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Grey River, 
By the kindness of Mr. A. Dobson and Dr. Hilgendorf the members of 
the Geological Section and a few others drove in cars to the Grey River 
on the afternoon of Friday, 7th. February. The party proceeded up the 
river as far as time would allow, inspecting the series of gravels and silts 
of which Mr. R. Speight had treated in his paper to the Section on “ The 
Older Gravels of North Canterbury.” Various junctions were pointed out by 
Mr. Speight where appearances of unconformity within the series existed. 
Unfortunately, time did not permit of following the section downwards 
into the fossiliferous marine beds. 
Lake Coleridge. 
Owing to the large number of visitors wishing to see the Lake Coleridge 
hydro-electric works, three separate excursions were arranged on the week¬ 
ends before and after the Congress. The visitors were given opportunities 
of inspecting Lake Coleridge, the intake, the pipe-line, and the power¬ 
house, while the transmission-lines were seen on the motor iournev from 
Christchurch to the lake. 
OPENING CEREMONY. 
The opening ceremony was held in Canterbury College Hall on Tuesday, 
4th February, at 8 p.m. The chair was taken by the President, Dr. L. 
Cockayne, F.R.S., and there were present His Excellency the Governor- 
General, Lady Liverpool, and suite ; the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of 
Internal Affairs ; His Worship the Mayor of Christchurch (H. Holland, 
Esq.) ; the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College 
(H. D. Acland, Esq ) ; and a large number of members of the Institute 
and their friends. 
Address by His Excellency the Governor-General. 
It gives me great pleasure to attend the Congress with Her Excellency. 
I come in the capacity not of a spokesman or speechmaker, but of a listener 
and a. learner. I would ask those present to remember that there are 
gathered in the hall a large number of the best brains of New Zealand. 
The variety of subjects set down for discussion, I hope, will be considered 
not only from the view of their intrinsic value, but also from a larger 
point of view—namely, that of the community. Glancing over the list, 
I note three subjects of world-wide interest. One is public health, and 
deals with the epidemic that recently spread throughout the Dominion. 
It has occupied the minds of many scientists and medical men in all parts 
of the world, but only its fringe has been touched. Nothing is known of 
the origin of the disease, or even of the disease itself. I took upon myself 
to send a personal telegram to the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
Mr. Long, suggesting that the time had arrived when certain diseases 
could be made notifiable throughout the world, and be treated in the same 
way as the plague and cholera, which were the commonest of the notifiable 
diseases that could be transmitted by one nation to another. Within the 
