PROFESSOR ALGIE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 8

PROFESSOR ALGIE

ADDRESS ON FRIDAY

Professor R. IV. Algie, who will speak at the Town Hall on Friday night, is the second son of Captain J. A. Algie, formerly of the Samoan Garrison. He received his education at the Thames High School and Auckland University College, where he obtained his LL.B. degree in 1912 and his LL.M. in 1914. He has had a long and notable association with law at the Auckland University, having been assistant lecturer for five years and in charge of the faculty since 1918. In December last he was appointed organiser, of the Auckland Provincial Freedom Association. Professor Algie is a man oi; broad mind, a trained student of law and government, with the rare gift of exposition and the British gift of humour. His personal sacrifice in giving up law for politics is real. He is disinterested, but is preparing to step from cloistered security on the hill down to the dusty public arena. That he is willing to do this indicates the strength of his convictions. He knows that politics is a thankless trade, and that he can find his only reward in service.

It is a fine augury for the Freedom Association that it has found so able an organiser—content and ready to place his conception of public duty above all else. Yet he is putting his hand to no mean task. It is no less than the preservation of free British institutions against the infiltration of Socialism backed by the State through restriction, regulation, control, subsidies, grants, expropriation, and sup-

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