A WORD FOR OUR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.
'•;-.';'•>:"'■•■•'' (To the Editob.) :'-. v.'Sir,—Kindly allow'me to direct public attention to: the" fund being raised for -additions to '.tiie: Victoria; College buildings. ,' '.'".',- >, • : Some' time ago: the'./.Government'undertook to contribute ::£200l), ,'prbyidcd the community subscribed;.£looo for tae:-new- wing so urgently required. A sum of JE7OO. has ! already been generously '.'■ subscribed., by Presidents in the Middle■ University chiefly'• by citizens of Wellington. This' sum entitles the, Council to;:jei4flo.from:th6 Government Three' hundred pounds ; (iC3OO) v have' still..;.to .be collected, in order : that, : the further, sum of £669, promised ,by. the Government, may bo available;-Surely there are three. hundred people in Wellington alone y. (who, .have' not yet contributed), who could-spare; one jiound.. for this laudable pur-pose?-Victoria College, .with'its staff and students; /.(already; nearly 500 attending lectures), means''-tan expenditure of some JidO.OOO ■-in the city of Wellington.' Its:claims on all classes in. the. community cannot woll bo disputed.— •IVam, etc.,- "■"■ " -'" ;: , _-:;■ ■: /v\V':;-.MODEST, EXPECTATION. "''. [Wej.would jeominend 'our correspondent's appal to 'the' readers :,of The Dominion, ■and/will oo pleased- to forward - ; on'. to, the right quartor 'any donations sent to us.]. '. - .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 8
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178A WORD FOR OUR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 8
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