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SURMISE IN OTAGO.
AUCKLAND “SCOOP” SUSPECTED
The “Otago Daily Times,” in an editorial, says it is to- be surmised that the offer with which the Auckland City Council has closed was not an unsolicited one on tho part of Y'ale University. The New Zealand Institute and Australian Association for the Advancement of Science had innocently* assumed that the University was in treaty only with the Government for its cooperation in promoting the cause of astronomical research. There seems, however, to be no reason to doubt that while the scientific bodies in the Dominion were under this impression, the University had been approached from "several sources’’ with suggestions that the finances of New Zealand were Bo desperate that there was no hope of any negotiations with the Government being carried to a successful issue, and that if its plans were not to be brought to naught it was to the Auckland City Council it should apply.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11661, 27 October 1923, Page 5
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