UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3145, 24 June 1914, Page 3

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

The Council of the University of Otago met on the 16th; present— the Chancellor Rev. A. Cameron), Drs Malcolm. Benham, and Church, the Rev. Professor Hewitson, the Hon. T, Fergus, Messrs J. Roberts, C.M.G., T. K. Sidey, M.P., W. J. Morrell, T. Mac Gibbon, G. O. Israel, W. E«&ey, P. M’Kinlay, J. H. Walker, J. Ross, and W. D. Stewart. CORRESPONDENCE. Dr Champtaloup wrote asking for seven months’ lea ve of absence as from July, 1915, for the purpose of special study in Europe. He intended, the letter stated, to visit several of the leading British and Continental medical schools, and hoped to get information which would be useful in fitting up the new medical block to the best advantage. It would be necessary to make personal arrangements for a continuous supply of specimens and other material used in his classes, as it had been difficult to get such material in a country in which the variety of diseases was very limited.—The desired leave of absence was granted. Mr G. R. Ritchie wrote stating that the Citizens’ Committee would unconditionally - contribute £2OO for a fifth year to the Home Science School.—Received, and the thanks of the council to be conveyed to the committee. DH COLQUHOUN’S RESIGNATION. ' Dr Colquhoun wrote to the Chancellor resigning the Chair of Medicine after 30 years’ service, stating that his resignation would take effect as from the end of the year. In doing go, after expressing appreciation of the consideration shown him by the council, he expressed his gratification at the position taken by the Otago graduates in medicine in and out of the dominion. Their success had amply justified the wisdom of the founders of the Medical School. The recent decision of the council, made possible by the generosity of the citizens, to establish a wellequipped school, for the teaching of medicine, surgery, gynaecology, and therapeutics, with their accessory departments of pathology and bacteriology, in the vicinity of the Hospital, would, the writer was convinced, greatly increase the efficiency of the school, and make its future secure. Ho hoped, also, that the council might see its way to secure the help and the co-operation of other parts of the dominion, in order to make the school, even to larger extent than it was at present, a national and not a local institution.

The Chancellor, in moving the acceptance of the resignation, paid a high tribute to the character of Dr Coiquhoun, and eulogised his immense services to the University. He moved, in addition, that the Medical Committee should draw up a minute appreciative of Dr Colquhoun’s services.

A number of other members testified to the value of the resigning doctor’s services, and the suggestion was made that Dr Coiquhoun might be asked to commit a scheme for a national school of medicine for New Zealand to paper, when it would be of value to the governing body in any consideration it might give to the matter. The motion 'was carried. GENERAL

Dr E. H. Williams was appointed lecturer on diseases of children, and the applications for the position of lecturer on diseases of the ear, nose, and throat were referred to the Medical Committee for a report. Mr H. D. Bedford was appointed a member of the board during the period of his office as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Commerce.