SCIENCE SHOULD BENEFIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 9

SCIENCE SHOULD BENEFIT

CONFERENCE AT HOBART NEW ZEALANDERS TO ATTEND Science, as it affects New Zealand and Australia, should benefit as the result of the conference of the Australasian' Association for the Advancement of Science, which is to be held at Hobart on January 16, and at which several New Zealand scientists are expected to be present. ALTHOUGH the conference mainly embraces questions of local moment to Australia, there are many subjects for discussion which affect not only the common interests of the Commonwealth and the Dominion, but the whole of the civilised world, and science as a whole. It is of more than passing interest to New Zealand that investigation will be made into the subject of agriculture generally and a plea made for nation-wide research into the economic position of our agricultural and live stock industries. Professor H. G. Denham, of Canterbury College, is a section president, and he is listed for a paper on “Modern Work on Molecular Structure.” Health, educational, engineering and many other subjects of international importance will come forward at the conference, as well as some very technical questions like: “The causes of diastroohism and their status ia current geological thought.” The delegates will be accorded a civic reception by the Mayor of Hobart on the morning of the opening, and excursions and entertainments have been arranged for the visitors after the heavy subjects of the day’s programme have been disposed of. The conference will last for a full week.