PROFESSOR VON SEDLITZ.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 450, 2 September 1915, Page 6

PROFESSOR VON SEDLITZ.

DENTES HE IS A GERMAN

SUBJECT

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. I

Wellington, Sept. 2. ■ Professor von Sedlitz has sent a setter to the Chairman of Victoria Co.lege Council, in which, after reviewing the campaign against him, he places himself unreservetly in the hands of the council to take any course they please towards him. He denies that he is a German subject, and states that he had taken the oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, and would do so again if permitted, but, in view of the fact that irresistible pressure is threatened against the College Council bv the highest authority in the country, lie feels it is due to the council that he should place himself in their hands.

The schools in Hastings broke up to-day for a week’s vacation. At the M.A.C. choir’s concert in the Princess Theatre tomorrow evening, Mr. and Mrs. Avery will give their popular vaudervilie turn. The committee appointed to deal with the question of the reorganisation or otherwise of the Hastings Borough Council staff, will meet this evening. The Hastings General Labourers’ I mon annual smoke concert will be. held in Marron's Tea Room : tomorrow night. The proceeds from whica will be devoted to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

The non-coms. who leave Hastings on Monday for Trent ham, will be farewelled in the Picadilly Tei Rooms this evening by the Ladv Citizens Send-off ( < mmittee. The function will take the form of a. euchre party, ami admis ion will 1 o bv tickets only.

Mr. E. Ware, of Hastings, w".:o is visiting Australia. -has forwarder! from Sydney, to Mr. M. Johnson Hastings, a muiiber of excellent illustrated recruiting posters. Mr. Johnson lias handed them over t.> the Mayor who lias had them placed in conspieious places in the town. “In the olden days people depended upon themselves more than they do now. In those days brigades were kept up by voluntary means. They did not as now-a-days depend upon the municipality. People of the present time depend on these institutions too much. Also in the olden days people used to assist the brigades in putting out fires,” remarked Sir Robert Stout at the Napier Supreme Court this morning when counsel was speaking of the fire brigade first gof together in Hastings.