INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS. THE REGULATIONS APPROVED

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, December 30. Prompt effect has been given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to the provisions of the Act relative to the establishment of national research schokrshius. Suggested regulations outlining details of the scheme and defining the method of procedure have now been framed, and as Cabinet lias approved them it is reasonable, to expect that they will be gazetted at an early date. • , ~ The regulations adopted by the council make provision for an annual award of four national research scholarships to graduates of tho New Zealand University or other qualified persons to enable them to carry on research in any branch of science or economics Adue proportion of scholarships will be offered for the purpose of encouraging research in connection with matters relating to the industries of JNew Z,eaiand Each scholarship wdl be of the value of £IBO per annum ana a grant, net exceeding a total of £2o will be made to defray the cost of special apparatus or special books required for research and cost of transit while the scholar is engaged on the work. Apparatus and books, however, will remain th" property of the Department of, Scientific and Industrial Research. A scholarship is tenable for one year at a university college or other institution approved by the Research Council, but the tenure may be extended to a second year in' special circumstances approved by the Minister. . i Every scholar will be required to devote his whole time during the tenure of the scholarship to work connected with the research, unless under special circumstances the consent ot the Kesearch Council has been previously ob°At the end of three months, students will be obliged to furnish a report of their work, accompanied by a certificate from the professor or director of the university department or institu- ( tion concerned that the work has been done to his satisfcation No publication of the results ot research are to be made by scholars unless the consent of the Research Council" is obtained, and the final instalment of the scholarship will not be payable until a detailed report of the results has been made in a form suit-; able for publication I Applications for scholarships have to | be made on the prescribed form and must he submitted'to the Secretary ot Scientific and Industrial Research not later than February 14 in each year.