SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Another departure from the original Bill is the substitution of one - 
Director instead of three. 
The reasons advanced by the Hon. W. Massy Greene for these 
alterations are that the new scheme of organization will prove much 
more effective and far less cumbersome than the former proposal. 
Rather than that the Institute’s activities should be spread over a wide 
area in the first place, and that a little money should be spent here 
and a little there, it is the Government’s intention to concentrate, at 
the outset, upon a few problems of outstanding importance. Advisory 
Councils in all the States would, therefore, be unwieldy and super- 
fluous. Under the amended scheme, however, it is not proposed to 
dispense with advisory bodies, but to call to the aid of the Institute 
those men, both scientists and industrialists, whose experience bears — 
directly upon the special problem in hand. To quote the Hon. W. 
Massy Greene:—“ We have not included in this Bill statutory provi- 
sions for the appointment of Advisory Councils. The reason for this 
is that we feel that no one Advisory Council could cover the whole field 
of scientific research. It is contemplated that the ‘Director, when 
appointed, will specialize his work, and that it will be necessary to 
appoint a special man to deal with such a subject as agriculture. That 
having been done, he would then call to his counsel men who knew some- 
thing of the subject.” os 
Questioned further by members on this point, the Minister pro- 
ceeded—* The Bill, as previously framed, laid it down that there must 
be Advisory Councils. If, however, these Advisory Councils were to 
cover the whole field of scientific research in agriculture, mining, 
forestry, and manufacturing in all its branches, they would be so 
unwieldy as to render it impossible to obtain the best results. What 
is proposed is that, instead of having Advisory Councils created by 
Statute—which would mean that certain interests would have to be 
left unrepresented unless we were to make these Councils altogether 
unwieldy—the Director shall be left free to call to his counsel, in 
regard to the particular problems that have to be studied from time 
to time, such men as may be considered desirable. Mr. Richard 
Foster.—And he will be free to benefit from the existing work of the 
universities? Mr. Greene.—Certainly. It is thought that in, this 
way we shall secure better and speedier results, and probably incur 
far less expenditure, than if we created Councils which, however large 
within reason they might be made, could not possibly cover the whole 
ground. That, briefly, is what we have in our minds, and it was that 
consideration which actuated the Government in removing from the 
Bill the statutory provision for Advisory Councils. Under such a 
system it would have been necessary to have a large number of men 
on a Council. Only one of that number might know anything of a 
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