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Committet and Officers for IMS. — Chairman. — D. M. V. Sommerville, M.A., D.Se. 

 Vice-Chairmen — W. S. La Trobe, M.A. ; E. Parry, B.Sc, M.I.E.E., A.M. Inst. C.E. 

 Committee— C. P. Powles; H. Clark, M.S.. Ph.D.; A. C. Gifford, M.A., F.R.A.S. : 

 C. Monro Hector, M.D., B.Sc, F.R.A.S. ; G. S. Hooper. Director and Curator of 

 Instruments- C. E. Adams, D.Se., F.R.A.S. Hon. Treasurer C. I'. Powles. U<>n. 

 Secretary ('. G. < >. Berry. 



TECHNOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The following papers have been read during 1917 : — (9th May) " Irrigation in New 

 Zealand," by F. W. Furkert, A.M.Inst.C.E. : (13th June) "Smelting of [ronsand at 

 Onehunga," by J. M. Chambers (communicated by E. Parry) ; '" Experiments on the 

 Smelting of Ironsand," by J. E. L. Cull, B.Sc. : (11th July) ''Losses through Evapora- 

 tion and Percolation from Irrigation-works," by F. W. Furkert, A.M.Inst.C.E. ; "Dia- 

 grams collating Tables of Safe Loads on Stanchions," by W. S. La Trobe, M.A. ; 

 " Friction of Water in Pipes," by E. Parry, B.Sc. : (8th August) " Convenient Diagrams 

 for the Design of Remforced-concrete Beams," by W. S. La Trobe, M.A. : (12th Sep- 

 tember) " Datum Levels," by Dr. C. E. Adams ; " Economic Aspects of the Greensands 

 of New Zealand," by Dr. J. A. Thomson : (10th October) " Corrosion by Mine-water," 

 by Professor Easterfield ; " Crystal Analysis by means of X Rays," by Professor H. 

 Clark: '" Failure of High-tension Insulators," by E. Parry, B.Sc; "Some Toi'que 

 Diagrams." by S. H. Jenkinson. 



The officers for the year 191S were elected as follows : Chairman — S. H. Jenkinson. 

 Vice-Chair turn — E. Parry, B.Sc. ; W. S. La Trobe, M.A. Committee — R. W. Holmes, 

 M.Inst. C.E. ; Dr. Maclaurin ; H. Sladden, Member of Board of Surveyors ; Professor 

 H. Clark; F. W. Furkert, A.M.Inst.C.E. Secretary— A. J. Patterson. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The following papers have been read during 1917 : C. A. Cotton. "' Across America 

 by the Santa Fe Route," and " The Age and Correlation of the Covering Strata in 

 Central and Eastern Otago " ; J. A. Thomson, " The So-called Drift Formation of 

 Hawera," " The Relative Age of the North Otago and South Canterbury Limestones," 

 and " The Geology of the Clarence Valley between the Bluff and the Herring River " ; 

 P. G. Morgan, " Potash in New Zealand " ; J. Henderson, " The Physiography of that 

 Part of the Waikato Valley near Maungatautari," and " The Geology of the Waitomo 

 Caves " ; J. A. Bartrum, " Some Concretions in Recent Sediments in Auckland Har- 

 bour " ; W. Donovan, " Some Analysis of New Zealand Coals " ; E. K. Lomas, " The 

 Teaching of Geography." 



The section is indebted to these members for their work, and for thus maintaining 

 the interest in the Geological Section. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Lomas's paper on " The Teaching of Geography " the 

 following motion was carried : ' That the Council be requested to urge upon the 

 Government the importance botli from the educational and economic standpoint of 

 the more extensive publication of the meteorological observations for a larger number 

 of stations in New Zealand." 



Officers and Committee for 1918. — Chairman — J. Henderson, M.A., D.Se. Vice- 

 Chairman—E. K. Lomas, M.A., M.Sc. Committee— Q. Hogben, C.M.G., M.A., F.G.S. ; 

 R. W. Holmes, M.Inst.C.E. ; P. G. Morgan, M.A., F.G.S. ; J. A. Thomson, M.A., D.Se, 

 F.G.S. ; G. Uttlev. M.A., M.Sc.. F.G.S. Hon. Secretary— C. A. Cotton. D.Se.. F.G.S. 



