SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
in this direction, and a new clause was also inserted in the: House of 
Representatives providing that the Institute shall comprise— 
(a) a Bureau of Agriculture; 
(b) a Bureau of Industry; and 
(c) such other bureaux as the Goyernor-Gederal determines. 
These. new features were warmly favoured by the Senate; but it 
was discovered that, while provision was made under which Advisory 
Boards could be appointed in each State, there was no definite provi- 
sion for the appointment of a General Advisory Council. Upon the 
initiative of the Government, this omiss‘on was rectified, and the Bill 
as it emerged from the second Chamber therefore provided that— 
(d) the Governor-General may appoint a General Advisory 
Council and Advisory Boards in each State to advise the 
Director with regard to— 
(a) the general business of the asta or any 
Bureau thereof; and 
1) any particular matter of investigation or 
research. 
A second aut a minor amendment, also inserted by the Senate, 
provided for “a Bureau of Industries” instead of “a Bureau of 
Industry ” in“item (b) of the new clause, Pred ET by the House of 
Representatives, and quoted above. 
Assuming that the Bill will be accepted by the eeqitie of Represen- 
tatives in the form in which it left the Senate, the Act will provide 
all the necessary machinery for securing to the Institute the best ~ 
scientific and expert advice available in the Commonwealth; and in these 
circumstances it may confidently be expected that problems of the most 
urgent national importance will be selected, and that the widest know- 
ledge and experience, and the strictest economy, will be brought to 
bear upon their solution. 
The provision for the statutory’ recognition of Advisory Boards to 
deal with special investigations is one that will commend itself to | 
‘well-wishers of the permanent Institute. The experience of the 
temporary organization—which the Government naturally availed itself 
of in formulating the scheme of work—pointed strongly to the 
desirability of concentrating upon special investigations, and after 
having made the most careful selection of the persons to whom the 
work could be intrusted—both scientific and practical—to give them a 
free hand in the conduct of their inquiries, ~ 
Much of the work upon which the present Institute has embarked, and 
which, presumably, in view of the encouraging results already obtained, 
will be continued under the new régime, appears well adapted to control 
of this kind. For instance, the prickly pear investigations have been 
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