POWER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 2 July 1924, Page 9

POWER.

Thirty-Nine Countries Confer. PRINCE OF WALES SPEAKS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.55 p.m., July 1.) LONDON, July 1. Thirty-nine British and foreign countrios, including Australia, the Gold Coast, Kenya, Now Zealand, Nyasaland, South Rhodesia, and South Africa are represented at the first world power conference at Wembley which is to last a fortnight. The Conference is presided over by Earl Derby. Visiting experts will enlighten Lheir fellow delegates respecting the potential resources of each country, in hydro-electric power, oil, minerals, and scientific questions.

The Conference will discuss the establishment of a world bureau.

The Prince of Wales made a speech at the opening of the Conference, and Sir Joseph Cook replied on behalf ol the Dominions. The Prince of Wales said the occasion was a most important one, and might prove to be the commencement of a series of conferences whereby the combined knowledge and judgment of the world would be devoted to the solution of the many difficulties confront ing the world in the science of research and economic progress. The study of power was still comparatively in its elementary stage; so far no international effort had been made to ascertain The part that power played in the present industrial structure. There was much to support the belief that weakness of the social and industrial structure was due to the inefficient and inadequate use of power. Utilisation of the results derived, and scientific investigation were not universal, and this was one of tho greatest obstacles to world progress. Ho hoped that the results of the conference would contribute to harmony and the economic progress of the world, and that international co-operation would emerge from the realm of ideals into the realm of political utilisation.