SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19275, 13 March 1926, Page 13

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SIR F. HEATH'S REPORT.

INQUIRIES NOW COMPLETED.

VISITOR PRAISES DOMINION. [bs telegraph.—press association. ] WELLINGTON, Friday. Sir Frank Heath, Secretary of the Brit ish Board of Scientific and Industrial Re search, who was asked to advise the Gov ernment as to how in his opinion science can best assist industry (primary and secondary) has completed his inquiries and forwarded his report to the Government this afternoon. The Hon. R. F. Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs, after welcoming Sir Frank at a meeting of the Board of Science and Art to-day said the members of the board knew their visitor occupied a very important position in connection with the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. He was in New Zealand at the special request of the Gov ernment on a mission in which the board had the greatest interest. The high repn tation of Sir Frank in the industrial and scientific world had long been known to New Zealanders and'the consent of the Imperial Government tn allow him to visit the Dominion was received with special gratification. There was no doubt this country would benefit from intense researches. The Minister added that he was looking iorward with real interest to the report, If Sir Frank could point to our weaknesses and instruct ns how to overcome them, as no doubt he would, he would be ding invaluable service. Every and manufacturer in New Zealand owed a duty to his business. That duty was to improve the quality of bis «n»*wt and the work under his control and keep on improving them. In like manner every workman owed a duty to his craft to improve the quality of his workmanship and keep on improving it. The limit of endeavour was not reached in a day or a year. Sir Frank Heath said there was no part of the world outside his own country where he felt so much at home as he had done here. New Zealand was the most beautiful country he had ever seen. There might be other countries with some .grander features but he knew of no other country in which the same amount of variety of beauty was to be found, at any rate in anything like a similar area. Although he could not- foreshadow his report he thought he might quite properly say that what he pleaded for was a spirit o! co-operation. There was so much to be done and if the authorities would pull together enormous progress could be made, That was really, he thought, the key of success in the future in every possible field.