CRITICS ANSWERED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 8

CRITICS ANSWERED

VICTORIA COLLECIANS HIGH POSITIONS OCCUPIED BY GRADUATES. MANY MEN OF NOTE. Addressing the annual meeting of the Victoria Collego Graduates’ Afisociation last evening, Air A. Fair, who presided, said that during the past year the activities of the college had been subjected to a good deal of public critic cism. The criticism hardly needed refutation among the students or the graduates. He would like, however, to draw the attention to the positions which graduates of the college occupied in'-public life, and to say that he j thought these graduates afforded an answer to the criticism. | Among the positions which had been held by graduates of Victoria College were the presidency of the Auckland and Wellington Law Societies. Three magistrates weie graduates of the college, and so were three of the Crown solicitors appointed in the last nine years. The* late Mr T. Neave was a graduate and so wan Mr H. H. Ostler. In addition there were several university professors, including Professors Burbidge, Rigg, Skinner, and Robertson.

Mr Fair thought these were appointments to which public attention should be drawn, particularly when criticism was levelled at the college.