AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 10

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. SELECTION OP PRINCIPAL. AMEND BILL' PROPOSALS ' [BIT TBLEOBAPH.—SPECIAL i REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Auckland 7 University \ College Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the House of Bepreaehtativea' to-day, pro-; vides for president of • the /college. ; The present office of :; chairman of '■ the council is proposed to be abolished, ' and ,the pre- | sent -chairman shall bo- deemed "to have been- duly <• elected as the president. '.; ;". - The council;: may ;; from :; time to .;.', time appoint : a member .of, the '. professorial board or some I other .' person i to r ■be the principal of th« college. Every person so appointed shall hold office during the pleasure of the council, and if not otherwise a member ■= of the professorial board shall be a member of it by virtue of his office. The Bill provides that the principal shall, be the academic head of the college and chairman of the professorial board. He may during the intervals between meetings of the professorial board exercise alone (but subject always to the control of the council) the powers of the I board as ; to regulating the admission of | students, and maintaining the r ordinary j discipline of. the college, and: suspend any j sfudent guilty of, any breach of discipline. He, may also suspend the , operation of any regulation made by or any resolution j of the professorial board until the same { is approved by- the council. ■' The principal of the college shall, by virtue of his office, ;be a member of the council, and the professorial' board shall, j while 1 any person holds the office of prin- j cipal appoint only one. member of the! council. ,In the event of the principal j of the college being appointed when tb°ro are already two other- persons in office an members of the council appointed by the professorial board, one of wri\ mothers, to ibo decided .by lot, shall retire from membership of the council on, the first day of the month following that in which the principal was appointed, end the principal shall take office as a member of the council on thai day. . , . / : The Victoria Collece Amendment .Rill, which was »Ipo .introduced to-day. niters the date of election of the chairman of the coreffa council, and makes certain other routine alterations.

PUBLIC WORKS - BILL. TAKING LAND FOR ROADS. SIMPLIFYING ' PROCEDURE. [BT TELEGRAPH.SPECIAL REPOBTEK..J .WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Public Works Amendment Bill wag introduced » into the House of Representatives to-day by Governor-General's Message. ' • . The . Minister for Public Works, the Hon. J.. G. Coates, in a brief explanation of its , provisions, said the most important clauses related to the taking of and for, roads. : Under the present procedure much time was lost through-hav-ing to advertise the intention before the agreement could bo signed. Where the owners of the land were absentees, a delay of months often occurred." The procedure for taking land lev a railway wan much simpler. ~ It ■ was only- necessary to declare a centre line, - »nd the work could* be proceeded with, the compensation . being settled later. The House would 'be able to decide whether it was desirable that local bodies should be given these powers. ':'"-'- In reply to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Wilford, the Minister said the proposal was general, and was not directed at any particular works. He could recall only two works to which,' it : applied, though there were many others it would; have a" bearing on. : ' "The."Main Highways Board had asked for legislation tothe same effect in order to enable deviations of existing main : roads to be carried out expeditiously. Other clauses, the Minister stated, re* lated to building*upon land fronting roadsless than 66ft wide, the non-exemption from Power Board rates,-and charges of persons holding : private water power licenses, and the provision of railway sidings ( to quarries, without special Act of Parliament. ■ . ■ . The Bill was read a first time, and referred to the Lands Committee. ■■

"BORROWED" MOTOR-CARS.. DETERRENT PENALTIES. PREVALENCE OF OFFENCE. [by telegraph.— reporter.] -WELLINGTON. Tuesday. ■'; The prevalence of the misappropriation of motor-cars was touched on in the . Legislative Council this afternoon when the '.Police Offences "Amendment Bill was under consideration. : - f The Hon. W. J. Geddis congratulated ! the Government on .the attempt which the Bill showed was to be made to deal more effectually with the crime of misappropriating motor-cars, a but he '•. suggested that the punishment did not meet the • crime. : ; There could be no question that it was an ; offence to take a man's motor-car just as it was an offence to take someone's money. The crime was prevalent, and largely so, because of the inadequacy of the punishment. It might ce said the motor-car , was the .'property; of the wealthy, but in many cases the car was the property of a man who was working * for a; living. : There ■were in stances of; the taking' of 'a doctor's car and cars which were being used by commercial ; travellers./; He ; did noli think that ■;, a maximum punishment of £50 or three months' imprisonment was aaeqUate. :~ ' ■■:' -^•'■ : ;>. : i! •::'; ." \ •,-;-':>-V ■■- The Hon. I. Samuel said the law already provided for \ the. punishment of those who had the intention .of. stealing. The , provisions of the Bill under discus- j sion were supplementary to that, and were aimed at what was known at "joyriding." It had been pointed out thai the object in view- would be defeated if the punishment were made* more than -three months, : for the case would then go to a jury who : might not agree to put into the hands of a Judge the power to send -.-to. prison for a year a man who had taken a ride in another's motor-car. He maintained :,that there was a difference be-, tween' what was illegal .and what ; was Wrong. i There would always be a moral sense in the community against the punishment of .. those : who did not intend to do wrong.;/--. - ■'. '.:'... The Hon. G. J. Garland said he was glad the Bill had been brought * down, and he remarked that it would do good in preventing the taking "of motor-cars- and pleasure boats.. The Bill. was passed. ■

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. BAPTIIST INCORPORATION. [by telegraph.— special reporter.] ■ .' WELLINGTON. Tuesday. In the Legislative Council this afternoon the British Nationalities and Registration' of Aliens (in v New Zealand) Bill J was-passed.---'P;/-- : ; \.;.?-; ;, '-' ; -.' : ; ; : ■':'.: : ," '"•-;"-- ' '■.■ The second reading of the Baptist Union Incorporation Bill was moved by the Hon, G. M. Thomson, who said the ■ union : had - ■existed for many years, ; but not as a corporate body. ; There, were various ; trusts, and in; recent years difficulties in the mat. ter of administering them had I arisen, arid the conclusion had been arrived at that it would be a wise move to .take'.' the step now proposed. This could not be done under any existing .law,v so a private Bill was presented. * The; second , reading ; was' agreed to. ' ; ;;; -•■-.,,., .■ - : ; The Police Offences Amendment Bill, as amended. by the Statutes Revision Committee, was passed, with the addition of the -Hon, ;■ W. H. MclntyreV clause, re-, feyred to itowlifira* > .. - ->|