N.Z. INSTITUTE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 12

N.Z. INSTITUTE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEET ELECTION OF OFFICERS Prior to the opening of the fourth science congress the New Zealand Institute of the Board of Governors held its annual meeting yesterday. j[r B. C. Aston, of Wellington, chief GovJ eminent chemist, presided. There were also present Dr. H Cockayne, the Hon. G. M. Thomson, representing the Otago Institute, Professor H. B. Kirk, representing the Wellington Philosophical Socierv Professor C. C. Farr, and Air. A. AL Wright, representing the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Professor F. P. Worley, representing the Auckland Institute, Mr. M. A. Eliott, representing the Manawatu Philosophical Societv* Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, director of tlie Dominion Museum. Wellington, and Professor T. H. Easterfield, of Nelson. Apologies for absence were received from the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson. the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, and Mr. G. V. Hudson, Wellington, Professor H. -W. Segar, Auckland. Professor James Park, Otago, and Mr. W. H. Guthrie Smith, Hawke's Bay. A reduced vote of £750 was placed on the estimates for 1928 for research and 12 applications fox* amounts totalling £ 945 were received. The research grants committee recommended that 11 applications, totalling £750. be granted. Of these, eight had so far been approved, and the remainder were under consideration. The report of Air. Eliott, honorary treasurer, stated that the balancesheet at the year ending December 31, 1928, showed a debit balance of compared with a deficit of £6OB at December 31, 1927. The endowment fund now stood at £597, showing an increase of nearly £4OO during the past five years. The trust accounts were all in a satisfactory condition. It was resolved that the amount of the Hector Award should be raised from £SO to £55. Di*. G. H. Cunningham, of the plant research station, Palmerston North, and Dr. J. Henderson, director of Geological Survey, Wellington, were mad* Fellows of the New Zealand Institute It was resolved that two members h* appointed in 1930. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, secretary of the Royal Society, London, and Sir Ronald Ross, famous for his research into mosquito control in Africa, were elcted honorary members of the institute. The following officers were elected: President, Professor Coleridge Farr; honorary scretary, Mr. B. C. Aston; honorary treasurer. Mr. M. A. Eliott; honorary editor, Professor D. M. Y, Sommerville; honorary returning officer, Professor H. W. Segar; managers of trust accounts, Messrs. Eliott and Aston. It was resolved that the next annual meeting be held at Wellington, on a date to be fixed.