SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1917, Page 4

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

NEED FOR CO-OPERATION. SCIENTIFIC BODY SUGGESTED. The question of the co-ordination of science and industry, in relation to the war, was referred to in the annual report of the council of the Auckland Institute, which was presented to the annual meeting. The report stated that the matter of a fuller recognition' by the State of the value of scienific methods and training in the furtherance of national progress, had been discussed by a committee of the council, so far as it applied to New Zealand; and its report, together with others prepared in various parts of the Dominion, had been placed before the National Klliciency Board. In most parts of the Empire the war had revealed many educational and scientific deficiencies; and it was abundantly evideni that drastic changes were necessary in educational and national policy. What was done in New Zealand might not affect those major decisions to be arrived at' elsewhere; but it was hoped that they might assist in some small degree in the solution of a grave and important question. ' Mr. J. H. Gunson, who was elected president of the institute, said the report from the committee of the council had been regarded by the efficiency Board as easily ranking first amongst a number of other reports received froi u various parts of the Dominion and Australia. Neither the Efficiency Board nor the Government claimed that the board was a scientific research committee in any way, and the board was recommending the Government to appoint such committee from amongst the most capable experts available. The Efficiency Board would be very pleased to work in co-operation with such a committee.

DIPHTHERIA—HOW IT MAY BE AVOIDED. Diphtheria is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the child's system for the reception of germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighborhood children that have cold- should be kept at home and off the street until recovered. Give them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and they will not have to remain at home long. It also cleans out the culture beds, which form in a child's throat when it has a cold, and minimises the risk tff contracting infectious diseases.