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utilized, but a bad quality of pig-metal imported from home, while much 

 refuse metal and iron that could readily be converted into good wrought 

 iron, wastefully thrown aside. Lime and other building stones, cement, 

 gypsum, as well as brick clay, in the same profusion, some little used, 

 but most neglected. Copper, silver, and gold swell the list, promising 

 to reach no mean magnitude as items of production, but the mining for 

 them, as well as their after treatment, conducted in an extravagant 

 fashion, and with an entire want of scientific knowledge. 



He next points out that even the most important article of food — 

 flour — is provided principally from Southern Aiistralia and California, 

 with this strange anomaly that, whilst one province gluts its market 

 from these countries, a neighbouring province, having enough and to 

 spare, exports its surplus to Europe ; and that the only present successful 

 institution in the category of colonial manufactures is heer. 



As a means of stimulating attention to industrial manufactures, the 

 author urges the introduction of rudimentaiy scientific instruction into 

 Common Schools, and also the formation of an institution where prac- 

 tical or technical science might be acquired. He then gives an 

 indication of the branches of instruction iisualJy inckided in such a 

 cotxrse. 



Thirteenth Meeting. June 1, 1870. 



Sir D. Monro, President, in the chair. 



The Report of Special Committee appointed at last meeting was read 

 by the Secretary, as follows: — " The Committee having carefully perused 

 the rules of the New Zealand Institute, are of opinion that it is highly 

 desirable that this Association should be afiiliated with the New Zealand 

 Institute, and that efforts should be made to extend the number of 

 members, so that the aggregate income of the Association may amount 

 to the sum fixed as the condition of affiliation, namely, £50 per annum ; 

 and they further recommend that, in order to comply with the conditions 

 of affiliation, the subscription be raised from ten shillings to one guinea 

 per annum." 



On the motion of the Bishop of Nelson, seconded by Mr. Mackay, 

 the above report was unanimously adopted. 



Dr. Williams then read a paper descriptive of a Fox Shark which 

 had been caught in the Bay, and which belonged to the genus Alo2nas. 



Three photogTaphs of the animal were exhibited. 



