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New Zealand Institute Science Congress. 
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THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE SCIENCE CONGRESS. 
Palmerston North, January, 1921. 
The second Science Congress of the New Zealand Institute was held at 
Palmerston North from the 25th to the 29th January. The attendance 
was smaller than that of the former Congress, but the standard of 
papers and discussions was equally high, and the general expression of 
opinion of the members participating was that the Congress was a great 
success. 
A very attractive booklet for the meeting was issued by the Borough 
Council, in the form of an illustrated Municipal Year-book, with a full 
statement of the situation, population, early history, waterworks, public 
reserves, and municipal enterprises of the borough, and an appendix giving 
the programme of the Science Congress, including articles on the plants 
of the Manawatu, by Dr. L. Cockayne ; the geology of the Palmerston 
district, by Dr. P. Marshall; notes on the Manawatu swamps and district, 
by Mr. R. Edwards ; and notes on the botany of the Esplanade, by Mr. R. 
Black. This booklet will always form a useful handbook for visitors to 
Palmerston North. 
The programme of the Congress was similar in general outlines to that 
of the Christchurch meeting of 1919. The sectional and general meetings 
were held in the Boys’ High School buildings, the public addresses in the 
Municipal Hall. The afternoons were devoted to excursions to the water¬ 
works at Tiritea, the “ Grlaxo ” factory at Bunnythorpe, and to a garden 
party at the Esplanade. On Saturday a full-day excursion was made, first 
to the Miranui flax-swamp and Messrs, A. and L. Seifert’s flax-mills, and 
later to the Mangahao hydro-electric works. The evenings were occupied 
by the opening meeting, two public lectures, and a conversazione. 
Officers of the Congress. 
President of the New Zealand Institute. 
Professor T. H. Easterfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.N.Z Inst., Oawthron Institute, Nelson. 
Hon. General Secretary. 
Mr. C. T. Salmon, P.O. Box 293, Palmerston North. 
Local Executive Committee. 
Chairman, Mr. M. A. Eliott; Vice -Chairman, Mr. J. Murray ; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. J. R. 
Hardie : and the Mayor (Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P.), Dr. H. D. Bett, Messrs W. E. Dur- 
warcl, E. H. Crabb, A. Whitaker, H. Seifert, J. B. Gerrand, W. Park, C. N. Clausen, 
E. Larcomb, C. A. Hertzell, R. Edwards, R. F. G. Grace, A. J. Colquhoun, 
J. J. Stevenson. 
General Executive Committee. 
Professors T. H. Easterfield and C. Chilton, Drs. L. Cockayne and J. Allan Thomson, 
Hon. G. M. Thomson, and Mr. M. A. Eliott, representing the Board of Governors ; 
Sir James Wilson, Professor J. Park, Messrs. E. Miller, and L. Birks, as Chairmen 
of sections; and Dr. D. H. Bett and Messrs. J. Murray and C. T. Salmon, representing 
the local executive. Hon. Secretary, Dr. J. Allan Thomson. 
