Otciijo InatUute.. .17 



OTAGO INSTITUTE. 



First Mkkting : SnI May, 1910. 



The President, Professor Waters, in the cliair. 



Tlie President delivered his presidential address, entitled " Mining 

 Education in relation to the Mining Industry." 



The President referred in feeling terms to the serious illness of the 

 "N'ice-President, Dr. Hocken, and commented on the very great interest 

 which Dr. Hocken had always taken in the Otago Institute, and lie moved 

 a hearty vote of thanks to him for the gift of some valuable periodicals 

 which he had recently presented to the Institute. This was carried with 

 heai'ty applause. 



Sk(joni) Mehtinc : lih Jit/ic. 1910. 



The President, Profes.sor Waters, in the chair. 



The Pi'esident announced certain changes which had taken place in the 

 pe?'sonf)eI of the Council, Dr. Fitchett having been elected in the place of 

 Dr. Malcolm (resigned), Mr. x\lexander Bathgate having been elected 

 Vice-President in place of Dr. Hocken (deceased), and Mr. E. J. Parr in 

 place of Mr. Bathgate. 



iVetv Members. — Messrs. R. W. Brickell, Cuthbert Fenwick, Charles 

 Butterwurtli, W. T. Glasgow, George Howes, and J. C. McGeorge. 



The President referred lo tlie inestimable loss sustained by the 

 Institute through the death of Dr. Hocken, and on the motion of Dr. 

 Colquhoun the following resolution was carried in silence, the members 

 standing : — 



That the men)bers of the Otago Institute record their keen sense of loss at the 

 removal by death of Dr. T. M. Hocken, who has been a member since the incep- 

 tion of the Institute in 1869. During these forty-one years Dr. Hocken was a 

 member of the executive for thirty-seven years, and held the position of President 

 on three occasions. As a member he was most enthusiastic, and ever ready to 

 contribute to the proceedings. Whilst taking a keen interest in all subjects brought 

 before the Institute, anch in its aims and objects, he devoted himself to investi- 

 gating and recording the early history of New Zealand. Endowed with a tempera- 

 ment favourable to close study, and possessed with perseverance, his investigations 

 in this his labour of love remain as an undoubted authentic record for all times in 

 bis volumes entitled " Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand," and 

 " Bibliography of New Zealand Literature." He has by his priceless gift to New 

 Zealand of all the documentary and other evidence upon which his records are 

 based enhanced the value of these records beyond estimation. This evidence, now 

 forming portion of the Hocken collection, housed in the Hocken wing of the Otago 

 Museum, will ever be a history of the Dominion defined and traced from the 

 earliest beginnings. This Institute joins in the hope that his collection, freely 

 given, will ever be under good guardianship, and expresses its appreciation of his 

 high ideal of citizenship and his fine personality, which endeared him to all who 

 knew him 



Dr. Benham showod some very interesting and valuable mats of Maoi'i 

 workmanship. These mats had been presented by the late Dr. Hocken, 

 and some of them were of historical value. They were of different kinds, 

 were used for various ceremonies and different occasions, and each had 

 its own special Maori name. He also showed a very valuable tattooed 

 dried Maori head from Dr. Hocken's collection. 



