BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13113, 29 April 1903, Page 3

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

The Canterbury College Board of Governors met on Tuesday afternct, - ; present— Mr A. E. G. Rhodes (chairman), the Right Revs Bishop Julius and Bishop Grimes, the Rev Ur Erwin, and Messrs C. H. A. T. Opio > C. C. Gorfe, H. J. Be?wick, T. W. Adams, C. Lewis, J. C. Adams, G. W. Russell, T. Hughes, T. S. Foster, J. G, L. Scott and C. Reid. It was decided that the Museum and the Finance and Estates Committees should meet monthly, and the Finance and College meetings on the Wednesday previous to each Board meeting. It was resolved that a committee should bo appointed to revise the Standing Orders. A letter was read from the Hon W. Montgomery, stating that he wished to resign his seat on the Board', as h‘e was nob well enough to attend the meetings. Bishop Julius moved that the Board should accept the resignation, expressing its very great regret at the loss of a valued member. On the amending suggestion of Dr Erwin, seconded by Mr Russell, it was resolved that the resignation should be accepted, and Bishop Julius and the Chairman should be appointed to draw up a minute expressing the Board’s sense' of the loss sustained through the resignation of Mr Montgomery, who was a member of the Board for thirty years and for ten years chairman. Dr Chilton wrote stating that Mr L. Cockayne had presented his collection of alpine plants to the biological laboratory; Mr J. Jamieson had presented some limestone specimens, and Professor Dendy some biological specimens of his already in use in the laboratory. The Board resolved to thank these gentlemen for their gifts.' A letter from Mr S. More ton, offering to present a water-colour picture to the Public Library, was referred to the Museum and Library Committee. The Registrar reported that the following members would l retire by rotation from the Board in June next: —Mr C. Reid (nominated! by the Governor), the Hon W. Montgomery (elected by members of Parliament), the Very Rev Dean Harper and Mr A E. G. Rhodes (elected by the graduates), Mr T. Hughes (elected 1 by the teachers), Mr T., W. Adams (elected by the School Committees) and Mr G. C. Corfe (elected by the Professorial Board). The Chairman reported that the Board would have to elect two to the Senate of the New Zealand University. The Board went into committee to consider the matter, and'on resuming the Chairman reported that the Board had resolved to proceed' to the election at the next meeting, and that nominations should be in fourteen days before the meeting. The report of the College Committee recommended that Missi Hetty .L. Smith should he appointed teacher of drawing at the Girls’ High School at a, salary of £3O per annum, duties to commence on June 3 ; that Mr R. E. Hall, 8.A., should be appointed part-time master as locum tenens at the Boys’ High School for the second and third terms of 1903, at a salary at the rate of £l4O per annum ; that Mr G. J. Lancaster, M.A., should be appointed to take the advanced chemistry at the Boys’ High School during the second and third terms of

ISO 3, at a salary at the rate of £35 per annum; that Mr James Balfour, sen., should bo offered the position of part time teacher of freehand and model drawing and carpentry at the Boys’ High School, at a salary of £l5O per annum; that Mr _ E. Thompson should be requested to continue his work at the Boys’ High School until the middle of the second term or until the arrival of Mr Balfour from England, at £1 per week in addition to his present salary. The report was adopted, with an amendment that Mr Lancaster’s salary should be at the rate of £45 per year. The Museum and Library Committee recommended that the tender of Messrs Smith, Anthony, Sellars and Co. for binding books for the Public Library for one year should be accepted; that leave of absence for six months should be granted to Mr C. Kidson, an assistant master at the School of Art, and that it was desirable that the whole question of leave of absence should be referred to the Board; that the gallery of the reading-room at the Public Library should be open to ladies only, and that a sum of £7O. should be expended in furnishing the gallery; that applications should be invited by advertisement for the position of part time instructor at the

School of Art, in the place of Mr Edward Thompson resigned. The report was adopted. The report of the Finance and Estates Committee was considered in committee.