HONOUR FOR PREMIER.
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. LONDON, July 31. More than 700 people attended the ceremony at which Mr Fraser received the honorary degree of doctor of laws of the University of Aberdeen. Tho function was carried out with traditional ceremony and colour. The University's promoter in law (Dr. T. M. Taylor) in a speech before the conferment, said Mr Fraser. like many who had risen to eminence in public life, bore a Highland name. Mis roots were in Scottish soil. Mr Taylor praised Mr Fraser's association with New Zealand's social legislation, which he said was designed to remove the spectre of unemployment from the masses of the people. He added that the New Zealand Government's system of family allowances ensured that children were not recognised as the greatest single cause of poverty but as the hope, of tho State. Mr Fraser said he received the degreeas an honour to New Zealand. He recalled the part played by the early Scottish arrivals in the colony, specially Dr. Burns, the poet's nephew, in establishing the system of education.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 7
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177HONOUR FOR PREMIER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 7
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