INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE.
AUSTRALIAN POSITION. DAIRY RESEARCH NEEDED. • SYDNEY, March 23. Reporting to tho Prime Minister on tho encouragement of industrial science, Sir Frank Heath, Swretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London, recommends that tho present Australian Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry bo re-constituted at a cost in the first year of £40,000, in the second year £50,000, and ultimately £IOO,OOO. lie says that less scientific work has been done in Australian dairying than in any other branch of agriculture. Ho urges tho necessitv for attention being given to bettor and more cheaply-produced wool; declares that Australia should not only be self-sup-porting in timber, but also a large exporter of it, and favours an institute to bo established under special scientific officers, with an agriculture section attached, which should in tho first instance be a dairy research institute, also with food, forestry’, fuels and fisheries sections, and later such other soctions as may be deemed necessary. —Press Association.
Sir Frank Heath has also mado an investigation in New Zealand in respect to the application of science to industry.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 97, 24 March 1926, Page 7
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