SCIENCE CONGRESS.
OPENING SESSION. SOLUTION OF PACIFIC PROBLEMS. United Press Association. MELBOURNE, August 14. ' The speeches at the opening session of the Science Congress urged the importance of scientific co-operation in solving the problems of the Pacific and adding to the world’s scientific knowledge and resources; and also as a method of securing a better understanding between nations, thus making for international peace and goodwill.
Professor David urged the importance of the Congress as representative of a population of 400,000,000 around the shores of the Pacific 'as by bringing them closer together through a joint study of the same problems they would help towards making the Pacific in truth the Pacific. The French, \ American, Japanese, Netherlands and British delegates expressed similar sentiments.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15315, 16 August 1923, Page 8
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