UNIVERSITY POSTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 6

UNIVERSITY POSTS

SYDNEY CONTROVERSY Sydney, Oct., 25. The decision of the University Senate to rescind the motion appointing two New Zealand professors, ~-n----j fessor Stone, of Auckland, and Processor Williams, of Wellington, to vacant chairs at the Sydney Law School, ended a heated controversy among lawyers and members of Parliament, but it may result in a demand 1 later for stronger Government representation on the Senate. Principal supporters of the rescis- | sion were the Chancellor of the Universiyt, Sir Percival Halse Rogers, Sir John Peden, Sir Henry Manning, Mr ‘Justice Davidson, and Mr It. Windi ever, K.C. They urged that, in fairness to the claims of men who are absent from Australia, particularly those with the fighting services, the i appointments should be deferred. Perhaps the strongest claims by Aus--1 tralians were those of Messrs Alan ; Brown, aged 30, a Sydney man who i gained the highest law award at Oxford University—the Vinerian Scholarship—and R. E. T. Latham, aged 32, Rhodes Scholar, and son of the Australian Minister to Japan, Sir John | Latham. Both are serving overseas with the A.I.F.