Migrants wishing to farm in Australia will be welcome under the Governments migration plans, provided they have a small amount of ital and comply with other con. ditions relating to good health and character.
The Government is emphatic, however, that it has no present intention of reviving land settlement schemes, bearing in mind costly failures of such schemes.
Officials made this clear following recent suggestions for the large scale settlement of immigrant families in Australia. These included a proposal by the managing director of General Motors-Holdens, Ltd., (Mr. J. H. Hart nett), that farmers from the middle west of the United States should be encouraged to come to Australia.
It prefers migrants of British stock, all other things being equal, but the Government would welcome farmer settlers, who are a most desirable class of immigrant irrespective of nationality. The difficulty is to persuade migrants of this type to risk their small capital without substantial guarantees of help from the Commonwealth or State Governments.
The immediate concern of the aliens' branch of the Department of the Interior is to deal with thousands of applications from Jewish refugees from Central Europe. Many of these applicants are so anxious to enter Australia that they state their willingness to undertake any type of work if they can obtain permits to land.
Officials "are, however, bearing in mind past experience, that migrants from Europe do not-readily which shows big cities in go into rural occupations.
Splitting Time into Fragments Measurements of time of less than 100,000th part of a second are an essential part of research work ci ried out at Melbourne University that has considerably advanced scientific knowledge of radio transmission.
Proof that all radio -impulses bounce back from ionized layers in the upper air has been obtained by making such measurements, and it is this discovery—considered to be of fundamental "scientific importance—that Prof. T, H. Lady believes may greatly simplify and improve present methods of radio navigation of planes.
Messrs. Nicholls, Nixon and Mc-
Neill, working in the Laverton laboratory that is now being transferred to Royal Park, first proved that every signal was reflected from the upper layers known as the ionosphere.
Then they photographed the impulses received simultaneously with a time scale. That gave them the time that elapsed between the arrival of the direct wave, and the various later impulses that had bounced back from the ionosphere—as many as fourteen "bounces" have been traced for one signal.
As they knew the height of the ionosphere, and the speed of radio waves is constant, it was a matter of simple mathematics to determine the distance from the receiver of the source of the signal. The direction is obtained by the use of a cathode-ray direction-finder.
Although the young scientists have worked only on lightning flashes, the position of which it has been found possible to determine to within two per cent, accuracy over a range of hundreds of miles, the same system could be applied to an impulse from transmitter.
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