UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FUND

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 12

UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FUND

A meeting of subscribers to the TJniverfky EndowmePt Pure! was held in the Education Board building on the 13th List., there being present: His Honor Mr Justice Williams (chancellor of the Univervty Council, in the chair), Messrs E. E. Sr QQic^ iek i & F = nv '' ick - J- A. Johnstone, n^ D ' S . tcw » ri - yL Coh^- J- Roberts. C 21. G., the Rev. W. Curzon-Siggers and inc. Key. D. Eorric

lho objp.-t for which the meeting was called wo -: to consider the following resolu-" tion passed at a R:eetinsr g-1 tho Gerc-ral Lommitree on Deesmbsr 2, and. if thought ?dvisabk\ to confirm it:— "That ihe request of the University Council for a not exceeding £5000 from the committee's nines, to onaL\'o the council, with the grant of £2000 from the Government, to compete the li-iild'ngs necc;sarr for the estabnsb.rapiii of a chair of physiolo«T be g '-anted.''

Mr Jehu P.obarts moved the confirmation cf the resolution, and stid a year nast this month tl,e cr-nn.ittec, along with the members of the (Jnivrrs'ty Council, Lad met the 1 rcmior vi rcfo -ence to the. matter, and had then stated they were agreeable to pa -3 .Tj>:oCo fovvnnls the recessary buildings. This action of the- committee had bJen taken o\ecptio.i to by some, and" had refaulted in a special meeting being called on the ?.nl in S i\ They© was a fair repiescnlat^on at that meeting, and the action of the c.mn'iltee had been ccnfirir-ed, and the rosolarion read to tho present meeting p?--scd.^ but this w.is subject to confirmation. The j.rPsent meeting of suLscrib->rs did not, he v,-as afraid, show a very Ine intcrcs r in the work.

Tho R.--V. W. Curzon-Siorsers seconred tlis confirmation of the morion. It secm-ed to hjm »-h'c it Vias o::c way of endowing the fiiiVeisiry, which might have borrowed — to ecire to tp« subs?ribei" by-and bye for th? mo i"y. Tho matter had been inrido very pub!''c, ar.l, looking at the Miiallress of tho mod ing. the science oF subscribers mi^ht ho taken to mean consent. Th;. mrMifii uas then put, and carried unanimously