SERVICE OF MAN

Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 8

SERVICE OF MAN

GOVERNOR congratulates royal SOCIETY SCIENCE NOT THE CAUSE OF IMPOVERISHMENT [Pea United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, May 16. Being unable to be present at the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, Lord Bledisloo lias sent a message of greeting and congratulation. He says that he is disappointed that public engagements in Auckland district prevent his attending the inaugural meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, hitherto called the New Zealand Institute, of which he is privileged to be the hon. patron. He mentions that this is the sixty-seventh year of the society’s useful existence, and in this year “it becomes revitalised under a title more befitting its status and record of worthy achievement.” Ho says if the application of science to human industrial operations has created a surplus of productive wealth, with resulting human impoverishment, the fault lies, not with the scientist, but with the economists, financiers, industrialists, and, above all, the statesmen of the world.

He expressed the hope that, under its new appellation, the society would not only augment its already high prestige, blit enjoy to an ever increasing extent the confidence and respect of the community at large.