THE ROYAL SOCIETY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 5

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

USEFUL EXISTENCE VICEREGAL MESSAGE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Being unable to be present at a meeting of the council of tho Royal Society, Lord Blcdisloc has sent a message of greeting and congratulation. He says that ho is disappointed that public engagements in the Auckland district prevent his attending the inaugural meeting of the council of the Royal Soiccty, hitherto called the Now Zealand Institute, of which he is privileged to be patron. He mentions that this is the sixty-seventh year of the society’s useful existence, and in this year “it becomes revitalised under a title more befitting its status and record of worthy achievement.’’ I-Ie says that if the application of science to human industrial operation has created a surplus of productive wealth, with resulting human impoverishment, the fault lies, not with the scientist but with the economists, financiers, industrialists, and, above all, the statesmen of tho world. He expresses a hope that under its now appellation, the society will not only augment its already high prestige, but enjoy to an ever increasing extent the confidence and respect of the community at largo.