AUSTRALIA READY TO CO-OPERATE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 13 January 1937, Page 10

AUSTRALIA READY TO CO-OPERATE

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 12. Closer co-operation between Australia and New Zealand in scientific research under Government auspices was referred to by Senator McLachlan, Commonwealth Minister in charge of development, in a speech at the opening of the Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. The Commonwealth Government, said Senator McLachlan, was particularly. interested in the congress, because it afforded an opportunity of establishing .closer relations between the scientific administrations of both countries. His own presence was to promote and further that family feeling which already existed. "We realise that there are many problems common to both Dominions," he continued, "and that those problems can best be _ elucidated by closer co-opera-tion. Co-operation obviates overlapping, it makes for economy, and it enables us to pool the results of research for the common weaL The Commonwealth Government is especially 'grateful to the Government of New Zealand for readily proffered cooperation in respect of scientific and industrial research, and it is prepared to consider any proposals involving modification or extension of the arrangements to this end which already exist."