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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 4. Wednesday, May 4, 1960

Twice Before For Hungarian Refugees

Twice Before For Hungarian Refugees

The scheme concocted by the committee had two parts. The first one was a so-called "Give-one-Day" action, an enterprise attempted with great success before—for instance twice for the benefit of Hungarian refugee students in Norway. Students simply declare that on a special day they will do any sort of work for a minimum wage of 20 N.Kr. (£1). The students' offer is widely publicised through press and radio and people who are interested place requests by telephone with the organising committee.

Housewives may need some energetic girl students to wash the flat or mend some clothes, or they may simply want some one to look after their baby while they go shopping. Family fathers welcome an extra hand in the garden, and during Norway's brisk winters there is always snow to be cleared away. Some people want a student to assist their children with school work —and some are glad just to entertain a poor digsdweller for dinner. Offices and factories may be rearranging their premises, and need a small student army for that job. And so on and so on. Norwegian students are not agraid of doing physical work, however "rough" the job may be.