Report of Representative on New Zealand Oceanographic Committee

There has been no meeting and nothing to comment on since my last report to Council in May, 1957. The Secretary has advertised that Research Grants may be applied for, but apparently no applications were received.

On April 15, 1958, I resigned from the position of representative of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on the Committee, and am therefore no longer eligible as a nominee to represent the Royal Society of New Zealand. With the growth of the Department's Oceanographic Institute, the functions of this committee, which initially brought together the country's scattered and diverse interests in marine sciences and led to the formation of the Institute, have now become more restricted.

The Committee can still function most usefully as a body representing the oceanographers of New Zealand as a whole, to advise the Department on matters not dealt with, or inadequately covered, by the Oceanographic Institute's programmes, to enable non-Governmental oceanographers to have their voice in New Zealand Oceanographic activities, and to apply for