LONDON PAUPERISM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 5

LONDON PAUPERISM.

;■• A DECREASE SUGGESTS'REy^yiNG '■:l-y-rr '■-■': '" { '. : T TRADE.i";,;;; ; \ '■'■ (DT TEiaOBAriI—PBKS3 ASSOCIATION—COPTItIQBT.) ;-;/ ; V; j;;:' 'j.: ; v';' ■■'; . London,'. June 3. ; vMr. John Burns, President of tho Local Government Board, speaking at the National Liberal Club, stated thaf there were hundred fewer paupers in London than : at ' ; the'end of .February, and one thousand fewer .than in , June,\ 1908. That indicated, said Mr. Burns; that trade was reviving, .r',.- " ' OTACiO UNIVERSITYv'' ; . ~ VV .::; '■' ~ '; •''" '"' : " ; : :; '»",,/.. .:''■']: .'"- ■. ■ OF DOMESTIC ■'■'; '■':■: ■;.■].; ■■•;••./ :SOHSNCE. ..:.:>. ;•■■;■;,'"•;> .; ■':.'.(us 'MMseiuril'—rltess association.) : : ;v ; ■;: i; ; i: ; :.:; . Duiioelln, Juno 4; _ ..At a, meeting of' the.' University Council ito-day'it. was resolved to\cbnfor- the- statue of 'professor on the' following gentlemen, at. present, engaged -as' keturers \at ; : the. University i—Mr.-.-D; R.. White, education; Dr. Colquhoun, medioine; Dr. Barnett, : surgery; Dr. Roberts, pathology;: Dr. Ogston, medical.''jurisprudenco and - publib"v health; Dr.- F. C. Batcbclor, .'midwifery and/ gynaecology; :Dri' Lindo i-FerguEon, opthalmology';' Mrl D. 'B; J Waters,- uietallurg , .',arid assaying, y ; r, Mr. ■.'.'rjohn: Stydholrae,' -of'..Coldstream, wrote to the council offering. £200 a. year for : three years..to. endow...a cliair , of domestic ■scionce in Otago University, the' first paymont to be v made as soon_ as:'a actually takes iip'the position. Tho stipulations ho makes are that a chair of domestic science , ' find, not' a: mere 'lectureship' be'/cetablished, that'a fully qualified professor be.ap■lise : ;iW'Best 'endeavours,, to get: a. course I iri'domoßtio science admitted ;by.'the Senate of ; New Zea-' land University, j. Some time isjneo a offer;.wa's T made ito(.Cariteiburjj'College,; but 'the .authorities,'; afterj,giving,,;' mattor ' lehfithy r. consideration and.. entorinE • into l-.neßbirotione with Miss Gifclirist, of-Tennes-l>o6 vUniversityjdcoided, not to entertain ?*a ! pronosal; Tlifi council epoke vfry favoursbW. ■■of tho offer, but' as'-he'-did. not'.Bcek:a:final answer until November,, it. was decided that n vsub-pommittee be appointed , - to, consider tho proposal, 1 ■;'... . V ■•. ■,:.'?' • ■■.•;■'