BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1926, 27 April 1880, Page 3

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

A mooting o£ the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College was hold yesterday afternoon, at three o’clock. There were present Mr W. Montgomery (chairman), Dr. Coward, Rev. Charles Fraser, Messrs T. H. Potts, R. W. Fereday, J. N. Toss will, J. O. Voel, J. D. Buys, 3?. de c. Malet, W. J. W. Hamilton. The report of the estates committee was road as follows : The Committee recommends the Board to authorise the College Seal being affixed to the following l-aaos :—College to G. Berry, R. 1356 ; College to E. M. Temnler, R. 1328 ; College to T. Bullock, T.R. 112, 113. The committee reports the receipt of three tenders for leasing the Girls’ High School Reserves at Dunsaudel, hut cannot recommend the acceptance of any tender, pending the probability of legislation on the question of sale of Reserves during the next session of Parliament. The committee reports that tenders were invited from the various Banks in Christchurch for keeping the College Account, and were received from the Colonial Bank, the Bank of Australasia, and the Union'BanK: the committee recommends the acceptance of the tender [of the Union Bank. The Board went into committee to consider the report, which was adopted as read. The report of the committee on the School of Agriculture was considered in committee, and on the Board resuming was passed as follows :

The committee recommends the Board to accept the offer contained in Professor Hutton’s letter of the 30th of March, viz., to give his collection of Now Zealand insects and flowering plants to the Agricultural School on condition that a set of the “ Annals des Sciences Naturellea” (Botany and Zoology) 1821-'i9 costing .£65, be ordered for the College library, the cost being defrayed from the funds) of the School of Agriculture. The committee recommends the Board to authorise the sum of £IOO being paid to the Museum by the Agricultural School for a geological collection prepared by the directir of the Museum. The committee recommends the Board that non-resident axudents of any age over fifteen can attend the lectures, and receive instruction at the schools, and that no such student be required to pass an entrance examination. The recom. mends that a student who has been waiting about a year for admission to the school, be admitted to the entrance examination ; it being understood that this appli ant on first proposing to enter was under nineteen years of age. The committee recommends the Board to authorise the committee to erect the engine and combine house and dairy by day work, under the superintendence of the architect, at a cost of £570. The Museum committee’s report, recommending certain expenditure for show cases, was agreed to. The library committee recommended the Board to authorise the cutting down of every alternate 8) o.imore)within the library-grounds. This recommendation was adopted. Attention was drawn to the fact that the the London agent had not been carrying out in a satisfactory manner the standing order for the supply of books to the library each month, some of the books received here being two or three years old. The Chairman remarked that the committee had already had this matter under their consideration.

Mr Hamilton gave notice of motion for next meeting as follows —“ That the age for the entrance of resident students at the agricultural school be extended from nineteen years to twenty-throe years.” The Board then adjourned.