Neiv Zealand Institute. 



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employ the amended longitude for the purposes of the time 

 service, as the advantage from a navigator's point of view of 

 having a value in harmony with the one shown on the charts 

 was obvious. The Admiralty, however, has at last found 

 it practicable to adopt the true longitude in one or two of its 

 harbour-charts ; and, although in view of the smallness of the 

 error involved and of the expense of regraduatirg a large series 

 of charts the Admiralty has no present intention of amending 

 the majority of the coastal charts, this partial recognition of 

 the corrected longitude has opened the way for a reconsidera- 

 tion of the matter, and, after submission of the point to the 

 Hydrographer to the Admiralty, the value Uh. 39m. 5-3s. has, 

 with that official's entire concurrence, been adopted as the one 

 for use in calculations necessary for tmie-determination. The 

 wliole question is discussed at length in a paper which I had 

 the honour of reading before the Wellington Philosophical 

 Society on the 18th March, 1903 ('On the Longitude of the 

 Colonial Observatory, &c.'), and I would respectfully ask re- 

 ference to that paper for details of the subject." 



The balance-sheet, duly certified, is appended, and the 

 schedules and correspondence will be published with the 

 report in the usual pamphlet form. 



James Hector, Manager. 



Approved. — Martin Chapman, Chairman. — 3rd Julv, 1903. 



New Zealand 

 Receipts, 



year 



Balance from last 



Vote for 1902-3 



Contribution from Wel- 

 lington Philosophical 

 Society 



Sale of " Maori Art" .. 



Sale of Transactions . . 



Institute Accounts for 1902-3. 



Expendihire. 



Printing Vol. XXXV. . . 

 Expenses of library 

 Expenses, "Maori Art" 

 Postages, foreign volumes 

 Expenses, International 



Catalogue . . 

 Miscellaneous items . . 

 Balance 



£964 1 3 



Examined and found correct. 



Martin Chapman, Acting-Treasurer. 

 3rd July, 1903. 



COLONIAL TIME-BALL OBSERVATORY. 



Mr. Thomas King, the officer in charge, reports as fol- 

 lows : — 



The clocks have kept satisfactory rates throughout the 

 year, and the instruments are in good order. There are no 



