COIN WANTED.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 8

COIN WANTED.

A shilling subscription is afoot m Christcuurch to raise the . tash to meet the Government subsidy qi. &300 to send Professor Bickerton to JUuropc to propound his partial impact theory. it is a very slow method 'of acquiring £ s. -d., and when one considers that half-a-dozen wealthy Canterbury' people could pub up the dollar.; at the expense, say, of a day's outi/^g; at the races, or a night at the (tow) club, it speaKs ill for their interest m scientific ro-se-arch. Biclcerija met the members of the local Philosophical Society the other night, but although there arc professors and other lcacned persons m the membership, Bicker lion (who is capable of taking the professorship of seven diffcrcne j sciences . m any university) literally ; talked over their heads, and had to go back to elementary principles m the subsequent newspaper controversy. The section Of the community that, says "Haw!" has a prejudice against liicfcerton because I he is an advanced democrat, and it is up i to democracy to support its cnamuion.