Non-students Forgotten

Otago Reporter

"The pattern has been set for a minority group—the university," the Dunedin YMCA's secretary, Mr. J. B. Munro, said last month.

He was commenting on the subsidies available from the Government for non-university hostels.

At present the subsidy is 50 per cent of the cost of establishing such hostels, with a maximum of £600 per bed.

Mr. Munro said that at present there are no hostels in Dunedin for young people who did not go to the university or training college. Of those who left school every year, 83 per cent did not go to university.