CAWTHRON INSTITUTE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 10

CAWTHRON INSTITUTE

♦ EARLY DIFFICULTIES 01- THE trustees ■; ryjcj riklivS" If. 1-t'•> R ---•) NELSON*. M:uvh :M. With the resigna! ion of Feshop Sr.dhcr. the Cawthren Tru.-t Foard loses the last o' the ermnial tiiao *- : ~. Dmin : his reply wh.cn he was can rtr.ined by the board and stall of the Cawtiu'c-n Institute to-e.ay. Bishop Sao.lier said that the estate had beer, a most difficult one to lenhse. The greater part was in morU" , tcs. Mr Cawthren had never kept hooks, and his business letters were writ'n a on tne backs of envelopes.

Bishop Sadlicr said that the trusU es were iaced with the realisation of the estate, and then had to determine what kind of institute should be lounded. Mr Cawthron had said a technical school institute and museum. They put a plan before the court, winch uppioved most of the plans, except tno scholarships. The fustics had toil that the institute should be as ciose apossible to original research into the problems of agricultural pursuits in New Zealand.

The constitu 4 ion ef the board should be very carefully preserved, because every new man who came >n had ;i tremendous lot to learn. Ho thanked members for their presentation «.£ a be mid volume r£ views of the institute's work. It would bring before htm many dreams, and memories of battles, controversies, and hard work, in fellowship round the table. The members of the present staff were worthy successors to those who beaan. He wished the greatest possible success fo their work, which would stand cut in the history of science as one of the most useful to the man on the land and to the public generally.