Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 30 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.40 aim.), Sydney, August 30. At the Science Congress Hr. Easterfield delivered an address on Phorrnium Tenax and its importance for the countries of the Pacific. Ho said that seven to ten thousand tons of phorraiuin leaf were supplied annually to paper factories. The product was thirty per cent stronger than from woodpulp. Ho added that the industry supported more pooplq per m% of area than dairying, the returns over a period of several years being higher. The Attorney-General decided not to file a bill against Heaydon on a charge of pysprision, a« there was insufficient evidence to go before a jury. The Science Congress passed a resolution urging the necessity for pan-Pacific countries giving, immediate attention tc* planting; in* view ot the approaching. world’s shortage of coniferous woods. The Congress also passed a resolution that the Commonwealth should extend the scope of the.'Science Institute by the establishment of a, forest products laboratory, A number of papers which wore read, dealt with .the origin and history of coral reefs and their investigation from aeroplanes; and also the progress made in forecasting earthquakes. With respect to.. the last mentioned. Professor Ernest Hodgson, of Ottawa, said some writers declared that small hut sudden yieldings in rock probably precede the earthquake. .Simultaneous records could b© produced daily by tremors on the seismograph, which were probably less frequent than disturbances on “the microphone records.