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Professor Kirk : I am quite satisfied with that and withdraw 

 the motion. 



Veterinary Scienxe. 



The Permanent Honorary Secretary : The Committee on 

 Section G2 — Agriculture — report that Professor J. D. Stewart, who 

 is Professor of Veterinary Science in this University, desires that 

 veterinary science be raised to the rank of a section of this Asso- 

 ciation. 



After discussion, in which it was pointed out that the subject 

 ofagi-iculture itself hasonlyjust beenraised to the rank of a section, it 

 was decided to recommend that the subject of veterinary science 

 be a sub-section of the agriculture section. 



Survey Work — New Zealand. 



Mr. Hedley : I move — 



" That in the opinion of the Australasian Association the 

 investigation of the continental shelf around New 

 Zealand and the islands of the South of New Zealand is 

 a work of pressing necessity, both for scientific and for 

 economic reasons ; and the Association, while recog- 

 nising the value of the work already done in this direc- 

 tion, would urge upon the New Zealand Government 

 the desirabihty of taking advantage of the facilities 

 offered by the stay of the Antarctic exploring ship Terra 

 Nova in New Zealand, to complete the survey of the 

 surrounding seas by soundings and dredgings as far as 

 possible." 

 In support of this motion I would remind the Council that when 

 Lieutenant Shackelton went south he altered the procedure, inas- 

 much as it had been the custom for explorers in the Antarctic to 

 allow their ships to stay in those regions. Lieutenant Shackleton 

 sent his ship back to New Zealand, and that procedure will be 

 adopted in future. In sending the ship back to New Zealand 

 he arranged that she should be used in connection with scientific 

 work in his absence, such as sounding, dredging, studying contour 

 and ocean currents, and so on. I had hoped, as all students of 

 oceanography did, that the ship would have done nearly as much 

 work around the coast of New Zealand as the Shackelton party in 

 the Antarctic, instead of lying idle in Lyttelton Harbour. The dis- 

 appointment remained, and it appears the programme is likely 

 to be repeated. Another ship is going back to New Zealand, and 

 I wish to strengthen the hands of our New Zealand confreres by 

 moving this motion, so that the New Zealand Government will 

 move in that direction ; and I trust to have a unanimous and 

 cordial vote on this matter. (Applause.) 



Mr. Stead seconded the motion. 



