DOMESTIC ECONOMICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7934, 16 December 1909, Page 2

DOMESTIC ECONOMICS.

At a further conference with Mr John Stiidholme and the Citizens' ..Committee, the Otago University Council yesterday agreed to tho offer of the latter to give a total guarantee of £50.0 a year for'four years for a chair m Domestic Economics. This,, with, tho expected subsidy from the Government, will make £1000 per annum. Included m the offer is £75 for a laboratory and £100 travelling expenses for the first year. It was then resolved.: "That, on receipt of an. assurancej of an annual Government subsidy of £ for £ on £500, Miss Anna C. Hedges, M.A., be apnoitited Professor at £500-per annum for four years, from January 11th, 1911." . The Council also allowed £60 for travelling exnenses to New Zealand and £100 for research travelling, should the appointee so elect. It was also resolved that Miss Hedges be authorised to engage an assistant at £250 a-year. Miss Hedges is forty years of. age, graduated at St. Louis m 1884, and has had a distinguished educational career, embracing arts, music, cookery, and domestic sciences. She is now Principal of tho Technical High School, New York.