Wellington talk on International Institute of Agriculture aims
Mr J Houston addressed the Wellington Chamber of Commerce about the International Institute of Agriculture and its Rome conference, noting David Lubin founded the institute to collect global farm statistics. He explained its non political aims, cost of 34000 pounds annually, and New Zealand’s participation to share information to mitigate price speculation and reflect world supplies.
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Wellington
Lubin
United States
Italy
Congress of
Whic
Rome
International Agricultural Institute
General Assembly
G. Shirtcliffe
New Zealand
Maori relic puzzled scholars reveals sea canoe spike
Dr Newman of the Philosophical Society showed a 6 inch jawbone artifact found in wet clay at Hawke's Bay. Once doubted as a Maori work or a British marlin spike, it matches native carving with a four sided pyramid tip and is identified as a marlin spike used to caulk sea canoes.
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Wellington Philosophical Society
Newman
Laradale
Hawke’s Bay
Williams
Percy Smith
New Plymouth
English and American Boys in Education Compared
Experts debate ties between English and American schooling based on Sir William Preece remarks that American boys are more energetic and mentally ahead by about two years. Canon Jephson counters, citing American co education and female teachers as retarding factors, praising English lads for shrewdness and practicality.
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William Preece
Royal Society
Arte
Canon Jephson
Walworth
Mosely
United States
America
Japan Ousts England in Ship Trade Rise
Sir Thomas Sutherland warned at FP and OQ Steamship Co meeting that Japanese firms have wiped out the Bombay to Japan inter colonial trade share held by the P and O Company. He noted government support and wartime tonnage gains boosted Japanese sailings and fierce competition across routes.
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Japan
England
Thomas Sutherland
FP. and
OQ. Steamship Company
Bombay
P, and O
Russia
Man and Immortality: Kelvin's Mind and the Question of Persistence
The article reflects on Lord Kelvin’s death and the enduring question of whether a genius’s intellect persists after death. It ponders if his vortex atom idea and inner spirit remain, or vanish with his physical being, as Garret Serviss writes on mankind’s greatest problem.
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Lord Kelvin
Garret Serviss
Professor Serviss
Kelvin
Sour Milk and Long Life Claim from Bishop Falls
Chicago's Bishop Falls advocates sour milk as an anti arterial hardening remedyand argues people could live to 120 if they stay in prime at 80. He cites experiments and decries modern conditions while noting hypnotic ideas and Metchnikoff research.
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Bishop Fallows
Chicago
Episcopal
Earth
Doeter Charcot
la Charite Hospital
New York
London Daily Telegraph
Paris
Metchnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Bishop Falls
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