EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20383, 2 November 1931, Page 7

EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

VISIT BY AMERICAN PROFESSOR. CARNEGIE FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, November .1. On a visit to New Zealand to investigate proposals to spend part of the Carnegie educational endowments in this country, Professor L. D. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, arrived by the Aorangi from Vancouver. Professor Coffman comes as the accredited representative of the Carnegio Foundation. Among other huge bequests, Andrew Carnegie left a sum of ten million dollars the income of which is to be spent on educational projects in the British Dominions. Up till lately, practically all this money has been spent in Great Britain, with the exception of a small amount that went to South Africa, and small sums that have come quite recently to New Zealand and to Australia. Two years ago Dean James E. Eussoll, of tho Teachers' College, Columbia University, came out here to visit the educational institutions of New Zoaland and Australia, and Professor Coffman is on an exactly similar mission. "I shall bo interested in checking the projects for which advances have already been made, and to discover new ones for which fresh grants may bo made," said Professor Coffman. He has only two weeks to spend in New Zealand; but ho will visit the University Colleges in each of the four centres. The fund which Professor Coffman represents lias already benefited education in the Dominion by a substantial grant for University libraries, by a grant to tli© Workers' Educational Association, and by a grant for home science extension work in Otago. There aro two purposes for which funds arc not available —for providing endowments or erecting buildings. Whatever allocations are made will probably be in the nature of straight-out grants. Professor Coffman, who is accompanied by Mrs Coffman, expects to leave by the Makura in a fortnight's time for Australia, and to travel thence to Manila, where he will deliver lectures at tho University of the Philippines during the month of January. By way of China and Japan he Tvill return to the United States.