Peace Congress

Mr. Evison moved the adoption of the VUC representatives' report on the World Peace Congress. We had appointed two delegates, Messrs. Hollyman and Scoones, who were both in Paris at the time, to attend the Congress and to report on it. This report had now come to hand. Very full information had been given; this association was the only organisation in NZ represented at the Congress. Previous reports in the papers had tried to belittle the whole affair, but he asked to have the report taken seriously. After Mr. Jenkins had seconded it, Mr. Henderson objected to adopting the report then and there on the grounds that it was too much to consider at once, and that people should have a chance to look over it. He had not had any information on the Congress, and wished to study the report. Mr. Jenkins retorted that the Congress had already been given full write-ups in "Salient," and felt that Mr. Henderson should have read these. However, Mr. Ashton Cook had Mr. Curtin to lean on, in his amendment that the report should merely be received.

"This is only dilly dallying," said Mr. Evison. The report had been noted in "Salient"; it had been mentioned in the minutes of Exec. meetings. He realised that people should have time to consider it, but he opposed violently anything which might lead to it being shelved.

An amendmant moved by Mr. G. Goddard and seconded by Mr. Melling to have the matter brought up within a month at a Special General Meeting was discussed ("Calendar or Lunar?" asked someone) and passed.