UNIVERSITY COLLEGES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 July 1928, Page 8

UNIVERSITY COLLEGES

RESTRICTION OF POWERS

.By Tolograph.-Bpecial to "The Mail")

CHRISTCHURCH, 14th July. "There is a tendency in Now Zealand on the part of the Government and the bureaucratic powers that be, to restrict the powers of the university colleges, instead of letting them devolop along their own lines," said Mr H. D. Acland, chairman of the Canterbury College Board of Governors at yesterday's reception to graduates. He'added that he hud been trying to devise means whereby Canterbury College would not be at the beck and call of the Government so much as in the past. The college had never received many generous private benefactions, and be had in juind the establishment of a permanent fund, to be called the Canterbury College Fund, to which all, rich and poor, might contribute. People had* Iffie idea that only the rich were able to give, but a large proportion of the graduates would bs glad to return something for what they had got from Canterbury College. Such a scheme had been tried with great success in America and it was now before the College Board, and ho hoped it would soon be before the public outside the university. They had tried to de velop higher education, and thev held that everybody was entitled to partake of the li"sTefliicn(iou if they were willing to receive it. twJ&fsL.'.' """' "^rr^rr