admirable Waite Institute at Adelaide. The sum of that knowledge
 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 produciivity
 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 Agreement
 should be enlarged so as to permit of the funds made available
 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 Agreenent
 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 expendisure
 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