NO CAPPING DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 19

NO CAPPING DAY.

ECHO OF DEBATE.

COUNCIL'S DISAPPROVAL. /'TSo capping ceremony will be held in Auckland this year bccause of the disturbances at the recent inter-university Rebate, and it is probable that the graduates of the year will receive their diplomas and congratulations at a private function to be arranged by the Auckland University College Council. Considering the conduct of a section of fhe audience at the debating contests leld in the Town Hall Concert Chamber on Easter Monday, during the annual university tournament, the Council last evening received the following resolutions from the Professorial Board:— "That the Board call on the Students' Association to furnish, by the end of the first term, the names of any Auckland students implicated in the disturbances at the recent inter-college debate"Further, that, in the event of this Information not being forthcoming, the Board recommend to Council that no graduation ceremony be held this year. "That the Tournament Committee be Requested to address to the chairman and judges of the debate, through the chairman of the Professorial Board, a formal written apology.

"That this Board approach the other Colleges with a view to the abolition of the debate as a public function at the tournaments."

The Professorial Board reported receipt of a reply to the effect that the asecutive of the Students' Association was nnable to identify the men responsible for the disturbance. An apology approved by the chairman of the Board lad been sent by the student* to the chairman of the debate, and the judges, and the Tournament Committee had decided that in future the debate be held fsn camera."

The Hon. Geo. Fowlda (president) said that the disturbances were unfortunateHe did not think there would be satisfaction in such matters until the authorities were able to catch someone. Only a comparatively few broke the bounds of decency, and it was necessary to mark the Council's strong disapproval. Professor W. Segar said it wis not the malong of noise, but the throwing of articles that made the disturbances so objectionable.

ftofessor F P. Worley said he under"tudents th *t the man who threw the tomatoes appeared sud.door' Hft * lß ° .that; it had been stated he was not an AuckJand student. He did not even know that it was a student. The live fowls that were thrown on the stage had been liberated in the street a short while and a PP arentl y someone hid caugnt them again.

The Council, in adopting the resolute* th Professorial Board, decided tT t! capping' ceremony should be .banned, for this year only.