SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
for intensive afforestation, but experiment showed that the two woodé 
mentioned would yield satisfactory results under proper treatment. The 
results are justifying expectations, and it is hoped that the once barre? 
region will in a few years repay the time and money spent in developing 
it. The wood will be used for pulping, pit-props (there are mines near); 
and for the distillation of acetic acid, &e. 
An Inter-State Structural Steel Standardization Conference has 
been convened by the Director of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry 
for 1st July, in Melbourne. . 
0: 
Hon. Walter Kingsmill, M.L.C., Chairman of the Plant Acclimatisa- 
tion Committee, has forwarded sample of cotton grown by Mr. CG. C. 
Lawrance, of Bruce Rock (Western Australia), in a rainfall of 3.65 
inches. The cotton grew to an average height of 2 feet, with an average 
of 18 bolls. 
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A proposal has been made that the Institute should endeavour to 
arrive at a standard specification for cement throughout the Common- 
wealth. The matter is now under consideration. 
o—-— 
Considerable difficulty has been experienced in obtaining the services 
of a qualified man to carry out research work into white clays at 
Ballarat. 
If we are to prove ourselves fittest to survive in this 
great struggle we must walk with science hand in hand. 
We must seek its aid in order to achieve victory, we must 
enlist its services in order to prepare to meet the conditions 
which will arise after the war. 
—W. M. HUGHES. 
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