COLLEGE GOVERNORS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 28, 1 August 1930, Page 11

COLLEGE GOVERNORS

i. ' • ; ■ _-_ ♦- _ ■ BEQUEST TO; BOYS' COLLEGE Tlie. College Board of ,Governors ;iiui yesterday, Mr. W. H. P. Bai-bcr presiding. Mr. F. Tloldsworth, ;Mrs. E. W. Kane, and Mr. G. Mitohell were also, present. A resolution recording regret at the death of Sir Joseph Ward was passed, and a letter of sympathy is to be sent from the board .to Sir Joseph's i'arailjv A copy of an official statement by the 'Auckland Grammar School . Board with regard to the changes in education .recommended in the report o£ the'Hocess Committee was received. In a. covering letter, the chairman (Mr. A. P. W. Thomas) wrote that it was hoped that the "Wellington Board of College Governors "would agree in condemning the proposals for complete centralisation in Wellington and the abolition of local control in all matters of importance." As it was considered that the matter was .too important to discuss at an'ordinary meeting, it was decided on the motion of Mr. Mitchell, seconded by Mrs. Kane, to hold a«special meeting on Monday week to deal with it. • ' ■ W^JS A letter from the solicitors for the (State of the late Mr. James Hutchen enclosed a cheque,for £200, left to the trustees of the Wellington Boys' College by Mr. Hutehen to invest and use the .interest to provide either one or two annual prizes' lit the college, at the discretion of the headmaster. The prizes are to be given to the boy or boys most proficient in science, and the conditions of examination I'or them are to be prescribed by the headmaster. The prizes are to be known as the "Stanley Huteheu Science Prize" (or prizes), in memory of the late Mr. Hutchen's late sou. The board accepted the trust with pleasure, and decided, to write to Mr. ITutchen's family expressing appreciation of his interest m the school.