Universities Ask for £20,000 Grant

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 8

Universities Ask for £20,000 Grant

EXTENDING LIBRARIES FUNDS FROM CARNEGIE TRLST at °a " meeb e n g d,S o C f U t 0 ; Council yesterday it* that there was a possibility oVft! University , n common with universities in New Zealand ge t t i" a library grant of £4.000 fJ?!*? 9 Carnegie Trust. ***• Professors’s salaries were also dl . cussed. The president. Sir George p 0 said that Dean Russell, representing £ trustees, had visited New Zealand * conferred with university represent tives as a result of which it was J, sible that the special fund of dollars for the British Empire w 0.7 make a grant of £20.000 for libraries ±.4,000 to each university, and each to the Lincoln and Massey ‘ Co 7 leges. An application for £l,ooo a v., for each university for five years also likely to be favourably He said Canada had been receive all the grants for the past ten year*' “It will be a good sum of money comintr into the country." remark,,, . member. * “The trouble is that it all for books again,” was the preTw.' comment. lament* The president a so reported on a ~ cent conference with the Education, referring to satart£ ter B ° f said the aim was to pav each npAfn.”* £I,OOO a year, though be equivalent to pre-war salaries university would require an'm £4,000 a year to enable this, and universities were combining in putt S* the requirements before the Mini™?