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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 5 April 6, 1938

Exec. Members in Court — Important Admissions

Exec. Members in Court

Important Admissions

An inquisitive spectator who wandered into the small court-room at the Supreme Court on the morning of April 1st. would have received a shock.

No less than three members of the V.U.C. Students Association Executive would have been seen seated apprehensively on the hard wooden benches, each represented by well-known Counsel, together with two other University students.

What had Messrs. Agar, Aimers, Edgley, Ellingham and Ongley done? Had they appropriated Students Association funds? From the serious look on the austere face of Reed J., It must have been something terrible—probably murder or worse.

The only thing, It turned out, that these gentlemen had done was to pass their L.L.B. examinations, and attain certain other qualifications to enable them to Qualify as Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. An impassioned plea for their admission was made by their respective Counsel, and after they had each of them taken two oaths, Reed J. admitted them all.

And then, "Salient" understands, they were each given an hour off to celebrate. After some solemn deliberation, they decided that the best place to do so, having regard to the dignity of their new profession, was at Kirkcaldie & Stains, where they reparied and sedately sipped morning tea.

To us it seems very fitting that the New Zealand public should have these legal gentlemen foisted upon them on April 1st.

Oh, by the way, "Salient" almost forgot to congratulate them all!