STUDENT CHRISTIANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 14

STUDENT CHRISTIANS.

L. ft **«"» IN NEW ZEALAND.

CONFERENCE AT PAERATA. ADDRESS ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The summer conference of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement was continued at St. Stephen's College, Bombay, during the week-end, the usual programme of study circles and addresses being augmented with New Year celebrations on Saturday evening. The annual business meeting of the movement was held on Saturday, the Rev. H. W. Newell, of Wellington, being re-elected chairman of the Dominion executive. In the evening, Miss Doris Gavin, M.A., for over 10 years the New Zealand movement's secretary in India, addressed the conference. She surveyed the present political situation, and 6poke of the general alienation of even moderate Indian opinion by the Government ordinances since the close of the Round Table Conference. She told of the work being done by the Y.M.C.A. or India among the colleges and universities in the preparation of the women of the country to take a larger part in its life. On Sunday Mr. O. E. Burton took as his subject, "The State in Relationship to Man's Life in the Kingdom," and on Monday Mr. Willis Airey spoke on "A Kingdom Without Frontiers." The student service at the college on Sunday was conductcd by Mr. Lex Miller. The camp fire was held on Bombay Hill on Monday evening, and to-morrow an allday picnic to Hunua Falls has been planned. The confercnce will closc on Thursday morning, and before returning south many of tlie delegates from Wellington, Canterbury and Otago will visit Auckland.