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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26832, 10 September 1952, Page 11

Buildings rather than scholarships may become the most acceptable form of benefaction in the University of New Zealand, Addressing the Senate in Dunedin, the Chancellor (Sir David Smith) said: “The number of scholarships which we now have is in line with the general trend in civilised countries to ensure that universities are adequately supported for the vital work which they perform in this complicated world. On the other hand, in any population, the number of firstrate students is limited. It may be that further assistance to our university could take some other form in the immediate future. For example, our university colleges are badly in need of buildings for carrying out their work, and students are badly in need of residential hostels, or buildings which- may serve _ as community centres without the provision of lodging, ft appears to me that intending benefactors of the University might be given the opportunity of receiving information about the objects which could be best assisted at the present time.”