UNIVERSITY POSTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24106, 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, Professor Stone, of Auckland, and Professor 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 later for stronger Government representation on the Senate. Principal supporters of the rescission were tin* Chancellor of the University, Sir Percival liaise Rogers, Sir John Pcden, Sir Henry Manning, Mr. Justice Davidson, and Mr. R. Windever, K.C. They urged that, in fairness to tho claims of men who are absent from Australia, particularly those with the fighting services, the appointments should be deferred. Perhaps iho strongest claims by Australians were those of Messrs. Alan Hrown, aged 150, a Sydney man who gained the highest law award at Oxlord I"niversitv—the Vinerian Scholarship—and R. T. E. Latham, aged Rhodes Scholar, and son of tho Australian Minister to Japan, Sir John Latham. Roth are serving overseas with the A.I.E.