ENDOWMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 8

ENDOWMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

;:,. .QTIESTION OF'LOCATION. . .- yEefefence i?as made -in'the. House of Eepre-: sentatives.'.yesterday afternoon , ;by ■Mγ., llassey to tne • unfavourable reply given on Wednesday to, a question'that he put,; to; the, Minister-for" Lands .'regarding a.,block; of: Crown - lands in his , electorate, lying .between/the.; Maramarua:,and Waerenga. -He..'■ had-;"asked whether tho:Governinent'wonld:make this land available, for, selection .under : the optional' sys,tem. :.'i'he rrep'ly. - was.''that as.' the ; land' is .a portion v of-:the'■ national endowments,.this .law did 'not permit''.of it being disposed ;of;- except ;under ronewable'lease. '■■•■. ~'. ~' ' .

i Mr. Massey,:, stated yesterday- that a number 'of settlers were- anxious to take , up. the : laiid iunder, the'Jo.r.p. system.- "The national, endowments," .he.isaid,'.:"are .positively, standing .■in-the, way ■of;'settlement.", -Here were'; good, 'industrious ; .isettlers anxious ■ to'' take ; up. the land,under.'.the.popular. system, but they .were 'debarred'.frbin-'getting.the. land.V He hoped 'that when'.i the. -Land -Bill -came before \ the , the;:p]cesent' drawback',..would...be.,:re:moved.'■■!' '.:"■'■'■'■'''' ■'•-' -•' ■ '■ i .-..' : -'-. •"■■'.' • Mr. ''■ Poqle! said -that ;he regretted, that.. Mr. Massey, .iii ihis enthusiasm in regard to! ;ment,', was desirous ,6f breaking' into .the endowments. If'he succeeded in this ieffort;-',if "would:..level .a.cgreat-:.blow, at'the i educational'.institutibns, of ; the country. .. '-'.•Mγ.' Masseyi.-Nothinglof th'e'sort! -'.•"•',•.,. i '.'lSlr.Poole.referred-to-the.:fact',that it : was proposed^by.' the'.' Governnient'; to" set ''apart one; MtE : of :'tte'.-revenue .'from. the. national', 'endowments ■ as : ;a<subsidy '■ to: educational- purposes in--the four- large .centres.; 1 '.'ln'/..Auckland/: the .Gpyernment-House site; was[ being .'set apart'-for' ,the';purp6ses iof.'the proposed .new.'.uniyersity college. ■ erection ; 0f,.:• tije , new ■' 'building would involve ; a, : large^.espenditure,: and yet the4Leader.,.'of,the- Opposition was ■ in/favour of .i taking -irorn .the ' university- a portion ;-of '. the- money.' -which vit ;■ was, intended ,to -...apply, towards • defravine • this expenditure. '■■ What. he proposedvwould'-be' , disastrous',to the country, and the .'BUgge^tion^waSi.outrageonsi.-■■:. .;, ;. ' . ■ Mr.'• .that he/had'any. desire to do ■an-:>injnry-,to-.',education,". particularly to;university ■•education.-'. No > ono who understood., th'evposition,would say anything' of t "the sort... What'. he; proposed would. benefit 'education as-well-asisettleraent,, ;>,■ ■:.;.,,- : i'r-,. •.-' Hon. %: M'Kcnzie: : It. would , .not benefit -the Auckland University-College,-; ,'.."" ■ ■-. '■■•..-<■ ;..: Mr. Ehodes -said that, Mr.. Massey's proposal, did:udt-vhiy.olve;any • attack .whatever, on the education \Town. or-- eubnrban ,;land could "be set .apart, as; endoifments,-. arid. such lands would be of. for ,mpro. value to, the -university .'in:years : to come, than the country could ever - be.y .':'..--., . ~V i' ' ' '. . rMr.Phillipps said .that Mr. Mossoy-had in view the.bqst,interests of.education, as 'of • settlement. -; The 'national;, endowment lands referred to -by. Mr. Massey. were of .such poor qualii^ , .tHaf fliey -would never be settled under.ithe-renewable lease.; There were some of ; these glands in] hie. own; district,--and. he there-was: a ;djsiriclinatiOn'.to take tiiem .-ppSunder- r thcy renewable ileasei \:lt . would;^ : • : bßtter- / tb..- dispose .-.of "this'.Uand under a isiystom'..that wonld. attract settloment, and,' to'.applj;-.|;th» proceedi';to...the •aesietance.i'of , education,-:'■ ..^- ' • i^.-. '■■ ■■( v-^^-miV^4£s.'. 4