VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13204, 30 June 1906, Page 5

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Wellington, J^ave.29^j The ceremony of» presenting '^o.,^ 'students of ,the #iddle'^ Universiti District of New Zealand the degrees won at the examinations of Nioventi ber lafct took place to J day. Sir Row ertf Stout, Ohancellor of the versity, who presided, /handed thjb giraduates their '-diplomas, after „'d|liiveriaig''an addrefss on the responsibility of the graduate. 'Professor «$v W. Salmond^, professor of English Law at Vipt<?r|a Cpllege spoke on tm education of ' lawyers'.' " "He was, greatly si^-prised ga^. arriving in the colony to find-thfrtf there -was in "existence, «. Statute uinder Whioh a solicitor ' w^ had been in practice for five teap might without' further .qualification <w examination become enrolled as w barrister. This Act placed a premium on idleness, inoompetency, and ignorance. He urged lawyers not to aft content with the -L.L.B. degree, bijft to go on for honours. ■ I)r^inaiay7^mrm^r6l^re^ictori^ College , Council, said there . were two, great causes of gratification to the University people of Wellington, first, that they were mapiiig such i;apid advance, and secondiyySfcha't they werej out , sitripping other colleges. But Wen now the provision made, for Wellington students was inadequate mv "Sdtne respects. At its lasiFmeeting! ihe Council had voted from its slender means £1200 to purchase whati : might be' the basi's " of a university I libra"ry^,-In •' the formation of the library* they had had every encouragement from private? donors. Dr Findlay appealed for ''an education tha* was nos merely -attractive but iuseful,' such an education as democracy would appreciate. •Mr E. J. Fitlzgibbon, "who wa« invited to speak on- behalf of- fflfe sfadents, appealed for a more adequate law library. ' •*'•''