CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1980, 29 June 1880, Page 3

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

The monthly meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College was held yesterday afternoon. Present —Mr Malet (chairman), the Most Rev. the Primate, the Rev. O. Fraser, Dr. Coward, Messrs Tosswill, Teel, Foreday, Lance, Hamilton, Inglis and Webb. The Agricultural School committee reported for May : The committee reports that the following have passed the entrance examination for the Agricultural School, held this month : —H A. Knight, W. Wood, three having entered. The following have pained scholarships :—T. M. Marr, G. Slater, John Green, J. E. Hart, H.W. Strouts, five having entered. The committee recommend tho Board during the next two gears, beginning J'ntg Ist, 1880, to dispense with the entrance examination required of residen students at the Agricultural School.

In support of the last clause it was pointed out by Mr Toaswill and others that examinations were detrimental to the success of the school, and parents were afraid to submit their sons to the ordeal. If continued there would be no students. The report was adopted, with the italicised words in the last clause as an amendment.

The Estates committee’s report for June was reaa as follows : The committee recommends the Board to authorise the College seal being affixed to: — Release cf mortgage, College to E. Walton; Transfer of Reserve 936, from A. Watkins to Wright Brothers; [Reserve 716, from the administrators of the estate of the late J. Joyce to W. Hartnell. A letter has been received from the Minister of Public Works, wishing to purchase ten acres of Reserve 676. The committee recommends the Board to authorise the committee to determine with the Government and accept the amount of compensation the College should receive for the loss of ten acres of Reserve 676, proposed to be taken by the Government for a gravel pit. The committee reports a loan of .£SOO to Thomas Wilson in addition to the loan of .£2IOO on the security of 314 acres at Wakanui.

The report was adopted with the following addition:—“That the registrar be authorised to sign warrants of distress for arrears of rent when sanctioned by the estate committee.” The College committee reported : 1. The committee recommends that as the funds will not be sufficient, no exhibitions bo offered for competition for the scholars of the Girls’ Hgh School this year. 2. That the general management of the College library be entrusted to the Professorial Council under rules to be approved of by the Board. 3. The Board to move the Government to consider the under-representation of Canterbury on the Senate of the University of New Zealand as compared with other parts of New Zealand. 4. The Board to take all the necessary steps to appoint a commissioner for the selection of masters for the Boys’ High School, in the place of Professor Seeley and X)r. Abbott, who have resigned. Concerning clause 3, the chairman remarked that Nelson had two representatives, Auckland two, "Wellington six, Otago six, and Canterbury five. With tha position Canterbury had taken at the last examination, when out of eleven scholarships it took seven, and every student sent passed his examination, the Board would he perfectly justified in asking Government not to place them at a disadvantage compared with other institutions, especially Wellington, where they had no College at all. In connection with two commissioners to be appointed rice Professor Seeley and Dr. Abbott resigned, the names of the Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Bradley and Canon Farrar were mentioned to be chosen from. A letter was read from the Professorial Board recommending that the examinations for degrees and scholarships should be conducted in tha colony, owing to the delay which occurred in hearing the result when the papers were sent to England. In a discussion which followed it was argued that a grievance had been suggested but no remedy. By sending the papers to England they had a guarantee of the honafides of the examination., whereas in the colony such examinations could only be conducted by the teachers themselves, which would be very unsatisfactory. It was resolved—“ That the letter of the Professorial Board to the College committee be referred to the Board for consideration.” Certain alterations were ordered to be made to the College laboratory. The following notices of motion were given by Mr Tosswill:—(1) That the amount charged for board, lodging and instruction by the Agricultural School be £4O a year. (2) That students receive payment for work done, such remuneration not to exceed the sum of 10s in any one week. The Board then adjourned. The annual meeting will be held on July 12th.