CO-OPERATION WITH THE STATES. 5 
the New South Wales Government agreed to co-operate in the prickly 
pear scheme, but it has also undertaken to provide £1,000 annually for a 
period of five years, to be used in co-operative work with the Institute 
in investigating the white ant, blow-fly, and other pests. In addition, 
the State Government has approved of a scheme by which the New 
South Wales Forest Commissioners will co-operate with the Institute 
in carrying out research work on forest products. The New’ South 
Wales Department of Education is co-operating with the Institute in 
connexion with tanning investigations, which are being carried out at 
the Tanning School, Redfern; and also in connexion with yeasts and 
breadmaking, in regard to which experimental work is being carried 
out at the School of Bakery attached to the Sydney Technical College. 
Investigational work is also being carried out in co-operation with the 
New South Wales Department of Public Health and the . Sydney 
University; whilst the State Director of Agriculture and a number of 
leading State officers are members either of the State Committee or of 
various Special Committees established by the Institute. 
Tn Victoria, both the Director and the Superintendent of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture are members of the Executive Committee of the 
Institute, and the Department which they control is co-operating in 
the work, more particularly in connexion with viticultural researches, 
which are being carried out at Mildura. In this State, the University 
of. Melbourne has been of the greatest assistance in the work of the 
Institute. The Ballarat School of Mines and Industries is co-operating 
in pottery investigations, and other State and semi-State institutions 
haye freely assisted and co-operated with the Institute. 
In Queensland, the Institute is co-operating with the Department 
of Agriculture and Stock in investigations on the blow-fly and in 
inquiries on cotton cultivation. It is carrying on co-operative work 
with the Queensland Acclimatisation Society in the cultivation of 
castor beans. The State University has rendered valuable assistance in 
experiments on mangrove bark as a tanning agent, on the construction 
of a mechanical cotton-picking machine, and on other problems. The 
Government has made available the services of one of its officers as 
Chairman of the Queensland State Committee of the Advisory Council. 
In Western Australia, a large amount of investigational work on a 
co-operative basis is in hand, mostly under the joint control of the 
State Government and the Institute. each bearing half the cost. The 
Western Australian Government has offered the Institute a sum of 
£5,000 towards the capital cost for the erection of a forest products 
laboratory, as well as 25 acres of valuable land as a site for the 
laboratory. The clays of that State are being tested in co-operation 
with the Institute at the Geological Survey Laboratory, and several 
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