UNIVERSITY SENATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18466, 30 January 1922, Page 7

UNIVERSITY SENATE

FREEDOM OF GOVERNMENT. DISAGREEMENT WITH CHANCELLOR. - - , (Psa UniTKD Pnisa Association.*. AUCKLAND' January 28. The University Senate decided that the Government should bo askod to appoint a commission of engineering experts to report at the next meeting, of the Senate on the educational facilities for engineering in Auckland and-Contorbury, . A special, committee was set up to coneider the question of special /chools and frame a report, A motion of sympathy with tho European Student’ Relief Movement was passed, and a committee was set up to assist the movement.' , , ■ A lengthy discussion took place on the following motion by Mr a.'. De La Mare (Hamilton):—“That the Senate , dissociate itself from the opinion of the Chancellor which was implied in his letter to tho Min istor of Education ~ and embodied in "his report—that it is desirable for the Govern : mont to intervene in matters of university government, which are at present delegated to tho Senate —and records its "conviction that tho University should bo left free from every kind of external control.” Eventually tho Senate passed on to tho next business without a, division.