UNIVERSITY OF WALES (GRADUATES) BILL.

HL Deb 24 June 1902 vol 109 cc1502-3

[SECOND READING.]

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

LORD WINDSOR

My Lords, the object of this Bill is to give the graduates of the University of Wales the same status and privileges as are possessed by the graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Victoria Universities. The Bill was introduced in another place by Mr. Brynmor Jones, and supported by Welsh members on both sides of the House. It also has the approval of the Incorporated Law Society. The Bill will remove the disability under which the Welsh University suffers in regard to solicitors. At the present moment, solicitors who have graduated in the Welsh University have to be articled for five years instead of three years as at the other Universities, a fact which acts as a drawback upon the former. That is the only actual result of the Bill at this moment, but it was drawn widely in order to give the graduates of the University of Wales the same status and privileges as have been granted to the other Universities.

Moved, that the Bill be now read 2^a.—(Lord Windsor.)

EARL SPENCER

As I have the honour to be an honorary member of the University of Wales I most cordially support the Second Reading of this Bill. I am sure that your Lordships will all agree that the graduates of this new University should have the same privileges as those of the older Universities, and that you will, therefore, read the Bill a second time.

On Question, agreed to; Bill read 2^a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.

House adjourned at ten minutes before Five o'clock, to Thursday next, a quarter past Four o'clock.