VALUE OF RESEARCH
GREATER USE ADVOCATED
ADVICE TO WOOL TRADE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.i (N.Z., and A.P.A., and Sun.) (Received May 14, 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Lord Stanley of Alderly, in the House of Lords, urged a wider use of the Imperial Institute for scientific
research. He recommended the wool trade to follow the example of cotton spinners, and make a levy for research.
Lord Balfour, defending the. sufficiency of the present research bodies, mentioned tho saving of a loss of £250,000 yearly by the discovery that Australian apples on shipboard were virtually dying of suffocation for want of oxygen to replace the carbondioxide they were exhaling. This was discovered as the result of the Food Council’s investigations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16340, 14 May 1927, Page 5
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