admirable Waite Institute at Adelaide. The sum of that know- 
ledge and of the knowledge gained in other parts of the world 
through other institutions, with which it will be the duty of the 
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to keep in touch, 
can be brought to bear on the practical problems of Australia’s 
development. 
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42. The possible opportunities for the results of scientific study 
in many fields, such as those of agriculture and dairying, with a 
view to the increase of productivity and the diminution of costs, 
are incapable of measurement; and we feel that the work of the 
Development and Migration Commission and of the Council for 
Scientific and Industrial Research, working, as we hope that these 
bodies will work, to one end, in ever closer co-operation with one 
another and with all the other institutions in Australia with which 
they have connections, will lead to that more intensive use of the 
already partially developed resources of Australia which we believe 
to be among Australia’s principal needs to-day. From that, rather 
than from specific schemes for new extensive development, we 
delieve that a natural stream of migration from Great Britain to 
Australia will flow, having its source in the increasing produc- 
iivity and consequent absorptive power of the Dominion. We 
would therefore suggest as a first step towards that end that, 
without prejudice to any specific schemes which the Development 
and Migration Commission may be able to recommend under the 
£34,000,000 Agreement as it now stands, the scope of that Agree- 
ment should be enlarged so as to permit of the funds made avail- 
able under it being used in other ways and, in particular, to assist 
the work of scientific research through subsidies to appropriate 
institutions, by facilitating large scale experiments and the like, 
without attaching to the expenditure of moneys for these purposes 
the condition that any specific proportionate number of migrants 
nust be received in Australia. 
43. We also consider that the present time limit to the Agree- 
nent might be extended if in practice it should prove impossible 
within that limit to decide upon proper uses to which the whole 
of the funds made available under the Agreement should be put, 
ind that, assuming that the Agreement as amended works satis. 
‘actorily, the British Government might consider the provision 
of further sums after the present provision is exhausted. Given 
ihat the British Government is disposed to continue to spend 
money to promote migration, and given that the prudent expendi- 
sure of such money 1s properly safeguarded, we are unable to 
suggest a better use which could be made of it. 
The protec- 44. But all measures designed for the increase of Australia’s 
iive tariff wealth production and power of absorbing new population tend 
oe the to be defeated if there are strong forces within her which operate 
Avia 80 to raise her costs of production that she cannot sell her products