xviii Neio Zealand InstiUite. 



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

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



8. An annual general meeting of the members of the society shall be 

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

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

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

 bers is present. 



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

 months, from May to October, both inclusive. 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 

 Office-bbakeks for 1897. — President — A. H. King ; Vice- 

 2Jresident — D. Macfarlane ; Hon. Treasurer — T. H. Gill; 

 Trtistees — Messrs. Chesney, Clarke, Beare, Dawes, Fowler, 

 Gibson, Heinz, Lawry, Mahan, Michel, Sinclair, and Eev. 

 S. Hamilton. 



Extracts from the Rules 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-beaeers for 1897. — President — Dr. T. C. Moore; 

 Vice-president — Dr. A. Milne-Thomson ; Ho7i. Treasurer — G. 

 White; Hon. Secretary — W. Dinwiddie ; Council — Messrs. 

 Carlile, Tanner, Hill, Hislop, and Adams, and Dr. Jarvis. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Hawke'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 may 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. 



SOUTHLAND INSTITUTE. 

 Office-bearers. — Trustees — Ven. Archdeacon Stocker, 

 Eev. John Ferguson, Dr. James Galbraith. 



