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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 14.

[introduction]

The Debating Society's double attraction on Friday night was not as successful as it might have been. In the first place, the debate lacked the interest which the subject has aroused on other occasions and, according to the judge, speeches showed a lack of preparation and the arguments were not up to University standard. Secondly, two of the entrants for the Bledisloe Medal preliminaries had to withdraw through illness. Misses Forde and Souter and Kingi Tahiwi, however, all reached high flights of oratory, and we can expect much from our lady representatives' efforts in Dunedin.

Following the debate, an elimination contest was held to select two speakers to represent Vicotoria at the Bledisloe Medal Contest in Dunedin. It was unfortunate that two of the entrants were precluded from speaking owing to sudden illness, and the task devolving upon the judges, Messrs. C. H. Weston, K. C., and J. Kane, was therefore merely to decide who, of Mr. K. Tahiwi and Misses C. S. Forde and D. Souter, was not to go. The speakers had drawn for order of speaking.