The Westland Institute.

R. Hilldrup, Librarian and Secretary.

This is an affiliated branch of the New Zealand Institute, and has its head-quarters in the Town Hall Buildings, Revell Street, Hokitika. It possesses a reading-room, open daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m.; and a library open for the exchange of books daily. The library contains about 2,000 volumes, a classified catalogue of which was published in 1884. I visited the rooms on a Saturday night, and saw them I suppose to advantage. The Institute is paving the way for a larger, undertaking some day in the quaint little town of Hokitika.