TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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I UNIVERSITY CONTROL, j AUCKLAND, June 14. I Tile future of university control "its I referred to Ity the TTon. O'. J. -Parr in ii speech at the conferring of deuces. The question that would nave j to be settled very shortly, he said, was whether there should not be four independent colleges, which would conduct their examinations and confer degrees. In three of the centres the feeling was strong for independence as lar as the government of tin* colleges was concoined. N - daunt, if Auckland had « mdversity, people would give donations, benefactions, and gifts more generously than to the institution as part of tile New Zealand University. People might lu* induced to bring by a small rate direct limmeial assistance to the university. In regard to primary and secondary education, the Government should shoulder the whole responsibility. Mr Parr said he was sometimes tempted to ask what the university was doing for the community. The English universities claimed that they trained workers and leaders in industry, and by research work helped national industries and commerce, aidng more or less in the production of the national wealth. In New Zealand wo could claim that the professions wore well catered for by the university. When we harl some form of independent Government science would have its day in regard to industries. Certainly we might do something for agriculture. Tt should have boon done long ago. and might well ho done to-day.

miGnrxG boom in Wellington. WFJJJXGTOX. June 13. ’I no Wellington building trnde has received a welcome encoaragfencent By the letting of a £90.000 contract for the erection of a large well planned ill a tell factory in the city for Mry a ill. May. Hell and Co. 1 The contractors were responsible for Parliament buildings now i ll st completed. As they have a strict time limit in connection with the new factory it is understood they "ill employ an unusually large number of hands. The effect of their proposed operation.-* is already seen in another large linn advertising for bricklayers. Tlie Wellington ('orpoi ation lias let a lender for a new tramway power station at Kvans Bay. and also proposes to erect a new building for the tramwav depaitnicnt. lixtensive alterations of the municipal milk depot are absorbing further workers, while another big job shortly to be undertaken is the j erection of a new Masonic llall near j Wellington Terrace, in the centre of the I i city. I

Private dwellings contracts arc more numerous t-han they were a month ago ami it i-~ reported that a further drop in cement prices will shortly improve Inuldiit" prospects.

w !•: ud n ( ;tox tk aa i \\' \v s. VVEId.MXOTOX. dime If!. r l'iie City Council has authorised a number of extensions in the tramways. Some \\ ill he put in hand immediately, and others iii the near future. The freight service, which has never paid will lie abandoned. A return presented by a committee showed Hint, no eon-

• essin.i tickets for more than one section really paid, and. although there is a constant elamonr for a reduction of long distance lares, none was made. One-section tickets were reduced to Is Sd for twelve rides. E> omnies will be efTeeted by the amalgamation of three store-keeping departments into one. KIAT E HIES. CARTERTON, .lime 11. Tho “Daily News" special report at 5 o’clock le-niglit states: -Kinte died at Mount Alpha Hut at 7 o’clock last night, six hours after he was found. F. AA". Amsselor brought the body to Tn"berenikau Hut. and left thereat 1 p.m. arriving ap AA'oodside at ! ltd. Rater the body was brought to Greytown where iin inquest will be held. The rescue party have all arrived back al Grevtown.