The Co-ordination of Aeronautical Research in The British Commonwealth

1956 ◽  
Vol 60 (542) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
L. P. Coombes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Vital Matter

I have chosen for my address the subject of Co-ordination of Aeronautical Research in the British Commonwealth, not only because this is a very important and vital matter, but because at this time there are being held in Melbourne meetings between aeronautical research workers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom in certain fields of research. Simultaneously, in Canada similar meetings are being held between aeronautical research workers from Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.Aeronautical research, like human flight, is of comparatively recent origin as far as serious work is concerned. In Australia we can be proud to have had one of the pioneers—Lawrence Hargreaves—while the Wright Brothers based the design of their aircraft on experiments with aerofoils carried out in a wind tunnel of their own design.

scholarly journals Teaching Astronomy in New Zealand: The Ward Observatory

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 354-357
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Harper
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Population ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Sydney Australia

New Zealand is a self-governed, independent nation, a member of the British Commonwealth, and a major center of Polynesian culture in the south Pacific. The country’s two main islands lie between 34° and 47° south latitude, which places New Zealand south of many well known southern observing sites such as Sydney (Australia), Cape Town (South Africa), and Cordoba (Argentina).The population of 3.5 million people inhabit a country slightly larger than the United Kingdom. The astronomical interests of this small population are nourished by no less than 25 local and regional astronomical societies. Amateur astronomers are active in New Zealand. The Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand coordinates national interests and hosts international activities.

The Nature and Structure of the Commonwealth

1953 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1016-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Wheare
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
British West Indian ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations

The structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations is peculiar. If it did not exist, you could not invent it. Its peculiarities reveal themselves at once if we try to find an answer to what looks like a fairly simple question, namely: How do we know whether a country is inside the Commonwealth or outside it? This question has never been very easy to answer. It is not enough to say that a country is within the Commonwealth if it is one of the Queen's dominions. That is quite true so far as it goes. It covers the cases of such important countries of the Commonwealth as the United Kingdom itself, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, Ceylon, and the British West Indian Colonies. But it will not suffice to describe the position of such countries as Malaya, or Nigeria, or Uganda, or the Gold Coast, or Kenya, or Tanganyika. Large parts or all of the territories of these countries are not part of the Queen's dominions, strictly speaking. They are either protected states (as in Malaya) or protectorates (as in most of the African territories) or, as in the case of Tanganyika, Trust Territories under the United Nations. What we must say of these countries of the Commonwealth is not that they are part of the Queen's dominions but that they are under the Queen's protection or jurisdiction.

The research work of Glaxo Laboratories Limited

1957 ◽  
Vol 146 (923) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Manufacturing Facilities

Before considering its research activities, the Company, and more particularly, lie nature of its business must be described, for this determines the field of its; Research. Glaxo Laboratories Limited has its headquarters at Greenford, Middlesex, and as, in addition to the factory at Greenford, five other factories in the United Kingdom, at Ulverston, Barnard Castle, Montrose, Driffield and Uxbridge. The company has also Subsidiary Companies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Eire, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Uruguay, most of them with manufacturing facilities. The products of the Company are therefore known throughout most of the world.

Divided Action

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
Thomas K. Robb ◽  
David James Gill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Strategic Alliance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Security Planning ◽  
Military Support ◽  
British Commonwealth

This chapter looks at how, throughout 1954, the United States began to consider seriously the creation of a wider strategic alliance in the Asia-Pacific that would include the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Such a policy reversal reflected growing concerns about Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. The United States consequently looked abroad for support for collective action. Only a small number of states, however, could provide substantial military resources. Washington focused its attention on London, Canberra, and Wellington. Fundamental disagreements among all four states concerning Cold War strategy persisted throughout negotiations. Although welcoming the opportunity for closer cooperation in the realm of security planning, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand all resisted U.S. ideas about immediate and major military commitments in the region. Even the existence of the ANZUS Treaty proved insufficient motivation for Canberra and Wellington to agree to support Washington's request for military support. The treaty instead appeared to have the opposite effect as antipodean officials feared the dilution or dissolution of existing trilateral strategic arrangements in favor of a wider alliance. All three British Commonwealth powers instead drove debate away from immediate military action toward longer-term alliance building.

National Indexing Day, in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Ruth Ellis ◽  
Tordis Flath ◽  
Sherrey Quinn ◽  
Elisabeth Thomas ◽  
Madeleine Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United Kingdom
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