New Chancellor's Message Follows NZUSA Welcome

Students will have read that the Hon. Mr. Justice Smith was elected Chancellor of the University of New Zealand at the Annual Meeting of Senate held last month in Wellington. This followed on the retirement of the Hon. J. A. Hanan who had held the position since 1935.

The President of N.Z.U.S.A wrote on your behalf and offered the congratulations and best wishes of the Student Body to the new Chancellor, who replied as follows:—

"Dear Mr. President.

"Thank you very much for your letter of 7th instant extending to me the congratulations of the Student Body upon my election as Chancellor of the University.

"The knowledge that I commence my duties with the good wishes of the active young men and women who comprise our Student Body is an encouragement to me and I reciprocate the wish that we may all find opportunity to work for the benefit of the University as a whole.

"Again, many thanks and all good wishes to the N.Z. University Students' Association.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) D. S. Smith."

The new Chancellor has had a long and distinguished career in the legal profession including appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1928. He graduated LL.M. from VUC in 1913, and during his time at College was a prominent debater, winning the Plunket Medal in 1909. Although Mr. Justice Smith is the sixth Chancellor of the University, he is only the second New Zealander to hold the office. It is felt that he will live up to the high standard set by his predecessors, who have included such men as Sir James Hector, Sir Robert Stout, and Professor J. Macmillan Brown.