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body unfettered by party ties and unaflfected by political clianges, to 

 wliich questions of social interest may be referred for investigation, 

 must be obvious to every intelligent member of the community, and 

 hence the importance of maintaining such a body in a state of 

 efficiency for prosecuting its important and interesting labors. 



In closing the session of 18G0, your Council looks back ^^'ith 

 pleasure to the unbroken harmony that has characterised all its pro- 

 ceedings, and reflects with much gratification on the results of the 

 year, so far as relates to the steady progress of your Society in use- 

 fulness and efficiency. The one drawback to unmixed satisfaction 

 it is deemed necessary to notice is the low state of your funds, but 

 it may surely be hoped that it is only necessary to make this fact 

 public, and the needful supplies will be at once furnished, so as to 

 enable the Society to not only occupy the spheres of usefulness it 

 has already filled, but to extend its operations into others of even 

 greater importance to the material interests of the community, which 

 are daily opening before us and inviting our co-operation. 



The folloAving gentlemen retire from office, but are eligible for 

 re-election : — The President, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, 

 K.C.B. ; the Vice-Presidents, Dr. Eades and Professor Neumayer ; 

 the Treasurer, Eev. J. I. Bleasdale; the Honorary Secretary, Dr. 

 Macadam; C. W. Ligar, Esq., C.E. ; Clement Hodgkinson, Esq., 

 C.E. ; John Millar, Esq., C.E., F.S.A. ; Dr. Gillbee ; Thomas E. Raw- 

 linson, Esq. 3 H. F. Eaton, Esq. . 



