LORD ROSEBERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1903, Page 5

LORD ROSEBERY.

S K COLOSSAL SCHEME. rKFAT SCIENCE COLLEGE ® EAi F0 X LONDON. f IH E MONEY FOUND. Vision lonials

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I.' ' LONDON, June 20. < Tord Rosebery has propounded a 1 for the establishment or a Colf m o Applied Science in connection StdouUnivers ity, and similar to existing at Charlottenburg,

m *v for the scheme has already Thtrustees include the tee ? rSebcr (chairman), the Duke IOfK S the Right Hon. A. J. <**%?& isMowatt (Pennan*S£.t >• to "he Treasury), Mr Juf S £ Wernlier (well known m tB - « Zdes), Dr. John Scott HalTTle urn- in Fhysiology iv the d!,n j£ of Oxford), and the Rev. Dr. KffiEtJ,' Vice-Chancellor, *?fi Arthur W• Sucker, Principal, Uh of the University of London. 11 cost^apart from the site, will be if3ooooo. Messrs Wernher, Beit, aim Coßpaay. the South African firm, are larw contributors. > Bonations have also been received from Lord Strathcona, Lord Cashels, m i others. The commissioners of the exhibition of ISSI are to give the site, which is valued at £200,000, and is adjacent to the University buildings at South Kenancton. The College will be a school of tlie°University, working in co-operation with the Central Technical College, the Royal College of Science, and other branches. There are to be facilities for Original research. In the letter unfolding his scheme Lord Rosebery asked the London County Council to undertake its maintenance, which he estimates at £ 20,000 per annum.

He also strongly emphasises the importance of picked students of the colonies of the Motherland finding opportunity for acquiring the most advanced education within the Empire.

The newspapers recognise the import, ance of Lord Rosebery's scheme from the standpoint of providing a training for British mining engineers, metallurgists, and chemists.

The "Times" states that Messrs Werner and Beit's offer was one of £100,000 immediately and a similar amount later on certain conditions.