Before taking the ordinary business ab the mooting of the University College Council yesterday afternoon, tbo Chairman, Sir Maurice O'Rorke, referred feelingly to tho death of Sir Frederick Whibaker, .whom he felt justified, in calling "the father " of tho institution. Several abtotnpbs, he eaid, had been made bo gob a college established in Auckland, and this was nob accomplished until ib was tuken in hand by Sir Frederick Whibaker, when Premier of the colony in 1882. He asked tho Council to placo upon its minutes a tribute to his memory in ex pressing rogrob ab ;their loss, appreciation of his services, and sincere condolence:wibh the members of his family. Ho moved as'follows :—" The Council of the Auckland University College, desiring to place on record its appreciation of the services rendered to this College by Sir Frederick Waitakor, K.C.M.G., and its sense of the loss ib hats sustained by his death, resolvos : That there bo entered on the minutes of this Council an expression of its soirow for the sudden death of Sir Frederick Whitaker, and.of its.sincere sympathy ■wibh the members of hie family in their affliction ; that ib further be recorded as a bribute bo hia memory, that bhe College was founded by an Acb of the General Assembly of NewZealandpasH.edunder hiaauspices, when he was Premier of New Zealand in 1882 ; and that its .first professors were engaged under his direcb .insbruction to the Agent- Goneral of the colony, Sir F. D. Bell;-that Sir Frederick Whitaker had been twice unanimously elected member of the College Council by members of the General Assem bly and was a member of the Council at tho time of his death ; that the Chairman be requested to convey those resolutions to the members of Sir Frederick's family, to gether with the condolences of the Council upon the severe loss that has befallen them by their father's death." Colonel ; Haultain seconded motion, at the same time remarking thab the Council must not forgot thab ib was greatly in debted to their Chairman for bheinstiba tion of a College Council in Auckland. Mr J. Dilworth spoko briefly in support of the motion, which was carried unani mously. /

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