One-Way Trade in Brains.

"It cannot be gainsaid that this one, way trade in brains has been a most serious loss to New Zealand. The men I have in mind did not go away in search of fame and fortune. They went abroad to seek opportunities and better facilities to carry on the jobs for which education and University training in New Zealand has fitted them."

And all sorts of other facts only a quarter of the New Zealand Rhodes Scholars have returned to their native heath; very few post-graduate scholars have come back; New Zealand discourages Its eminent sons.

Well, what are we going to do about It?

What the N.Z.U.S.A. intends to do is set out fully in the statement prepared by the deputation.

"The N.Z.U.S.A. proposes to call upon individual graduates and others already in the Public Service to act on a general body of graduates, this body to constitute a committee of inquiry. This committee will examine, analyze, and report on the situation in New Zealand. Presumably it will examine the relationship of the educational system to the [unclear: Public] Service and investigate to what extent these two dovetail."

But If they want scholars on their Committee why did they call on Mr. Say—Oh, I see! They don't want him to be on the Committee at all. They want permission for inclusion of several eminent Public Servants on the Committee, and also want Mr. Savage "To grant the proposed Committee facilities for obtaining such information from Government Departments as may be relevant and necessary to the fruitful conduct of the inquire."

We wish the Committee luck. Our efforts to obtain information from Government Departments in the past have been decidedly unfruitful!