The Geological Society

President: Mr. R. A. Henderson

Secretary: Miss A. Cameron

The Geological Society, which is affiliated to the New Zealand Geological Society, caters for those who wish to extend their knowledge and experience of geology. It organises field trips to places of geological interest and arranges lectures by outside speakers at its monthly meetings. These meetings are held at 7.30pm on Thursdays in Easterfield 511. About 40 people attend the meetings although the Society's membership is over 90.

The Society hopes to take about 20 people to Kawhia this year to spend a week studying the Jurassic section of New Zealand. They expect to camp in tents and the trip will cost each person about £6 for the trip. In addition to the Study Week trip, there may be several weekend trips organised to the Wairarapa to inspect the thesis work which is being done there by five geology students.

The field trips are taken seriously and a paper has been published on the work undertaken in the past few years. On one field trip a new fossil bed was discovered, and another long trip was spent geologically mapping an area in the Wairarapa. The accommodation on these trips is in tents or in shearers' quarters on farms.

Although few Stage I students have gone on the field trips in the past, the Society welcomes any who wish to go because it feels it is good practice in field-work, especially for those who are going to take their geology to higher levels.