Wednesday, Jan. 6.

Morning Sitting.

The Council of the New Zealand Educational Institute resumed its sessions at 10 a.m. In addition to those delegates present on Tuesday, Mr D. Ferguson, M.A., of Otago, attended.

The President. Mr Scott, said that the Directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory had extended a cordial invitation to the delegates to visit the Kaiapoi Factory and the works in Christchurch, and that Mr F. Waymouth, Secretary to the Belfast Freezing Works, had invited them to visit the freezing works.

The invitations were received with applause.