PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.
A NATIONAL QUESTION.
A definition of the southern attitude on the question of national professional schools was given at the session of the University Council to-dav by Mr. H. D. Acland (Canterbury). Mr. Acland said he did not consider agriculture and forestry schools as professional schools. Medical and engineering schools, however, were definitely of the type that should be considered from the national point of view.
If any individual wished to make a gift far the establishment of a school of that type its recognition should be subject to the condition that the gift was sufficient to keep the school going ■without becoming a drain on the public finances. Provided it satisfied that condition. there could be no argument against its recognition. "I believe,"' lie concluded, "that the question of national schools will ultimately have to be settled bv Parliament.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 5
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