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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8880, 17 May 1892, Page 4

For the last few days a notification has appeared in our columns that a member of the Council of the Auckland University College fell to be elected by the members of the General Assembly resident in the Auckland Provincial District; that Mr. Jackson Palmer, M.H.R., and Mr. J. H. Upton had been nominated, and that a poll would take place on Monday, the 23rd of May. The appointment of three members of the University College by the members of the General Assembly was a usurpation for which there was never any excuse. _ When the Bill constituting the University Council was before the House, it suddenly struck the members that it would be a fine thing to keep three appointments in their own hands, and they did it. Outside, nobody had ever thought of making the members electors of the Council. We Protested against the thing at the time, ecause in the same way the members , of the House might seize as perquisites I any offices they thought fit. However, I

fit was srcely worth much aboithe matter, as ffi Sayin ? gentlemenslected by the I) ertot ta have heritable for tL T nb,ir « ie fK PreSe, - election occurs h"' 110 ' 1 - of the ejiry of the 1 • , HUs e Office of )•. J. JT TTnfn of was dulviominated or \ a , n 4 .be by the He Mr. Mitehelson IS' nominatiowas made bv Mr £ tllftr Mr. Jacks* Palmer, ii.H ft \v *0 ,' think thatonsidering how r't Q do bers of seized on tl,£ and that tv cannot attend the, er ings of thefoqncil during a C o n • i 6t " able portn of the year, tliev « , r ' not to sento he Council one off* own numb, but should select '* eir citizen wh<can attend the i„L° me and who taas an interest in tu of the Univ-sity. But we „ W ° rk that the eleibn is virtually over ?i poll takes pee on Monday, the' -n a but it 18 byroring papers, sigl ' W those hav;ng,he right to vote T , • managing foMr. Jackson Palmer £ taken the pimution some time J„,® collect the v<es. Not merely urX, t0 to vote, but he document itself E signed. A limber of these were si.» ? a month ageso that all that rem,,; for the pol is to hand them rl the Registry. We underhand th thirteen vols have been obtain out of a pssible twenty-two Tj whole thinj is over except I shouting, vhich we suppose will come in du course. A party com plexion seem to have been given tot! election, whio certainly is a pity Th Liberal part; might spare the Univer" sity Council The incident, however shows what <|m be done. Probably the majority of he members know li tt L and care les about University wort and when a illow-meinber solicits their suffrages thy do not care to refuse him, as they may want his vote in th House for ome pet measure. l> ut certainly the members ought to ass a self-denyingjrdinance against electing one of their own number. Now tbit the precedent has been created, in a ij probability ey will never travel out of their own lirqle.