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The Spike or Victoria University College Review Silver Jubilee 1924

Benefactions

page 99

Benefactions

The following benefactions have been received by the College during its twenty-five years of existence, and for them we return thanks once again.

In 1905, by the late Jacob Joseph, £3,000 for foundation of two Scholarships.

In 1906, by the late C. Pharazyn, £1,000 for buildings.

In 1907, by the late Donald Manson, £300 for the library.

In 1907, by an anonymous donor, £25 for library.

In 1909, by an anonymous donor, £100 for Physical Apparatus.

In 1909-10, by public subscription £825 for buildings.

In 1910, by an anonymous donor, £63 for Physical Apparatus.

In 1911, by an anonymous donor, £75 for Chemical Apparatus.

In 1911, by the late A. P. Buller, £44 9s. for the library.

In 1911-14, by an anonymous donor, £50 annually for a Research Scholarship in Physics.

In 1911, by an anonymous donor, a valuable Microscope to the Biological Department.

In 1912, by Mr. R. McCallum, £15 towards purchase of Halsbury's Laws of England.

In 1913, by an anonymous donor, £32 for Physical Apparatus.

In 1915, by the late T. G. Macarthy, £10,000 for the establishment of a School of Economics to be called the T. G. Macarthy School of Economics.

In 1915, by the late Sarah Ann Rhodes, a share in the residue of the Estate (estimated value £10,000) for the Education of Women.

In 1915, by Professor D. K. Picken, £58 6s. 8d. for the Mathematical Laboratory.

In 1917, by the late Athol Hudson, Rhodes Scholar, £200 for Scientific Research. "

In 1917, by the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association, £35 4s. for Scientific Research.

In 1917, by two anonymous donors, £20 for Scientific Research.

In 1921, by an anonymous donor, £150 for the purchase of apparatus for Physical Research.

In 1923, by friends of the late Bruce Dall, £50 for the institution of an Annual Prize for Physics to be known as "The Bruce Dall Prize."

In 1923, by the Hon. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., £10,000 for founding a Chair of Agriculture.

Books for the Library have been given by the late Sir James Hector, K.C.M.G., Sir Theo Cooper, the late Mr. H. W. Eve, the late Mr. G. Hogben, the late Mr. A. P. Buller, Messrs. J. W. Joynt, T. W. Kirk, the late Mr. R. T. Turnbull, the late Mr. J. R. Blair, Miss Izard, Dr. Arnold Izard, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Stout, P.C., K.C.M.G., Miss Pumphrey, the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Mr. A. de B. Brandon, Mr. D. Coghill, Mr. A. R. Atkinson, the late Mr. W. S. Reid, Profesor Hunter, Professor Garrow, Professor Sommerville, and Professor Cotton.