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Salient: Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Vol. 24, No. 9. 1961

The Lower Hutt Mayor's Speech

The Lower Hutt Mayor's Speech

Mr Wild (Attorney General) represented those students who served in the World War II. His speech was undoubtedly a classic. Negotiations are under way to include it in "Spike" 1961, despite this late date.

Mr Wild endeared himself to many by speaking of this "Victoria University of ours." His only lament was the clash with the Athletic Park function.

This was a time for songs of praise and thanksgiving that an ideal was now a reality. Victoria University in name was now one in truth with its own student heart and home. Since the first building's foundation in 1904 no building of greater importance to the aims of the university had been built.

His tribute to former students killed in the wars was deeply sincere. In 1924 the library's stained glass windows had been unveiled at the jubilee to commemorate the 153 killed in the first war. The Little Theatre has been erected to the memory of the 290 victims of the second world war and "it is well that it should be so."