PRESBYTERIAN RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2160, 8 April 1908, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. Press Association. _ DUNEDIN. Apnl < • . The foundation s+nne of the r^i- . dentM college -«M theP^y iwiaft CEarcE $m Mi R? fMw® S* tljiVlJs. V aiK-ji jt-owo-urti ■Pnfid representative gather ins of S 5 * tutors. The Itev. A. Don, Moderator of the General Astern lily .presided, and addresses were delivered by the ltev. A. Cameron, >the Hon. '/• Fowl (Is, and the Mayor or Dunedin (Mr, J. Loudon). A warm letter ot greeting w is read from tlip Union of New Zealand, rejoicing tho success of the enterprise. In his address the Itev. -»Ir Cameron said tjliat for six years a committee of the General Assembly had been quietly at work and at the end of the year they hoped to see the / college ready for occupation, the cost of the building would be Lio,607. This would give accommodation for 30 students in the residence, each having a separate bedroom anti a study between two, in addition to a. class-rooms for 'tho theological college, a common room, pining room, and servants’ offices. The building would bo a throe-storey one, with a five-storied tower. In future accommodation for 50 students were ■ to bo provided, with a library, chapel, ami assembly hull. The speaker touched upon tho value of the college in training candidates l'or 'the

ministry in knowledge of the ways of men. The college was broad-based ami catholic and was a Christian college homo for students of all classed. Air J. Ross had been founder of tho college by reason of his princely gift of £IO,OUO. Altogether the donations received with interest amounted to £25,760. Prices to competing architects and preliminary expenses had come to £565. The result would not only enable them to upon tho college free of debt, but also-to do something in the way of furnishing it. To avoid it becoming merely a cl iss institution they must have endowments, and for this purpose they had set themselves to raise £13,000. Of 'this a sum of £IO3O had already been promised. T.ho Hon. Geo. Fowlds said ho looked forward to the time when other university centres would follow tho example of Otago in this respect. It had been said that many Ministers had a full knowledge of books but little of men -and life in .this college would give them the latter experience.