VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 July 1909, Page 2

VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. The usual meeting of the Victoria College Council was held last evening, tbe following being present : — Messrs. J. Graham - (chairman}, C. Watson, C. Wilson, MaoGinnity, T. R. Fleming, H." H. Ostler, E. D. Bell J. G. W. Aitken, H. F. yon Haast, A. R. Mnek, Rev. W. A. Evans, and Dr. Knight. FINANCIAL MATTERS. Tho financial statement showed that a sum of £831 6s 5d was required for payment. On tho general account there was a balance of £910 19s 6d. After a sum of £200 for the unemployed fund and other expenses were paid there remained' a balance of £702 7s lid. There is £2850 on deposit, and £500 .on temporary deposit. A deficit of £128 18s 6cl apparently exists, but tho Government grant of £1875 will bo used in liquidating the deficiency. On the laboratory account is a debtor balance of £14- 12s, while payments required total £99 2a lOd. Mr. Fitt, who has been awarded a Jacob Joseph Scholarship, wrote asking that he might satisfy the conditions of the scholarship — by attendiug and working at Victoria College — by attending one monthone timo and thon two months during the summer vacation. Mr. Fitt, a master at Napier High . School, considered that it would hardly be fair for him to have to resign his position, much as he desired tho scholarship.' Tho council decided, on recommendation of the Professorial Board, that ' tho request should be granted. ' Tho City Council has arranged that Mr. Glen, Superintendent of Reserves, shall, assist with treos and their planting in beautifying the Victoria College grounds. A aolo of thanks was tendered the corporation. The Library Committeo reported and recominendod that £170 worth of books be supplied to tho oollego libraries. The report was adopted. Mr. yon Haast reported that the Finance Committee had conferred with Professor Kirk, and had perused tho regulations governing tho use of tho gymnasium. Tho Professorial Board proposed to allow the new gymnasium to be open on Saturday until not lator than 9.30 p.m. until the board meets on the 9th August, when the regulation would be settled and submitted to the council. He moved that the council pay for the lighting of the gymnasium until the end of the present term to suoh an amount as was deemed desirable. Tho motion waH carried. CRAMPED OFFICE FACILITIES. A letter was received from the registrar to the effect that the office accommodation was absolutely inadequate Tho council's room is the office, and, said the writer, it is only possible to have there miserably small shelf room. There was no strongroom; books and papers had to bo kept at the registrar's privato office. There- was Further complaint that a shipment of 4SO volumes arrived in October last year, and that the cases could not bo opened and tho books dealt with until the \aeation, when the libraiy could bo made use of. Through this the registrar lost his usual holiday, he having to spend tho vacation in cataloguing and entering the books and getting them on to the library shelves. vProfetsor yon Zedlitz was mentioned as assisting. The letter suggested that tho j work of registrar and librarian should now be separated. The number of students on the roll was so large that tho work m connection with tho btudents' registers, -the accounts and the secretarial work of the collego was quite enough foi one person. The appointment of a librarian was suggested. "I am of course awaro that tho council has limited means, but 1 cannot think it fair," continued tlio writer, "that so much of tho funds should be devoted to extension of tho teaching staff while the executive officer, who^o work is thereby considerably increased, and who lias all the work to do m connection with the getting in of fees, etc., which make up the revenue of the collego, having his work thus increased, should have no further assistance, no increase of accommodation, and no increase of pay. . . ." On .tha motion of Mr. A' en Haast tho letter "was referrad to the Finance C.onimitteo. It \va» intimated by tho Finance Committee that £20 would b» available to increase tlm «alary of tha assirtant librarian it naas^sary, the »xtra duties to be undertaken by him to be definta. The recommendation won adopted.

Fourteen points to nil was the record made by a team of Rugby footballers from the Telegraph section of the Geueral Post Oflice in a match against the Money Order and Savings Bank section. Loader (2), Davidson, and Findlay were tho try getters, and one try was converted by W. H.- Smith.