INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 12

INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

NEXT CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON. By Telegraph—Press Assooiafcjm. Auokland, February 23. The Industrial Corporation Conference was concluded to-day. The following resolution was carried: "That in view of the necessity for tho closer co-operation of science and industry with a view to a quicker industrial roconstructon after the war, tho Government he urged to give an early and favourable consideration to the need for placing at the disposal of tho laboratories in the four centres a sum sufficient to enablo scientific staffs to carry on investigations on behalf of tho manufacturers who first obtain the recommendation of a local Industrial Association on such terms as may be decided." "That in view of the present restrictions' on various industries due to the shortage and subsequent High prices of commercial timber and the ■practical certainty that these restrictions must be further increased owing to tho rapid depletion of the native milling forests, the Government be strongly urged to hasten provision for a scheme of afforestation and conservation of timber trees which will bo sufficient to provide for tho imperative needs of industries and national life." The conference recommended _ tho early establishment of- an Advisory Committeo on Afforestation,' cither vi conjunction with the Lands Department or a separate organisation, but with definite powers of control to deal with the matter on an economic basis.

Officers wero elected as under: — President, Mr. F. J. Evans (Wellington) ; secretary, Mr. H. F. Allen (Wellington), the committee of the Wellington Association to act as the executive. The next conference was fixed for Wellington. ■