WESTLAND INSTITUTE. 



Annual Meeting. 13th December, 1882. 

 J. Giles, President, in the chair. 



ABSTEACT OF ANNUAL EEPOET. 



This is the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Institute. Its financial position is con- 

 sidered satisfactory, there being a credit balance of £20 14s. 5d. 



The number of members on the roll is 90, showing an increase of 10 on the roll for 

 1881. 



During the year there have been twelve committee meetings called and one special 

 meeting. 



A meeting of the Institute was held on the 2nd of March, when a paper was read by Dr. 

 Bakewell " On some Difficulties of Darwinism," there was also one read by the same gentle- 

 man " On the Fallacies of Evolution," being a continuation of his former paper. 



One hundred and ninety-one new books have been added to the library, which makes 

 2,276 volumes in the library at present. 



The visitors to the Public Reading Room have been considerably more numerous than 

 in the previous year, owing chiefly to the large influx of miners to the new rush at Rimu ; 

 and your committee intends applying to the Harbour Board and Borough and County 

 Councils for subsidies to supplement the funds of the Institute. 



The committee has much pleasure in acknowledging donations to the Library and 

 Museum and in thanking the donors. 



Election op Officers for 1883 : — President — W. A. Spence ; Vice- 

 President — T. 0. W. Croft ; Hon. Treasurer — J. P. Will ; Secretary — 

 Eichard Hilldrup. 



