ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. Xill. 
grown Within the memory of the living men. The manifest 
faults are not discernible until the logs are cut up. Hxperi- 
enced timber buyers have bought them for sound timber. 
The Maoris are said to explain the existence of the fallen 
trees by alleging a cyclone, but the logs do not lie all in 
the same direction. Another suggestion is that the trees . 
have fallen in an earthquake which has shaken them as a 
‘man would shake a buggy whip and thus caused the frac- 
tures. The fractures permeate the wood so completely 
that enough sound timber to make a chair leg could not be 
got out of a log. 
SEPTEMBER 4th, 1918. 
The four hundredth General Monthly Meeting was held 
at the Society’s House, 5 Elizabeth Street, at 8 p.m. 
Mr. W. S. Dun, President, in the Chair. 
Forty-three members were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The certificates of three candidates for admission as 
ordinary members were read: two for the second, and one 
for the first time. 
Mr.G.H. HALLIGAN and Mr. A.B. HECTOR were appointed 
Scrutineers, and Mr. C. A. SussmiLcH deputed to preside 
at the Ballot Box. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 
members oi the Society:—JOHN ANTHONY YOUNG, Director 
of Lewis Berger and Sons, (Aust.) Ltd., 16 Young Street, 
Sydney; HARRY BROWN SEVIER, Manager of Lewis Berger 
and Sons, (Aust.) Ltd., 16 Young Street, Sydney. 
The President announced the deaths of Mr. HuGu 
PATERSON and Mr. T. F. G. POCKLEY. 
Four volumes, 81 parts and 11 reports were laid upon 
the table. 
