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THE Australian Government has announced that the work of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is to be extended in the interests of secondary industry generally. Since its establishment in 1926, the Council has deliberately restricted its attention to problems of the primary producing industries, though no such restriction is imposed upon it by the Act under which it is constituted. It has always been assumed that an extension was only a matter of time in view of the contraction of world markets for primary products and the consequent pressure to increase the home market by expanding secondary industries. A recent decision to establish aircraft and motor production in the Commonwealth has intensified a growing demand for an extension of national scientific research, and an influential committee, including leading engineers and industrialists, is now at work preparing a definite scheme of work. Existing institutions will be utilized wherever possible, but it is fully recognized by the Government that considerably increased financial obligations must be carried by it. A first step is to establish an agency for the maintenance of accurate fundamental standards of measurement and for the testing of master gauges for controlling precision manufacture. It is intended that in all developments intimate contact shall be maintained with, and guidance sought from, established British institutions engaged on work of the same type.
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Scientific and Industrial Research in Australia. Nature 138, 278 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138278a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138278a0