LAMENTABLE!

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 53, 4 March 1901, Page 2

LAMENTABLE!

(To the Editor.)

Sir-In rending the large list of examiners in the medical department of the. university examinations, I only observed one Auckland name—Professor Brown s. Just loot at the list, sir, find you will notice there are gentlemen there from several little tin-not places, but Auckland is so slighted that it would have boon more satisfactory had she been unrepresented altotfothcjil, for then we should have realised ihat in Southern opinion we were not wanted and had no business there.. Our Auckland representatives on the University and in the Hou.se are si very slow lot. Month:-. ni-o before Parliament met, I pointed out the advisability of Auckland having a medical school. Being eo.ua,! to any city, sue should not be behind any. But, apart from the medical standpoint, what .sort or I. Diversity buildings have we? In university towns at Home the seat of learning Is their pride, and the first thing of importance mentioned to strangers. But Auckland. Why, we have a small, shabby barn in a valley, which I am .sr.ro no student won d point out to the learned stranger with pride as Alma Mater. Bather would he slink away with a sense of humiliation, and, if possible, avoid the subject altogether. Did I not know it to be what passes for the University building in Auckland, I should take it for a kerosene or lumber store room. My native town, when it was little larger than Auckland, had a University •College worthy to be a king's; palace. It would be a prominent ornament to »jny city, and McCormiek and CuinmiujJ are names not unknown in the medical profession.—Yours, etc., Wli. S. AICKIN. I'.S.— Since writing my letter I have glanced at the list of medical examiners. There are, irrespective of the Dunedin men, two luvercargill, four Wellington. (Why, iii the name of goodness should 'Wellington be represented at ail?)