EDITORIAL. 
(6) That one of the duties of the Board shall be to advise 
primary producers, and those engaged in industrial pur- 
suits, as to the results of scientific investigations affecting 
or calculated to benefit their industries, including pro- 
cesses for the utilisation of waste products. 
(7) That the Board shall have power to establish scholarships 
and also to award bonuses and prizes, with the object of 
encouraging scientific and industrial research. 
(8) That the Board shall keep touch with Government Depart- 
ments and also with scientific and educational institu- 
tions, with a view to co-operation in scientific investiga- 
tion as well as in furtherance of scientific education and 
of everything which will tend to foster a greater appre- 
ciation of the advantages of science, not only by 
producers, but by the people at large. 
INDUSTRIAL ART. 
The attention of the Institute has been drawn by Mr. H. H. Smith, 
Principal of the Technical Art ‘School, Ballarat, to the national import- 
ance of industrial art in the development of many of our industries. 
There are numerous industries which are almost entirely dependent 
upon design and creative art for their success and reputation, such as 
the textile industry, decorative pottery, and the manufacture of wall 
papers. It is the axiom of the trade that the pattern largely sells the 
cloth, and it is admitted on every hand that the development of certain 
Australian industries are hampered by the lack of skilled designers and 
craftsmen. Mr. Smith urges that a systematic development of indus- 
trial design, based on our natural flora and fauna, should in time develop 
a national type of design and an article peculiar to Australia, which 
would be recognised in other countries, and in time attain a reputation 
as world-wide as that now enjoyed by Lambeth, Sevres and Dresden 
pottery, Paisley shawls, or West of England tweeds. Before we can 
hope to develop an international style of art, a much more systematic and 
fully-organized study of industrial art is necessary. 
ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 
The British Engineering Trades (New Industries Committee), in its 
report to the Minister of Reconstruction, strongly emphasises the great 
importance of scientific and industrial research in connexion with the 
establishment and development of new Engineering Industries. It is 
recommended that the National Physical Laboratory, which has done 
invaluable work during the war, should be greatly developed and 
equipped with substantial funds to enable it to undertake research on- 
the largest possible scale. It is stated in the report that the work done 
by the National Physical Laboratory is insufficiently known to manu- 
facturers, and the Committee feels that it is desirable that steps should 
be taken to draw the attention of all those who might benefit by its 
services to the assistance that it can afford. 
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