UNIVERSITY CONGRESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 304, 8 December 1936, Page 4

UNIVERSITY CONGRESS.

New Zealand Represented At j Cambridge. I ; “I think that much closer co-oper-ation should be brought about between the University of New Zealand and the universities in Australia, both in the co-operation of examiners and in the exchange of teaching staffs and students,” said Mr H. F. von Haast, pro-chancellor of the University of New Zealand, who returned to Wellington, via Australia, from a visit abroad by the Awatea yesterday. | Mr von Haast represented the University of New Zealand at the celebration of the centenarj r of the University of London, and visited all the chief institutions of that university'. From there he went to Cambridge to attend the congress of the Universities of the Empire, which meets every five years. He was there the guest of Lord Rutherford, of Nelson, who was a colleague of his at Canterbury ; University College. Mr von Haast presided over a discussion on postgraduate studies. Many questions of mutual interest to the universities of the Empire were discussed. On the subject of examinations, Mr von Haast said that the view at the congress was that, there should be associated with the teaching professors an examiner from another university. That, would be difficult in New Zealand. Mr von Haast said he would like to pay tribute to the excellent work done by Dr. A. J. Harrap, as agent, for the University of New Zealand, in London, and as a member of the Universities Bureau of the Empire. He assisted in the making of recommendations for the appointments to chairs and other positions in New Zealand, and his house was a home for many' New Zealand students who found themselves in London.