estabfisfcsMHt w 1869 up to the present time tho Xnstitute had published aa animal MfatM tf its transactions. The pentin a«w was that they would either have to ieda*® the yearly volume to one-half Hi present size or publish every alterant* year only. Either course, he would be disastrous, in no sawdl <fay*e to the cause of science. The pctMßt grant was £IOOO. In 1869 they I®® * grant of £SOO. It was raised afcon* 1917. The cost of printing per post 3b 1869 was 14s 2d, to-day it was £1 Ii» 2d. ' The Minister: Then you are Mj iyy getting as mueh as you did ia ISMf Mr Elliott said that he was engaged in the frozen meat trad* aad knew the great value of scientific research in connexion with this gwa*

primary industry. Tic Hon. G. M. Thomson quoted tmm the appendix of the "TraMMttoM •* the Institute" particulars as to Ut

valuable research work done MM ago bv a doctor who w» tint BcgO" trar of the University of New Zwltti, upon the scale insects of tie That research work, he Wi tfce basis upon which to-day our ers and farmers and others *wt ing to keep down seal® iaaeeta. Another doe tor "had devoted all W* spare time to an invtßtijsttoa grasses in this country. The Minister, in reply, said tkai

was very much impressed by tkt MfM* sentatious put before him. "Gemtlemon." stated Mr Bollard, ;4 I uWJ interested in the research work the Institute is undertaking. The Kf«mt

you made I shall have to isbnit to Cabinet for consideration, bat I rU assure you that what yon nfdt will have my support, for I realise the great value of the work the Institute doing both for young studeata aad the country as a whole. I trill trial I can, gentlemen, to asaist you wit!* regard to the representations you iiv? made."