NO MONEY FOR SCIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1920, Page 5

NO MONEY FOR SCIENCE.

DOMINION MUSEUM TO WAIT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last NightWhen addressing a meeting of the Board of Science and Art to-day, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Internal Affairs, said that there was little prospect of the Dominion Museum being housed in a suitable permanent building for some time. The demands on the Government were go great really had very little money now for anything else than purely utilitarian purposes, such as the opening up of,, the country, and the erecting of homes for the people? This meant the erection of new buildings for the Dominion Museum must be postponed. It was true the Government hid voted a substantial sum for a museum in the North, but that was only by way of a subsidy. The museum was costing ±'3ooo a year. He suggested that if a Board of Trustees were created for governing the museum it was more likely the donations would be secured from outside. The Minister announced that the Government had decided that Dr. Alan Thomson should be the New Zealand delegate to the Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress at Honolulu. The Cabinet did not consider it was necessary to extend his visit further for the present, as there was no immediate prospect of a Dominion Museum being built. The Government was not prepared to go to the expense of installing Yalo telescopes.