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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14592, 21 December 1917, Page 2

Speaking at a gathering of the Otago and Southland Ironmasters' Association, Mr J. Louden said that the whole of New Zealand was teemirg with riches. . It seemed to him ridiculous that the Government had done nothing fco help research work. When a request was made to the Government to assist in that direction, a paltry £250 was placed on the Estimates. In Australia it was suggested to put £500,000 on the Estimates for research- work. If the New Zealand Government would provide £100,000 every year for the purpose, it would be the best way in which the money could be spent. Surely the Dominion was rich enough to provide for three students at £'60t>-a year each in the North Island, with three in the South Island on the same terms, all devoting the whole of their time to research work and to the promotion of the potential industries of the country.

Preaching at the Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch, Dean Oarrington said that xhe recovery of Jerusalem might well ' prove to be one of t'ho greatestevents in the world's history. J-Jedid not, know what the military significance was, but che moral significance oi the achievement would be realiscci by all, especially among the nations of the East. Personally, he was greatly impressed by the wide improbability of the event. Had anyone in-Christ-church four years ago declared that ihe New Zealand armies would be now taking their share in the recovery of Jerusalem, he would have been laughed aside as a crank. But the great wonder had happened: The third act of the world's great religious: drama had opened. The first act' had concluded with' the Crucifixion, and the ..second with the sweeping '-"-away of Moslem mastery": of the Holy City. *