NEW CHAIRS FOR UNIVERSITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 8

NEW CHAIRS FOR UNIVERSITY

HIGHER status is accorded the Auckland University College, already ranking high in importance, by the establishment of a Chair of Engineering and a Chair of Geology. The congratulations of educationists and the general public will be most heartily extended to the new professors—Mr. S. E. Lamb, B.Sc., Director of the School of Engineering, and Mr. J. A. Bartrum, M.Sc., Lecturer in Geology. The immense increase of University students at Auckland, and the recent completion of the very fine college buildings in Princes Street, arc signs of a very material progress in the higher education of 'this city and province. Auckland is destined to have a University which will be complete in every detail and rank with the now famous Universities of Sydney and Melbourne. Tribute is due to those who form Auckland's University College Council as men who are determined in their efforts for the advancement of the college. They have consistently fought apathy, and have at all times maintained the right of the college to grow, despite a jealous opposition from certain other quarters. And the college must continue to grow until it has full and complete status as the Auckland University. What is its immediate right, and a right that cannot much longer be denied, is the establishment of a fully-equipped medical school. Here in Auckland is the largest public hospital in the Dominion, and here is all the material to provide the best clinical training. The opposition of Dunedin must be overcome, so that the youth of the North, ambitious for a medical career, can have adequate training facilities in their own province.