SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
(ii) the training of investigators in pure and applied 
science and of technical experts; and 
(iii) the training and education of craftsmen and 
skilled artisans. 
Among minor provisions is one which removes officers of the Institute 
from the operations of the Commonwealth Public Service Act. The 
object here is to secure greater efficiency by throwing the whole respon- 
sibility for the staff upon the shoulders of the directors, and so preventing 
them, in the case of failure, from being in a position to urge that the 
real responsibility did not rest upon themselves, but upon the Public 
Service Commissioner, who selected their staff. Another difficulty to 
be overcome was the necessity for, in some way or other, freeing purely 
scientific workers from the rigid regulations of the Public Service Act, 
which, when framed, did not contemplate the appointment of professional 
men of this kind. Another section provides that whenever a discovery 
of any value is made by an officer of the Institute, such discovery is to be 
vested in the Institute, and become its sole property. At the same time, 
power is asked to enable the directors to grant any fee or reward that may 
be desirable to more fully compensate such officer whose brains have been 
exploited for the benefit of the community. 
Most of the work done by the Institute and carried out by the aid of 
public funds will immediately become public property. At the same 
time, the Institute is not precluded from carrying out investigational 
work on behalf of any individual, firm, or company, at its request. 
Where such work is done, however, it shall be done, not at the expense 
of the community, but at the expense of the person benefiting. Such 
are the proposed statutory powers of the Institute of Science and 
Industry. : 
—F. M. G. 
Science moves but slowly, slowly creeping on 
from point to point. 
—Tennyson. 
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