SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
pastoralists, mine-owners, or merchant princes of Australia will show 
their appreciation of the land from which their wealth has been derived 
by helping present and future generations to render themselves more 
efficient antagonists in the economic struggles to come. It is to make 
the way easy for the handling of these prospective endowments that these 
provisions in the Bill are being made. The pious hope may be expressed 
that these clauses may not prove a dead letter, and that those Australians 
who have waxed prosperous in this fair and fruitful land will not be 
neglectful of their obligations to generations yet unborn. 
The work of the Institute will be controlled by three directors, two 
of whom must have scientific training. Their salaries shall be deter- 
mined by the Governor-General, that is, the Executive, and their term 
of office shall be five years, after which they will-be eligible for re- 
appointment. This gives the directors a certain measure of indepen- 
dence, which, lest it might be carried to extremes, is qualified by the 
power given to the Minister to suspend a director for “incapacity, in- 
competence, or misbehaviour.” To avoid the possibility of such power 
being used arbitrarily, there is a provision that in the eyent of a director 
being so suspended, the Governor-General may appoint a Board of 
Inquiry to investigate and report upon the case. In no other way 
may a director be removed from office during the statutory term. The 
directors, on their part, are compelled to give their whole time to the 
business of the Institute, and are prohibited from holding the office of 
director of a company. 
To assist the directors, and to insure that the needs of each of the far- 
flung States of the Commonwealth may not be overlooked, it is provided 
that there shall be an advisory council in each State, the members of 
which may be paid fees for attendance, as well as out-of-pocket travelling 
expenses when called away from home in connexion with the business of 
the Institute. To make it quite certain that these advisory councils shall 
not have their functions whittled aw ay, one or more of the directors is 
compelled to meet and confer with each advisory council at least once 
a year. 
Under the constitution, certain functions can and certain other func- 
tions cannot be carried out by the Commonwealth Government, so, under 
the Bill, it is provided that certain powers may be exercised by the direc- 
tors directly, while other powers may only be exercised after an agree- 
ment has been entered into between the Governor-General and the Gover- 
nor of one or more of the States. As an example of a power which is 
constitutionally beyond the competence of the Institute may be in- 
stanced the power to teach science in the schools or universities. Educa- 
tion is clearly a function constitutionally reserved to the States. At the ° 
same time, it was apparently thought by those who drafted the Bill that 
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