CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13646, 1 February 1910, Page 4

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

MEETING OF BOARD OF

GOVERNORS

The Canterbury College Board of Governors met yesterday afternoon, when there were nre&enk—Mr G. AN • Utu.9ell tin the ehuirj. Bi&hop Gnmcs. Meesre C. H. A. T. Opie. T. \V. Bow. Oeo. Ronnie, H. I). Aclnnd. J. C. Adams, h. B. Wood. T. W. Adams, W. H. Montgomery, J. L. fs»tt, G. T. Weston, AY. Izard, T. S. Foster, H. G. Ell, and.Dr. TaJbot. The Chairman eonjiratiiKitod Mr Acland on his citation t<> the Hoard, and propa-x-d! that Mr Acland should be, elected a member of the, Finaiwo and Estates Committw and the Mimubi and Library Committee. Tho "motion iva« enrried. l*hp • Chairman reported that Dean Harper Itad vacated his seat on the Hoard in cmsequence of absent from New Zeaktnd tor six cx>ne<cutive months. It vrae decided to hold an election w> fill the vacancy on February 2lst, nominations to cla>e on Fcbrunry IKb. A ietter was re;wl from Garrick and Co., ndvisins: that tho Government "limit made an ordor declaring tho Ho ird of Governors to bo subject to tho provisions of the Public Bodies' Loans Aft, 1003. On the motion of Mr Montgomery it wb6 decided that tJio additional pewe-rs conferred by tho Act should only hv cxerci&ed by special resolution of the Board. The Chairman referred to the heavy charges tnadc. in conmet ioi) .\ritJ\ , the importation of goods required f--r purely Oolbge purposes. A quantity of special tinware, he said, had been imported from Germany for the Museum, and the-Customs Department had charged a duty of 37} per cent. A number of taps had also been imported for the chemical laboratory, and an application to the Minister lor a reduction of the duty \uus met by a feftuaal, tho. Minister , stating; th.nt such urticlu-'-forming i>.irt of thefittinge of a building had never been .rrgarded as coming within the t-erm ''educational apparatus." ■ 'Die Chairman was authorised to urge tho claim of the Board to a rebate of tho duties charged.

The Chairman said the Minister of Education would be in ChriKtchutxli on Friday, ami he- moved that efforts should bo mud*? to arrange for the holding of the conference between representatives of tlio. Canterbury College Board of Governors and the Tcf-linicnl College Board of Governors relative to overlapping wlu'lo the Minister was here.

Thp motion was approred of. , Tho College Committee, in thei<r reI>ort, recomraendc-d: —Tliat Miss Irene WiJson, 8.A., l>c appointed assistant teacher at the Girls' High School, as from the commencement of the first torm, 1910; that Miss C. M. Fnrrow, 8.A., be nppoint-ed iomporaiT asiistant teacher at the Girls' High School, for tho current year; that Boys' Higjh School bursaries for tho year 1910 bo awarded to R. I. Eobinson and Q. B. Arnold. Tho reports wore adopted.