Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 12. 1967.

Vic Dters

Vic [ unclear: Dters]

Victoria [ unclear: ?] bating team were the only [ unclear: ated] team in Joynt Scroll, two [ unclear: ?] of the three positions in [ unclear: ?] few Zealand team were filled [ unclear: ctoria], and yet they did not [ unclear: wi] Joynt Scroll.

Canterbi [ unclear: ere] first and Victoria [ unclear: secor] the final placings.

In the [ unclear: ?] [ unclear: mnd] of debates Vic beat [ unclear: Cant] by a substantial margin— [ unclear: n] [ unclear: nan] 20 points—and Otago [ unclear: bea] [ unclear: eland].

The [ unclear: secc] [ unclear: tund] saw Vic drawn against [ unclear: Ai] [ unclear: d] and Canterbury against [ unclear: C] [ unclear: ?] It was on this round that [ unclear: ?] Scroll placings were decided.

In the [ unclear: ?] debate the Otago team [ unclear: com] [ unclear: ?] well to push Canterbury to [ unclear: ?] their best debating, both [ unclear: ?] [ unclear: vidually] and as a [ unclear: combinatic] Their response was equal to [ unclear: th] [ unclear: allenge] and Canterbury [ unclear: emer] [ unclear: leserving] winners of the debate [ unclear: ?]

Aucklan [ unclear: Id] offer little opposition to [ unclear: t] [ unclear: trong] Vic combination in [ unclear: th] [ unclear: ond] debate. At no stage was [ unclear: ?] Vic team pressed, coasting [ unclear: i] [ unclear: ?] win.

[ unclear: Canterbi] [ unclear: ere] judged to have put up the [ unclear: ?] debate of the four teams in [ unclear: t] [ unclear: tal] second round to take the [ unclear: ed] Joynt Scroll for 1967.

Victoria'. [ unclear: erard] Curry was judged [ unclear: bes] [ unclear: fividual] speaker and was [ unclear: select] [ unclear: lead] the NZU team in the test [ unclear: ite] against the touring [ unclear: Austra]t Neil McKenzie, of [ unclear: Canterbur] [ unclear: ?] placed second.

In his [ unclear: ?] Joynt Scroll contest Peter [ unclear: Bu] of Victoria, was placed [ unclear: thi] the individual's to win a [ unclear: furt] place for Victoria in the NZU [ unclear: t] [ unclear: o]

At the [ unclear: ssing] council on the day follow [ unclear: ?]the final round of Joynt [ unclear: Scr] [ unclear: uckland] proposed a change in [ unclear: ?] [ unclear: tructure] of the contest which [ unclear: oid] ensure the two top teams [ unclear: ?] in a single final.

In [ unclear: sugge] the change, Auckland's [ unclear: Ric] Rudman said the two top [ unclear: t] should meet in a single [ unclear: fina] ensure each presses the other [ unclear: ?] best debating, and to afford [ unclear: t] [ unclear: idges] an immediate [ unclear: compariso]

The [ unclear: proj] [ unclear: ?] changes are to be [ unclear: considered] [ unclear: ?] Easter Council.

New [ unclear: land] Universities managed [ unclear: t] [ unclear: eat] Australia in the [ unclear: stlmuiatin] [ unclear: st] debate. The New Zealander [ unclear: ?] [ unclear: ghtly] team combination proved to [ unclear: ghtly] woven for the Aussies to penetrate

In a unanimous decision the three judges awarded the debate to New Zealand. Peter Butler was judged best individual speaker in this debate.