UNIVERSITY COMMISSION

Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 31

UNIVERSITY COMMISSION

LETTER FROM A MEMBER. (F.rom Oub Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, May 28. In a letter to the president of the Vic toria College Students’ Association, Sir Harry Reichel of the University of Wales, who was a member of the New Zealand University Commission, states: “I have hea d 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. I should think, however, this will probably come in the course of time.” Commenting on the work of the commission, Sir 11. Reichel 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 i 9 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 cousins under the Southern Cross- It is largely embodied m the commission’s report, and from what 1 hear the report has been on the whole favourably received, and is likely to be acted upon.”