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THE eighteenth annual report of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research*, Commonwealth of Australia, covers the year ended June 30, 1944, and as in the previous year a large part of the total expenditure of £682,849 was incurred in activities devoted to the solution of problems arising out of the War, and to assistance and advice to Government departments, and institutions and organisations concerned with the war effort. The reference to such activities is either confined to brief general statements or omitted entirely. The Council was giving much more attention than formerly to problems of post-war construction, and the work of the Division of Soils, in particular, turned more directly to the needs of land settlement in rural reconstruction. There was a strong demand for soil surveys, as a basic step in considering new areas for sub-division as new farms, and in defining problems of development.
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia. Nature 157, 882–883 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157882a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157882a0