730 Proceedings. 
On the 30th March the Standing Committee resolved to inform the We inet 
Philosophical ped that the Institute was prepared to undertake the administra 
of the Hamilton Memorial Fund, to invest it and ead it in the manner agreed u ines 
On the 8th Mes the Wellington Philoso of eae Society wrote intimating that the 
Council of their ewe Bm ак finally T of the «x comm and that the fund would 
be transferred A the New Zealand Institute. On t 10th May the societies were 
елы endi di ni e the rules to mar Marta 
— applied for the Hamilton Prize, and the award is to be decided 
at the зыбка 
Тһе а пее. a the Hamilton Fund paid over to the New Zealand жи оп 
the 21st Oster was £48 7s. lld., and this has now been invested in Gove war 
bonds. 
It will be seen from the e m = that roe re 2 requires amending. The 
fund has now Bean invested not wi Public Trustee but in war bonds, thereby 
earning about 1} per са соте ов А Ee cris of the Board of Governors at 
the annual meeting is n ry io put the ma pt in ad and the consent of the 
Wellington Philosophical Зоовет incid to this co 
Pan-Pacific Congress.—At the last annual — it was resolved that every 
endeavour be made to hold the Pan-Pacific Congress in New — in ане After . 
due sso it was found impossible SEP any steps to extend an invitation 
р: the Congress to meet in New Md, and the Азаранка евони was 
accordingly notified to this effect 
Донн Island.—At a калка of the Standing Committee held on 30th March the 
President, Professor Kirk, reported that the Board of Control had visited the island, 
Clure 
and that’ he and us Me go Trete of Crown Lands of the Wellington District, 
had been deputed to draw up a report. The President presented his report, which is 
as follows :— 
“ Kapiti Island—Report on Visit of Advisory Committee. 
ordance with a resolution passed at p meeting T the committee on the 
6th February, Messrs. G. H. M. McClure, W. H. Field, M.P., E. Phillips Turner, and 
Professor H. B visited the island, arriving at noon on Saturday, 18th March, and 
having: si 3 p.m сда ау, 19th March. 
“ After a fairly: pr agens inspectiom of the island it was evident that sheep were 
fairly numerous in all the open portions, and to some extent were present in some of the 
bush-clad portions. At Shea northern end, where the Crown -— abut on-the Native- 
owned portion of the island, and along the eastern coast and around Rangatira, the 
sheep were nearly all shorn ones; but in the Taepiro clearing, wiid from there to the 
southern end, they were n wild shee 
ll, some 
of the island between the Мы Stream апа Wharekohu Bay, where there is 
i whe: i i 
the damage do y goats and sheep there is no need that we should enlarge. 
The most ominous indication of this is that, ex pt in the denser bush, the er more 
than pa generation, and often there is degeneration that is obviously progressive 
" Many dead trees were seen, especi tas; b ne cases these trees 
ere of greater height than the surro sh, and it is probable that their death 
is due to very wind-swept condition of the island ; but i 1 
or fungoid disease. It is certainly not due to the presence of stock. No trace could be 
found of injury to the bark, and many of them are still surrounded by bush too dense 
* See motion carried at annual meeting of 30th J; 9 : M ; 
Fund—p. 728 of this volume. Е of 30th January, 1923—Investment of Hamilton Memorial 
