RELIEF FOR STUDENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18070, 12 May 1924, Page 10

RELIEF FOR STUDENTS.

NEW ZEALAND EFFORT., ' '''y.'-y - -'Vv " AT annual general meeting Students' Association of Victoria College 'it was decided to express * sym--pathy with the effort by '.university; students of the world to relieve distress! amongst students in Europe. It: was pointed out ttiat -the graatest need now exists in Germany, and -the meeting voted the sum of iJIO as the nu'cleua oi a fund.forassistmg students country. During the ttVo years many, secondary and primary ectioola have co-operated with the-; university: "colleges, arid! as a .result of theirefforts approximately £3OOO and' a considerable quantity of - clothing havebeen. forwarded v to stricken areas 'of Europe.Reports-by men. well qualified to judge, : including past* students of -Victoria College, .show that tfie assistance has- been of (the greatest value,: both in relieving distress and in maintaining the jndoraUi of the young, men and-women who aie ; struggling against, immense odds to keep alive the intellectual life of the country. , 'A committee of students of Victoria College has been set lip to/continue this work during present year. " ' i It was stated that approximately - £3OOO had been raised in New. Zear land by schoolsand colleges during'fhe l past two years, together with consider-^! able quantities of clothing.The bulk of this was applied in tKe relief of distress in but it is noy report; ed that the greatest need at present is in Germany, and a "conference of representatives of the four university colleges'of New' Zealand .which met last Christmas, recommended that the proceeds of this year's effort- should be earmarked for Germany.