Thoughts For The Times
Rrskahc 1 Work at Home. Mr Abbott, assi-t: nt-secretary of the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research, lecturing at the Royal Society of Arts, described the growing activities of Research Associations, At the present time he said, there were twenty-three Associations, which covered the cotton, boot and shoe, motor, iron puddling, sugar, linen, glass and other industries. In every case these Associations had men of science to aid their councils in their deliberations, and in a number of instances representatives of skilled labour bad been co-opted. It was always recommended that existing institutions, such as univeisities and techneal colleges, should, as far as possible, be utilised for schemes of researvhe, and it was desirable that they should he used permanently. It was probable, however, that sooner or later nearly every Research Association would find it necessary to set, up a research institute of its own, this step already having been taken by at least eight Associations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1921, Page 2
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