SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

MANY MATTERS DISCUSSED,

UnitPd Press Association. MELBOURNE, Apgust 21. The Science Congress discussed the question of wheat diseases and the production of wood alcohol, which is claimed to bo of most fundamental importance to Australia, as alcohol ; must become the fuel of the future. j The Botanical Section discussed the : re-vegelation of Krakatoa, where all plant life was destroyed by the great ] eruption of 1883. It was stated that j vegetation is now almost impenetrably | thick. Dr. Armstrong, the medical officer | of a portion of Mandated Samoa, told i the conference that the natives there, j owing to the introduction of civiilsa- ; lion, were replacing their healthy huis I with corrugated iron structures, and j also wore European clothing without understanding the necessity for changing when wet. In tiio discussion on terrestrial magnetism it was asscried 'that the variation and consequent chart errors in some parts of the Pacific have been I found so great that similar errors near j the shore might easily lead a ship to foundering in foggy weather.