Falls on the Little Kyeburn, Central Otago. - Otago
Witness, 1.2.1911. COPIES OF PICTURE AVAILABLE FROM
STAR STATIONERY SHOP, LOWER STUART ST, OR
WWW.OTAGOIMAGES.CO.NZ
Miss Winifred Boys-Smith, Professor of Home Economics,
was introduced to the members of the Otago University Council
at its meeting yesterday.
In thanking the council for her appointment, Miss Boys-Smith
said she had confidence that the work she had been called
upon to do in the University would succeed, because the
education proposed was on the right lines for women.
"I am certain," added Miss Boys-Smith, "you are adopting this
branch as the highest education for a woman."
Dr Barnett, who has recently returned from a visit abroad,
wrote to the council stating that whilst in Toronto he spent
an hour or two in the Household Science department of the
University.
He was glad to note that this much-discussed branch of study
had proved a decided success in Toronto, and he had hope and
faith that Miss Boys-Smith and Household Science would "make
good" in Dunedin.
Mr G. Hogben, Secretary of Education, will visit Dunedin in
about 10 days' time to confer with the University Council and
Miss Boys-Smith with respect to the syllabus of the course in
Domestic Science which is to be commenced this year at the
University under the direction of Miss Boys-Smith.
• Speaking as Minister of Marine, the Hon. J.A. Millar made
an interesting statement to a Daily Times reporter yesterday.
Tenders, he said, had been received by the Government from
Great Britain for the lease of the Campbell, Auckland,
Antipodes, and Bounty Islands for sealing purposes.
These islands had some time ago been advertised for lease,
but none of the tenders received proved suitable, and for
that reason the Government's protection over them was
extended for another year.
Since then, however, a tender of a very satisfactory nature
had been received from a firm in Great Britain, and advice
had also been received that another tender was on the way
out.
These tenders would be dealt with by Mr Millar on his return
to Wellington.
According to the conditions of lease of the four islands for
sealing purposes, sealskins can only be removed from the
islands by the Government steamer, and the contractors will
be required to keep their men permanently on the islands,
while stores will be conveyed thereto by the Government
steamer.
The Government would thereby be in a position to exercise a
complete check over what was being done.
- ODT, 7.2.1911.
A name, residential address, and (preferably residential) telephone number is required from readers who comment on ODT Online. These details will not be visible to site visitors.