BRITISH ASSOCIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5

BRITISH ASSOCIATION

ERA OF DISCOVERIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable ikssociation) LONDON, September 19. Sir Oliver Lodge, summarising the results and value at the present British Association meeting said that he sometimes thought that we were living at the beginning of a new Newtonian age. one that was making discoveries every week. \' e were living in an extraordinary period of discovery and physical science. The discoveries in the last 23 years had been so numerous that he could scarcely keep up with them. ]f this rate of progress continued, who could gauge what the future held? THE SLUM SCANDAL. LONDON, September 19. At the Economic Section of the British Association, Mr. J. J. Clarke, of Liverpool University, described the question of slum dwellings as the greatest of all our problems of a. social or economic nature. He gave many samples of the terrible overcrowding of Liverpool and its suburbs. He' mentioned that 597 persons, 319 of whom are over 16, are occupying 163 bedrooms in one district, with an average of four persons to one bedroom. In another, a man, his wife, and six children occupied one room. He urged the organisation of the nation for a war on insanitary slums. The Government should take the unemployed between the ages of 18 and 20, and recruit them into Royal Engineers, in the form of kcuse-build-ing battalions.