The main object of my trip was to represent the New Zealand University Students' Association at the Annual Conference of the National Union of Australian University Students. In fact, I had the honour to represent the members of this Association and of all the Students' Associations is New Zealand at a Conference where the representatives of all the Australian Universities were present. This was by no means a novel step in N.Z.U.S.A. policy as delegates have been sent from this country in nearly every year since the war and we have entertained Australian student leaders here in some of those years. The idea is that the two national student bodies can work closer together and get a better idea of each other's problems. Much practical good has come of these meetings in past years when such schemes as travel and exchange were hammered out. At the present, such trips are more in the nature of goodwill ventures but there is reason to believe there is room for the development of a common policy in a number of matters affecting the student bodies of both countries.

Readers [unclear: will] probably not be very interested in the procedure of the N.U.A.U.S. Council and the ways In which it differs from our own. Perhaps all I need say is that the Australian meeting lasted for 6 days. (It was scheduled to last for 8 days.) Our council meetings of course never last more than 4 days at the outside but it is to be remembered that the Australians have only one meeting a year to our two and they travel vast distances to get there.