310 KEPOllT— 1891. 



42. Huhurangi. — This name occurs in Moriori traditions as 

 the residence of Tahiri and Irca, to whose place Maruroa and 

 Bananga, who went to the Chatham Islands in the Bangi- 

 mata canoe, paid a visit prior to their voyage, and from whence 

 they obtained the direction in which to sail for Eekohua or 

 Chatham Islands. It was at Ilukiirangi that they were taught 

 the knowledge of the names of the months, and where they 

 heard of the j^oJmtiikaica and mawhai trees. There are several 

 very interesting questions raised by this tradition, but, as I am 

 limited to the geographical points at issue, I will merely call 

 attention to what I have already stated — namely, that Ulmrangi 

 was one of the ancient names for New Zealand. 



End of Part I. 



A Natural Method of teacJiing the Elevwnts of Geography 

 and Map-drawing, 



By Professor A. W. Bickerton. 



7. On the Belation hcticcen Bavnfall and Forest. 



By J. T. Meesox, B.A., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at- 



law% Christchurch. 

 Captain Campbell- Walkek, in his able and exhaustive paper 

 (Appendix to Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. ix.) " On the Climatic 

 and Financial Aspect of Forest Conservancy as applicable to 

 New Zealand," after enumerating and illustrating many ways 

 in which the presence of forests undoubtedly tends to amelio- 

 rate the climate of a country, as Nvell as to increase and con- 

 serve its water-supply, and therefore its productivity, "records 

 his opinion that so far nothing has been found to establish 

 the theory that extensive denudation will of itself cause a 

 marked decrease in the rainfall" (Par. xxviii.), "although 

 the facts as he has seen and compared them in this colony 

 almost convince him that forests have a direct influence on the 

 amount of it." However — he significantlj^ goes on to ask — 

 " May not the presence of the trees be the effect of the rain- 



