A GERMAN PROFESSOR
PROTEST AGAINST BIS RETENTION PATRIOTIC SOCIETY MOVING The Patriotic Society deoided last evening to protest against the Victoria College Council's decision to retain the services of an unnaturalised German on its 'staff. The chairman of .the society, Mr. H. G. Hill, moved:— "That this meeting is of opinion that the action of the council of Victoria College in keeping an . unnaturalised German as one of its professors at a time when the British nation is at death grips with Germany and our New Zear land boys sacrificing their lives in a war which Germany commenced is an outrage upon British feeling and sentiment, ana calls upon the Government to take such action as is necessary to prevent public moneys being used for the payment of alien subjects.". ' Mr. • Hill said that the matter was not a. personal one (the man in question might be personally satisfactory), but a question of principle. He had been besieged with protests. , ■ The secretary of the society (Mr. J. Lewis said' that he would ,resign his position as secretary of a Patriotic Society (after the Carnival) if this professor referred to was retained much longer. ■The resolution was carried, : all present standing.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 7
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200A GERMAN PROFESSOR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 7
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