INQUIRY ON SCIENCE
Comment By D.S.I.R. Heads <NZ Press Association.) AUCKLAND. July 11. It would be a catastrophe if the promised inquiry into science was merged with the proposed inquiry into the Public Service, said three leading scientists of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Auckland today. They are Mr J. B. Brooke, director of the Auckland Industrial Development Laboratories, Mr J. D. Atkinson, director of the fruit research station. Mount Albert, and Dr. E. E. Chamberlain, director of the Plant Diseases Division.
Commenting on the report that a science inquiry “has already been held," they called for action in setting up a body on the lines of the recent Parry committee into university affairs. “We cannot yet comment on the implications of the report that an inquiry has already been held to consider the conditions under which Government scientists are working in New Zealand," they said. "We can only hope that some improvement is in prospect.
“However, we do hope that the importance of science in developing New Zealand’s agricultural or manufacturing industries has been fully realised, and also the urgent need for the c<untry to take positive steps to retain a fair proportion of its top-rank scientists on many urgent problems.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29563, 12 July 1961, Page 9
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