OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 RESEARCH WORK

Opunake Times, 19 January 1934, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 RESEARCH WORK

Sir George Julius, president,of the Australian Commonwealth Council, iu recent remarks on the problems confronting Australia and New Zealand, stated: —"In my opinion neither countries have yet begun to touch the gravest of all problems that face them—that of the impossibility of finding employment for the great majority of the boys now leaving school. The position simply in. vites those who cannot find work to 'go led' and their parents to "go red' too, and is enough to wreck any country." Sir Julius is on right lines when he states "we must make country life more at« tractive." .New Zealand can do a great deal by the settlement of unused lands. It is also a good defence to a country's national welfare. The meanest of natives will defend their homes —even if Ihe land only grows a few salt bashes. .Research work in Australia, said Sir Julius, co-operated with industry, to a larger extent, than, appeared the case in New Zeaand. The executive of the Carnegie institute has recognised tliis and has made provision and set up an Educational Research Council and appointed a capable set of gentlemen to the Council. This council, "divorced from political control and associated with the Carnegie Research associations of America will be of great benefit to this Dominion.