SCIENCE CONGRESS
PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH GREATEST COALMINE IN THE WORLD Melbourne, January 15. The Science Congress decided to form an Australasian Public Health Association and to adopt as the basis of its scheme the Rockefeller Foundation witffi the object of promoting public and personal health. . Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer, m a paper on the Australian blacks, explained that it was the duty of certain relatives to eat! the corpse of a dead native, in the belief that they would absorb the virtues of the departed. Onlookers regard it as cannibalism; but it was actually of ceremonial origin. Profbssor David, speaking on The Romance of Ice,” said the t] ? e greai'est coalmine m the world was in the Antarctic. It was certainly a mile in length, and the thickest seam found measured seven feet.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 96, 17 January 1921, Page 5
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135SCIENCE CONGRESS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 96, 17 January 1921, Page 5
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