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Bureau of Information. The Department throughout has acted as a clearing-house and bureau of information for numerous inquiries on all phases of application of science to industry, a service which has been increasingly appreciated. General. In addition to fostering industrial research, the Department has consolidated many of the Governmental scientific services, such as Dominion Laboratory, Geological Survey, Road Materials Testing Laboratory, Meteorological Office, Observatories, &c., with a view to more co-ordinated effort. When the ccst of these services is taken into consideration it is found that, for the proposed financial year, the cost to the Government of all the research activities enumerated in the foregoing, together with a special grant of £3,700 to Lincoln College, is £20,000, an amount insignificant in proportion to the national benefits likely to accrue.

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