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accordance with the President's suggestion the Treasurer be asked to examine 

 the balance-sheets of the incorporated societies, and to report annually as 

 to the compliance of incorporated societies with Regulation No. 3. 



Publication of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting.— On the motion of 

 Dr. Hilgendorf, seconded by Mr. G. M. Thomson, it was resolved, That it 

 be suggested to the Publication Committee that the report of the annual 

 meeting of the Institute be printed and circulated to the affiliated Institutes 

 as soon as possible after the meeting, as well as being incorporated in the 



Transactions in due course. 



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Establishment of an Endowment Fund. — Dr. Thomson, who previously at 

 the meeting had given notice of his intention, now moved that an Endow- 

 ment Fund be set up, the interest of which may be spent in any year for 

 any purposes of the Institute, but the principal may not be spent. The 

 motion was seconded by Professor Kirk, and carried. 



Reform, of the Institute. — The replies from the incorporated societies 

 which had been received in answer to Dr. Thomson's proposals were laid 

 on the table. On the motion of Dr. Cockayne, seconded by Mr. Hill, it 

 was resolved, That a Committee be set up to report at next meeting on 

 the matter of Fellowship of the Institute ; and on the motion of Mr. Parr, 

 seconded by Mr. Eliott, it was resolved, That Mr. Hogben, Dr. Thomson, 

 and Dr. Cockayne (convener) be appointed a Committee to draw up a 

 scheme and refer it to the incorporated societies. On the motion of Mr. 

 Birks, seconded by Mr. Hill, it was resolved, That this Board express its 

 appreciation to Dr. J. Allan Thomson of his action in bringing forward 

 the proposals dealing with the constitution of the Institute. ^jflj 



Public Meeting of the Institute. — On the motion of Dr. J. Allan Thom- 

 son, seconded by Mr. G. M. Thomson, it was resolved, That the Institute 

 accept the invitation of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury to hold 

 a week of meetings in Christ-church in the autumn of 1919. 



Co-ordination of Science and Industry. — Further reports were received 

 from the incorporated societies, and were laid on the table. 



Board of Science and Industry. — On the motion of Professor Kirk, seconded 

 by Mr. Birks, it was resolved, That this meeting of the Board of Governors 

 of the New Zealand Institute considers it an essential part of the scheme 

 for scientific and industrial research that the Board should be a trust to 

 administer public and other funds given for the purpose for which it is 

 constituted, and that for the first five years its finance should not be sub- 

 jected to any amendment by Parliament, although duly audited ; and that 

 Mr. Hogben and Dr. Thomson be a committee to transmit this resolution 

 to the Government, after consultation with the National Efficiency Board. 



Vote of Thanks to the New Zealand Institute's Scientific and Industrial 

 Research Committee. — It was resolved, on the motion of Professor Thomas, 

 seconded by Dr. Hilgendorf, That this meeting expresses its appreciation 

 of the work of the New Zealand Institute's Scientific and Industrial Re- 

 search Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. George Hogben, and is 

 indebted to it for its successful efforts to embody the opinion of the 

 Committees in the respective centres of New Zealand. 



Census of Industries. — On the motion of Mr. Hogben, seconded by Mr. 

 G. M. Thomson, it was resolved, That a Committee be set up to co-operate 



