ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10067, 13 March 1924, Page 8

ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

BUCKETFULS FOR SCHOOLS. DUNEDIN WANTS £93,000. WELLINGTON, March 12. In connection with the Dunedin Medical School, Cabinet to-day made a grant of £35,000 towards the cost of erection of new laboratories for physiology anatomy, and other subjects. This sum is in addition to the grant of £20,000 made last year giving a total of £55,000, which will enable acceptance of a tender for the exterior building. Interior fitting will, require further expenditure, probably in about IS months' to two years' time, when the shell has been completed. . An application has been received by the Government from Otago University for £38,000 for a new dental school at Dunedin. It is understood that this application was before Cabinet but was postponed. The fact is that the University Senate will meet next month to consider the proposal of the Minister of Education that two years out of the four vears' dental course at Dunedin should be taken at centres, colleges, and hospitals outside Dunedin, and that the matter will be considered and dealt with by the Senate. The Education Department is strongly ot the view that a considerable portion ot the clinical training, which required considerable floor space for dental chairs, can be given with advantage in main hospitals outside Dunedin. The Senate is asked to decide this question at its meeting. Should the Senate be of the same opinion it is considered that the same amount of accommodation will not be required at Dunedin as is the subject of the present application to the Government.