SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY BILL APPROVED. 
placed under a representative Board to manage the business side of 
the inquiry, while the purely scientific work has been left under the 
untrammelled control of Professor T. Harvey Johnston, a biologist. 
The Hon. W. Massy Greene, in his second-reading speech, urged thé 
importance of the Director being left free to call to his counsel, in 
regard to particular problems that have to be studied from time to 
time, such men as may be considered desirable. In this way, he 
pointed out, better and speedier results would be secured, and ,probably 
far less expenditure would be incurred. 
With an Advisory Council at his right hand, and with State advisory 
bodies available for consultation upon the general business of the 
Institute, the Director will be able to speedily formulate a definite 
policy’ of scientific work for the advancement of Australian industry. 
There can now be no justification for the fear that the pseudo scientist 
will triumph. In the past, both the leaders of science and of industry 
have given their best efforts to secure the establishment of the Institute, 
and there is no reason why, when the object for which they have 30 
long and unsparingly been working has been attained, they should with- 
draw their support, and cripple, if not wholly destroy, the newly-formed 
organization. The personnel of the adyisory bodies in the past has 
provided a strong guarantee against either the selection of unimportant 
problems or the appointment of inexpert investigators. It is incon-_ 
ceivable, therefore, that the new Director will deprive himself of the’ 
services of men essential to his own success, or that either Science or 
Industry will abandon and leave to its fate an organization which, 
without whose whole-hearted co-operation, must ignominiously and 
inevitably fail. 
—E. N. Rp 
451 
