132 Proceedings. 
Tonpoi; and, further, SM an area on the зарате Mountains and Moun 
mukarikari ought to be set aside. These Sa s did not include all that АУ 
delegates wished for, but the “Stats Forest Service was ы to declare the remainder 
pe t State forest, to be milled o under the strictest conditions ok le 
о 
a view to doing sg di Age possible to preserve the am ORDEI st the ee. pe 
along the Ohakune track. The following resolutions were pas 
(1.) es s ie ‘Tongariro оне Club be added to е list = bodies that should 
representative to the Board of Control. 
(2.) That i зи nt a sked for an ааа а to provide for ће 
aintenance of the 
(3.) . That Mr. Field be asked to organize a deputation to the Minister of Defence 
with regard to мен э Reserve 
(4.) That PD be p el extending the undaries as agree 
bo ed to 
On the 14th scies a deputation consisting of the Hon. G. M. Thomson, — 
uM H. B. Kirk. Dr. L. paese Professor E Marsden, and Mr. B. C. Aston 
represe i an 
one to inclu uh nd area. 
addition, they asked that portion of the Наша B Block EUER aimanawa Mountains 
ed. Without thi i ls 
ac 
ч атеав 
railway-line е made premanent forests ы Act of Parliament and not merely 
assey sa aid the proposals met with his approval He thought that the 
Board of Control should be set up, and he hoped practical men would be selected with 
the м Government representa 
During the session the Tongariro National Park Bill was introduced and became 
law. It provided for many of the proposals which had been suggested, including 
e n i park and a B be 
rs of We nd, t of ri peo 
responsible for the gift, the Under-Secretary of Lands, the eneral pe ager of the 
Tourist Department, the чому of the State Forest Service, the ee — of the 
New Zealand Institute, and four members nominated by the Governm 
Great Barrier aed Committee, —On the 21st September the St uei Commi 
appointed Mr. W. R ‚ B. Oliver to represent it as a corres ding on the Grest 
Barrier Reef Mott set up by the Royal Geographical Society of New South 
Wales. On the 19th January Mr. Oliver re that need the n: of this 
committee it has met four times, ад the following business has ansac 
1 been 
Appointment of officers and representatives ; appointment of gafa носе OMNI 
Physiography, Oceanography, Geology, Zoology, Botany. 
‚ Re from these sub-com 8, awe suggestions for carrying out bec. 
gations on the Barrier s were esed at the fourth meeting of the committe 
rinc suggestions cep d in the reports are— 
(a) the establishment J a peii rtas isis tion ; Pra topographical and oceani 
survey of the reef; (с) a census of the entire fauna and flora of the reef ; "Y an 
rtance; ( n in 
the reef; (g) a study of the mode of formation of a tolls, and the origin and character- 
istics of coral reefs in general; (h) the Sol odio of a bibliograp’ hy. 
y Removal.—At the last annual meeting the Board, having before it the 
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чеди eid of the Board of Science and Art ea al of the 
» pprov: 
| gton Philosophical Society in the matter of the roposed adir Lei of the 
ore в library, ed the Standing Com ontinue negotiations with 
ictoria College l in reg ousing of the library, provided the finances 
tted. At: pever of the Standing Commit eld on the 4th February it was 
resolved, That if on inquiry it f hat the cost of tr and shel < 
oriri d tel аса of the library to Victoria College сап be custody : 
u 
Hyatt tet eins р аро аө Victoria College Council to accept the 
om печ 17th th February ihe President reported that the Under-Secretary of iiem 
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to assist in the removal of the library to Victoria College b; y the m s 
