LAW EXAMINATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1921, Page 7

LAW EXAMINATIONS.

TARANAKI PASSES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 15. . The results of law university professional examination held in November, 1920, have been announced. The following candidates passed sections in the subjects specified:— 1 contracts, 2 property 1., 3 property H. 4 evidence, 5 criminal law, 6 Torts, 7 procedure.—New Plymouth: G. S. Crimp 1,2, 5,6; F. T. Davis, I, 2,5; T. E. H. Hamerton. 7; R. G. G. Howell, 2,5, ft Hawera: N. A. Follen, 1,2, 4, 5,6; W. H. Freeman, 1,2, 5,6; J. P. Hoare, 1,5, >6. Stratford; N. H. Moss, I, 2,5, 6.

N.Z. AND THE SMILING PRINCE FIFTY THOUSAND MILES FILMED. PRIVATE VIEW IN LONDON. London, Nov. 23. Yesterday at the Alhambra —yes, “in Leicester Square” as the song has it—there was a film private view of extraordinary interest on every count: for the scenes filmed, for the brilliance of the audience which had been so eager to be invited, and for the idea the film embodies of universal welcome for Our Smiling Prince in every part of the antipodean dominions. “As a triumphal procession,” said one well-known New: Zealander in the audience, “this production ig certainly without parallel.” The audience comprised a number of Lords of the Admiralty, members of both Their Majesties’ and the Prince of Wales’ households. Both the New Zealand and Australian High Commissioners were invited, but in Sir James Allen’s absence in Geneva he was represented by Mr. Campbell (Assistant Secretary), and Mr. Crabbe (Produce Commissioner). Others present were the Marquis of Linlithgow, Lord Glasgaw, Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and, of course, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, Lord Strathspey, Sir Godfrey Thomas and Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward Grigg. It is hardly necessary to describe the scenes screened. You have the originals with you and you were in the pictures when they were filmed, and when the reel is unrolled in your theatres, thousands of you will recognise yourselves among the dramatis personae. For that reason perhaps, because there is some thrill in the thought that your own presentment is to be handed down to posterity in what is a historic event in the development of the great British Dominions, th<e is something to be said for the film-maker’s fondness for civic receptions. But as pictures there is much monotony. Civic receptions, railway stations, town halls look very much alike through the British dominions, and the personages in them wear the same sort of clothes—more or less—the world over at such functions, and the audience in a picture theatre will soon tire of them, except as we have said in the case where you are all interested and know everybody in the picture. For New Zealand and Australia, this part is fully justified as a veritable historic document.

But the film, regarded as one to advertise the natural beauties of New Zealand has too few scenes of this kind and certainly all such as the lovely scenes out-back in the Rotorua district, and the> views from the front of the Royal train in its progress down the South Island to the beauties of its alpine districts received the warmest applause yesterday. The Maori dances, of course, brought down the house, the extraordinary agility and vim of the Maori women dancers was largely commented on. This largest gathering of Maoris ever known must have made a deep impression on the Renown personnel, as it did on the audience at its screen presentation, for the ship’s crew and the junior officers afterwards got up a haka of their own! The mere English in the audience expressed the greatest astonishment at the size of the crowds in the big towns, and even more at the welcome given the Prince everywhere by the children, both in its quantity and its quality, But for sheer beauty the scenes at sea, and especially in the Australian Bight, could hardly fee surpassed. The Panama, too, and the handling of the big man-o’-war came very near the oceaji pictures in their grandeur. There can be no doubt of it that the effect of the Prince’s tour, great as that was, will be immeasurably heightened by its being screened. These pictures put it easily, entertainingly, and—what is important from the historic point of view— authentically before the whole world, and before those vast numbers to whom the time, the inclination, or the opportunity would be lacking to read any descriptive account, however well written. Undoubtedly a film to be seen, to be added to every school course of history, and to he kept in safe deposit as a national record of the highest value.