DOMINION NEWS.
TWO CHILDREN MISSING. ( By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Jan. 18. The constable at Middlemarsh reports that May and John Small, aged 13 and 10 years respectively, left in a gig for the township yesterday and have not since been seen. They had to cross the Taieri River, which is in high flood, and a fatality is feared. GRANTING UNIVERSITY DEGREES. Auckland, Jan. 18. At the meeting of the University Senate to-day Professor Benham moved that no degree be conferred upon a graduate unless he present himself to the Chancellor or his delegate, provided that by permission of the Chancellor a degree may be conferred ‘in atsentia/ The mover expressed the opinion that no student should be allowed to rise a degree until it had been conferred in formal fashion. The Chancellor strongly opposed, stab ing that it was of no advantage ro education that a degree be conferred in public. The motion was really the result ot past misbehaviour on the part, of some students on graduation day. “The chickens had come home to roost.” The motion was carried by 18 to 16.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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