POLYNESIAN SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 12

POLYNESIAN SOCIETY.

MEETING OF COUNCIL. TRANSFER TO WELLINGTON. The council of the Polynesian Society held its last meeting for the year 1924 at New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. W. 11. Skinner presided, others present being Captain Wm. Waller and Mr. C. Waterston (lion, secretary). Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. P. J. White and M. Fraser. It was decided to hold the annual meeting on January 22, 1925, when the new hon. secretary and treasurer, Messrs. M. Crompton Smith ami J. T. Huggins (Wellington) will attend on behalf of the new provisional council recently elected in Wellington.

A letter was received from the secretary of the Cambridge (England) University Library, thanking the society for a set of the Polynesian Journal, and asking that he be nominated for membership of the society. The letter was the outcome of the forwarding of a net of the society’s journals in response to a previous letter from the secretary of the library, stating that the journals were often asked for by students of ethnographic research dealing with Pacific peoples. The chairman reported that the packing of the society’s library for transmission to Wellington, had been started, and a fresh catalogue of the books had been commenced. No definite action would be taken with regard to this transfer, however, until after the annual meeting next month, and then only if the council was satisfied with the arrangements made in Wellington for the housing and care of the valuable collection.

Nineteen new members were elected.