BOARD OF EXAMINERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 17

BOARD OF EXAMINERS

ARCHITECTURAL PAPERS INSTITUTE'S POSITION [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN. Friday The opinion that tho institute at its last conference had passed a resolution the implications and ramifications of which it had not fully considered was expressed by Canterbury members at tho annual conference of tho New Zealand Institute of Architects this morning, when the Canterbury branch introduced a remit seeking to alter the resolution. This dealt with the setting up of a board of examiners in connection with architectural papers and suggested that one of its members should be an overseas educationist. The proposal was endorsed by the executive and was sent forward to the Senate of the University of New Zealand, which had agreed to the proposal. The Canterbury remit was as follows: —"That the institute take steps to see that all examination papers for institute examinations bo set and marked by a full-time lecturer in conjunction with a practising architect, and that such practising architect be nominated from any part of the Dominion by tho council of the institute^ Mr. F. E. Greenish (Wellington) said that at tho last annual meeting no mention had been made of a board or examiners in the report of the committee of architectural education. It had come up later and had been discussed, only two delegates voting against the proposed. The proposal had been sent forward to the university and now they had a verbal report that it had been approved. "That leaves us in a peculiar position," Mr. Greenish said, "because if the senate has approved of it we cannot turn round and alter it." He moved the following amendment: ''T.hat, in view of the verbal report that the senate has agreed to tho proposal for a board of examiners, no action can bp taken." . - The amendment was earned.