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(iii.) To advise Government on scientific policy : (iv.) To hold and administer land and other property (whether under trust or not) for the promotion of scientific or industrial research. (3.) The Department should include an Advisory Council of not more than six members, who should not be Government officials, to be appointed by the Prime Minister after consultation with the National Research Council of New Zealand when this body has been established, and pending its establishment, with the New Zealand Institute. (Paragraph 53.) (4.) The Chairman of the Council should be appointed by the Prime Minister and receive a salary for his part-time services. (Paragraphs 53, 54.) (5.) The members of the Council should receive a yearly honorarium, and they should seek written leave of absence from the chairman from the Council meetings. (Paragraph 54.) (6.) The Council should meet monthly, with the usual recesses. (Paragraph 53.) (7.) The Chairman and members of the Council should be appointed in the first instance for four years, and retire thereafter according to a rota. (Paragraph 53.) (8.) The Chairman and members of the Council and members of the committees charged with the scientific supervision of laboratories, services, or institutes under the administration of the Department should receive the travelling and subsistence allowances usual in the public services. (Paragraph 56.) (9.) The quorum of the Council should be three. (Paragraph 54.) (10.) The powers and duties of the Council should be— (i.) To consider and report to the Prime Minister upon the scientific aspects of all proposals made to the Department for the encouragement of scientific research or the organization of industrial research from whatever source they may arise ; and to initiate such proposals (themselves if they think fit. (ii.) To submit annually to the Prime Minister a programme of the work, with estimates of cost for each of the scientific establishments under the control of the Department, together with detailed estimates of all moneys proposed to be expended by the Department in grants to individuals or to outside bodies, (iii.) The Council shall also have the power of tendering advice to the Prime Minister on the scientific aspects of any proposals made by other Departments affecting the scientific or industrial interests of the people. (iv.) The Council may appoint such committees as they think fit. (Paragraph 53.) (11.) The permanent Secretary of the Department should be Secretary of the Council. (Paragraph 59.) (12.) The several Departments of State concerned in any aspect of scientific work should nominate their chief administrative officer to act as assessor at the meetings of the Advisory Council. An assessor should receive the agenda paper and minutes of all ordinary meetings of the Council, and should have power to attend and take part in the proceedings of the Council, but not to vote. (Paragraph 57.) (13.) The scientific laboratories, services, and institutes administered by the Department should be under the immediate scientific supervision of special committees (appointed by the Council), who shall submit annual programmes of work, together with estimates of cost, for the recommendation of the Council to the Prime Minister. (Paragraphs 24, 58.) (14.) The committees of scientific supervision for institutes should consist of (a) representatives of science, (b) scientific members of the appropriate Departments of State, and (c) representatives of the industry concerned, nominated by the appropriate Board of Control for the industry where such a Board exists. (Paragraphs 24, 25.) (15.) The Departments should forthwith appoint committees to work out plans for and subsequently supervise scientifically the proposed laboratory for standards and tests, research into the transport of meat and fruit, into fuel and into forestry and forest products. In making their plans the utmost use should be made of local facilities. (Paragraphs 29, 32, 34.) (16.) The Government should invite a forester of the highest standing to visit the Dominion, survey the whole position of forestry, both native bush and planted areas, and report as to the feasibility of a more extended forward policy. (Paragraph 31.) (17.) The first institute to be established should be that for dairying on the site of the proposed College of Agriculture. (Paragraph 25.) (18.) The Department should encourage and aid the formation of co-operative research organizations by the secondary industries. (Paragraph 35.) (19.) The Department should establish a section of records under the Permanent Secretary, and a section for compiling and publishing a comprehensive catalogue of all scientific books, pamphlets, and journals in the public and, so far as possible, the private libraries of the Dominion. (Paragraphs 63-65.) (20.) The Department should establish a centra! lending and reference library of scientific books and publications not found or available in existing libraries. (Paragraph 65.)

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