The speaker has not been long in New Zealand, and most of the talk was based on his English experience. He quoted from a paper delivered at an English university conference by Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks, a director of Vickers-Armstrong, and chairman of the National Council on Education for Industry and Commerce, who believed: "That a very great deal of hard work and concentrated thought must be devoted to enlarging understanding (both among universities and leaders of industries and commerce), of the relationship between their respective spheres of activity, and of the importance of developing this relationship in every possible way to ensure the best result."

Dr. Hulme also shared the views of Dr. Raven (a visitor to this country last year) who suggested that the university should enter into increasingly close relationship with political, industrial, technological and vocational bodies, in order to continue to play its part in the world. "It is our plain duty," Dr. Raven said, "to give of our best for human welfare, and at the same time to safeguard academic freedom and the maintenance of primary and disinterested research."