COLLEGE COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 170, 21 July 1942, Page 6

COLLEGE COUNCIL

UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS

The Auckland University College Council met yesterday. It sat for nearly two hours and a half, and most of the business was transacted in committee. The president, Mr. W. H. Cocker, submitted a memorandum concerning a private bill which is being promoted by the General Trust .Board of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland to extend the term within which the board must commence the building of a cathedral in order to receive a bequest made by the late Miss Mina lait Horton. 'x he council is interested as one of the reversionary beneficiaries in the event of the cathedral bequest lapsing. The statement showed that the will required the commencement of building operations in 1945. ten j ears after the death of testatrix nvm r 1( ; trust boa, ; d considered that o\vin & to war conditions it would be if to , lulfil lhe requirement. s i«ptio ei 'i rC i proposed in the legislation that the vcar after Xt tl nded 10 , termir, ate 10 >c_u., aftei the conclusion of the /!'■ , 1 ndei ' the Legislature Act the iJOcii d was required to refer the bill , d J ut lge ot the Supreme Court inuu ii v ° U Th conc ' ll c 1 a prehnVinar'y a «•i

tlvff 10 . c '" unci J was formally notified that a tunnel was being driven SS S? S SIL! he •V f »" the univa? U, ~.i P and Passing under the noith end of the main college builrling Before the reading of the noti "ambers were "notified" „afferent way, about a dozen -ion felt "l ? fiied i and the concus..u>n leit. it was decided that the '.egistrar should confer with the coiSthe? thTrto, ° rller 10 the detonations had done ft w- ! amago t ,° the buil ding, although ill Iff ' 3 con,SlC lered unlikely that anv ill-effects would be suffp™ - y to the depth of the tunnel ' ° WUlg