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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19682, 27 December 1933, Page 10

By the generosity of an anonymous donor, Edinburgh Is to have “A Workers’ University.” A citizen of Edinburgh, who is interested in workingclass education, but who refuses to let his identity be publicly known, has presented to the University Settlement a building not far from the Old College, which was formerly the Roxburgh Picture Houte, and it is being transformed into a large hall, a lecture room, six class rooms, a scientific laboratory, and a kitchen for students of domestic science. It is to be used for adult education, and the workingclass students will only be asked to contribute a small fee. The organising tutor will be Mr Charles Kemp, who has had considerable experience of adult education, and several members of Edinburgh University. staff will undertake the lecturing and class work, assisted by a number of students. The building will be called "The Kirk o’ Field Club” (after the site on which the old U** f -srsity was built), the donor having declined to permit his name to be used in the title of the inst s tution. The much-debated question of a title for the Lyttelton-Wellington steamer service was discussed by Mr C. H. Clibborn .t the last meeting of the Canterbury Progress League, when he submitted a report regarding a conferonc- between the transport committee of the league and of the Chamber of Commerce. After several names. In hiding “inter-island express service” and "express steamer service,” had been discussed and discarded as l ng too cumbersome, it had been decided to support the title “steamer exp iss.” However, he had received a telegram from Wellington asking the League to defer action as new proposals were being prepared. “I suppose that will mean yet another name.” remarked Mr Clibborn. It was decided to defer consideration of the question. “A great difficulty that confronts us j in our desire to develop the cultural i subjects is the pressure for outside | examinati .is. the regard for and worI ship of which have become lmost a national tr; V* Mr F. M Renner principal of Rongotai College, said In ! address at a prize-giving ceremony. | "We cannot make one step forward or ! Me vote one extra half-hour of our time to a subject like music, art. drawing. <’ amatic work, without having to answer the inevitable question: ‘What I about his senior free place examin- [ ation? What about his matricuI lation?' ” he said.