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Commercial Committee, on account of a press of other 

 work. 



The thanks of the Society were presented for the 

 following donations from Mr. G. C. Wyatt : — i vol., 

 Kolb's "Condition of Nations;" 2 Railway Maps, Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



Captain E. T. White called attention to what he con- 

 sidered a misleading sentence in the last Report of the 

 Commercial Committee as published by the newspapers. 

 The statement was made that, "herewith attached are 

 Captain White's replies to the various questions," these 

 replies not being attached or published, but other quite 

 different answers which might be considered, on a 

 casual examination, to be his. 



On examination of the minutes of the previous meet- 

 ing it was found that Captain White's replies had not 

 been annexed to the Report; but an entirely different 

 document. Mr. Cunningham, the Secretary of the Com- 

 mercial Committee, explained the inadvertency, and it 

 was ordered that the replies of Captain White should be 

 published in Timehri together with the Report. 



Mr. Cunningham informed the meeting that the draft 

 articles and bye-laws of the proposed Chamber of Com- 

 merce were printed and under consideration. 



The Chairman said there was no doubt that a Chamber 

 of Commerce was desirable. The principal difficulty 

 was in the matter of subscriptions. The Commercial 

 Committee, as an offshoot of the Society, had done a 

 great deal of work, and he hoped that if changes were 

 made they would be for the better, as it was certain that 

 some such body was necessary. 



The meeting then terminated. 



