VICTORIA COLLEGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 12

VICTORIA COLLEGE

MEETING OF BOARD OP GOVERNORS. . % At the meeting of Victoria CoHefa Governors last night Mr J. Graham, M.P., presided, and the members alsa present were the Rev. W. A. Evans, Messrs A. R. Meek, H, F. Von Haast, J. G. W. Aitken. A. T. McGinnity, C. Watson, A. W. ■ Hogg, M.P., R. McCaljum, T. -It. ..Fleming, and E. I>. Bell. Accounts totalling .£9lB 9s 7d, including .£661 for salaries, and .£IBB on account of the new wing, were passed lor payment, leaving a balance to credit or' the general account of .£420 lis sd. The Finance Committee recommended that the pay of-Professor Kirk's laboratory assistant'be increased from 12s to 13b 6d weekly, and that the unexpended balance of iaO out of an amount- voted to the professor "for purchase of ruce.o,tonis be kejit available for- that information and catalogues hiving been recently received .-. which will enable the requirements to -be fulfilled. - ' : Regarding the (construction of the new wing,- the finance committee reported that it was anxious to obtain the balance of the .£IOOO for the- new wi-ig, which is nearly completed, and- assed that any members of" the council who had outstanding promised subscriptions would endeavour to get them in ivitjiout delay. : The financial statement indicated that .£661 10s 6d had. been received in,.subscriptions, and .£IOOO from Government subsidy, making a total of ,£1661 10s M, while the expenditure comprised JE1153 lis Id in wages, and .£1352 15s 3d in, material, a total of ,£2506 6s 6d. , The Registrar (Mr Powles) was authorised to collect the outstanding subscriptions, and it was mentioned that -. J5/5 was in hand from the amounts being collected by the professors. The question of remitting examination fees in eases where students had not sat for examination had been referred to the finance committee to framo a regulation so that the practice should be uniform. The committee recommended the council to adopt the following regulation .—"That in no cafe shall fees paid for the college annual examination be refunded to candidates, but if a candidate is unable through sickness or other sufficient reason to attend the examination, the fee paid be pmoed to the candidate's credit for a future examination, but such credit shall not extend for more than.two years. In the case of removal to another district the fee shall be paid to the credit of the candidate at the college of the distr'cfc to which he moves, provided that he sits there for examination within two years." • Mr McCallum considered the - council would stultify itself by slavishly following a regulation of the Senate. if there was adequate power to vary the regulation to avoid hardship, he would support it. There 6honld be power to remit the fee if a student left 'he Dominion. The chairman could not see that there was any hardship to any New Zealand student in losing a guinea. The council had been informed by its professors that no fees were remitted in England. Mr McGinnity moved that the operation of the rule be withheld at the council's discretion in exceptional circumstances.—This was negatived. The report was adopted.