352 Proceedings. 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 



Eight meetings were held during 1917. and the following papers were 

 read : (18th May) Cv Old Hawke's Bay— the Provincial Days," by W. Din- 

 widdie ; (18th June) " The Marvels of Luminiferous Ether,"' by J- W. 

 Poynton, S.M. ; (27th July) " The Development of Thought and Language, 

 chiefly in regard to the Lower Animals," by T. Hyde ; (17th August) 

 '• Bacon and" Shakespeare," by H. Hill, B.A.", F.G.S. ; (28th September) 

 " Popular Bacteriology," by J. W. Poynton, S.M. ; (2nd November) " His- 

 tory and Development of the Water-supply of the Taupo Plains," by H. 

 Hill, B.A., F.G.S. ; (13th December) L ' Milk as a Food," by E. G. Loten. 



At the annual meeting (13th December) the annual report was read and 

 adopted, and the following officers for 1918 were elected : President— 

 T. Hyde. Vice-President— W . A. Armour, M.A., M.Sc. Council— W. Din- 

 widdle ; H. Hill, B.A., F.G.S. ; F. Hutchinson, jun. : W. Kerr, M.A. ; 

 E. G. Loten ; T. C. Moore, M.D. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer — D. A. 

 Strachan, M.A. Hon. Auditor — H. Hill, B.A., F.G.S. Hon. Lanternist— 

 E. G. Loten. Representative— K. Hill, B.A., F.G S. 



MANAWATU PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



During the year eight general meetings were held, at which the following 

 papers were read : ' The Frozen-meat Industry," by M. A. Eliott : " Pair- 

 ing Relations of Matter in Animal and Vegetable Life," by D. Sinclair, 

 C.E. ; ' Time, how it is found and kept," by C. T. Salmon, Assoc, in 

 Eng., Canterbury College ; ' Bird-life in the Southern Islets . of New 

 Zealand," by G. Thomas ; " Antarctic Exploration," by H. Hill, B.A., 

 F.G.S. ; ' Economic Plants that should be imported into New Zealand," 

 by J. W. Poynton, S.M. ; " Some Unconsidered Aspects of the War," by 

 j'. W. Poynton, S.M. ; " Hydro-electricity," by A. J. Colquhoun, M.Sc. 



At the animal meeting the annual report and balance-sheet was adopted. 



Abstract of Annual Re^prt. 



During the year several matters not merely of local but of great general importance 

 have occupied the attention of the Council. At their request the Government has agreed 

 to extend the measures for the preservation of native birds to the outlying islets of 

 Stewart Island, and has referred the matter to Dr. Thomson and Mr. Phillips Turner 

 for suggestions as to the measures necessary to be taken, and' these gentlemen have 

 issued a full report on the bird-life of the Dominion, a copy of which has been made 

 for our library and is accessible to any member of the society. The Council has also 

 given its warm support to the endeavour of Foxton to secure the preservation of the 

 only piece of native bush remaining in its neighbourhood. We have been officially 

 advised that this object has been attained. 



