Conchie Debate

A seminar on Conscientious Objection, organised by the S.C.M. will be held near Otaki at the end of March.

The seminar intends to cover most of the questions concerning Conscientious Objectors.

A Wide range of speakers has been assembled, including Rev P. Oestreicher who is now Associate Secretary of the International Department of the British Council of Churches

Since coming to N.Z. with his Quaker parent in the thirties, he has gained an honours degree in Political Science and was Research Fellow at Bonn University before being ordained in the Church of England.

Rev. Oestreicher also coedited a paperback on the Christian-Communist dialogue entitled "What kind of Revolution?", published late last year.

Another speaker is the Minister of Defence (Mr. Thomson) who has previously publicly claimed to have been a pacifist in his youth.

He later achieved a high-ranking commission in the N.Z. Army before becoming a M.P.

Application forms, which are obtainable at the S.U.M. cabin will he accepted until 25th March.