AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3610, 22 May 1923, Page 41

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

PAUCITY OF PRIVATE BENEFACTORS. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, May 2C The paucity of private benefactors to the Auckland University College was a matter that received publicity from Professor LI. S. Dettmann in the course of a speech at the capping ceremony. In certain English and Australian Universities, he said, the annual capping ceremony yvas preceded by the commemoration of past beneiaotors, and at Sydney the first thing done was to read out the names from a lengthy roll of benefactors. At Auckland there yvas no such roll. During the past 40 years Sydney University had received £3CO,CCO from private sources alone. During a similar period Auckland University College, except for one donation of £3OOO in 1884, had not received from friends and supporters one single penny. “That is yvhy.” added Professor Dettmann, “yve do not have a commemoration cf benefactors.”