BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6491, 13 July 1886, Page 2

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

The annual meetiEg of the Canterbury College Board cf Governors took place yesterday. There were present—Mr P. de c. Malet (Chairman), the Most Beverend the Primate, Messrs R Beetham, J. N. Tosswill, B. Westenra. J. V. Boss, J. V. Colborne-Veel, R. W. Pereday. The College Committee's report was read and adopted as follows :— (1.) The Committee recommends the Board that a meeting of graduates entitled to vote shall be called fourteen days before the date of any election ot a Governor, for the purpose of nominating candidates. At such meeting candidates shall be nominated, either by being proposed and. seconded by graduates present, or by written nominations, signed by two qualified graduates, and sent in to the Begistrar not later than the day before the meeting. It shall be the duty of theKegis—or to receive suoh nominations, and to hand them to the Chairman of the meeting, to be announced by him to the graduates present. At the subsequent el-'ctioano votes shall be received except fax candidates nominated as herein provided. (2.) The Committee recommends the Board (in accordance with the request of the Chairman of a meeting of graduates held June 26th) that the election ot two Governors in the room of Messrs Coward and Lance shall be held at noon on the some da; in AtiguH on which i the diplomas shall bo presented.

-The School cf Are Committee reported as follow-:— .

The Committee recommends tho Foard that the fees tor the " building, const-action, and architeo.uro class" be 10s per term, and for the "engineering class" 10s per term. Any student shall be allowed to attend both classes on paving a fee of 15s.

This report waa adopted. The Chaibman presented the following statement:—-

College.—At the annual meeting of ihe Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, held on the 12thi July, 1830, the Chairman's statement of the progress made and the work done in the several departments duringthe year, was read as follows: — This is the thirteenth "<--* i meeting of the Board. I propose to give a short statement showing the work done in the sever— depnrtmeats during the past twelve months. Since the last annual meeting, I regret to say, we have loot ote of our members through death—Mr J. P. Lance, who for eight years has been a Governor of the College. Two Governors of the College—Messrs Bowen and Coward—have resigned their seats. On the 21st November last the graduates on the books of Can. gtaMftry College elected Messrs W C—retail, J. V. _oss —id E. Westenra to be members of the Board of Governors. There are still two vacancies, which will be filled np at an electi n to be held shortly, or as soon as certain alterations shall have been made respecting the mode of procedure for nomination ot candidates. The number of matriculated students attending the classes during the past year was 103, as against 93 for the previous year The total number of matriculated and non-matriculated at-dents attending lectures— 3883-9wasSll,as oompired with 201 for 1681-5. The number of students attending ea—t lecture duringthe last term was as follows: — Classics—Pass I—tin: Translation, 49; composition, 47. Greek—Translation, 7; composition, 7. Honors latin: Translation, S; composition, 7. English Literature—Pass Lectures: Literature of Commonwealth, 63; language of Shakespeare aud George Eliot, S3; composition, 155; art of Shakespeare and George Eliot, .68. Honors Lectures: Philology. 23; criticism, 40; history (16— to 1683), S6. Mathematics—Lower Division, 31; Upper Division,2; meo—inics and hydrostatics, 15: advanced mathematics, 2; elementary mathematics, 6. Chemistry and Physics—Junior chemistry. 16; senior chemistry, 4s junior physics, 15; senior physios, 9: physics (teachers class), 7; laboratory practice, 14. Geology— Junior geology, 7; 'senior peology, 1; laboratory practice, 7. Biology—First year botany, 8; second year botany, 13; honors botany, 4; pass biology {physiology). U; laboratory Jira otica botany, 2*. Frenoh — Senior class, 7; unior class, 6. German, 3. Jurisprudence, 10; Constitutional history, 6*. I—w, S. Five stndents from the College have this year obtained the degree of M.A. B. Lamb and T. W. Bowe gained I at the same time first class honors in languages, F. Kime first class honors in mathematics, H. yon Haast second class honors in politic— science, and -hTcto— second class honors in languages. Six' ■indents of the College have passed the tip- ot their B A. elimination, and had the degree 'conferred on them (one of them under the teachers' regulations), Misses A. Gresha_, E. a, Mitsom, _. Prtcaithly and L. —. Will, and Messrs W. D. Andrews and W. H. A. Ur-ddock, whilst nine have pasted the first nection ot their B. A. examination, Misses E. Hilton, B. Gibson, 1_ Gibson, E. Gribbon, M. liorimer, and F. Taylor, and Messrs W. Armitage, F. Fend—l, and A. B. Meek. Only two senior scholarships of the six of—red by the New Zealand University this year were awarded, and they were gained by students of this College. The English—id Latin scholarship by. W. H. A. Craddock, and the political science scholarship by Miss E. Pitcait—y. The College exhibitions given for exeellenot in honors' work at the College annual examination were awarded as follows:—For Latin, W. H. A. Craddock; for English, Miss A. E. Mills and O. T. J. Alpers, who were equal t for mathematics, B. Speight] for natural science, F. P. Feudall; for experimental' science, T. W Ambrose; tor Greek and French and history, political economy and French, J. H. Smith and Miss B. Gibson, who were equhl. The graduates ot the University of *ew 'Zealand who have been educated at the College now number 51, 26 of whom have obtained the degree of M.A., and 25 the degree of B.A. Three of these have also obtained the degree of TjL.U. Of the Masters of Arts, 1 gained double first class honors, 1 a doable first class and a second, 14 first class honors, 1 a double second, 3 second, and 7 third class.. Thus, out of 116 who have taken Agrees in the University of New Zealand, 51 Belong to Canterbury College. Out of the 44 who, ■Save taken tbe H. A., 27 belong to it, and ot tbe 28 who have taken first clxss honors, 16 belong to it. mi the 48 senior and third seat scholarships Swarded by the University of Now Zealand daring she last six years, ths period daring which the "present scholarship regulations have been in it rce, 32 have been awarded to students of C—ternary College, of the eleven Bowen prizes which 'have been awarded by ihe University for an essay on a subject connected with English history, ana j open to all undergraduates ot the University of j hew Zealand, eight have been gained by students I trained in this College, whilst the only two mentioned as proximo occessit have also been of this College. Of the three Gilchrist scholarships , Jwt hive been offered in New Zealand, two have raven gained by students of the Canterbury College. < Pole last Gilchrist scholar. H. M. Inglis, 8.*., of Wis College, has highly distinguished himself in tfie first year ot his medicil coarse at Edinburgh University, gaining first position in one class, and I appearing in the first c—— ia his two other subsets. At the end of Inst year the Imperial 3jbt—orities offered a con——urion in the Boyal Stag—eers to each colonial University, and that Bor New Zealand has been given to one of the JJollege students, U. M. rtntton, who took his p.a. degree in 1085. For the sake of those who Ipapld not attend daring the day, a course of Btwplve evening lectures was cammeaced daring thj lost term by Professor Biokerton on the "Application of Electricity" This course,for wHchafeeof 5s was charged, was very popular, oifi attended by 130 student-. mots' High School.—The following' changes h»e taken place in the tt_f during the past year: I -lit Christ—as Mr FergnSkOn, having been ap> tainted Master of Gre~p_tk fachool, tendered his Sdgnat—n, and his piace was filled by Mr Faulk. ■br, 8._., Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly ■isistant master at Kings' School. Braton, and King Edward's School, Broomgrove. Soon after ihe commencement of t he year, Mr T. P, —mold ISeadgned, having accepted an appointment as ■taster at the central school, New Plymouth. Waring the third term last yew applications were Invited for tbe —See of writing master, but the feoari did not see its way to make an appointment. _T_) school was visited last March by the In»pectorfQenesal, who says :—" It seems to mc that the ■school is not quite as well attended as, from its Sorganisation and method, it deserves to ba" It twos also ex—lined at the end of last year by the Professors of the College, and their reports, as a wkole, were favorable to the school, and reflected «teat credit on the work done.- Hia Excellency the Hr/vernor was good enough to (rive, away the Arizes in December loot. The following honors Steve been gamed by pupils of , the Boys* SUg- . School since July last year : — B. i'Jßpeig-t obtained an exhibition for mathematics, ir_M jTh. Smith for Greek and French, at Canter • ~bfry College. T. H. Green was elected to tha r'-Cpiiea Scholarship for chemistry and phytics at I Auckland University College. At the entrance iSamina.tion ot the *'ew Zealand University, held jfUrt I>scember, five boys were condidates for the Su-ior fccholarships and two for matriculation. all seven qualified for matriculation, though oniocces—ol in winning a scholarship. There ore at

present Bye old papllsof — 9 lta &P tan School—The numbersharal--_ ferfHtW.*' who -«-"**«» .own?!?* ajBCo-dtermof—styear. to 137. whose mJ!i to *•» |»™ the books. CooWng __, tbi. •>» laded to tbe subjects, and _Tb__r __"_;*«fc ffcecesa by a teacher of practical «ptr_£* ht H«i iEbject is tanght in two *•» KoutZO of the older girl.)lvery _&"»»,« Knsinz so interference with tho ordiSrJ 7, £* ' Knttoe. The work-done iv.l dc-i&K™_ 9> the school site, well .£??■» *teci up for the purpose with _£Vtovs'o_s* " <_~nsils, water serrice, &o. -_• a*wi "n™* ed at the endof l_t?e_rby P-ofe-^Jl* :, B„kerton, and Haglum, anotKH£?*S ell, who expressed themselves well SSI-- 0the, thoroughly sound nature of -."od-SS* irch, and in hia report remarks-" m» n » the high merit of the school 7 Slanged." _c spoke very U__i- ", ail ?» ' .tag staff. During the i by the Board of Education Bandidates sent up f,om tho se-*>i_VJ l S_»* Maria Connon and Stella H-d(£So--s oby Hilda Lewis. It is worths J?* o ** out of 8 scholarships riven otH^R-- o ** , X during the last Wet-M iby pupils from this nohool. Junior ttJ—?• Scholarships were trained this v_i- V. tTP: wfleld and Lillian WiUiunt. _>_£.;?,;*•*« years ont of 3i junior scholars-h*, S_2_?* idates from tho wholo of New M_SJm?? 1 * 0 gained by pupils from thisiehoaL ™ T> iool op A—-.—The value bl the in«h-,-« ,in the school oonUnues to L flu <? n by the increased number of stud-7«-v , accordin- to the Art Mast_'Y™™L! who d instruction during the pa* 2_*\£1, wishing te exhibit tho work of _bVml™, ? _di*n and Colonial Exhibition held ft„£s at rear, voted the necessary «xw-^?J^°„ n<5 °* fwith. und 300 square feet of iSSgZ _?«*_ a New Zealand court for tmVn_ r _« <~S ?a i Sir B. Stout paid a visit to the «-ooli_ _£_ er and saw tho students at work T-> i-! er, who w*s in attendance, explained t_ c. tion, and submitted tho general work of iv jl for inspection. Tho eromiar exDr——?' ire and surprise at the extent andQ—iUrS -ork A new Prospectus of the s„ool__ prepared, in which the stages of iM!OTcH_ been revised. Lands—pc from natnrs t_' iotrodnoed, and addition— courses of leerat_ I to the former work of the school. stsu_— During the year many donations _«. Ween reoeived both from persons in Now _<___> 'jgid in foreign conntries. The append— to «_ jKrector's report givos tho list of tbe donit_,; jttade to the Museum, and published st th-eni _' Wery quarter. Most work has beeu done iats SQrnitnological. Skeleton, Ethnological and ___' Mity rooms,where numerous additions hav«—m MB- to the previously existing collection*. «nA ett also been done in the matter if am_«i__?'> ajsX the taxidermist is at present oooupied ia stt__. ' Mhome animals from India. In oonsequeaoJ* $$! heavy rains this winter, several repairs _„ ' had tote made in tha ulassworkof ihe MmT? .■ aad the stonework will need repainting i a «!_ . Spring. The number of visitors to the Mm»_ during the year 1885-1888, was 79,207; _c weSt 1 atteudanoe being 54,98*, the Sunday, 2<i,i23, ii • January 1886, the Director reooived a year'slaiJi of abseooe, and proceeded to England as EiecuthL Commissioner for New Zealand at the Colonial _T Indian. Exhibition, which was opened in Xo_a e __ the beginning of May, arrangements having bt—' made to carry on his work during his at>sea_ The Board of Governors have grantod a snm3 £150, in addition to the usual grant, to be nl«o_ at the disposal of the Director to *• nable hi__, visit the Continent and obtain collections for —_ Museum, and for the expenses connected th-rsT' with. This opportunity of adding to thealraLj« ' valuable collections, will doubtless render t__; popular institntiou more useful and attractive tk_< hitherto, both to the acientiflo man and to _S, general public Public -ibiulbt—The system hitherto infowa . of ordering monthly parcels ot books from Lo»Ja» has been discontinued, and an arrange—eat w' been made with a Chrißtchurch firm to snralv books for the Circulating Library to the valq«or £10 per month, thns affording to the Committs* an opportunity of selecting the books. The mm" firm has also received an order for abont 90 or 100 '" volnmes, which are required to fill up gnpi wi4 * complete works, parts ot which orealreaaVintbt).' Deference Library. New shelving, affordinggpioJirfor.ovarlSOO volumes, has been erected in —>' Circulating Library. Thiß accommodation aw.' very much required for proper olvisiflo.tloa, ' —» '" periodicals arorionsly Bent from London an bow pnrohased iv Christchuroh. Th's is alsoagtesfr Improvement, a< two copies of several of themorfr' popular ones ore obtained for the s_ms price BS' was before paid for one copy, owing to the owiM \ iv postage. It ia still a matter of regret th-t tits 1 ' number of subscribers Is so small, as the want of funds prevents the purchase of many books whioh. should be on the shelves el snob an is. Btitution, but owing to the necessary expenditure !|he receipts do no more than meet the sbsml outliy and this is only accomplished by exerolsiar the neatest eoonomy. The monthly ticket intS tutea last year has proved to be a tnccess, as It is the means of indaoing people to become rarolir subscribers. The nnmber of books in the olra—v> ting* library is 9609, made up as follows j—Ambl. teoturo and mechanics, 874 volumes: biography, 825,; notion. 8*50; history, 7*6; literature (general), 610; mifceUanco—, 598; periodloate (bot—d), —It poetry and drama, 253; science (general), 624; travels, 1122 ; total, 9609. T_> ' number in the reference library is 7174. 81 poriodi., cals are taken in, and 7 English iie-np-pen, t) NewtZea—nd, 1 American, and 4 Australian ne«|> papers. bchool or AQ—Otjl-ceb.—During tbe past je_ five students, viz., Messrs Allen, Hurt, Oab.teft Gray and Fieroy, have gained' fit—l' oerUßottm. The school has been attended by 35 students,«_i came from, the following places i—Anokt ni, 4; Canterbury, 13; England, 2; Hawse's Bay, A; Nelson, 1 (New South Wofea, 3; Otago, 3; oouthland, 21 Wellington, |3. These numbers show », falling off compared nito previous yea rs, hut „» ' foot may in a mea»nro be attributed to the ouirt—j j depression, and perh»>s to a certain extent to _• raising of the fees from £46 Kb to £63 per annma, . Tnis step was found to be neceeoary. Atthepw. sent rate the fees, whioh include oil expenses to the student, do not oover thß cost of board—g, edecation, 40. The regulation under whioh tie steamer /ares once a year of resident stndents an paid to and from the nearest port to their homes in New Zealand is still in force, also that providing far payment to the students for work done on tbe farm. There have been no ohanges in the teaching staff of the school since the lut>t aunual —eating. The post ye»r has been on exceptionally dry on», and the crops on the form were lighter than usrt_L ' Although the feed was i>carco, tho quantity of lire stock has not been reduced. Tha turnip crop,, though late, ia a very fair one. The school «_ visited at different times by the Exam neri i« farm work. -is.. 1W««sr» J, Orerto and !,• Bennie, atd the following short extra oto ta 3— their annual report to the Board will show ——f ~ opinion of the work done by the students and th* management. In April they state " the stndestl were wording a threshing machine in guoh away aa to give eaoh one an opportunity of learning all abont feeding, fllling the Backs, clearing the c_ff away and staoking the straw, and tboy alt did their work very well. The engine was in charge «t fc driver." On another ocoaslou they state thtt •■ accompanied by the students, we waHrf rons& each paddock and qnostloned t_tm on tho crOR. when it was sown, what manure, if any, was uudL what the previous crop bad been, the quantity o? '. seedper aore, whether the seed was dressed beforeit was nowo. and haw the land was prepared for Si,' and after carefully making notes of tho answer* given to us, and comparing them with thfl facts regarding each paddock obtained from, the Director, we were able to jadge ot U» interest taken, aad were much pleased to how large an amount ot attention was bestowed hf-' the students on the every day work of too farm,.. In August we examined the laborious part ot tfctv: farm work, and, taking into ooturideratfoa Ihe facti that many, if sot all, of the students are rti!S.v growing and that their muscles are not vet t—iy I developed, we think it very credl'ohle tb.t thef - were able to plough as well aa they did in »neb ■ heavy grass laud Tho ploughs were well set, th», horses driven steadily (though, perhaps, in this-' there might be a little improvement), and the; ploughs firmly gnldal. In November we found tha * students sheep shearing, and we parlicnl—jf noticed two things, vix., tha quality of the wow and tbe time taken in doing it. Of the Brat we «* poly speak in terms of the highest praise. In —* carpenter's shop four students were busily engaged making hay slides. The work appeared t» - be well and neatly dorm. The blacksmith's shop was occupied by student* repairing _achisM*' rakes, &c, ko. The letrarks male about the carpenter's shop might aUo apply to this depart*" ment. In the dairy the stadeats was busy making batter, but had not commeac— i cheese making. We were pleated to note that ts* , chusas, vats. &c, and nil tbe utensils need wire clean and bright. In conclusion, we cannot haty] remarking that judicious management was evert* - where apparent, and without it the amount til stock on tbe fat m could aot possibly be so hag* ■ and in suoh good condition, nor the crops W ' healthy." These remarks from two gentlemen wis • are well known as practical formers, show that US school is doing good work, and imparting to tbs , ; students a thoroughly practical educati.n is agri* I culture. I The Chaibkan said that the next tod*' necs was the election of a Chairman fats. the ensuing year. v Hie LOEDBHIP the Phimat - avid Bethought they wonld have little trouble 1» selecting a Chairman. They had had tat < of Mr Malet's rerwio—, and thought they would all agree with —».; that notwithstanding the onerous and responsibilities, he had discharge.' them to the satisfaotioa of the Qovetnttf* He would move the appoint—end cf ah __let as Ch_——an.

Mr Toss - ill seconded the nominattoa*and endorsed what the Primate had ssW» i and could bear testimony to the efficl—*> way in which he had discharged his d_ti*» . both as a member and as Chairman. •.' There was no further no-inatioa «J» ; f Mr Malet was elected Chairman. i Mr Malxt returned his thanks f°*J**, honor they had done k irn in re-elsoHaff - him Chairman. -hough the office wnta»\;. sinecure he took a pleasure in ths aw oharge of the duties devolving npon it. _r The election of CommiUees, ot which»» Chairman in ex officio a member, ras-"* 0 as follows:—~ __,' Colleffe—The Most Bey. the Prima!*/ HoJuW?Beeves,MeMrsW.MonJtomffy_»* , Beetham, B. We-t„ua, and J. V. C«lbor»*r Veal. T )& Eitatea—Hon. B.C. J. Stevens, H.B. Webb, J.N. To-swill, B. W.ff«v» day, L. Harper, and W. ChryrtaU. Jf f Maseum-_-B-s H. B. Webb, T. »♦ j Potts, J. V. Boss, B, W. Fereday, $*&& Enyf, and B. Westenra. «__„„ lAbtmtJ-Maaata J. V. Cdborne 2**W B.W.Fereday, W.Chrystall, J. V. !•»;_. and B. Beetham. ' 1 % School of. Agriculture—Hobs. *••*«,«* ■ Stevens, W. Batves; Mesßrs J. H. T. W. Maude, L Harper, B.We-tenr»i«°° W.Montgomery. '".-._ •-*_* Medical Council (of which the Cbaa*** is not exofficio a member)— Hon. «• v. **

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