UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3801, 18 January 1927, Page 9

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

WELLINGTON, January 12. The following additional nominations —.. making 14 in all —have been received for the election of five members of the New Zealand University Council by graduates. The nominations- have now closed:— Mr H._ H. Cornish, M.A., LL.B., double first-class honours at Otago in languages and mental science. Besides experience in primary and secondary school teaching, he was for five years law lecturer at Victoria University College, where he had graduated in law. He is a member of the firm of Webb, Richmond, Cornish, and Swan, solicitors, Wellington. Mr A. R. Entrican, A.M.1.C.E., was treasurer and executive member of the Auckland College Students’ Association, and also the founder and secretary of t’.ie Engineering Society. In 1919 he was lecturer and demonstrator in civil engineering subjects, and is now in the State Forest Service, Wellington. Dr P. Marshall, M.A., D.Sc., Canterbury and Otago, first-class honours in geology, Fellow of New Zealand Institute, formerly professor of geology in the University of Otago, and subsequently head master of the Wanganui Collegiate School. He was a member of the Senate in 1912-18.

Mr J. W. Shaw, ALA., of the University of Otago, gained first-class honours in English and French, 1905. For 11 years he was actively engaged in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, and is now lecturer at Auckland Training College. Mr David S. Smith, LL.M., is a barrister and solicitor, and notary public, and senior partner of the firm of Morison, Smith, and Morison, Wellington. He is a life member and ex-president of the Victoria College Students’ Association, and ex-president of the Graduates’ Association. He is also hon. secretary of the “Round Table Group.” _ Mr J. E. Strachan, M?A„ B.Sc., who studied at the University of Otago and Canterbury _ College, is head master of Rangiora High School. He has-been very prominently associated with the work of the Secondary Schools Head Masters’ Conference. VICTORIA COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVES. Sir Robert Stout and Air F. 11. Bakewell, late senior inspector of schools in the Wellington district, have been appointed to represent the Victoria College Council on the University Council.