REFUGEE TEACHERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 6

REFUGEE TEACHERS

EMPLOYMENT OVERTURES. GRANT SOUGHT. Per Press Association. WELKINGTON, March 23. Prompted by information of a similar application from Auckland, the Victoria College Council decided tonight to apply for a grant of £SOO a year for five years from the Government for the employment of a refugee university teacher or other scholar. „ . „ „ The Auckland University College Council forwarded a copy of a letter it had sent to the Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser), winch stated that for some time it had been receiving applications from teachers who, for various reasons had lost tlieir appointments in Gennany, Italy and Czechoslovakia. Some were distinguished scholars who now found themselves in great distress. Lack of finance prevented positions being offer-

The council suggested t-o Mr Fraser that the Government grant £SOO a vear for five years to enable it to attach to the staff a distinguished refugee scholar or scientist. It was stated that Victoria University College had received similar applications. Tlie principal (Professor T. A. Hunter) said that the applicants could be employed most satisfactorily supernumerary to the staff, doing research work. , . Upon its being remarked by a member of the council that the Government was not likely to make a grant to one college alone, the council decided, on the motion of Mr Justica Ostler, to make a similar application for a grant.