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Tongariro National Park Board.
Report of Representative of N.Z. Institute.
Two decisions of the Board are of special interest to the New Zealand Institute as they may be fraught with considerable bearing on the plant and animal life in the Park. The Board has now definitely decided not to permit anyone to introduce exotic plants or animals without express permission and it has requested those acclimatisation societies which have been permitted to liberate introduced birds to free them as far from the Park as possible.
The Board has decided to cut up a small area on the margin of the Park into small sections that will be leased to private individuals. The
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Board has not yet definitely decided on the site on which the hostel should be built, though they have restricted the possibilities to the stretch between the present Whakapapa huts and the bridge near the Haunted Whare.
The Board has carried a resolution that in its opinion the heather should be eradicated.
P. Marshall
.Chas. A. Whitney Expedition.—On the motion of Professor Kirk, seconded by Professor Segar, it was resolved that the Department of Internal Affairs be asked, if it is not too late to do so, to send a representative with the Whitney Expedition to supervise the collecting of native birds under the permit which has been issued.
Great Barrier Reef Committee's Report.—The report of the Institute's representative on this committee was adopted.