THE NEW ZEALAND 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
EDITORIAL. 
Mr. Evan Parry and a Library of Science and Technology. 
We take this opportunity of expressing the regret we feel at the departure 
of Mr. Evan Parry from New Zealand, regret which is,' however, tempered 
by the knowledge that he has left these shores only to enter a wider 
field of activity. 
Not only has Mr. Parry contributed to the pages of the Journal a 
number of articles the merit of which is self-evident, but also as a 
member of the Editorial Committee since its inception he has ever dis¬ 
played the keenest interest in its progress and spared no effort to further 
its aims. 
The time seems opportune to remind our readers of an important 
project which has lost, owing to the departure of Mr. Parry, one of its 
most active supporters. In bidding farewell to a representative gathering 
of engineers and scientific men on the eve of his departure he exhorted 
them to work together for the establishment of a technological library 
for the Dominion. 
The efforts made in the last few years to achieve this end have so far 
been unsuccessful, and it is a standing reproach to the people of New 
Zealand that this should be so. There is no. branch of applied science 
in which workers are not hampered and daunted by the lack of books and 
magazines which are necessary to inform them of the progress of the art 
and to keep them abreast of world developments. Consider, for instance, 
the utilization of the Taranaki ironsands. How much money and time 
has been wasted on vain and foolish experiments that would never have 
been attempted if the failure of similar trials elsewhere had been a matter 
of'record arid easy access in a New Zealand library ! Every industry has 
problems that can be solved only by the application of technical know¬ 
ledge of a scientific nature, and the basis and progress of such knowledge 
depends on frequent references to books, reports, transactions of learned 
and technical societies, and other serial publications that are either not 
on hand at all in the Dominion or are hidden away in some library not 
known or not available to the worker at the time. The objective is 
indeed a laudable one. 
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