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SCIENCE AND ART

' ' "A ■ : '. : MEETING OF THE BOARD

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

The Board of Soicnce and Art mot at the Dominion Museum yesterday. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister of Intornal Affairs) presided, 1 and the members present were: Tho Hon. G. M. Thomson, Professor T. Easterfield, Dr. J.. Allan Thomson, and Messrs. G. P.. Moriran, ll.' P,' von Haast, and G. S. Ewcn. Mr. J. Hlslop, Under-Secretory of Internal Affairs, was also present.. ■>- ;

:Tbe Minister,' in the course of his (renins; address, referred to the development of industrial .research. The Government might not be able to do much in the matter' this year, but the ■ financial.- pusition might be easier)next year. The/Government had decided'that Dr. Allan Thomson should bo sent as the New Zealand delegate to the Pan-Pacifio SolentiHc Congress at Honolulu. Cabinet did not consider' It necessary that:he should extend Wb vißlt further at.present, since.there waß no early prospeot of a new Dominion Museum belnpr built, and a report regarding museum designs would not be immediately useful. The study of voloanolog'y /ought" to be pressed; and he , was prepared to ask Cabinet to do souiothing in this matter. He would- not recommend tho Government to undertake expenditure In connection with the.toloscopes presented by the Lick Observatory. The cost of installation would bo about £6000, and the annual cost would bo In the neigh'.Marhood of £3000. ■'.Ho would have no objection to any organisation undertaking the work provided that It did not como to ths' Government for monoy.

Turning to the question of industrial research, tho Minister 'said'that he would do his best to, porsuado the; Government to provide more money; for scientific/and industrial research, of a kind, that was going to increase productiveness dlrectlv or indirectly. -That would be money well spent.'' But the Government would have to guard.its" expenditure carefully, and the jpeople of New .Zealand; must learn ■to rely moro upon themselves and less npon publlo expenditure'." If some of'the wealthy people In ■ Wellington province would assist the Museum or.aßsist science, they would And the ■investment a very profitable one for their .children, and possibly, for. themselves;

The Hon. G.M. Thomson : said that the promotion of scientiflo research' did net reauire additional monoy ■bo much :aB it required guarantees for future years. The men oapable of euchring in research wojlrl not do so unless they saw a career ahead of them. If the Government would endow research; upi to n certain '. point, the immediate expenditure need not.■be- laiire, out' the assurance of future income would induce, men to take up the work. . ■Professor Eastcrfield mentioned that the Oawthron Institute would absorb a. certain number of the researoh students, end might eventually provide places for them on itsßtafi. The Government might be .prepared to subsidise, special research work, relating,,for example, to the press prub, which was coating the country'hundreds, of thousands-a year. :.. : .'".:'•-■

•; The board reaffirmed resolutions .adopted last yearurgimf. the ■ Government to establish a special board to superintend and organise spientiflo research and'the attainment of industrial efficiency. • It. «ue- ' Bested a preliminary investigation by a ,loint committee of the New Zealand Institute and the Board of Soienoe and An. I '■■'. Various other matters were ' diBCUSPed by'the.,board during the day,'- •;

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5

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SCIENCE AND ART Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5

SCIENCE AND ART Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5

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