19 If the »aid Council of the said University of Otago shall within six months from the passing 1 ' of this Act, enter into Mich agreement »« aforesaid for diasolving the said University, and for the transfer of ita endowments, then the said University of New Zea land Hh^U be established at Dunedin, in the a»id Pro vince c 4 Otago, or in default thereof the University of Kew Zealand may be founded in accor 'ance with the provisions of this Act at such other pi ice within the said Colony an the Governor of tho Co oy shall, with tho advice of his Executive Council, direct : Provided always that no exclusive privileges aro intended to be hereby conferred such as would prevent the establish ment, hereafter of a New Ztala d Unlvo. sity at any other place or town In the Colony, nnr fhall anything herein, or in such agreement, pwe't the General Assembly fr >m applying a- y endowments hen-in made, or which m>y have been, or m»y hereafter be made ft r the support of * University by authority of the General Assembly, or any p&rt of ary such endow ment* to the establishment aud maintenance of any other New Zealand University. And I think it is to be regretted that the Otago University Council did not take advan tage of these provisions, and thus have had the New Zealand University located in Dunedin. Tha two bodies, however, remained apart, and in 1871 the Otago University began to teach. The New Zealand University had no teach ing staff; it had no habitation; it had no students. What was it to do? It began to affiliate Grammar Schools to itself, and thuß did, what I think is now admitted to have been, a mischievous thing for the higher education — a secondary sohool became a university college, and, consequently (1), Grammar School work proper must have been neglected; (2), true university training was not advanced; and, what is most important (8), the highest educa tional authority in the Colony assumed that specialisation in education was unnecessary. And so the two universities went en. 