xviii Neio Zealand Institute. 



Extracts from the Constitution and Rules of the Otago Institute. 



2. Any person desiring to join the society may be elected by ballot, 

 on being proposed in writing at any meeting of the Council or society by 

 two members, and on payment of the annual subscription of one guinea 

 for the year then current. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment 

 of ten pounds and ten shillmgs in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



8. An annual general meeting of the members of the societ}' shall 

 be held in January in each year, at which meeting not less than ten 

 members must be present, otherwise the meeting shall be adjourned by 

 the members present from time to time until the requisite number of 

 members is present. 



(5.) The session of the Otago Institute shall be during the winter 

 months, from May to October, both inclusive. 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 

 Office-beakers for 1894. — Preside^it — H. L. Michel; 

 Vice-president — W. C. Fendall; Hon. Treasurer — A. H. King; 

 Trustees — Messrs. Barron, Cresswell, Croft, J. Churches, 

 W. L. Fowler, T. H. Gill, Dr. Macandrew, A. Mahan, 

 Morton, E. Eoss, E. W. Wade, and D. Macfarlane. 



Extracts from the Rides of the Westland Institute. 



3. The Institute shall consist (1) of life-members — i.e., persons who 

 have at any one time made a donation to the Institute of ten pounds ten 

 shillings or upwards, or persons who, in reward of special services ren- 

 dered to the Institute, have been unanimously elected as such by the 

 Committee or at the general half-yearly meeting ; (2) of members who 

 pay two pounds two shillings each year ; (3) of members paying smaller 

 sums, not less than ten shillings. 



5. The Institute shall hold a half-yearly meeting on the third Mon- 

 day in the months of December and June. 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 

 Office-bearers for 1894. — President — T. Humphries; 

 Vice-inesident — J. W. Carlile, M.A. ; Hon. Secretary — W. Din- 

 widdle; Hon. Treasurer — G. White; Auditor — J. Crerar; 

 Council — Miss Browning, J. H. Smith, J. W. Craig, H. Hill;. 

 B.A., F.G.S., H. H. Pinckney, B.A., J. Eingland. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Haioke's Bay Philosophical Institute. 



3. The annual subscription for each member shall be one guinea, 

 payable in advance on the first day of January in every year. 



4. Members ma}' at any time become life-members by one payment 

 of ten pounds ten shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



(4.) The session of the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute shall 

 be during the winter months from May to October, both inclusive ; and 

 general meetings shall be held on the second Monday in each of those 

 six months, at 8 p.m. 



