SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1820, 11 January 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

NEW ZEALANDEBS SPEAK.

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M<>k 10urue > Jan - 10 - A£ the Science Cong. res S' Professor Kirk (Wellingtoii) in bin » residential address to the biology sect/ 0 . 11 dealt with the present aspect ol some problems and heredity. Mr C. J. Reakes, of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, contributed a paper on "[Notes of the Investigation of a Nutritive Disorder of Ruminants—the so-called Bush Sickness.'' j

POPULATION PROBLEMS. PERIL OF PORT DARWIN. Received 12.15 a.m. Professor Wickens, of the Federal Statists' Bureau, dealt with investigations into infantile mortality, said it was disclosed by the Commonwealth experience for the decennium 1901—1910 that of a total of 100,000 males born i 87,620 would reach the age of five; while of 100,000 females the number so surviving would be 69,289. » Professor Henderson, dealing with the question of rational selection, said it needed only a sufficient number of strong peacably disposed nations to sign a treaty to make it practicably impossible for warlike nations to take the aggressive. Professor Baldwin Spencer, lecturing on the Northern Territory, said it contained about four aboriginals less than 4,000 people in a total area of 523,000 square miles. There were only 346 whites at Port Darwin, while a few days' sail away were a group of small islands containing thirty-seven millions. Seeing these one had fears of what might happen in the near future.