“FIGHTING WITHOUT BLOOD”

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1933, Page 7

“FIGHTING WITHOUT BLOOD”

SCIENCE PROGRESS CONTINUES. IMMENSE PACIFIC PROBLEM. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Victoria (8.C.), June 1. The fifth Pacific science congress was officially opened to-day, 160 delegates from all parts of the world attending. Dr. H. M. Tory (Ottawa) in the presidential address emphasised as the greatest contribution of the congress the fact that the economic, scientific and social problems of the Pacific area were being viewed as a whole by groups of men hitherto viewing them only partially with a local outlook. He declared that the growing co-operation among the scientists of the Pacific countries was merely an illustration of the growth of an international effort in science generally.

Dr. H. E. Gregory, director of the Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu, speaking on the immensity of the Pacific problem, said that it was too great for any one country or institution to handle. Professor G. I. Taylor, of the Royal Society, on behalf of Great Britain, stated that while the more violent fonts of nationalism were destroying advancement science continued to progress. Professor G. van Eferingen, representative of the Netherlands, was applauded when he asserted that “scientific men fight, but when they fight no blood flows.”

The delegates were given a rousing reception by the Federal and provincial representatives.