VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 513, 21 May 1909, Page 8

VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

THE ACCOMMODATION DIFFICULTY. A meeting of tho Victoria Collogo Council, on Wednesday evening was attended V the Rev. W. A; Evans, Dr. C.'P. Knight, Messrs. T. R. Fleming, J. G. W. Aitkon. A. E. Meek, B. D. Bell, H. F. von Haast, W. H. Quick, J. Graham, M.P., C. Wilsou, C. Watson, H. H. Ostler, and R. M'Callum. Mr. J. Graham, M.P., was elected chairman for the ensuing- year, and Mr.. C: Watson treasurer. The Rev. W. A. Evans was re-elected as tho council's representative on tlio University Senate. ",'■"'•... Ono of the two Jacob Joseph scholarships was awarded to Wallace John Ross. It was decided to refer back. to tho Professorial Board the other recommended by them, for further particulars of their qualifications. ■• • ' Messrs. Graham, Watson, and Bell were appointed as a committee to confer with Professors Eastorficld and Kirk and Mn Cottoll tan the possibility of obtaining a sot of fossil types of minerals for the geology department of. tho college. . ' The Professorial Board in, a, memorandum on tho need for additional accommodation, stated in regard to tlio Arts side that it, was with the utmost inconvenience', ■ both to professors and students, that room for all the classes'could be found at. the necessary hours. It was not unusual for ten classes to .beat work at once, conducted by tho Arts professors and their assistants, and there were in the Arts building only five classrooms. At preserft the' largest classos, 6uch as those in English, must be split, because the largest class-room would not, without overcrowding, accommodato all. Even the proposed new class-rooms would hardly do Jthis, Tho needs of tho science side were scarcely less pressing. . Tho chemistry 'rooms were only partly furnished, and the fittings originally asked for were much .needed, For, geology there was no provision whatever, and tho. ' students could not at prcsnt b accommodated in the biology, rooms. The need for at least' ono other laboratory 'was very, great," and better museum accommodation .would verysoon, bo ;an. absolute necessity.' There was much research work that could not be done in the'common laboratory: when this was in use by student^.-; Largely for this -reason ; much important, work' had to'.' be, done on 'Sundays; and a great deal of time had been lost; in .getting out '• apparatus and putting it away again. '_ There. was no macerating tank for preparing skeletons,' and no .room 'in which rough preparation .could''-bo made. Proper dog;kennels would be of the; greatest' 'use.: ;. '." After some discussion, .Messrs.- Graham, Watson', Bell, von Haast, and Fleming. wer<s appointed a committee to- consider memorandum 'and report to the 'council.. The Financo Committee recomrriended, inter alia :'(1) - That Professor Kirk's applies-, tion for £60 be .agreed to, £55 to be charged to laboratory account',' and £5 to general account. '(2), That-Professor.Hunter's application for £50 for apparatus be agreed .to;.to bo; charged' to laboratory account; < (3) That tho request'- of the'lecturer; in geology for 'specimens and appliances'to tho extent 'of £152 be agreed to. (4), That., Professor Eastcrfield's application-for"£so to £60 for material for an advanced course in cheriiistry, be postponed; : (5) That -Professor EasteffieldVapplieation for £250 to £300 for fitting up and equipping the dark-room, metallur-gical-room and preparation-room attached to" tho 'lecture-rbdm bo postponed till tho arrival of the professor of physics. (6) That Professor Kirk's recommendation be';. .approved, and Miss Myers's salary increased to £75/ :>■.•■;,: ■/•'.•.• .'■-. ;" "-;;-•, ■ -v.'; ]~"',; Tho. committee' also submitted a'.'table'of tho'estimated fecoipts arid expenditure; '• f<rf the'year-ending March ;31,; 1910. ' The- receipts' were"estimated-/at £9608, including' ,'£4ooo from the statutory grant, £2000' from the 'grant. for. specialisation, £1500' from the grant for general .purposes,,mid , : £l6so'in fees.. The expenditure'was; sot' down .-as £9596,, which would ltave a balance of ;£l2 onjtlio year's workings: Tho main items in the expenditure were £7920 for' salaries to teaching,'.staff,; £450 for salaries-.to-regis-trar, librarians,- and, caretaker, and £1220 for general purposes. , ■•.■.