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It is a great pleasure to my College to send a message to the Victoria University College on the happy occasion of its Jubilee. We take much pride in remembering that a Fellow of St John's, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, was one of the four foundation Professors of the Victoria University College, linking us with your earliest days. He came to us after graduating at the University of New Zealand and had in Cambridge a career of high academical merit, both as mathematician and lawyer, becoming successively a Scholar, a MacMahon Law Student and a Fellow of the College, and winning distinction in the University as a Wrangler, a Smith's Prizeman, and a Yorke Prizeman.

The work of the foundation Professors was well done and we most cordially congratulate the Victoria University College on the achievements of its first fifty years, on the distinguished scholars whom it has educated and the high position to which it has attained. And with our congratulations we send out best wishes that the College may ever prosper and increase as a place of education, learning and research and continue as in the past to render high service to New Zealand and the Commonwealth.