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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 1. 1967.

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Christchurch — A problem which has long been overlooked in New Zealand Universities is the one of students' mental illness, which has been investigated only recently.

Dr. M. G. Williams of the Queensland University Student Health Service, emphasised the need for care of student health when he was in New Zealand recently. Students were a valuable asset to a country which hopes to progress in the future, he said.

But it has been found by Dr. W. J. Ironside, of the Otago Medical School that health problems were not confined to the student's physical well-being only. He said in an article in the "New Zealand Medical Journal" that a campus health service must be staffed with psychiatrists and clinical psychologists if it is to help students.