MR. GILRUTH AT DUNEDIN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 408, 18 January 1909, Page 2

MR. GILRUTH AT DUNEDIN.

' THE FINAL FAREWELL: ''.."-. ;-'!/.:.'/■' -, A large number, of members of the Otagt, . Agricultural and Pastoral Society (says/"».., . Dunedin Press Association telegram) ..attend- V. • cd at the Board-room on Saturday .morning'.,; to say good-bye'to Mr. J. A. Gilruth, who, ,V : ; has surrendered his position as chief of. the '. Veterinary, Division to' take .up a. professor-,/:'; ship in Australia. A'number of those.;pre-;..■'..' sent made speeches,' referring ' in. highly,:. complimentary terms to the good work done _■'■-" ~ by Mr; Gilruth, and expressing regret 'that ;.'.■"■ the .Dominion was losing his services. The;. toast cf Mr.; Gilruth's health. was drunk with \ ; ':'■■ musical honours. .. ~: .'....'',:. . . .fa; the course, of a reply, Mr! Gilriith said: ; 7 "The work' he would have 'to,do:in' Victoria':":.'"' would be partly research and partly teaching. ; , In. research there was nothing-that .one could" do, particularly in regard to stocky that.did li. not rofteet its ..benefits, on other, parts .of .■;; : the world..;; He'hoped to see student's, from- ' New Zealand-attending the College- in; Vic- ■. tpria.-. He; regretted -this country had lagged ; •, ■ behind in; the of a Veterinary. .; School, but now that Victoria had : ; Committed .'. itself to an-anhual'outlay bf;ovor £4000,-a3 - , a subsidy to'the' college, it" might ;be found ;', advisable.for'some young New Zealanders,to V~ : ■ s attend it.;"; ; , : .; ,;;■.'' : ' '• •.'■■•/"■''.. ; '\'j ; :'; ; v ; . .., Advantage w'as : taken of the '. to Gilruth's successor;""'Mi'."i; Eeakes, -health was also .drunk.--;.'.. ?'-'■ - In passing' through-Christchurch,' Mr. Gjt-. ■ ruth was., previously" interviewed' by., a -repre. :i. ■. seiitative of ; the,."Press." • According tov_a.; Press Association telegram,: he. repeated his-, suggestion,; outlined-in" his ..interview .pub-..-, lished in;The.Dominion last.week, that wewv Zealand scholarships-should be,granted-fbr,, , studies 'at. the. Melbourne /University;. Col-, ; " lege, instead of the 'proposed. Now Zealand ' ; Veterinary more expensive/scheme.;!'.. . —being now. proceeded with. ' He-pointed out that if two scholarships per annumwera . granted,' with a, tenure of ten years,'; ther> would, at the end : of four years '.be... eight /. students, who, at £75 each, would be, costing ; : New Zealand £600 a year.. Double this sura ... would bo necessary to support : .a-veterinary . faoulty in Dunedin.. : . ; . ,''.■'. ';::