UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19802, 29 May 1926, Page 12

UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.

LETTER FROM A MEMBER. (From Oub Own Cobeespondent.) WELLINGTON, May 28. In a letter to the president of the Vic toria College Students’ Association, Sir Harry Keicbel. of the University of Wales, who was a member of the Now Zealand University Commission, states: “I have heard that the senate has in the main accepted the commission’s report, but I am sorry that it turned down our recommendation for student representation. 1 should think, however, this will probably come in the course of time.’’ Commenting on the work of the commission, Sir H. Reichci said in an address delivered at Liverpool: “The New Zealand Government looked for guidance to Wales, as furnishing the nearest parallel to its own conditions. As regards higher education, the four colleges are at considerable distances from each other, and there is a widespread popular eagerness for that higher education. They invited me, no •doubt, as almost the last survivor of what has been called, according to the point of view of the speaker, the ‘old guard, or the ‘old gang’ of the Welsh University. Our Welsh experience may, I hope, prove of real service to our teousins under the Southern Cross- It is largely embodied in the commission’s report, and from what 1 hear the report has been on the whole favourably received, and is likely to bo acted upon.”