BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 5

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

The Canterbury College Board of Governors met yesterday. Present —Mr C. Lewis (in the chair), Bishop Grimes, Dean Harper, Rev. Dr. Erwin, Dr. Talbot, Dr. Moorhouse, and Messrs G. W. Russell, W. H. Montgomery, T. W. Adams, J- C. Adams, W. Izard, T. S. Foster, and T. Hughes. Mr, G. W. Russell moved that the accounts of the Museum for the past financial year, and the estimates of expenditure for the current year, be sent to the City Council, with a request that the Council consider the desirability of placing a sum at the disposal of th© Board in accordance with the Municipal Corporations Act, foi the purchase of further exhibits for the Museum. Mr Russell &<aid that during the last ten years an average of only £173 per annum had been spent in the purchase of new exhibits for the Museum. That was a small amount considering tihe magnitude of the institution. The Board had a consolidated endowment, which, in addition to supporting the Museum, supported tho Public Library and other institutions. Last year that endowment amounted to £3359, out of which £1225 waa paid to the Museum, £918 to the J School of Engineering, £563 to the | Public Library, and £600 to the School : of Arts. After providing for the main- J tenance of the Museum, only £200 could be set aside last year for tlie purchase of fresh exhibits. He believed there were three special directions in which money could be profitably spent in increasing the J efficiency of the Museum: The purchase of Maori curios, the procuring of additions to the Antiquity Room, and the purcliase of a collection of foreign insects. He believed that for £300 the Board could obtain a first-class collection of foreign insects in properly appointed cabinets. He considered the Board was entitled to go to ; the Greater Christchurch Council and ask the representatives of the citizen, to give something towards what was required. Tho City Council liad ample legal power to give a grant for the purpose. He proposed that whatever sum the City Council was prepared to give should be subsidised by the Board out of money apart from what had been already voted i for the purcha**e of specimens. Bishop Grimes, who seconded the motion, said that he fully endorsed everything that the mover had said. Tlie motion was put and carried unanimously. A letter was .the AuditorGeneral, returning- ■lds#'j-edr_ balance-sheet of tlie College, in which an item of £100, interest on the purcliase money of the Hereford street sections-, was disallowed. It was resolved to communicate with the Auditor-General more fully on the matter. 'Die Registrar reported "that no nomination of a candidate to represent the local Parliamentary members had been received The Board resolved to advertise fresh dates, those fixed being May 2nd for the enrolment of claims, May 9th for the nominations, and .May 16th for the election. May 23rd, May 30th, and June 6th were appointed the dates in connection with the annual election of members retiring by rotation. Tlie College Committee recommended tliat Mr A. Merton's application for a restoration of the subsidy for conducting ~.e boarding-house in connection with the Boys' High School -receive favourable consideration, and that an agreement be entered into with Miss Peach in connection with the Girls' High School boardinghouse, on the following basis:—That nntil the number of boarding pupils reached ten, a- subsidy be given, not exceeding £50 for tlie first year. Tlie Committee also recommended that an addition be made to the College regulations, requiring a non-exempted f-tudent who failed at a College examination in a subject to attend the lectures in that subject for another year before being examined again. The dause relating to the Boys' High School boarding -house was referred back to the Committee, otherwise the report waa adopted. The Museum and' Library Committee in their i_port recommended the Board to empower Professor Scott, when he was in Europe, to order for the engineering department such apparatus as was urgently needed for the mechanical and electrical laboratories to the value of £450 for tha current year, and £450 for next year. The Committee also made several recommendations relative to the custody of books in the Museum Library. Tlie recommendation was approved of. With reference to Mr Arthur D. Biley's report on the School of Art, the Museum and Library Committee reported tliat such portions of the report as the Com\„ttee deemed expedient were forwarded to tlie art master, for his information, with a view to obtain his "replies on the subjects dealt with. Tlie Committee visited the School of Art, and saw various classes at work, and obtained much information from the art master. In one or two "cases more appliances appeared to be necessary. In some cases students, not sufficiently advanced, were doing antique. AH articles for the equinment of the school that could be made by students, should be no made. The senior students should combine, and, in conjunction with the cabinet and repousse workers', carry out a practical scheme of work. The Committee recommended the Board: — Tliat applications be invite/ by advertisement for a part-time lecturer on architecture and building construction, to teach four hours per week, at a- salary at the rate of £75 per annum. That a part-time instructor in drawing and painting from the life be appointed, at a salary at the rate of £125 per annum: thus relieving the art master of this work, in order that he mi_-ht give more attention to the intermediate work: the standard of admission to this class should be raised. Tliat arrangements be made with Mr Walsh to tench landscape painting from natural foliage, brush-form work, and drawing, at a salary at the rate of £160 per annum, to tike effect from September Ist. _Nat the dosses be better advertised, and tuat a small annual vote of £5 be granted for the purchase of books for the School of Art library. The recommendations were discmsed in. Committee, and adopted in the above form. A vots of thanks was accorded Captain Hutton for his donations of books to the Museum library.