UNIVERSITY WORKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 9

UNIVERSITY WORKS

POPULAR PUBLIC LECTURES COMBINED FORESTRY SCHOOL Between SO and 100 persons had attended the first lecture of the course on municipal government and finance, in the colleeg hall, reported the registrar, Mr. M. Rocke O’Shea, 8.C0m., at yesterday’s meeting of the Council of the Auckland University College. Sales of course tickets numbered 4S for one set of lectures, and 60 for the other. This the president. Sir George Fowlds, considered to be fairly satisfactory, as there had been three of four other important meetings in the city that evening. Referring to a letter which the council had written to the Commissioner of State Forests, asking for a conference on the question of uniting the Auckland and Canterbury Schools of Forestry as a Dominion school at some mutually satisfactory place, the Minister of Education, to whom a copy of the letter had been forwarded, wrote stating that he was in accord with the council’s desire for an early settlement of the site question, and would confer with th® Commissioner of State Forests.

The president reported that as the Duffus Lubecki scholarship had been relinquished by the holder before the expiry of the term, he had awarded the balance of the money, about «£ 60, in equal shares to Miss L. M. Cranwell. Miss L. B. Moore and Mr. C. B. Radcliffe. This was in accordance with a recommendation by the science faculty. With reference to the Workers’ Educational Association, the following resolution was submitted from a joint meeting of the tutorial class committee and tutors on March s:—“That this meeting recommends that the councils of the University College and the Workers’ Educational Association should confer with the object of considering the question of establishing a university extension system combined with a Workers’ Education Association more closely on the original lines of that movement.” The report was referred to the members of the council on the Tutorial Class Committee.

A letter was received from the lecturer in journalism, Mr. A. E. Mulgan, reporting that only one entry had been received for the Eeys essay competition. As this had not been up to the standard he recommended that no award be made. His letter stated that Mr. Leys had consented to offer the prize again this year. A resolution from the professorial board “that there be a recommendation to the council that the graduation ceremony be held this year in the college hall” was discussed in committee, after which it was reported that tho counsil had decided to a%apt the recommendation.