PACIFIC STUDY
CONGRESS MAY MEET IN CANADA. OTTAWA, December 20. Canada is inviting the Pacific Science (Congress to meet"in Canada" in 1932. Plans had been made for the fifth meeting of the Congress to be held in Vancouver and Victoria last June, but general economic conditions made post. ponem e nt advisable. It will now be hold as originally planned with dates in June next tentatively settled upon. Thirty-one countries participate in these congresses, and their object j,s to study scientific problems relating to the Pacific Ocean region. Topics will include life in and significance of Pacific fiords, meteorological conditions affecting navigation on the Pacific, developments in the application of science to industry in countries of the Pacific Ocean region, methods of controlling the principal uiseascs of animals, co-ordination of repent work in plant and animal gen e tic6, ethnological and archaelogical factors in Pacific cultures, propagation of salmon, silviculture, radio transmission, copper, lead, and zinc .resources, volcanoes and earth-crust movements. Plane for the Congi'esg are being mad e by il committee appointed by the National Research Council of Canada and presided over by Dr (H. M. Tory, president of the Council.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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