DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1920, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A DISPUTED APPOINTMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Christchurch, Last Night. At the last meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, the appointment of the Rev. J. K. Archer, M.A., as tutor to the Sydenham Workers' Educational Association class in economics was referred back to the college committee on the ground that he was a strong propagandist on one side of the question. The matter came before the Board again to-day, and the appointment was confirmed, the chairman (Mr. H. D. Acland) remarking, in reply to opposition by Messrs. L. M, Isitt, M.P., and J. J. Dougall, that Mr. Archer was not the kind of man to indulge in propaganda work after giving ,an undertaking not to do so. BROKEN HILL DISTRESS FUND. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Williams, speaking at a meeting of the Hill Distress Fund Committee, gave an unqualified denial to the statement appearing in the Press to the effect that the Broken Hill / strike was nearing to its close. He said that his latest advice was in direct contradiction to this statement. He also emphatically denied a statement published in the New Zealand Press that collectors in Australia were receiving commission for taking up collections.