SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
VALUE OF INDUSTRY WORK OF IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. (A. and N.Z.) LONDON, May 13. Baron Stanley of JWderly, in the House of Lords, urged a wider use of the Imperial Institute for Scientific Research. He recommended the wool trade to follow the example of the cotton spinners and make a levy for research.
Earl Balfour, in defending the suffiency of the present research bodies, mentioned the saving of a loss of £250,000 yearly by the discovery that Australian apples on shipboard were virtually dying of suffocation for want of carbon dioxide they were exhaling. This was discovered as the result of the Food Council’s investigations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 11
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