SCIEN 
SE AND IND 
USTRY. 
having regard to the extra cost of freight, casks, &e.; but the better 
average qualities of Australian than of European wines should render 
any preferential treatment at all quite unnecessary. In addition to the 
English market, there is a demand in some of the Eastern markets for 
about 40,000,000 gallons of wine per annum. ‘This has, hitherto, been 
principally supplied from Europe, but Australian wines have been 
successfully introduced into these markets, and if our stocks were equal 
to it, doubtless the whole of this trade might be captured by Australia. 
Eyen the local demand is almost in excess of present supplies. All 
makers appear to be short of stocks, and to have more business offering 
than they can accept. A certain amount of development of the industry 
is assured to enable the increased and increasing local demand to be 
met, but this will be a mere parochial movement. If an adequate 
national attempt is to be made to put the industry in a position to 
compete for all the trade that it could capture, a Federal guarantee may 
be necessary that no interference by prohibition shall take place without 
ample compensation. This would probably give such an impetus to 
the industry that the only difficulty would probably be that of securing 
sufficient suitable labour; that difficulty would, however, speedily right 
itself, and at no distant date the wine industry should, and probably 
dv 
would, be the most important single industry in Australia. 
The important requisites for industrial research are often 
unconsidered by manufacturers, who, in endeavouring to select a 
research chemist, are likely to regard every chemist as a qualified. 
scientific scout. The supply of men capable of working at high 
efficiency as investigators is well below the demand; and chemists 
having the requisites and spirit of the researcher are indeed 
difficult to find by ones experienced in the direction of research. 
All research professors know that the finding of a skilled private 
assistant—one who possesses not only originality, but also sound 
judgment and intellectual honesty—-is not easy, because it frequently 
involves the gift of prophecy on the part of the searcher. It has 
been truly said that the “seeds of great discoveries are constantly 
floating around us, but they only take root in minds well 
prepared to receive them.” 
—RAYMOND F. BACON. 
“The Administrator of Industrial Research Laboratories.” 
