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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 6, No. 8 June 23, 1943

Anti Grave-Digging

Anti Grave-Digging

Health is wealth, and there is no reason for the university student to be poverty-stricken in this respect. This is the opinion of a large body of V.U.C. students who realise the value of periodical physical check-ups as a necessary feature of student life and a safeguard of the students' future. College life brings together students from all sections of the community, imposes severe mental and physical demands on the individual, associates the students in close personal contact in lectures and laboratories and so paves the way to the spread of contagious disease or the rapid development of concealed physical weaknesses. Periodical physical examinations can detect much concealed disease at an early stage in its career and by bringing the disease under early control save the student from future sorrows and the treatments needed if the disease continues unchecked. A minor ailment may not count for the student starting out on his university career, but if unchecked may, in the course of a year or two, be aggravated by the constant pressure of work and become serious enough to put a stop to study or at least break in on the continuity of his or her work. That is a pity, when vigorous university students are urgently needed to help New Zealand not only during this war period, but just as much later on, during the change over from war to peace.

Medical advice is essential to all who take part in sport. It is infinitely better to be able to play hard, fast games knowing that you are All in health, than to cause your captain and friends worry by suddenly having to give up the game just because you did not realise your duty to yourself and your responsibility to the team.

All this can be avoided. Let V.U.C. be the first to take a step in the right direction. The proposal that a part-time Medical Adviser be appointed to V.U.C. has been put forward. This Medical Adviser would undertake to give a general medical examination to all students enrolling at Victoria University College, to be followed by periodical overhauls in subsequent years.

Why should a student lose one of the best gifts of life by not attending to this matter when it is most urgent? This is a scheme that all students should take a vital interest in, so study carefully "things to come" and learn more about this worth-while endeavour for V.U.C.

£35,000,000, the Third Liberty Loan, would cover the entire R.N.Z.A.F. expenditure for 1943.

£35,000,000, the Third Liberty Loan, would cover the entire R.N.Z.A.F. expenditure for 1943.