Banned

A Canon James of Wellington could stand it no longer. In a letter to the Dominion he set out the "facts" of a morally decadent university that warped the plastic minds of innocent adolescents.

He asked that the authorities at VUC ensure "that conscientious convictions are not outraged, that accepted moral standards are not held up to scorn, that the College will not become the happy hunting ground and the student the easy prey of the anarchic propagandists."

Simultaneously two associates of the Welfare League launched an attack on the College, concerned with the number of Communists harboured in it.

The Council, by now thoroughly rattled by persistent criticism, resolved to set up a Committee of Inquiry to investigate all allegations. Called on to provide the bulk of the evidence was Canon James.