New Zealand Institute Act. The following Act reconstituting the Institute was passed by Parliament:— 1903, No. 48. An Act to reconstitute the New Zealand Institute. [18th November, 1903. Whereas it is desirable to reconstitute the New Zealand Institute with a view to connecting it more closely with the affiliated institutions: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1. The Short Title of this Act is “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1903.” 2. “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867,” is hereby repealed. 3. (1.) The body hitherto known as the New Zealand Institute (hereinafter referred to as “the Institute”) shall consist of the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, the Otago Institute, the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, the Nelson Institute, the Westland Institute, the Southland Institute, and such others as may hereafter be incorporated in accordance with regulations to be made by the Board of Governors as hereinafter mentioned. (2.) Members of the above-named incorporated societies shall be ipso facto members of the Institute. 4. The control and management of the Institute shall be in the hands of a Board of Governors, constituted as follows:— The Governor; The Colonial Secretary; Four members to be appointed by the Governor in Council during the month of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, and two members to be similarly appointed during the month of December in every succeeding year; Two members to be appointed by each of the incorporated societies at Auckland, Wellington, Christ-church, and Dunedin during the month of December in each alternate year; One member to be appointed by each of the other incorporated societies during the month of December in each alternate year.