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(3) That it would be greatly to the advantage of the commercial 
and manufacturing prosperity of Australia if there were added to 
she present activities of the Council for Scientific and Industrial 
Research the sphere of work which deals with the standardization 
ind simplification of manufacturing processes. (Para. 8.) 
(4) That an Economic Service should be set up as a separate 
organization. (Para. 7.) 
(5) That for the general co-ordination of the three bodies, the 
Development and Migration Commission, the Council for Scientific 
and Industrial Research, and the Economic Service, a Committee 
should be formed consisting of the heads of the three bodies as 
members with the Commonwealth Minister, to whom they report, 
as Chairman, and with some outstanding man as Vice-Chairman. 
(Para. 9.) 
EE. Tae PASTORAL INDUSTRY. 
(1) The direct profits from wool grown on the sheep stations 
show a tendency to decline. (Paras. 2 to 4.) 
(2) Security of land tenure is necessary, and we favour freehold 
tenure or, alternatively, very long leaseholds. (Paras. 5 to 8.) 
(8) We consider that systems of taxation should not differentiate 
in favour of leasehold as against freehold land. (Para. 9.) 
(4) The size of areas granted for sheep raising should be deter- 
mined by the consideration of the maximum wealth production of 
the land, not by the consideration of the minimum area on which 
an individual can make a living. (Paras. 10 to 18.) 
(5) The arguments for security of tenure, if possible freehold, 
are even stronger in the case of large scale cattle ranching than 
in that of sheep raising. (Para. 14.) 
(6) The number of existing meat export works is uneconomically 
large and ought to be reduced. (Para. 15.) 
F.. MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION. 
(1) Australia must look for her future development in great 
measure to remunerative exports. (Para. 1.) 
(2) High costs of production limit remunerative export mainly 
0 wool and wheat. (Para. 2.) 
(8) The home market has been artificially retained for agricul- 
ural products, and there is difficulty in marketing a surplus, which 
lifficulty is intensified as the surplus grows. (Paras. 3 and 4.) 
(4) Co-operative handling of products retains all the profits for 
the co-operators but is not always efficient. (Para. 6.) 
(6) An export market cannot be built up by looking primarily 
0 the home market. Quality rather than quantity of products 
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