GRADUATES’ SUCCESS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 196, 16 May 1930, Page 13

GRADUATES’ SUCCESS

HONOURS TO UNIVERSITY

At this opening of the annual, meeting of the New Zealand University Senate, the pro:chancelllor 4 (Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C.) said he considered it a privilege and a duty, in the name of the senate, to congratulate Sir Michael Myers on being the first graduate of the New Zealand University to attain the position of Chief Justice, and upon the honour of knighthood which had been conferred upon him. The Hou. Sir Thomas K. Sidcy, a member of the Senate,' was another graduate who had brought distinction to himself and the universitw by his appointment as Attorney-General, and bj’ the honour of knighthood which had been conferred upon him. Also for the first time they had at the senate table a member of the fine Maori race in the person of Sir Apirana Ngata. M.A., LL.B,, who was elected to the senate by the General Court of Convocation. Ho was one of their graduates who had been elevated to Ministerial rank, and had received the well-merited honour of knighthoodIt had been a source of gratification and pride to their university, said the pro-chancellor, that not only had its graduates in open competition with graduates of overseas universities won success in obtaining positions in various spheres of high service in Great Britain and other distant countries, but a number of them had received titular distinction for brilliant work accomplished, particularly in the domain of scientific achievement. ■