THE SCIENCE AND ART BILL.
CONSTITUTION OF PROPOSED BOARD. WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. A special meeting of the New Zealand Institute was held to-day to discuss the Science and Art Bill, which provides for the constitution and control of a Dominion art gallery, and for the publication of certain scientific works. The Bill provides that the Board of Science and Art shall consist of the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Director of Geological Surveys (who shall be the director of the Dominion Museum), the president of the Governors of the Institute, an officer of the Department of Agriculture, the Government Printer and two persons to be appointed by the Governor-in-Council, the Board to manage and control and direct the Museum and art gallery and have control of the transactions of the New Zealand Institute and the printing of them. Resolutions were passed that the Institute cannot agree to the proposal that the issue of the transactions and proceedings should come under the review of an outside board, that in fixing the constitution of the Board of Science and Art the representation 01 the Institute should be increased to four members.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1913, Page 5
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