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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 9. 1969.

Successful

Successful

He was the second graduate from this university to be made Chief Justice, he said.

Sir Richard was to the forefront of law reform.

He said Sir Richard was chairman of a Government Committee on absolute liability in motor accidents.

"Sir Richard gave the sole dissenting paper when he said the test of how much Compensation should be decided on the basis of how badly the person was injured, rather than the present basis of who was at fault," he said.

"This is a much more humane attitude."

The next speaker, Mr. Keating, said the motion showed," immaturity or uncivilised disrespect."

"It is a vicious personal attack on a highly respected man in the community," he said.

"The Chief Justice made a non-committal statement which in no way relates to previous speeches where he has vigorously supported individual rights."

Mr. Keating quoted from a speech Sir Richard had made last year illustrating his point.

Heughan Rennie, student representative on the Honorary Degrees Committee, said that he had to accept the same basis as other members of the committee, in that he was not to discuss, publicly, the deliberations of the committee.

"Against the statements made in the Evening Post weighs thirty years of creditable endeavour," Mr. Rennie said.

"Practically every other action in Sir Richard Wild's career negates the interpretation Mr. Williams has put on his comments."

The President of the Students Association, Gerard Curry, said "an equivocal statement is all that has been put forward to support the motion."

Mr. Curry said the motion should be lost "In view of the slender amount of evidence."

One speaker later, the motion was put, and lost by a large margin.