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to abolish the New Zealand Institute and to constitute in lieu thereof a Body for the Promotion of Science, to be known as the Royal Society of New Zealand. [6th December, 1933.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assemhled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Society of New Zealand Act, 1933.

2. (1) The New Zealand Institute constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908, is hereby abolished and the Board of Governors thereof is hereby dissolved.

(2) There is hereby constituted as successor to the New Zealand Institute a body which, in accordance with the gracious approval of His Majesty heretofore duly given, shall be called the Royal Society of New Zealand