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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1928, Page 4

BUSINESS-LIKE IMPERIALISM 1 ho Colonial Conference has approved the establishment of a unified research service for the colonies as a whole, which will offer a career to the first-rate scientists and enable them to be moved from one part of the Colonial Empire to another ns their special knowledge is required. Hitherto each colony has managed its own research service. Thus poor and undeveloped colonies whose need of scientists to develop the explored natural resources has been peculiarly great have had few or no technical advisers of the right kind. The best men, moreover, would not enter the colonial service. Science was, in fact, treated as the Cinderella of the Colonial Empire when it should have lieeu in view of the enormous services it could render, treated as the fairy godmother. What science has already done for the tropics is well known. But for it there would be no rubber in Malaya, no cocoa in the Gold Const, no oil palms in the Far East, and no sisal in East Africa. What triumphs still before it are beyond’ the dreams of romance. Our colonial research-.service cannot, therefore he too carefully nursed and organised.-—'"Manchester Guardian,"