Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 86, 16 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

Press Association —Copyright, (Received 1.15 p.m.) Melbourne, .August 16. The Science Congress adopted resolutions urging upon countries bordering on the Pacific the importance of uniformity in publication of maps and rapid progress in survey of the ocean floor, vecommenging co-opera-tion by each country undertaking such work in its respective region. Another resolution expressed the urgent necessity for a geodetic survey of Australia, in connection with papers dealing with insect pests it was stated that.a low estimate of : Australia's loss'from the wood borer was three, milliong. annually. "Pests were being imported i" foreign woods, which proved a deadly menace in other countries. A strong uote of warning was also uttered against the danger of importing annual diseases. The discussion on agricultural research stressed the value oi results thereof and the need impressing forward research and education in agricultural subjects. In the geodetic section Dr. Brach. of Batayia. announced that a tidal movement had been detected in the solid crust of the earth. In the anthropology section Professor Habberton, of Tokio University, declared that it was. a mistake to think the Malayans and Polynesians were peoples of the past and were fast dying out. The census of the . Malaj*- Archir pelago showed ever-increasing returns. , The population now totalled over/ fifty millions. However, Australasia need. f ear "o overflow of population from Java, which easily fed its people.