SCIENCE CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1932, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS

SYDNEY GATHERING. ~ v; ' (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, August 17. A civic (V reception was- givep to-day to the t delegates to the twenty-first biennial meeting of. .tlm Australian and ■New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science... The, Dominion’s. delegates are: Acting Professor Firth, and Doctor P. v Marsha il, and,Dr. A. Leslie. In welcoming the delegates the Lord. Mayor ,of .Sydney, Alderman S. Walder, emphasised the important part that science, played in thi development 'of • young oogntries like .Australia and New Zealand. Sir Hubert Murray, the LieutenantGovernor of Papua,, and the Presidentelect of the 'Congress, said that wherever one went in the English-speaking world, one 'found Australians or New ■ Zealanders upholding the honour of j their country .in some seat of learning. Sir Edgeworth David, the noted, scientist and explorer, sgid that Parliaments were to be commended for the very, cordjal support given in' recent years to science, and scientific -opinion among our people was undoubted'y growing. The -delegates later assembled at tb n Union Hall, Sydney University, for the opening of the Congress, when an opportunity was found for the renewal o? friendships formed at former gathering*.