Branch Reports.

Reports from the Dunedin, Bruce-Clutha, Central Otago and Waitaki Branches are attached.

In April of this year, your Committee, being anxious to see the Waitaki Branch re-established, sent a circular to all the teachers of North Otago, inviting them to meet a deputation from the Committee of Management at Oamaru, in order to discuss the advisability of re-establishing a Branch of the Institute in that district. In response to this circular, a large and representative gathering of teachers from all parts of the Waitaki district met the President and Dr. Chilton who formed the deputation, and after matters had been fully discussed, it was decided that the Waitaki Branch should be re-established.

Your Committee desire to congratulate the teachers of the Waitaki district on the re-formation of their Branch, and to wish the new Branch a useful and prosperous career.

The Committee hope soon to have the pleasure of congratulating the teachers of Tuapeka on the re-establishment of the Branch in their district. If this were done, the teachers of all parts of Otago would be fully represented by the Otago Educational Institute.

Signed on behalf of the Committee of Management,