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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14837, 14 February 1919, Page 2

Speaking at the Science- Congress in Christchurch this week, the president of the New Zealand Institute, Dr. L. Cockayne, said New Zealand was above ■all a farming community. Many of nature's secrets of 100 years ago were now the priceless possessions of man. Those, when more- . generally applied than 'at present, would make our fields yield a much greater return. That would *;be a great advance, but without the discovery <jf further fundamental principles, now unknown, .agriculture would only reach a stage far from perfection. Our scientific duty as a nation was not only to apply to the best of ■btir ability our present knowledge, but, •by means of purely academic investigations, to discover further fundamental - principles on which the greatly-im-proved farming of the future would depend. Flatulency and acidity of the stomach in young children is corrected by Sharlanjd'B Magnesia; 1/3 per bottle everywhere. — 1. The Halifax Herald, which is controlled by a member of the Canadian Senate, points, out that Canada was in the war before some 'pi the nations which participate in the Peacp, Conference had; any intention" of lighting ; that the Canadian Army is bigger than that of Belgium, Servja, (Greece, Iluidania, or Montenegro, and ite' losses grea t t<B.r ) than those of the United States. It insists that. in these circumstances to deny Canada a. voice in the conference would have been an insult. ' Sharla-nd's Magnesia is . parti cularly soothing when the digestion is disturbed and them is a nasty tastr. in the mouth ; 1/3 per bottle evor.v where. — 5.