PROFESSOR BEDFORD

Evening Star, Issue 16236, 4 October 1916, Page 4

PROFESSOR BEDFORD

LEAVE TO GO TO FRONT DECLINED, At a special mepling of the Otago University Council, held this afternoon, the Chancellor (Rev. A. Cameron) presiding/' the following letter was read : Dunedin, 20th September, 1916.—Dear Mr Cameron,—The Y.M.C.A. want mo to help in their work at the front dnr- - ing the University recess. I received ; word only to-day that it could be ar- 1 ranged for me to get a passport oack about the beginning of February. I feel that the work to which I am called is important* and that I ought to go* As however, there is a possibility of aiv not being able to return for a week or two after the opening of the autumn session, it is niv duty to lay the matter before you and ask the consent of your council. I will make even- effort to return for the second week in March, 1917, but feel I would not be justified in going to tho front unless the coundil granted mo leave of absence, if need he. until the end of March. . . . If I go 1 R | ia ll need to go about the middle of nest month, and of course will need to know whether I am permitted to go before the next ordinary meeting of the council.—l am, yonrs faithfully, H. D. Broroßnv Dir Mac Gibbon moved tb.t leave bo granted until, at the latest, tho end of. tho so»nd week in March, and that no i extension beyond that be given. Mr John Ross seconded the motion. ! Mr J. C. Stephens asked whether tha i course of Workers’ Educational Assom- ; turn lectures was finished. svv©n if it were finished, what about the organising work 1 far next year's classes? “ I . A diort discussion, cross upon this ones- * tion. Mr John Roberts moved, to tost tho ! feeling of the meeting—“ That the council regret they are unable to ooamlv with tho ■ request.” * " > Mr Stephens seconded tins amendment, j and it was carried as against the. motion- ]