CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 9

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CAPPING CEREMONY. TO THE EDITOE. Sir, — I do not think that the explanation of the president of tho Students' Association, given in your paper last night, helps either Professor Kirk or tho students. According to' the president, there is no difference between a student rising and leaving a lecture-room, if dissatisfied with a speaker, and a prearranged insult to the Chancellor of the University, for he was the only speaker so interrupted. Well, professor and president agree. Is this, I wonder, the teaching of Victoria College? If bo, the students may plead the teaching as some excuse for their conduct, but if such teaching prevails I am sorry for the college. Apparently the executive of the Students' Association knew of the various meetings of the students referred to, and the resolutions passed, but gave me no information. How this conduct conforms to their statements to me that they would help — nay, do all they could — to maintain order can perhaps be explained. I know of no explanation. There was, when tho executive met me, no mention of long speeches or of the length of speeches. — I am, etc., ROBERT STOUT. Wellington, 3rd May, 1911. THE MUNICIPAL ROLL. !TO THE EDITOE. Sir, — I note with pleasure Mr. Castle's question whother any tally was kept of the names of people who found out that their names were not on the roll when they came to vote last Wednesday, because such a tally would assist largely towards a complete roll of everybody entitled to vote. Such a list would help greatly in future elections, and, in the hands of deputy returning officers, enable many electors to record their votes, even though their names did not appear on the printed roll. I was doing a little towards getting one of the candidates .for the present City Council, in, and took the names of 27 supporters of my man in older to find out their numbers on tho roll. Out of the 27, 14 were not on. That roused me up, and I hunted oufc many more, only to find that about 20 per cent, weren't there. Three families had been left out altogether, and out of one family of four, who have voted for years, only the old man was left on. Then I looked over the roll from A to Z for my own satisfaction, and found that many of my own friends, supporters of my own candidate, were not on the roll, but that many men and women who had helped me in the past, but who may now be hunting for fire escapes, are still posing, on the roll, as emancipated citizens. I am not. blaming Mr. Ames. He does his work to the best of the ability of several men ; but I think He ought to let the Government give him the latest census returns, and compile tho roll from them. Every person in New Zealand under and over 21 years of age is noted there, and the dead ones are left out. — I am, etc., HIRAM GUNN. Wellington, Ist May, 1911. PROFESSORS AS EXAMINERS. TO THE EDITOB. Sir,— May I be permitted to thank "the informant" for bearing out my statement that the first- objective in University reform the reform professors of Victoria College had was that the professor in each subject should examine his own pupils, and pass them in his subject. It appears the resolution I referred to was passed before the Reform Association was formed. This only emphasises what L stated — that the first proposal v/as in accordance with Dr. Jordan's suggestion. — I am, etc., '" ROBERT STOUT. Wellington, 2nd May, 1911. PRESERVATION OF AN ISLET. TO THE EDITOB. Sir, — I write to ask your interest in securing the preservation of tho interesting islet off Island Bay Beach. Whether it is Crown or private land I know not; but as it largely aids to_ form the beauty of this attractive locality it should bo secured for the public and taken care of. Island Bay district has along its shores representatives of a sub-alpine_ flora and othor interesting plants (senecis lagopus, craspodia, uniflora, coprosma Buohanani etc.), but it is to be regretted that stock ai'o causing them to disappear. Tho islet, however, could be preserved at little expense, for it would entail no more thah the prohibition of iiros and deportation of the goats. I may point out that it goats are allowed to remain there it will not be long before the islet is a mere rook, as they will destroy the shrubs and herbs that keep together what little- soil covering there is. — I am, etc., NATURE LOVER. Wellington, Ist May, 1911. UNPAVED PATHS. TO THB EDITOR. Sir, — Like your correspondent "Wet Foet" in last night's issue of your paper, I, too, know Courtenay-placo pretty well, and wrote you on exactlj the same subject three years ago. I would, with your permission, point out another important thoroughfare that is in pretty 'much tho same plight. Take Molesworth-street : 1 am speaking of the right hand bide chiefly, coming up from tho city. I know an old fellow who has been paying rates and taxes for over fifty years and his father before him, but no asphalt is put down for^ him. Hawkestone-street, Tinakoriroad, Hobson-street, Fitzherbert-avenue, and many othor streots wcro paved or asphalted the full width long ago. I would like to know who gives the orders for these works, or under what system, if any, is it done? That tho publio stand by and display tho apathy and put up with the management ot these aftairs in the way they do is almost beyond comprehension. —I am, etc., UP TO DATE. Ist (May, 1911.