SCIENCE CONGRESS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 13 January 1911, Page 5

SCIENCE CONGRESS

CABLE NEWS

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CONTINUATION OF SITTINGS. FEDERAL NOTE ISSUE. (deceived Last Night, 5.45 o'clock.) SYDNEY, January 12. At the sitting of the Science Congress to-day, Mr Matthew Mac Fie, of Melbourne, read a paper on the Federal note issue. He declared that the Government had departed from sound economic principles, and threatened the commercial and financial stabilities of the country. He predicted that the wheels of industry would become seriously clogged, bringing, irretrievable disaster alike to rich and poor. TUBERCULOSIS. ... Professor Stewart, of Sydney, read a paper on the repression of tuberculosis, in dairy herds. He said the monetary exposure of milk to a temperature of 160 Fahrenheit was not pasteurization, but merely a commercial practice to keep the. milk sound for a longer time; An exposure at 160 degrees for fifteen minutes was necessary to destroy the .tubercle bacilli. The unterated sepsiijated mixed milk received from public creameries was one of the most prolific sources of the dissemination of tuberculosis. It was very unwise to feed pigs and calves on such milk. They might thereby widely spread I disease. He urged the necessity for aif proper pasteurization of separated milk. - . the methods of keeping herds "frbnr contamination, he declared, tliat the veterinarians " wejie.iitfcliiied. to regard infected pasturage as an important source of dissemination. He advocated the occasional cultivation of grazing lands i for sanitary reasons. I COST OF LIVINC,

.Mr A. Duckworth read a paper on the increased cost of living. The increased price swere, he said, partly) if not mainly,, attributable to the increased production of gold in Australia. Certain other sp?cial features were that the wages fuar! at the disposal of tile working classes Iliad been largely augmented by the adoption of Wages. Boards, and the levelling up of industrial conditions; the tariff "adjustments and; great gold jexpprts .were .other factors. Taxation had reduced, the' purchasing power .'of individuals, and the greater Stat ; e expenditure did not recoup him. Should the increased production' of gold continue at the present irate, he estimated the annual production by 1920 to be two hundred pillion. If so, prices must go up, as the exchange value of money limit An era of political and economic changes appeared ■ _to ; ,. be itetiiinent,. and the probable • • effect 'v iild not be forecasted.'