SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. 2.] JANUARY, 1920. [No. 1. 
EDITOR’S NOTES. 
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Co-operation with the States. 
C DVERSE criticism of the proposals to establish the Institute 
9) has been made on more than one occasion on the ground 
that no steps have been taken to secure the co-operation of 
the State Governments and Departments in the work. <A 
brief review of the facts will “show that these criticisms are 
wholly lacking in foundation. Not only were representatives of the 
State Governments present at the original conference when the scheme 
for the Institute was first launched, but a great part of the work of 
the Institute is already being carried out in co-operation with one or 
other of the States. Other schemes for co-operative work of a more 
permanent nature are only awaiting the passing of the Bill to establish 
the permanent Institute. The State Universities, Technical Schools, 
and other State or semi-State institutions throughout Australia are 
actively co-operating in the work, and it is, in fact, only by reason 
of such co-operation, which has been given fully, freely, and 
gratuitously, that the Institute has so far been able to carry on its work 
in the absence of laboratories of its own. 
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