1094
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

11. The holder shall each year send to the Board a report on the progress of the research being carried on by him, and the Board shall forward the report to the Minister, with any comments it may see fit to make thereon.

12. (a.) All the results of the research carried on by any holder of the scholarship in accordance with the terms of his scholarship shall be the property of the Government of New Zealand: Provided, however, that if the results of the research prove to be of such economic importance as to warrant protection by letters patent, only the New Zealand rights shall be reserved to the Government, and the discoverer shall be permitted to reap any pecuniary benefit to be derived from patent rights elsewhere.

(b.) The holder shall embody an account of the results of his research in a detailed report which shall be sent to the Board, and by it to the Minister, who shall, if he sees fit, cause it to be published in suitable form.

(c.) No publication of the results of the research shall be made by the candidate unless the Minister gives his consent thereto.

(d.) The final instalment of the scholarship shall not be payable until the detailed report of the result has been made in a form approved by the Board and the Minister.

Provisional List of Subjects of Research.

(i.) Economic Entomology.—Some one definite branch of the subject—as the life-history of a useful or of a harmful insect, with indications based on exact experiment of the proper time and circumstances for intervention.

(ii.) Plant-diseases (such as are not included above).—Definite investigation into the origin and course of diseases of a given disease group, or of the various diseases affecting any important plant or group of plants, with indications of the means of prevention and cure. The detailed chemistry of fungicides and blight sprays; their effects.

(iii.) Diseases of Farm Animals and Domestic Animals (so far as these are not included above).—Definite investigation into the origin and course of diseases of a given disease group, or of the various diseases affecting any important animal or group of animals, with indications of the means of prevention and cure.

(iv.) Researches in New Zealand Economic Botany.—(a.) Properties of New Zealand timbers (strength, durability, &c.), and mode of treating timbers. (b.) Histological and other characteristics that serve to differentiate economic timbers used in New Zealand. (c.) Products of New Zealand plants, whether fibre, bark, oils, drugs, dyes, resins, sawdust, or other products; wood pulp, and the paper-making industry. (d.) Definite experiments as to plants suitable as fodder plants for the different qualities of lands in New Zealand.

(v.) The Flax Industry.

(vi.) Butter, Milk, and Cheese Industry.—(a.) Definite investigation in one or more branches of dairy bacteriology. (b.) Improvement in analytical methods in dairy-work. (c.) Utilization of dairy waste products.

(vii.) Food Fishes of New Zealand.—Definite investigation into the life-history of some given fish or group of fishes used as food in New Zealand.

(viii.) Crustacea and Mollusca of New Zealand.—Definite investigation of the Crustacea and Mollusca of economic importance in New Zealand seas.

(ix.) Chemistry of Soils.—Some definite branch of the subject—e.g., the best method of fertilizing light pumice lands.

(x.) New Zealand Mineral Oils.—Systematic examination of.

(xi.) Fat Industry.

(xii.) Fossil Resins (including kauri-gum and ambrite).

(xiii.) Minerals.—(a.) Improvement in rapid method of analysis of minerals. (b.) Chemistry and mechanical characters of New Zealand brown coals. (c.) Chemistry and mechanical characters of New Zealand clays. (d.) Chemistry of New Zealand iron-deposits, especially of titanic sands and hæmatites.

(xiv.) Mineral Deposits of New Zealand.—Definite investigation of auriferous deposits in any district of New Zealand: their area and extent, value, and the profitable extraction of the gold contained therein; or a similar investigation of other minerals of economic importance.

(xv.) Any other subject approved by the Minister.

THOMAS MACKENZIE,
Acting Minister of Education.