PROFESSOR’S POSITION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 8

PROFESSOR’S POSITION

Forestry Schools Merger BASIS OF AMALGAMATION \' Dominion Special Service. Auckland, March 17. Referring to the loss of his position as professor of forestry at Auckland University College owing to the amalgamation of the Auckland and Canterbury schools, Professor Corbin said Canterbury College was proposing to Ignore the of amalgamation which he had worked so strenuously to bring about. It was also acting in a manner quite contrary to the advice and recommendation of the British Empire Forestry Conference which met at Auckland in November, 1928. The conference had recommended a combination of both schools in one in‘stltutlon, where a sound course could be given by the provision of an adequately trained staff, and suggested that for this purpose all the available teaching resources should be concentrated into one first-class school. There were apparently not sufficient funds to support an adequate school of forestry, Professor Corbin concluded, and he had been doing the work of three specialists in the hope and belief that soon a proper Dominion school woqjd be established.