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insulator-manufacture. The grant has been overexpended, and the grantee has asked 
that £60 might be transferred from his grant for "Seog sulphur to the porcelain grant, 
in order that the work might be барш: Professor Farr has deposited with the 
Hon. осту а 48-paged manuscript сору of his рар 
Pro xm viles who in 1920 was granted £75, ай the Philosophical Institute 
of Can › for a кы > оп the properties of gas- -free ест reported оп the 
15th аЙ that work on this research had gone on during ё der but so fis no 
expense had been incurred, and the grantee has not баны апу ран т hos e grant. It 
. George Gray, who in 1920 was granted £50, through the Philosophical 
Institute of Canterbury, for an investigation on the waters of Can terbury, repo 
d bee 
tervals i . In these sam 
dissolved matter have been estimated ud recorded for fut The expense 
far have been trifling, and the grantee has not ic any но. ‘of the grant, whic ch 
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records made. Vadim. truments have now been moved to some wells near Lincoln 
for the purpose eliminati ting the disturbance of the water in the wells by industrial 
use of those in the neighbourhood. e sufficient series of records is sec the 
| ollege piping will i iers. 
Dr. Hilgendorf asks that the remainder а the grant, £60 4s. 2d., in hands of the 
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Professor R. Jack, who in 1917 was parem £25, through i Otago vue for 
an investigation of the екен charge on rain and its connection with meteorolo, gical 
conditions, has 5 absent in England, and on the 27th Decent he applied ta for 
renewal of this rantee holds the balance, £25. 
gran 
Т.Т он who in 1919 was granted £50, through the eere Па 
for an inquiry into the rate of growth of the S uie cipal New Zealand t 
reported on the 19th December that it had been found impossible to devote yet time 
to research, and very little headway had been made. A number of kauri eM 
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io rtain that young kauri po nd sa 
suspend height-growth e a pets year, or pubem Bees, Ft is proposed to extend 
observations to discover what external influ uences, if any, are cerned in this 
mporary ved db of height-growth, and whether it is eres with increased growth 
in thickness. Observations on the ge ies have bee ued, a number of 
microphotographs have been made, and a quantity of diti бее, eb it is not at 
present ble to make definite statements seed these. Next year it is pro 
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orriso dede vio ИСТӘ ves granted £100, through the Philosophical 
Institute of Canterb bury, for a esearch in afforestation of the Spe: a Ranges, repo 
on the 10th January, 1922, that since his last report further photographs 
useful data was his h the Nort 
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Professor Wilson of Harvard ыйым Much evidence had been a 
support of his proposal of “ natural afforestation,” and an experiment 
