There were six items on the night's agenda. Posted in the cubby hole it has been calculated that if read in column of fours fifty per cent, of the students could have noted them by the 31st.

Minutes and preferential voting were read before the disappointed Mr. Hein, could elocute, and Mr. Aimers, in his capacity as delegate to the N.Z. U.S.A., with that absence of heroics so characteristic of him spoke for the only justification of the evening. Soberly said, it was soberly received.

And the substance of the circular that he read was this: That the N.Z. U.S.A. should bring five refugee students to New Zealand—one for each of the four centres, with Massey and Lincoln to be responsible for another, and that the various Students' Associations approach their College Councils to obtain a remission of fees and board at the official hostels for such students.

The motion, then, he wished to put was: "That this meeting instruct its delegate to the N.Z.U.S.A. to support the scheme outlined in the circular and to decide whether it is practical."

Open for discussion Galahad ("not for myself but someone behind me very shy") Bass asks, and someone had to ask it whether there are not plenty of our own students to be helped before foreigners? Undemolished by Mr. Freeman's pretty long queue," he ventures into the type of the students, character references, the four from the innumerable.

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.

Sabotage.

For two hours the spending or £60 old pound had been discussed. Almost till midnight them was a struggle as to whether the Students' Association should be robbed of a like amount. That was the Intention of those Training College students who turned up in such unexpected force. For two hours Mr. Vogt tried to choke our president with his own constitution. The position was that if a show of hands was taken the T.C.'s, in the belief that they were numerically stronger, hoped to alter the constitution and reduce the Students' Association fee by ten shillings for their own members. But notice of motion must be given. For one and three-quarter hours that was undecided. Mr. Edgley had arranged a postal ballot.

But was a sectional interest to dominate the College? After indescribable exhibitions of had [unclear: taste], a motion was at last put. The financial stability of the S.A. was preserved by 13 heads. "The voting on the issue: "That a ballot be held to decide [unclear: tan]question of a reduction in the Students' Association fee for T.C. students by 10/-" was 43 to 30. and after another motion: "that the executives of the T.C.S.A. and the V.U.C.S.A. draw up a statement of the difference between the respective bodies over the matter of fees" was carried, the exhausted combatants crept home.

Finally, the Capping Procession will not be held this year, and arrangements are being made for a night "Meetings Tonight" Notice Board in the hall.—J.W.

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