INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual monthly meeting of the Indus trial Association was held last evening at the rooms of the association. Mr R. Allan, president, occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance of members. In reference to the School of Art the Chairman mentioned that the Board of Governors were follewing up the subject. Au extraot was read from a letter from Mr W. H. Espenette, suggest ing that the association should urge upon the Board of Governors the necessity of carrying out Mr Reeves' suggestion at the meeting of the Board of Governors held recently, that they should see if there was not a competent drawing master for the School of Art in the Colony. It was resolved that the matter be loft in the hands of the committee. There was on the table samples of refuse fibre from Mr Chinnery'a flax works, which had been sent to over to Geelong to the paper works there, and whioh he thought would bo of great interest to the Colony as a whole. On the table also were some very splendid samples of plumbago sent by Messrs Smart and Newby. Some letters had been received from Messrs Newby and Mitchell, whioh would be read. Papers would be read by Mr Gray, of Canterbury College, on the manu facture of cement, and Mr Ulrich on potato farina. He might say that Messrs Gourlay and Meyers were present, and had laid on the table specimens of locally made wheat starch.
