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and in cases in which local knowledge is essential, the 

 Research Institution should co-operate with one or other of 

 the twelve institutions to which the Board propose to make 

 grants in aid of local technical investigations. Apart from 

 the necessity for the study of certain questions in the locality 

 in which they arise, it is very desirable that local institutions 

 should be encouraged to study subjects of local importance, 

 and wherever possible Research Institutions should assist and 

 encourage them to do so. 



The existence of a local staff available for advisory work 

 and for the conduct of local technical investigations will also 

 enable the Research Institutions to test the results of research 

 under field conditions in different parts of the country, and 

 will, in other ways, do much to secure the application of 

 scientific research to practice, The Board attach great im- 

 portance to this aspect of the question, since the scheme will 

 fail in its object unless successful arrangements are made for 

 adapting information obtained in the laboratory to field condi- 

 tions and making it available for use by the practical hus- 

 bandman. 



The Board hope that the local advisory staff stationed at 

 centres distributed over the country will form a link between 

 the Research Institutions on the one hand and the practical 

 farmer on the other. 



Annual Grants. 



The grants made to Research Institutions will be of the 

 nature of annual grants-in-aid, and the Institution will be 

 expected to contribute from its own funds, or to obtain con- 

 tributions from other sources, towards the total cost of the 

 research work in the group of subjects with which it is asked 

 to deal. 



Where an Institution is already engaged in research in any 

 special subject, the grant from the Board must be used for 

 the development and extension of the work, and not for the 

 purpose of lightening existing expenditure. 



Capital Grants. 



The Development Commissioners have informed the Board 

 that where a Research Institution requires further buildings 

 for laboratories or expensive apparatus or equipment which 



