BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 1

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

« CANTERBURY COLLEGE. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College met yesterday; present, Mr G. W: Russell (chairman), Dean Harper, Dr Talbot, Dr Moorhouse, and Messrs T. W. Adams, J. C. Adams, O. H. A. T. Opie, W. H. Montgomery, J. L. Scott, L. B. Wood, T. W. Rowe, G. T. Weston and T. Hughes. The Hon G. J. Smith wrote, resigning hie seat on the Board, owing to his proposed long visit to the Old Country. It was decided to hold an election to fill the vacancy on January 9. The chairman said that in the next few days he hoped that the Coldstream Reserve would bo fully vested in the Board. He proposed to ask the Government for the £{5000 odd of vested rentals as soon as possible, and a tem■porary investment should be found for it, so that the money 6et aside for the purpose of a cliemicaj laboratory could go on earning interest until it was required. It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Montgomery, that a return should be laid before the Board, showing .the amounts paid off the debt of Canterbury Agricultural- College, fronr^ti-me to time, and the funds from which the moneys were derived. The London Chamber of Commerce wrote, asking for the Board's opinion on its proposal to establish centres for holding commercial examinations. The chairman said that^ he thought the proposal was to establish examinations in New Zealand something dn the lines of the musical examinations. Mr J. C. Adams said that the College Committee had decided that the 'examinations conducted by the University were quite sufficient, and there was not the slightest necessity for the London Chamber of Commerce to institute what lie might call a system of peripatetic examinations when the University was meeting the wants, and had adopted a syllabus for a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and the College had provided for an Associateship. It was decided to endorse the College Committee's decision. . , The chairman stated that Mr Speight, lecturer in geology to the College, had that day gone to Broken River for the purpcee of making an examination of the coal deposits on the property of the Board. He intended to make a thorough geological study of the subject, and would have a report to submit to the Board a^t ite next meeting. Dr Cockayne had also gone to Broken River to lay off the intended botanical reserve on the property, provision tor which had been made on the estimates. The College Committee recommended that Professor Haslam's application for twelve months' leave of absence, on full pay, should be granted, in view ot his twenty-seven years' unbroken service without leave; that Mr L. Hl*. Greenwood, M.A., should be. appointed to act as Professor of Classics and as locum tenens, in place of Professor Haslam, for the year 1908, at a salary t>f £400 for the year, and the payment o* his first-class passage out to the dotninion; that the following lecturers 3hould be re-appointed for the session 1908: — Jurisprudence and law, Mr T. A. Murphy, £250 a year; mental science, Mr C. F. Salmond, £200; classics, Mr C. F. Salmond, £125; geology, Mr R. Speight, £100; music, Dr J. C. 3radshaw, £2SO ; economics and history, Dr J Hight, £450; accounting and ac;ountancy, Mr J. Morrison, £75^; jhysics (sound, light and heat), Dr O. 1 Farr, £150; education, Mr E. Wattins. The Teporfc was adopted. The Museum and Library Committee •ecommended that the following selec;ions should be made from the library >f the late Sir John Hall for the Public Library: — All books on New Zealand; ill bound pamphlets; all New Zealand ippendices. of Parliament, but not anmal statistics; the remainder should >c made up in the best manner posiible; small volumes should be carefully icrutinised, and, if rare, taken in preerence to larger ones. It also recomnended that, with a view to making a sommencement of reclassification of the )ooks in the Reference Library,- the r olumes dealing with economics and_ engineering should be first dealt with ; hat Mr H. L. White should be re-ap-jointed lecturer in Architecture at the school of Art for the year 1908, for one >vening of two and a half hours per feck, at a salary of £35 per annum ; md that Mr John Cook should be aplointed instructor in Building Gontruction and Quantity Surveying, at he School of Art, ' for* three evenings >er ; week r (totalling six- and a iialf lours), at a salary of £65 per annum. The report was adopted. -

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