CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1160, 30 October 1917, Page 8

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

BOABD OF GOVERNORS. The Board of Governors of Cantem , bury College met yesterday, there ( being present: Messrs J. C. Adams 1 (chairman), A. E. Flower, L. B. ! Wood, 11. D. Acland, H. Boyd, C. 11. i Opie, J. J. Dougall, and Dr Lester. ' Mr W. H. Beck wrote tendering his resignation of the position of represen- ' tative of the board on the Waimate High School Board. The resignation was accepted, and Mr E. Haasell, of the Farmers' Co-operative Association, Waimate, was appointed to succeed him. , Professor Scott reported that J, Dick- , euson had won the second year exhibition scholarship at this year's examiua- , tion, subject to his passing the Univer- t sity entrance examination. The award was approved. The report of the Special Committee , appointed'by the board to consider the question of making more adequate provision for the treatment of education as a branch of professional {raining was presented. The committee was of opinion that the present provision for education in the University courses is faulty and inadequate, and that the best University provision would be made by means of a post-graduate bourse (i.e. subsequent to B.A. or B.Sc.) Before entering upon this course, students should have completed a one year's course in psychology, logic, and ethics. The training colleges should be "recognised schools" of education of the University where instruction should be given in practice in teaching methods, hygiene, school systems, education, and the State, and part of the course in experimental education should be taken. On completion of the course the student should receive the Diploma of Education. The report was" adopted. The College Committee reported recommending that all full-time employees in the board's service, whose annual salary ami increments does not exceed £.' 100, be paid a war bonus for the current year on the following scale: —Special cases to be referred' to the sub-committee, and considered on their merits: —On all salaries of £IOO i and under, £2O; £lOl to £l5O, £l7. 10/-; £lsl to £2OO, £ls; £2Ol to £250, £l2 , 10/-; £251 to £'!00, £lO. That in view ' of the action of the Education Depart- i ment, in not recognising for the pur- j pose of capitation, certain items of ex- > pehditure, the annual award of scholarships and exhibitions to pupils of the Girls' High School, and boarding allow 1 ; ances to children of fallen soldiers, be discontinued at the end of the current year, an exception to be made in the case of the pupil who, by resolution of ' the board, has already beeu granted such boarding allowance. The committee reported having received advice that the annual grant from the New Zealand Society of Accountants, towards the cost of instruction in accountancy, has been renewed for another three years at a reduced rate of £75 per annum. * The chairman moved the adoption of the report. Mr Opie seconded the motion. Mr Acland said that the people that would be mostly beuefited by the committee's recommendation were the unmarried men. That was a ridiculous position: the people most deserving of a bonus were married men. Fourteen single people would get several pounds more per year than the man-red men. He thought the whole thing should be gone iuto by a special committee, and j every case considered on its merits, finding out who were married and who were j not. The object of the war bonus i should be to assist married men, but this scheme did nothing of the kind. lie moved: "That the revision of all salaries should be referred to a special committee of the board with power to make rei-onimeudatious on the subject of war bonuses, such committee to confer with the permanent committees." Dr Lester supported the amendment, which was carried. Mr Wood then moved:—"That a special committee be appointed to go into the question of the urgent financial needs of the college as a teaching institution as well as the question of salaries." Mr Opie supported Mr Wood's amendment. Dr Lester suggested that the motions of Mr Acland and Mr Wood be amalgamated. The suggestion was accepted, and an amendment embodying both propositions was carried. The report as a whole was then adopted.