SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Nov. 1. Sir William Clark, Comptroller-Gen-eral of the Overseas Trade Department, pointed out to the Research Committee of tlie Imperial Conference that the primary object of the Imperial Institute was the dissemination of economic information relating to minerals and to animal and vegetable products. Dr. Hill, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, declared that its scientific work now would be better known and recognised overseas than in Britain. They were giving special attention to the production of solid camphor in the tropical colonies and to high-yielding rubber trees and a strain of bananas resistant to Panama disease.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1926, Page 11
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