SCIENCE CONGRESS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.
MELBOURNE. Aug. 21. The Science Congress discussed the question of wheat diseases and the production of wood alcohol, whieh is . aimed to be of Lite most fundamental importance to Australia, as alcohol must heroine the fuel of the future. The Botanical section discussed Mu reveectntion of Krakatoa. where all . plan? life was destroyed by the g.eat eruption of 1883. It was state, tl. t vegetation is now almost nnjxMieti. > . Doctor Armstrong, medical officer ol n portion of mandated Samoa tohl the Conference that the natives there, m - i„,r to the introduction of eivilizatm Jw replacing their healthy lmls »ltl. corrugated iron structures, anti also wore European elolb.ng wit'iont umlletstanding the necessity l«r «l».in-mg. on terrestial magnetism it was asserted that the variation - and consequent chart errors m some parts of the Facilic had been found <• 1„. SO ((rent that similar errors near Uu shoW might easily lend a shq, to foundering in foggy weather.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1923, Page 3
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161SCIENCE CONGRESS. Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1923, Page 3
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