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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 20, No. 4. April 18, 1957
[Introduction]
The first Asian Student Press Conference held in February, at Manila, was a notable occasion for New Zealand. Over the past two years, N.Z.U.S.A. has been concentrating its international policy on South-east Asia, and seeking closer relations with student unions in that area. The conference provided the first occasion on which a New Zealand delegation has participated in an Asian regional student meeting, and it was also the first "specialist" conference that New Zealand students have attended.
Attending the conference were representatives of ten countries: Australia, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Delegates from Burma and Vietnam were invited, but unable to attend. There were two students from each country, plus observers from Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines. Also observing were an American student studying in Tokio, and Isaac Omolo, an East African student, at present an Associate Secretary of COSEC (the administrative arm of the International Student Conference).