VICTORIA COLLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 4

VICTORIA COLLEGE

FT NA X CIA LLY EM BARR A SSED. [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, jju&uft. 28. The unsatisfactory conditjm <of tihe finances of Victoria College pas put before the Minister of Edij’a.tion and Finance (Hon. J. Allen) by i deputation toxlav. The chairman of (lie College Council said the College ha«j arrived ai such .i state that it could no) be efficient with, it? present income, and!unless they had n guarantee from the Government it would be up <-ess-ary before, line to seriously contemplate giving note© to some of t.he. professors and leotards. The .Minister said he kn(.v that the difficulties of Victoria CTH-ege were .greater than those uf any ot.hr college in New Zealand. Auckland waapretty bad. and the ethers were not whafthev ought to be in regard to finance. Hi understood (hat a rejvorl was bein{ prepared by Mr G. Hogben llnepecbr-Generaij. which would throw come iight Ct the whole situation. He was quite, witng to recommend rite Government- to d. something to help Victoria College. The [wemment. would have to insist that specraisation was more adequately defined at tit four colleges, anil that each should tab. up some particular kina of work. The fes charged at Carderbtny and Otago were duties those charged at Victoria College, andie thought it was time there was uniformity. He was. he said in conclusion, persuade, that tha amount spent- on university eduntion was not what it should be.