ST. MARGARET’S PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 66

ST. MARGARET’S PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.

Mr W. S. Fitzgerald, president of the council of St. Margaret’s Presbyterian Residential College, presented the annual report for 1914 to the Dunedin Presbytery on the Ist. The report states After taking into account all subscriptions received, including a legacy of £2OO, special gifts of £IOO and of £25, and other smaller gifts of £IOO and of £25, and other smaller donations already acknowledged, and also, still more recently, a sum of £IOO given to Miss Callender and devoted to the purchase of furniture in accordance with the donor’s wish, there still remains an indebtedness on the property amounting to £5750. The amount may appear to be large, but in order to discharge the duty imposed upon the council large expenditure was absolutely necessary, and, as authorised by the 1914 Assembly, the council appeals “to the liberality of the friends of education in the Church” for financial assistance. Accommodation has been provided for over. 40 students, and on the roll there are now 29. Of these very few are from within the bounds of the Dunedin Presbytery; the great majority of them are from other parts of the dominion from Auckland to the Bluff. Under these circumstances the council feels entitled to place the urgent needs of the institution before the Presbyteries of the Church throughout the whole dominion. In conclusion, the council desires to express its high appreciation of the services rendered to the college by the principal, Miss Callender. Her duties during the year have been neither light nor simple, and she has 1 discharged them most faithfully and efficiently.—The report was adopted.

It was decided to add the following names to the council of the college ; —The Revs. R. R. M. Sutherland, R. E. Davies, E. Adams, and Messrs T. Fleming, 11. S. Wright, and James Dick.