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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 52

The work of installing the electric light at the Balclutha railway station is nearing completion, and on Wednesday night the offices were lit with the electric current. On Thursday night a few lights were available for the platform, but when the installation is complete the platform, hitherto a dork and dreary place at night, will be most effectively illuminated, even the extreme ends having their electric bulbs, and there is to be one also outside the station at the cart entrance. The lighting system extends as far as the Finegand crossing, where a powerful light is to be placed to help facilitate the work of shunting at night. "A hundred a year as a scholarship for a research student is not worth looking at; it is totally inadequate, and should be increased to at least twice that amount,” said the Hon. G. M. Thomson at a meeting of the Board of Science and Art In Wellington, w’hen dealing with Sir Frank Heath's report. A student, he added, was often worse off at the enu of his term of a scholarship than he was before (reports the Post), and he often had no opening ahead. The inevitable result was the loss to the Dominion of many skilled researchers whose activities might have been well employed in the Dominion.