Pan-Pacific Conference.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1922, Page 1

Pan-Pacific Conference.

SCIENTISTS TO MEET IN AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY, June 29,

The Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference will be held in Australia next year, the. proposal having been agreed to by the Federal Government provided that the cost to the Commonwealth does not exceed £'sooo. It is believed that the money will be well expended, because of the many benefits that will accrue to Australia ns the result of the visit of eminent scientists from America and other Pacific countries.

The decision has been reached as a result of the prompting of the Australian National Research Council. Members explained that at the last conference, which was held in Honolulu, it was decided that the next meeting should be held in Australia in 1923 if the Commonwealth Government agreed to net as “host”. Sir Edgeworth David urged most strongly that advantage should lie taken of this opportunity to enable the great American scientists to visit this eouniv. The conference should he a splendid advertisement for Australia, and would further strengthen the ties of friendship and goodwill which existed between the two countries, and which had been cemented by tlio Washington Treaty, Among questions to be discussed were many that particularly interested Australia. These included the problems caused by pests in wheat, and fruits diseases in sheep and cattle, the blowfly, the tick, the hookworm, malaria and other diseases of man in tropical parts of Australia.