SCIENTISTS CONFER.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1928, Page 4

SCIENTISTS CONFER.

FROM AUSTRALIA AM) NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, Jan. G. Scientists from all over Australia and New Zealand are gathering for the meetings of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science which begin in Hobart on the 16th inst and continue for a week, tinder the presidency of Nil' It. H. Cam huge, of Sydney. ®

Among the subjects for discussion are the following:—The theory of marketing, wheat pools, the cost of Government control to the community, conservation of water, vocational education and guidance, synthetic liquid fuels, the cultivation of our indigenous trees, public health problems, animal nutrition and pasture deficiencies. The arrival of Dr Burrows, the English authority *'on J-ancer, Synchronises with the meeting of the Association. He is understood to be bringing with him a small parcel of £120,001) worth of radium purchased by the Commonwealth Government, and he is to visit all the States and confer with the local authorities.

Under the guidance of Sir Neville Ho who, the Federal Government is launching out in several important directions relating to medical research. A School of Tropical Medicine is to he erected at the expense of the Government in the grounds of Sydney University, and such subjects ns snakebite. hydatids, sleeping sickness, and the X disease are to he specially dealt with. The Government is spending £160,030 in this connexion.

|>r Ilowse has great hopes of a snake-bite scrum, and it is urgently needed, for the death rate from the bites of venomous reptiles is high. “More people are dying from this cause than ought to he the case,’’ he says, “and unfortunately they are mostly young people.”