HADFIELD MEMORIAL HOSTEL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 12, 9 October 1907, Page 7

HADFIELD MEMORIAL HOSTEL.

It is hoped that His Excellency the Governor will consent to lay the foundation stone of tho Hadfiold Memorial Hostel'at the end of this month or the beginning of next." The' Victoria College "Spike," issued yesterday, states that the sum of .£2Hfl required for the building of the first wing is already in hand, but there is at present very little" money available for the provision of furniture. Tho committee trusts that now that the carrying out of the. scheme has proceeded so far, the necessary balance for that purpose will be forthcoming.' " With regard to ".the 'general scope of the institution the "Spike" quotes the following passage front a letter received from Bishop Wallis:—"We hope in the first place that the,Hostel..will serve as a college for the training of such members of the University as desire to .offer themselves for the Ministry of the Church of England in the Dominion. We hope to provide special 'courses'of"lec-" tures for these students, ■ for- whom'at present there is no provision in the North Island except at St. John's College. We badly need a supply of clergy, New Zealand born, .to work among/their fellow countrymen,. But. we. hope that these students, gladly as'we'shall'welcome them, will form' a' small' minority of the inmates of the Hostel, partly for their own sakes, and partly'also because it is our wish to make a home- for as. many undergraduate's as possible, whatever career they have in view; . Those of us who have had experience-of"tile working of collegiate: institutions at Home have learned tho value and. the delight of residential colleges, of the opportunities they give for ■• constant, social intercourse, and how they, constitute the strengthening of an esprit do corps among their "members. We heartily nope, therefore, that many of the undergraduates who at present have no homo in Wellington, and are at present scat-' terod among boarding houses in tho city, will become inmates of tho Hostel. It is intended, of course; that tho Hostel shall.be self-supporting." >> .