POLYNESIAN SOCIETY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 80

POLYNESIAN SOCIETY.

NEW PLYMOUTH, February 15,

The fourteenth annual meeting of the Polynesian Society was held to-night. Mr S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S., was re-elected president, and Mr W. H. Skinner secretary. The report stated that the object for whioh the society was founded — the preservation of the original Maori connected with the Polynesian race — had been fairly well carried out, and the journal (the medium of such preservation), as far as the first two quarterly numbers were concerned, had appeared with regularity. Owing to tho disastrous fire in Wellington at Messrs Whitcombo and Tombs's, tho society lost the whole of the third number of the journal, involving its reprinting. The society also lost all the blocks used for illustrating from tho very first issue. A considerable quantity of original matter of great value was now on hand, and should be made available for members and students of Polynesian matters. Ihere was a large amount of such matters in the Maori language yot untranslated, also in rhc Rarotongan dialect. It would be fomc time before the Maori dictionary was compiled. The Rev. H. W. Williams's appeals for the consent of the Cape Colony Legislature to the transference to New Zealand of valuable documents of the late Sir George Groy'6 collection had net yet been granted, although tho Loivcr Hou^e had passed a bill authorising the transference. The Niue vocabulary was going slowly through the Go\-crnmont Printing Office. From the 31st December last the society's correspondence, papers, etc., ceased to po free through tho post offices within the Empire, and unle-s the Government made an allowance this would make a considerable difference to the society, who ha\c spent over £2500 in prceervinjf to future generations records of the history, marmcis, and cv.-tome of the Polynesian race. The report was adopted, and new members were elected.

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