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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 3. 1966.

Classrooms

Classrooms

At Wabag, in the Western Highlands, the local council asked the students to help build classrooms and clear the ground for a new primary school.

At Dei, near Mt. Hagen, the, student volunteers were to install, 10 underground water storage units.

About 32 students were to fly to the British Solomons to work on road projects and in rural health clinics.

The largest group of about 100 worked in Port Moresby on sporting facilities and landscaping at the two local colleges.

In explaining this outburst of idealism Kevin Martin says:

"Australian students are beginning to realise not only that Asia and especially New Guinea exist, but also that we have to live in this part of the world and have to work out a relationship with them. And they feel that, as members of an affluent society, they have an obligation to help these emerging countries get on their feet."

Exclusive: for an independent assessment of this work, see p.2.