DR HIGHT TO ATTEND EMPIRE CONGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 16

DR HIGHT TO ATTEND EMPIRE CONGRESS.

Dr J. Hight, rector of Canterbury College, has been granted leave of absence for the second term of the current session to enable him to represent New Zealand at the Congress of the Universities of the British Empire, to be held in London and Edinburgh. Whtn the matter was brought forward at the meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, Mr C. T. Aschman said that the conference was made possible through the Carnegie Institute. It was fitting that the rector, who had been the South Island ap-

pointee, should be given an opportunity of. keeping in touch with other universities. The Board of*Governors granted the rector leave of absence, and congratulated him on his appointment. In reply, Dr Hight thanked the board, anrl said he hoped that his attendance at the congress would redound to the usefulness of tjie college

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