AUSTRALIAN. VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN. VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

BY TELEGRARH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

SYDNEY, January 11

The weather is sweltering hot and many registers in the country aro above a century. The Southern states are also suffering from a heat wave. SCIENCE CONGRESS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 11. New Zealand is represented at the Congress- of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, the first head since 1913, by Professors Salmon and Benson. Sir Baldwin Spencer, not Professor David is President. The Presidential address dealt mainly with anthropology of Australian aborigines and declared that Australian scientists had two duties to perform to study possible aboriginal culture and the protection of aborigines, not only from the white race, but from themselves in the new environment that whijtes had jereated and with which they wore unable to cope,, if left to themselves. A meeting of the general council confirmed the decision to hold the next Congress at Wellington in 1923. It was announced the Muller memorial Committee last year awarded the medal to Professor Chilton for services in connection with zoology. THE DROWNING DISASTER: MELBOURNE, January 11. Ten bodies have been recovered in the Warrnambool disaster. It is bebelieved this completes the list.