THE NEW ZEALAND 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
AND ' , 
TECHNOLOGY 
CONTENTS. 
ARTICLES:— 
L. BIRKS and G. F. FERGUSON. Notes on High=tension Insulators 
L. COCKAYNE. Yellow=leaf Disease in Phormium tenax 
J. C. ANDERSEN. Maori String Games {concluded) 
A. M. WRIGHT. Bacteriology in relation to Commercial Meat Products 
D. JENNESS. Proposals for Ethnological Research in New Zealand 
NATURAL=HISTORY NOTES:— 
On the Discovery of a Frog in New Zealand. Verconella adusta : a Further 
Correction. Notes on the “Hosts” of certain Parasitic Hymenoptera. 
Record of a Fish new to New Zealand 
DEPARTMENTAL REPORT 
J. HENDERSON. Geological Features disclosed by Excavations at the Pro= 
posed Dam Site at Arapuni, Waikato River 
UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS:— 
University of New Zealand. New Zealand Institute Science Congress. 
Australasian Association Meeting at Hobart 
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ASTRONOMICAL NOTES:— 
C. E. ADAMS. Observations of Southern Variable Stars ... .. 216 
C. J. WESTLAND. A Brief Method of Calculating Occupations of Stars 
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