LET SCIENCE HELP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 January 1926, Page 4

LET SCIENCE HELP

much avoidable waste sjj; fkank heath's impressions of australia Sir Era nk Heath, secretary of the Department ill' Scientific ami Industrial Research in Ureal Britain, who lias been \isiting Sou til and Western Australian, returned to Melbourne on December 21th. convinced In- what he liiul seen thai Australia is beginning to realise the vital relations between science ami industry. Not all liis ini|>ressions were satisfactory unscientific methods ami management on the farm, tnid in the factory, were the cause of much avoidable waste -but he was pleased to see ,m idenec of tile sound application of science to both the primary and secondary industries. In Western Australia. ' Sir Frank Heath said, he had found a, \erv promising little industry growing up in Perth. Perfumes and essences were being admirably produced, and he had also been impressed with the seienlilie metallurgical works at Port Pirje. ,'S.A.i. So far as gold mining was concerned, the declining nereen'age of gold ill the reefs meant thai the struggle to save the industry would be seven;: but he believed that the industry could lie saved, and e\eu developed, by the application of the most modern scientific methods. Those in control of the industry recognised the dillieulties connected with the problem, and already experiments were being conducted with the Mutation process. ■lf successful. that process would be employed in place of the cyanide treatment generally in use. Sir Frank Heath will arrive in New Zealand at the end of the month, and will. after en<|lliries throughout the Dominion, report to the Ooveinment as to how. in his opinion, science may assist secondary industries in this country.