Dr. T. Z. Koo.

"A man of brilliant and attractive personality and a magnificent speaker."

It is in these terms that one of the keenest observers of youth movements—Basil Matthews—has written of Dr. T. Z. Koo.

Dr. Koo is a graduate of St. John's University. Shanghai. For nine years he was a member of the Administrative Department of the Chinese Railway Service, In 1918, however, he joined the staff of the National Committee of the Y.M.C.A. of China. In 1925 he was one of the three chosen by 34 Chinese organisations to represent his country at the Second Opium Conference called by the League of Nations. The following year he was a delegate to the Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu. Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., one of the N.Z. delegates, says that "Dr. Koo was one of the most brilliant Christians from China. Clear and able in the presentation of any case he was talking on, he brought a viewpoint of the feelings and outlook of the people of China that was entirely new to the people of the Western World."

This cultured scholar and speaker is vice-chairman of the World Student Christian Federation. He is passing through New Zealand on his way to attend the meeting of the Executive of the Federation to be held in U.S.A. in July. 1931.

The Chinese nation is in the melting-pot; her leaders are preparing her future form. What that form will be is of the utmost importance to all nations. She has produced great scholars and philosophers, and her thinkers and statesmen must play an increasingly important part on the stage of international affairs.

It is the privilege of New Zealanders to hear and meet one of China's great thinkers and student leardes.