Research Economies Deplored

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1933, Page 6

Research Economies Deplored

NOT TRUE TO BEST NATIONAL INTERESTS WELLINGTON, Last Night. The economies effected in research work in New Zealand were deplored in his presidential address by Mr B. G. Aston, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute. ‘ ‘The nation is not true to its best interests that allows either its educational or research facilities to be starved,” he said. Mr Aston was reviewing the annual of the 'standing committee and the National 'Research Council. He remarked that it was "satisfactory to know that the finances of the institute were in a sounder. position than for many years, although it was the result of rigid economy on the part of the finance committee. The of the research grant

was required if research, workers were to receive the encouragement they deserved. “We are not the only institutions to have suffered in these times,’ ’ proceeded Mr Aston. “Ail of us must have regretted losses and the restriction •of work suffered' by such institutions as Massey. College and the Cawthron Institute. The nation is not true to its best interests that allows either its educational or research facilities to be strained. Research is not a luxury to be indulged; in merely when we are prosperous. It is. a necessity to be most insisted on just when we find it most difficult to provide the means. If our faith in intellect as an investment were what it. ought to be and equal to what we findin many other places, provision for research would not be the cause to suffer first and to suffer most frpm the *• advent of diminished prosperity.” -