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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 6, No. 12 September 23, 1943

Victoria Please Note

Victoria Please Note

A very fine and sunny library, well stocked, open for long hours and well lit, modern laboratories and lecture rooms. I thought of my wasted years in other Universities and decided immediately to take B.Ag.Sc. at Massey.

The College has three farms, one directly adjoining. We spent an interesting hour revising our memories of cows and their functions, inspecting sheep saddled with strange apparatus, listening to learned discussions of the latest facial eczema experiments.

The debates were to be held in Massey's main hall, about the size of the Gym., but built some 30 years later; it rather put the Gym. in the shade for furnishings and stage equipment. The V.U.C. team viewed this with anguish and repaired hastily to the staff reading room for some final work on the Atlantic Charter.

Draws between the six Colleges had placed the debates in the following order: in the afternoon, Canterbury v. Otago on the motion "That Patriotism is a Menace"; in the evening, Auckland v. Victoria, "That the Principles of the Atlantic Charter are the essential basis for an enduring peace," and Massey v. Lincoln on a subject after their own hearts, "That the system of freehold tenure be continued."

Individual subjects were agreed upon between contestant Colleges and with the exception of the first, were ideal debating topics.