MINERALS AND BRAINS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 18

MINERALS AND BRAINS

Dominion’s Loss To Overseas

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, December 8.

“Your pride in asserting that New Zealand exports some of the best brains in the world is justified, but you don’t seem to know when to quit,” said Captain F, L. Losee, of the United States Navy Dental Corps, acting director of the Medical Research Council’s dental research unit, during his address at the University of Otago medical and dental graduation ceremony today.

“Over the last 10 years you have been exporting to other countries, primarily Australia and the United Kingdom over one trained productive scientist a month, with very little replacement from overseas or from the honour graduates from the universities.

“This is not good, because New Zealand must accept the responsibility as -a nation to develop her own scientific effort to meet her own particular problems,’’ he said.

Captain Losee said New Zealand was also exporting and losing much of its mineral wealth. “The income of New Zealand depends primarily on the sale of various products whose raw materials come from the soil,” he said. "These products, wool, butte#, lamb, and others, you send overseas and they contain a great deal of your mineral wealth. “If these products were all reduced to their mineral, ash by burning off the organic material In a furnace, there would be a minimum of 78 million pounds of vital minerals leaving' the country every year, never to return to New Zealand soil.” Japan’s Cabinet (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) TOYKO, December 8. Mr Hayato Ikeda tonight announced his new Cabinet. He reappointed Mr Zentaro Kosaka as Foreign Minister, but made a number of changes in the administration. Mrs Nasa Nakayama. Japan’s first woman Cabinet Minister, was replaced as Welfare Minister by Mr Yoshi Furui. Mr Hideo Suto became the new Minister of Agriculture. entrusted with the task of reducing Japan’s farming population by 60 per cent, as promised by Mr Ikeda in election campaign speeches. Port Still Congested More rain, more ships arriving and a labour shortage,- have combined to keep the port at Lyttelton congested. Several ships were without labour yesterday and others were only partly manned. The 6104-ton Norwegian motorvessel, Talabot, which arrived yesterday morning, anchored in the stream.