"The death is announced at Wellington, New Zealand, of Henry George Ell, who was Postmaster-General in that Dominion in 1912. He was a member of the House of Representatives for twenty years, and was largely responsible for the removal of the condition that a majority of the electors on the roll must vote affirmatively before local rating of land values could be adopted by a municipality, and substituting for that a simple majority of those actually voting. He was a faithful friend of our work. Before his election in 1899 he was closely associated with the writer in the agitation to increase the classes of minor local rating authorities entitled to adopt the rating of unimproved land values for raising their revenues.

"I have already read a large part of the book, 'Progress and Poverty'. I regard it as one of the ablest works on the great questions of the time which has come under my notice. It will be of great use to me. It has cheered me much to find that there is so able a man working in California upon subjects on which I believe the whole future of mankind now mainly rests."

"I saw enough there (in Ireland) to give a bias to my mind forever as to the necessity for change and reform. It was really from a desire to find relief from that misery that I went to Australia. In all my walks on deck in my first voyage, my mind was filed with the thought of what misery there was in the world, the hope there was in the new lands, and the greatness of the work of attempting to do somehting for the hopeless poor. The efforts to get land made by single individuals seemed to me a wrong to humanity. To prevent such a monopoly in the new countries has been my life work ever since."

"You have expanded a spark into a blaze of thought and unselfish conceptions which is spreading to every part and ennobling countless minds."

"'Progress and Poverty' he regarded as one that surely 'would be of great use' tohim. 'It has cheered me much to find that there is so able a man working in California, upon subjects on which I believe the whole future of mankind now mainly hangs."

The college was founded at a conference of Georgists held in Auckland recently. It was decided to form classes in fundamental economics in Auckland and Matamata forthwith. E.e. Nicholaus, presiding officer, made an inspiring and successful appeal for cooperation.

The Foundation members of the college are Rev. D.H. Stewart, C.M. Fowlds, F.G.Rhodes, E. Middleton and C.W. Nightingale of Auckland City; Mr.and Mrs. Petersen of Swanson; Mrs. M.O. Cranch, Cambridge: E.J. Bror and C. Muller, Warkworth; P.R. Hawke, G.H. hawes, H.T.A. McGahan andt.e. McMillan, Matamata