xvi. Incorporated, Societies. 



Office-bearers for 1884 : — President — Donald Petrie, M.A. ; Vice- 

 presidmts — Alex. Montgomery, Professor Scott ; Hon. Secretary — Professor 

 Parker ; Hon. Treasurer — J. C. Thomson ; Council — F. Pi. Chapman, W. 

 Arthur, C.E., Professor Mahrwaring Brown, Professor Ulrich, E. Gillies, 

 F.L.S., G. M. Thomson, F.L.S., T. M. Hocken, M.E.C.S. ; Auditor— D. 

 Brent, M.A. 



Extracts from the Constitution and Rules of the Otago Institute. 



2. Any person desiring to join the Society may be elected by ballot, on being proposed 

 in writing at any meeting of the Council or Society by two members, on payment of the 

 annual subscription of one guinea for the year then current. 



5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of ten pounds and 

 ten shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



8. An Annual General Meeting of the members of the Society shall be held in 

 January in each year, at which meeting not less than ten members must be present, 

 otherwise the meeting shall be adjourned by the members present from time to time, 

 until the requisite number of members is present. 



(5.) The session of the Otago Institute shall be during the winter months, from May 

 to October, both inclusive. 



WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Office-bearers for 1883 : — President — W. A. Spence ; Vice-president — 

 T. 0. W. Croft ; Hon. Treasurer— J. P. "Will ; Secretary— Eichard Hilldrup. 



Office-bearers for 1884. — President — W. A. Spence ; Vice-president — 

 T. 0. W. Croft ; Treasurer— J. P. Will ; Secretary— Eichard Hilldrup. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Westland Institute. 



3. The Institute shall consist : — (1) Of life-members, i.e., persons who have at any 

 one time made a donation to the Institute of ten pounds ten shillings or upwards ; or 

 persons who, in reward of special services rendered to the Institute, have been unani- 

 mously elected as such by the Committee or at the general half-yearly meeting. (2) Of 

 members who pay two pounds two shillings each year. (3) Of members paying smaller 

 sums, not less than ten shillings. 



5. The Institute shall hold a half-yearly meeting on the third Monday in the months 

 of December and June. 



HAWKE'S BAY PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE. 

 Office-bearers for 1883 : — President — The Eight Eev. the Bishop of 

 Waiapu ; Vice-president — W. I. Spencer ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer — W. 

 Colenso ; Council— T. "W. Balfour, J. N. Bowerman, H. E. Holder, T. K. 

 Newton, F. W. C. Sturm, C. H. Weber ; Auditor—^. K. Newton. 



Extracts from the Rules of the Haioke's Bay Philosophical Institute. 

 3. The annual subscription for each member shall be one guinea, payable in advanoe, 

 on the first day of January in every year. 



