A MEDICAL SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15548, 4 March 1914, Page 10

A MEDICAL SCHOOL.

GRANT OF £10,000. | DUNEDIN INSTITUTION. I PARTIALITY NOT SHOWN. [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] Dtoeddj, Tuesday. At a special meeting in committee to-dav the Hon. Jas. Allen, Minister for Edoca! turn, being present, the University Council received a letter from the Secretary for Education intimating that the Government was prepared to give £10.000 towards ex tending the present medical school building and giving accommodation for anatomy chemistry, and physiology. Onlv £5000 i. to be payable before the end of "the finan cial year. The chancellor, the Rev. A. Cameron, reported that a certain gentleman was ere! pared to give £2000 towards a building f M pathological and bacteriological depart, ments, and for rooms for instruction in public health and materia medica. The estimated cost of the building was £12,000, and the council resolved to apply for a subsidy to provide the balance on the assumption that the Government would provide a £ for £ subsidy on all voluntary contributions. '

After the council came out of committee the Hon. T. Fergus moved that the thanksof the council be accorded the Minister for Education and the Government. The mo- r tson was seconded by Mr. 1". K Sidev M.P. Mr. John Roberts sad it was a good thing to know, that thev had someone I at the head of the Education -Department S thoroughly conversant with the council's 1 needs. He did not mean thai other Gov-1 ernments had thwarted the medical school I but lack of assistance had really been due 8 to the fact that they had not "known the" requirements of the medical school.

The chancellor, in eulogising the work 1 of Mr. Allen in connection with the coun- • cil, and his assistance in getting the grants said that the latter had not been given in any spirit of partiality. In making the grant the Government was serving, not. only Dunedin, but the whole of the Dominion. He conveyed the resolution to Mr. Allen as expressive of the council's appre-. ciation' of his efforts on behalf of educa- ■ tion.

Mr. Allen, in replying, said the Government had put Dunedm out of it,s mind altogether when considering the vote. It was recognised that the medical school belonged to the whole of the Dominion. He hoped the council would make the school worthy of New Zealand. The council resolved to appoint a new professor at £800 per annum to fill the vacancy created by the death of Dr. Scott. The following gentlemen were appointed as commissioners to interview candidates and report with respect to them: Hon. T. Mackenzie, Professor J. Simmington (Belfasti, Professor A. Robinson (Edinburgh), Professor Elliott Smith (Manchester). The appointment is to be for a period of fiv# years.