TIMELY GRANT IN AID.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 8

TIMELY GRANT IN AID.

TO MEDICAL SCHOOL, TRIBUTES Tβ HON J, ALLEN. (By, Telegraph-Pross 'Association.) ' Dunedin, March 3. At a special meeting in committeo of the University Council to-day (tlio Hon. J. AJlen (Minister of Education) being also in' attendance. A letter' was received from the Secretary .of Education, intimating that tho Government was prepared to givo £10,100 towards extending tho present Medical School building, and for giving accommodation lor Janatomy, chemistry, and physiology work, on tlio understanding that only £50,000 will bo payable before the end of tho financial year.. ,~ The Chancellor (Rev. A. Cameron) reported that a certain gentleman was prepared to givo £2000 towards a building , for the pathological and bacteriological departments ; and rooms for public health and materia medica.

The estimated cost of the building was £12,000, and tho council resolved to apply for a subsidy to provido the balance on tho assumption jthat the Government would give a £ for £ grant on all voluntary contributions.

After tho council came out of committee, the Hon. T. Fergus moved: "That the thanks of the council be accorded tho Minister of Education and the Government."

' The motion was seconded by Mr. T, K. Sidey, M.P.-

Mr.'John'Roberts said that it was a good tiling to know that ftiey had some one at'-tho head of the Education Department who was thoroughly conversant with the council's needs. He did not mean that other Governments had thwarted the medical school. The lack of assistance had really been due to the fact that they had not known tho requirements of the school.

The Chancellor, in eulogising the work of Mr. Allen in connection with the council, and his assistance- in getting tho grant, said that the latter had not been given in any spirit of partiality. In making the grant the Government was serving not only Dunedin, but tho wholo of tho Dominion. Hβ conveyed tho resolution to Mr. Allen as expressive of the council's appreciation,of his efforts on behalf of education.

Mr. Allen, in. replying, said that th» Government had put Dunedin out of ita mind altogether when considering tho vote. It recognised that the Medical School belonged to tho whole of the Dominion, and he hoped that the council would make- tho school worthy of New Zealand. :

Tho council resolved to appoint a new professor at £800 per annum to fill the vacancy created by tho death of Professor Scott, late Dean of x tho Medical Faculty. '

Tho following were appointed to interview candidates and report with respect fo> them:—Hon. T. M'Kenzie, Professor J. 'Simmington (Belfast), Professor A. Robinson (Edinburgh), Professor Elliott Smith (Manchester). Tho vacancy is to ho advertised in New Zealand and Australia, as well as abroad, and tho appointment is to bo for five years.