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ACCORDING to the annual report of the Textile Institute, presented at the annual general meeting on April 21, membership increased during 1947 by more than 20 per cent, to 3,728 ; this is more than twice the 1943 total. Correspondingly, there has been a big increase in activity. Further new branches of the Lancashire Section were formed at Oldham and Burnley; sections and branches held more than a hundred meetings. Besides the very successful annual conference held at Portrush, two one-day conferences Were held to consider "Modern Methods of Single Fibre Testing" and "End Breakages in Cotton Ring Spinning". Two scholarships were awarded, to Mr. G. H. Ewins and Mr. J. E. Booth, both of Bolton, who have now commenced degree courses in textiles at the Manchester College of Technology. The decision to award a new scholarship of a maximum value of £1,000, to be available to students in all branches of textiles, was also announced. It is hoped that the Institute will be able to ensure "the general recognition and application of technical skill and scientific knowledge within the textile industry on a scale adequate to enable the industry to maintain its place in the increasingly complex economy of a rapidly developing world. The Textile Institute must achieve the status and capacity which is required if textile technology, of which the Institute is the guardian, is adequately to meet the needs of modern times."
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Textile Institute. Nature 161, 635 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161635c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161635c0