NEEDS OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28800, 22 January 1959, Page 7

NEEDS OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY

“Utterly Starved Financially”

•T believe we should educate the public to the point where it appreciates that the future prosperity of any country hangs on the outlook of the university,” said the Chancellor of the University of Canterbury (Mr D. W. Bain) when speaking last evening at a reception to delegates and observers attending the conference of the New Zealand Federation of University Women. Mr Bain, who recently returned from visits to universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, said that the university system in New Zealand was utterly starved financially, compared with overseas universities.

New Zealand was lagging far behind the rest of the world in facilities provided by the community for university education, but the outlook of the university of New Zealand was not inferior to anywhere else, he said. The time had come to take courage in both hands and try, through public relations, to let the people know that whatever Government was in power there must be double, triple or even quadruple expenditure on higher education. Mr Bain said he would like to feel that the New Zealand Federation of University Women was behind the university councils and the senate when the time came to make such overtures to get' what the university could not afford to be without.