Otago University.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 283, 3 December 1904, Page 2

Otago University.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 2. There was a prolonged discussion at a meeting of the University En. dowment Fund Committee as to whether £3OOO of the money in hand should be given to the University Council to enable it, with the grant of £2OOO from the Government to proceed with the erection of buildings for a chair of physolagy in connection with the medical school lhe money had been raised by an appeal to the public, £2IBB bein' S>°l™}°l h V be I>aily Tilnes "<"l £1394 by the committee. A motion was submitted to accede to the request of the University Council for a sum not exceeding £3OOO. Mr G Fenwick doubted whether thev were entitled by the trust to grant money which had been collected to place the finances c-n a sound footing by the lihfiidation of the ddbt co the university, and ho moved that a decision be deferred until the an opportunity of consulting wath subscribers. On Mr John Roberts, suggestion nn amendment was embodied with the motion which' was then, passed with the addition that the resolution be Zto be held on the 13th. With in2 a to come the totaled over lano " addi,tiont ° tM» over £BOO was collected .by the wh,ich wnt Cdato the University Council's over-