PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 331, 12 January 1937, Page 6

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Value Of Common Discussion

Stressed.

Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, Last Night

The value of holding such a. conference and the good work being don e . by scientists in New Zealand and Australia were emphasised by Sir David Rivett, president-elect of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, to-night.

“The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science meets every two years for the purpose of discussing advances in some 15 or 16 different sciences and also for formulating plans for work in coming years,” said Sir David. “One of tlie main hopes of visitors tot New Zealand this time is that links rpay be forged between scientific workers in Australia and New Zealand so that we may be able to work together more as a team than we have done in the past. “Many of the members of the association, both Australians and New Zealanders, have won distinction throughout the world for their scientific work,” added Sir David. “Papers that are to be presented will be full of interest and over and above the purely scientific side of the meetings the congress should prove especially valuable in affording an opportunity for workers from different parts to meet one another personally. The maintenance of contacts later becomes a much simpler matter when there is a personal acquaintance behind them.”