VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 11

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

SUPERANNUATION, FOR PROFESSORS; : ■ Tlio'.monthly meeting of tho Victoria College : Council .was held last evening, there-being present:.Messrs. C.- Wntson. (in tho chair). J, GJ >.• W. Aitkeh, ll.' F. Von Haast, A. RvMeek; R. M'Callum, E. D. Bell, C. Wilson; W. H.'.Qdlck;' • and Pr. C. P.; Knight. , The monthly statement of -finances showed' that., prosppctivo. disbursements totalled, .01232 lis. 2d.—salarids iC752 10s., supplies • JGIOS" os. '3d.,; fenoing and gardens Ids. 3d., gym- ■: nasium .C 45 18s. iA., new wing'JE2I0 :Is. lid., 1 other' 9s.'3d. On the general-ac- : count there-wasf a-balance'at the' bnnk- of JEMG3 10s. 2d. j minor amounts to credit, .fillS '2s. 4d.j total, -£13-15'7s, 10d. Less'paymonts required (X 1232 115.:.2 d.),. thq.baldnco to dato w-as ' .£ll2 16s. • Bd,. Tho. 'crcdifc balance on the laboratory account.was'estimated at tE97 Ss. Sd.. With regard to tho building fuiid, "of the. stfV ' scriptipnS; promised (J!623 'IBs. Cd.),';thorb'..Had boon .received .C 402 Is. .od.-, aud expended' i£33B ■' 7s.' 7d. - . v^-.^ The chairman mentioned that a long'memo-' randtim on. tho. Siibject of sdpernnnuatibft-'liad beenriecoiyed ifroin the,..Professorial-.' Boftrd,; ; . Briefly put, the .professors'desired to!cbmo un ; " der tho-provisious bf-the-Tcachers'/Superahhua-; i., tion Fund, 'and asked-that the College-COuncil.-pay 'half -tho contributions. ' Members ngreed " that -flip" professors were ns much'-entitled '-to : ' the privileges of,sujperfthnnatibn-'as wore school 1 teachers,, but any;*paymont by, the "council 1 , in. ; that direction was quite out of-tho: question. -' ' ■Mr-.-;,Wilson said .that, the professors "should ! be enabled to enter as contributors to ' the .- Teachers' Superannuation Fund on the same wstehr as: provided for,' and." adopted-by, the ?• Education;; Boards.; 'The. .State-'ought- to recog-. - nisd,:.that the "benefits.;of the fund' ; extended to'.college' professors. • ' Thdi.chairmah... observed that. the professors.' could ;have..takon .advantagevof the-.Act- long ; ago. Tho difficulty waS ,that;..they. wanted the ' . council to.pay something. : Mr. Aitken remarked that th'o question had beon.iaiscd when the Superannuation Bill was SoinEf'thrbugh'the'-House, but.nothing'-had-b'een- ' one.;" ?' . fv , It-was, decided.to obtain legislative : anthbrity ; 1 to impose an initintory feo of : Is. lipon • students at-the'college,', to.'cover-all expenses, } "other than lectures. The-council also resolved,'to request that ,in. all futu'ro enactments the'c6lleijo .be described as tho "Victoria University College." , Some .discussion arose over the; suggestion; made that the 6tndents should.give, more.'.sori- •' ous attention to' their studies during the first term of the college year; ' It.was pointed out by' Mr. Voh Haast that the complafnt was frequently made that tho' college. session offivo , months was too brief to allow;, of adequato " study being given to'the various subjects. It Ehould'bo pointe\l.out to the students that-too much' bf the' session's work 'was intonnpted by; sociai-.functions; at; the 'conegei,- The.,session.. : had .novsoonor commenced ;than\the ;, Easter t tournament came along to unsettle the, students. Then followed the,"students' carnival and vari- | ous .dances.: The council should;. bo"_.pfepaTed. . to support tho Professorial Board in any'stand it might' tako .in 'tho: matter., "Mombers coni' .