"PEACE BALLOT."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 9

"PEACE BALLOT."

'VARSITY STUDENTS.

LEANING TOWARD PACIFISM

OTAGO MOST MILITARISTIC.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Results of the "peace ballot" conducted in the University Colleges of the country under the auspices of the New Zealand University Students' Association have now been announced. They indicate more or less a marked tendency towards pacifism, though this is more

apparent in some colleges than in others, ancl Otago in particular is inclined to militarism.

The organisers secured a 49 per cent vote throughout the University. Auckland College had a 32 per cent vote, Canterbury 53 per cent, Otago 37 per cent, Victoria 73 per cent, and Massey 100 per cent. The number of students at Auckland is 800 approximately, at Canterbury 980, at Otago 1139, at Victoria 720, and at Massey 54.

To the question, "Would you resist without question a threatened invasion of New Zealand?" 62.26 per cent of the students answered, "Yes," 28.66 per cent "No," and 9.09 per cent were doubtful. To the question, "Would you take part in war to assist Britain, no matter what the causes or the occasion to which Britain had M committed herself?" 28.19 per cent ans*wered "Yes," 59.19 per cent "No," and 12.61 per cent were doubtful.

In tljo event of Avar 27.23 per cent would enlist or urge their friends to do so, 56.15 per cent would not, and 16.C2 were doubtful.