SCIENCE AND LIFE.
MAORIS IN NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE DOCTOR'S PRAISE. Australian and N. 7.. I'rcss Association. (Received August 11. 5.5 p.m.) HONOLULU. Aus. 10. Dr. A. W. Osborne, of Melbourne, speaking at a dinner of the Pan-Pacific Science Council, urged extreme caution in efforts to prevent reproduction by defectives. He said such measures would have prevented the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Pulleinc discussed tho influences of nature and nurture as bearing on the medico-legal aspects of crinie. Sir James Barrett, of Melbourne, discussed the advantages and disadvantages of nationalism. He praised New Zealand's solution of tho Maori problem. He condemned the principle of self-determin-ation as advanced at the Peace Conferee*,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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