The Vice-chancellor said, to test the question, he intended to move that Mr Studholme's offer be accepted.
If that motion were carried it would mean the carrying of some resolutions to enable the offer made by the committee, of which Dr Batchelor, Dr Truby King, Mr Downie Stewart, and Mr Ritchie were members, to be accepted, and of some further resolutions with regard to authority being given to Mr Studholme or somebody else to select a professor of domestic science.
He moved, therefore - "That Mr Studholme's offer be accepted."
The offer Mr Studholme made was to give 200 a year for three years, provided the university established a chair of domestic science, presided over by a properly-qualified professor, the offer to remain open until the end of November.
There were two main questions, it seemed to him, the council had to keep in mind.
The first, though not the most important, was that of finance.
Mr Studholme had offered 200 a year, which would carry a subsidy.
After a wide-ranging discussion on whether such a course was suitable for the university, it was decided by a margin of two votes to introduce it.
• One of the largest purchases of poultry ever made in New Zealand has just been completed by Messrs A. Moritszon and Co.
They have contracted with Mr Burley, Avonhead Farm, Riccarton, for the delivery of 20,000 ducklings and 5000 chickens, all to weigh 4lb each and over.
The poultry will be packed and graded at the Government depot in Christchurch for export.
A contract has also been signed for the supply of 30,000 ducklings and 10,000 chickens in 1911.
• At last night's meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council Cr Gibb called attention to complaints made by several butchers on account of the manner in which meat was railed to Port.
Owing to the wagons being too low, the beef was carried partly lying on the floor, and at times the latter was not too clean, and butchers complained that portions of the beef were often soiled seriously in that manner.
The methods of removing the meat from the wagons to the butchers' shops was also adversely commented upon, and remedial measures were foreshadowed.
It was resolved to refer the matter to the railway authorities. - ODT, 10.8.1909.
