After The Wars

The undeveloped train is caught up. Mr. Higgin asks whether "the money will be better spent in bringing out foreign students than in sending medical supplies or even food to Chinese children? The children cannot look after themselves, while the students will be living in the lap of luxury at 25 bob a week."

All of which is denied by Mr. Scatncy, for the most affected by the wars are the University students—"In Austria. Spain and China the students themselves are the most crying problem in need of relief . . . the war is not the war but the aftermath ... it is the educated youth of the country that is needed for the clearing up . . . an education here.. . "

Mr. Winchester interpolates with the only humanitarian sentiment of the evening. Arguing that the Idea of placing a student at each College smells of the Zoo, he suggests they should be together, sat at Otago.

Argument contra Higginum is taken up by Mr. Castle. Money overseas is money down the sink in Chinese salaries, in Nazi Party funds.

Mr. Barnett finds "at primary schools and even out working." people "who have even greater intellectual capacities than we have ... 25/- a week . . . that's Just what a few or we Training Collegers here think."

Mr. Vogt suggests "a strong appeal in Joint force to the Government to urge the increase in refugees admitted here from all countries." After a little complicated statistical work, a slight sniff at dollar morall[unclear: y] he he discovers "N.Z. could take 50,000 year."

Mr. Aimers' reply is very well done. Every point is covered and he has the best hearing we have seen a College speaker get. Pointing out that the permanent staff at Geneva of the International Student Service was flooded with appeals from Austrian and Czech students, he shows that there would be no difficulties of suitable selection. Law students would not or course, be wanted here but for Dental, Medical and Agricultural Scientists there wenample avenues of employment left in New Zealand. As to the "drop in the bucket" argument, one U.S. College had taken fifty. There is no question of monies going overseas, and me 25/- per student would be the minimum for a reasonable amount of independence Getting down to cold, hard cash, the money would not be a yearly drain on the V.U.C.S.A., but could be raised in a fortnight. "V.U.C. has a liberal tradition—a liberal outlook on world affairs at the Easter Conferences it has alway been ahead of the other Colleges—and I suggest, ladles and gentlemen. that if you turn down a reasonable appeal such as this is, you turn your back on that tradition which Victoria University College has built up so laboriously in the last five years."

The ayes have M. Mr. Higgin in dissent.