VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 19 September 1918, Page 9

VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL

The monthly meeting of the Victoria College Council \vas held last night. There were present: Mr. Clement Wat'son (chairman), Sir Robert Stout, Messrs. F. W. Smith, W. H., Morton, W. S. La Trobe, R. M'Callum, A. -]l. Atkinson, R. A. Wright, Professors T. A. Hunter and Somervillo. On the recommendation of the Finance and Business Committee it was decided to make up tho pay of Mr. H. L. Strawbridge, who is now in camp,, to £200 per year. • Accounts amounting to £1136 Bs. werb passed for payment. It was reported that tho balance in the bank stood at £2603 ss. 6d., and that during the past month the treasurer and registrar -had invested the sum of £2032 on fixed deposit, this being part of the lurid to set up the School of Economics. It was reported by the Finance Committee that tho sum of £255 45., Athol Hudson Bequest Fund, had been withI drawn from the Post Office Savings Bank account and vested in trustees, Messrs. Clement Watson and Profossor Ensterfiekl, in whose names it was hold in a special account in tho Post Office Savings Bank. A tender of £148 10s., for the erection of a concrete wall to protect a. clay bank adjacent to the tennis courts was accepted. The Finance Committee's recommendation that professors after a certain number of years should receive a. salary of £850, reached by increments on tbo present salary of £700 after some vears nf service, was adopted. It was urged in support of tho recommendation that tho emoluments of professors was not commousurato with those earned by men in other learned professions.