CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13102, 29 April 1908, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CHEMICAL LABOBATORT. !jjS| TO THE HUTOB OW"TB* TMMSM." JM Sir { —In your deeding column* morning you express oregrefc •» tne *8| apparent failure to ooJStect money m Jg aid of the Canterbury OaEfeoe caKe**-* , cal laboratory. Wtoile tfrankfioe yoo -Jy onco more for your sympathy, I «*«J** lifco to make fcho position eome«aaw* *| clearer as regards' ihe puMic fjeneeaw*, and the citizens' committee in part** - £ cular. ' . **" s^ As a matler of beyond *J» trlbutaon of a preßmunsury cLfcul*r definite attempt has "been made for Kiibacriptions, and for wa+jc foFiowar.g reasons: — ■• • , F-irstly, -wo were not certainmuch would be required, c* « did -not then lirw <ie actual «"*- 1 of the Coldstrca.nx reserve, or Triteu would "be handed over to us. » Secondly, the people of l& ac represented by the majority of Jeading Tatepayers, were in favour or, -g& the C|ty Council 'helping us 4t of the Vates. fi| Thirdly, certain legal guesfcioas, »*>-J -to subsidies, etc., mad "WJ™ sottletl, and, I may say, hHve onr beett,- § settled in oux favour. , ■£A| A3 soon as we'can.state fl ulfce i e V,tS nitely how inuib aid tto jieed, Tβ con:e forward to ask openly and wrg* stf* eiiLly for it. . , *J" you will, I think, witli rao that it i* hardly fair to *!»> committee tlrat the small r* 61,15 their initial stop shouW be- <g as a final .* ffort -- Y<^r*^*t^ ASft| M CamterbuiT Cdlege, April 2btlu *j«m