OEDINARY MEETING* 



Captain Heath, E.K, ik the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following paper was read by the author : — 



ON THE HOT LAKES DISTIIICT, NEW ZEALAND. 

 By Miss Hilda Booed. ( Witli fliotogra^liic illustrations 

 hy kind permission of Mr. Josiah Martin, of Auckland, 

 N.Z., of Messrs. Valentine and Sons, of Dundee, and of 

 Mr. lies, of Rotorua, N.Z.) 



HAVING been asked by Professor Hull to give an account of 

 what I saw during my stay in that part of New Zealand 

 which is most justly termed the Wonderland, I can but endeavour 

 to comply with his request. I must confess at once, however, 

 to being no scientist myself, and therefore I fear that my 

 observations can have no more value than those of any other 

 ordinary traveller ; circumstances, moreover, prevented me 

 from visiting some of the principal places of interest. 



My best plan, I think, will be to take up my narrative from 

 the time my sister and I lel't Pipiriki on the Wanganui Ptiver ; 



river so exquisitely beautiful in itself that it would be fatal 

 to my present purpose to dwell upon its banks and describe its 

 many charms. 



It was in the New Zealand autumn, nearly three years ago, 

 that we started one morning on our seven clays' coaching trip 

 across country to Eotorua Irom Pipiriki, a very small settle- 

 ment formed, for the most part, of Maoris. They are very 



* Monday, February 8th, 1904. 



