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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 2. March 29, 1956

Effect on Students

Effect on Students

"The University of New Zealand, if it is to hold its place in the academic world, cannot afford, as it is doing now, to lose many of its best and most highly qualified staff members, and nor can it afford to forgo competing with other universities for the services of new top grade men and women.

"At present that is the position and it is just a matter of time before the effect is going to be felt in the standards of the University."

Craccum furnishes elaborate tables of statistics comparing salary rates and general university expenditure between countries, which are impressive testimony to the case of the university teachers.

The paper concludes by setting out the manner in which the Minister has delayed the issue, shifted the blame from himself and indulged in verbal paradox and self-contradiction.