NO SCOPE FOR THE YOUNGER SCIENTISTS
CHEMISTRY IN INDUSTRIES GREAT NEED FOR INVESTIGATION Only two positions attractive to young chemists had been offered in New Zealand during the last five years, but several New Zealanders had gone abroad and gained distinction, stated Professor F. P. Worley in his presidential address to the Chemical {Society last evening. There was a great need for research work in the industries. At present almost everything was being done by the Government and the scientific institutions. The dairying and dried milk industries, the soap and candle factories, the sugar-refinery were engaging chemists, but on purely routine work and not on “research.” Nor could the universities with their poor equipment and overworked staffs, do much research work.
In the case of several industries in the Dominion the work done justified the establishment of laboratories and the appointment of chemists, and a chemist could demonstrate to a firm that the expense was worth while from the results.
Chemical investigation into the leather industry with a view to establishing export trade and into the manufacture of pulp and artificial silk, declared Professor Worley, were directions in which the Dominion should move.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 70, 14 June 1927, Page 14
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