SCIENCE CONGRESS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 11 January 1911, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS

CABLE NEWS

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QUESTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

NEW -ZEALAND EULOGISED.

((Received Xa_t Night, 8.50 o'clock.) i SYDNEY, January 10.

At the -Science Congress , to-day, Mr E. Bowles, of Brisbane, read a, '-, .paper on "unemployment." He re- . viewed .the.history of legislation in ' ..the different countries to deal with • the question. He pointed out, as ; far as Australia was concerned, that, rfchere was .very little unemployment*. ; On the contrary, there was a scare- \ ity of labour in a number of trades. ' Referring to New Zealand, he .said ; tiihe IDomioiioiVs Department of Lab-: our had more than justified, itself.,' The ; Labour ''Bureaux of Australia I and, New Zealand were of exceptional , value in (directing • workless' mea i.% | tworkV ( m& past four years i prosperity ihad . resulted, almost all ' the applicants for labour finding per- ' manent work. . .'. . ,

Mr J. Stonham, of the Victorian ."•Statistical "Bureau, read a paper -cm "The Statistical Sidelights of Aos"tralian TSEoxality." , xhe -statistics .•s'bo.wed, -he said, that Australia was sharing in what practically appeared .to be a world-wide, tendency to restrict 'the birth-rate, xiie average mumberdf,'Children per married ■mother ..was between three and four, wMle the -potential average was estimated to range between five and saaven. Without further inquiry, however, they could not cry "Race 'suicide'!" .After -reviewing some of the ca-usos -usiadlly associated with *he res-triotion, 'he pointed out that tae death-rate was rapidly declining, so that the •■■problem of the world's Ifoo.d «is»p!ly must, at the . present rate of natural increase, sooner or later become acute. Could it, therefor*?., he •said^hat.^atureherself 'was pTOviding agajnst .a too-rapid ; in- . en-ease .by.ithe limitation, of.'■productiveness?''' ■ , - : •''■ : , ■' '

Th- Norris, Director of .'in :t'he. course;.of ■-W/«stosjH^ ■; '';«iat: 'disease' and death wera the iprice ;a man paid for his awi&ance-of. natural laws, and a preference for half-truths, in- ■ stead of precise ' scientific tenth was but one way oat of a deeper and wider knowledg«,.-o;f the retaliation of Nature to man, and a studied, deliberate, unswerving application of the knowledge of Jiuraan problems, strongly urged .the claims Jof sejeaiee and hygiene; MR FARRER'S WORK. Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock SYDNEY, January 10. ,

Mr Sutton,, New South Wales wheat experimentalist, read a paper appreciative of the work of the late Mr W.Farrer, wheat Expert. As a result, of Mr vFarrer's efforts, Australia could now grow strong as well as white wheat, and need not fear, the disastrous ravages of a, rusty season, as : it did; 'before Mr Farrer's success was achieved.