AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6815, 20 September 1883, Page 3

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Tub ordinary monthly meeting of the Council was held yestercla.y. Present: Sir G. M.. Q'Ro.rke (in the chair), the Bishop of Auckland, Mr. Justice Gillies, and Cilonel Haultain. Nrw Member. Rev. Alexander Said took his seat a.t the Council Board for the first time. Chairman's Statement. — T he Chairman said : I regret to Bay that, owing *o some oversight, I omitted to send the telegram announcing to the Government the appointment of Professor A!di3. I thought I had done it in the ordinary course. 1,, however, sent it to the Her *ld. I believe the Council have been placed in possession of the exact position of things - in respect to that appointment. I may State that the blame tests, with . me, and not with the Government. With regard to getting increased accommodation 1 for the College, my efforts oa behalf of the Council have utterly failed. I waited on the Premier and wrote to the M inistcr of Education on the subject. I received | a brief reply to the effect that there were no funds available for that purpose this year. Finally, when I got the report of the Professorial Board, I represented the extreme inconvenience to which the professors were putin the discharge of their duties, owing to the want of accommodation. I then wrote asking the Government if they Would allow us the use of the g,round floor of Government. House for, say, three months. The Minister of Education thought it would be desirable to procure further accommodation!! possible, but he said there was some prospect of the Governor coming to Auckland in October. W hen I heard that, of course I desisted from pressing any request in regard to Government House. ' It is therefore far the Council now to consider what is best, to be done tn provide better accommodation. There is little prospect of anything being done for twelve months longer—if even then, /Absence;.— Mr. Hesketh sent an apology explaining the cause of his inability to attend the meeting of the Council. Tiik Late 'Rev. T. Boddle.—The Registrar read the following letter : —" Auckland, 28th August. My dear Dr. Kid<V —I duly received your kind letter of the 24th July, and ought to have acknowleged it earlier, but I am sure you will tinder the circumstances, .make allowance for my apparent neglect. The loss which as a-family we have been called npon to sustain has indeed been \ari : irreparable one, but the remembrance of bis useful and blameless life Will ever be to us a blessed heritage. The kind expressions.j and- sympathy of friends has doab much to mitigate the sorrow, and I beg i you ;will accept this acknowledgment of the | sympathy. 5 expressed in the resolution of '■the Council and of your own—on behalf of niy ..mother and the rest of_ the family.—l remain, -- dear sir, yourd sincerely, ThoS. /:Bom)i<k.—Rev. K. Kidd, LL.D."

* ; : Th'k New.Professor op Mathematics.— ' ,Mr. Justice. Gillies said that he had telei to "the rMinister of Education, to the effect that the new Professor of Mathe- ' niatics iwoiildictiotrequire to enter on his ■ duties -until the beginning of next April. '.'The Government might have considered it desirable 'to inform the Agent-General of that fact. .-.But they did not think it necessary to communicate with the Agent-General 1 :upon;- 1 the subject.—The Chairman : I may i 'atateHhat: I- had. an interview with the Minister of Education, in which that subject was referred to.'.'r- The Minister of Edu- > cation said the Government conld not see its way; to interfere between the Agent»General 1 and the new professor, without some Sulii - cient reason being urged for so doing. Mr. ■ ;l)ick showed me a telegram from the Agent' General, and asked whether I had any idea on the subject. I need hardly say that my object was to consult the convenience of the i new;! professor iu every way, and to show ■ that" we were quite anxious and ready to re- : "ceive him immediately, or that he might so arrange his. departure from England as to • artivi: hern at any time between this and the date when his duties would commence. ' Probably when the next mail arrives we will ' be in'a better position to judge whether any '■ telegram ? should be sent. I may further : state' that I telegraphed yesterday to the • Minister of Education asking him, if he had received any news concerning Professor ■ Aid is, to let mo know. I have received no : . reply,' so that 1 presume he has nothing to communicate.

TitJS Lath Professor Walker.— The Chairman said : I may also state that I have received; a letter from the sister of the late Professor Walker, who is the executrix and under his will. She requests mv on her behalf, to return her heartfelt thanks to the Council, for the kindness and consideration shown by the Council to her brother.; She: asks me, in toy capacity of .Chairrtoaii'of the Council, to return to her (in 'the first instance) Some of his effects. She ■ requests that the breakfast and tea. set belonging to Professor Walker shouldbedivided into three parts, and a part given to each of the three little boys who put off in the boat to the rescue of Profrssors Walker and Tucker. She would like these boys to have some re-. inembrance of Professor Walker. She wishes the uliuriVr " "set and ' chamber ware to be divided according as they wish, between the Kev. Mr/Nelson and the Rev. Mr. Tebb3. She asks that the box of stationery shall be divided among . the professors. '1 here are some works ,on Masonry which she desires should be Riven to the Freemasons, and some I other "volumes Which she expresses a wish should be given to . the Oddfellows. There lire also certain volumes which she proposes Bhould be given to the (late) Rev. Mr. Buddie.She desires to have a stone plaeed over her brother's grave. I think She says . that , she has . written to Professor ■Tucker on <■ that subject, but I have "not;seen Professor Tucker since my return "to speak to.' him on the subject. I have got authority from the Public Trustee to take ov«r these effects, and I propose carrying out tue instructions of Miss Walker in regard to her brother's effects at once, returning those cases which she wants to be returned. I hope to be able to return them by the Doric. There is a. smn.lt sum of £40 or £50 in the trustee's hands, which will be available to cover all charges ; any balance Will be handed over in due course to the Agent-General on her behalf. Exhibitions. —A memorandum from the Professorial Board was brought up recommending that " five exhibitions" be established for £25 a-ye.ir each, one for Latin (withcredit for knowledge of Greek), one for English, one for mathematics, one for physics and chemistry, one tor biology of geology ; the exhibition to be tenable for a year, to be awarded for the first time after the College examinations in October. College Library.—The memorandum also enclosed a resolution of the Professorial Board to the following effect: — " That the Council be rfcommended to vote a sum of £*200 towards the maintenance of the College Library, and place the same to the credit of the Professorial Board."—The Registrar, in reply to a question, said that there were 1 £2000 on fixed deposit,—Colonel Haultain : I i do not see how we are to piy the money due to the Agent-General, to find mOi.ey for these exhibitions, and a further sum of £200 for the College Library. We shall want any | money we get for current expenses, ao that, j to provide for What is required, will leave us little more than £1000 at fixed deposit. There will be an almost immediate demand for £500 for the Agent-General.—Mr. Justice Gillies ; If we must have some additional accommodation for the professors, we must pay something on that account. —The Chairman : We must erect a suitable building. — Colonel Haultain: We have three four attendants ; we must pay them,—The Cha'ir- ; man: If they had the books they have '■ no place to put them. — Bishop Cowie: ' If we were to get a small building, it is doubtful whether the rooms would be large enough for the purposes for which they ■ would be required.—The Chairman : J thinX we ought to give the money for the exhibitions!— Colonel Haultain: I would prefer fewer exhibitions, each, however, of greater value. I think the best thing to be done is. to refer the memorandum of the piofessors to the Finance Committee.—After some further discussion upon matters of detail, t'oe memorandum Was referred to the Finance Committee. : v Accounts.—The ordinary accounts were passed, and payment authorised.