N.Z. UNIVERSITY ANGLICANS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28911, 3 June 1959, Page 17

N.Z. UNIVERSITY ANGLICANS

Concern AtCasesOf Loss Of Faith Concern at the number of Anglican students who’Jost their faith while reading tor<a degree, with a resultant loss of potential leadership to the Church, was expressed in a resolution passed at the first annual conference of New Zealand University Anglican Societies held in Wellington over Queen’s Birthday week-end. A Dominion-wide ■ federation comprising delegates froin the Universities of Auckland; Wellington, and Canterbury. * assisted by observers from Otago- University, was constituted at the conference. The pastoral needs of Anglican students were discussed fully by the conference. Anglican clergy throughout New Zealand were urged to support the ParishUniversity commendation scheme, by which students whose names were sent to the Anglican Societies were' visited by senior members and put in contact with the university chaplain and with a local parish. Conference Addressed The conference was addressed by Bishop -of Waikato (the Rt- Rev. S: T. Holland) on the Lambeth Conference and Ecumenism. The Rev. Professor G. E. Hughes, of Victoria University, discussed some of the problems of faith encountered by students in’ the University of today, and Mr Peter Stuart, 8.A., read a paper on the specific witness of the lay community in the university missionary situation.

Visitors welecomed to the conference during the week-end included official representatives from the New Zealand InterVarsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions and the New v Zealand Student Christian Movement.

The newly formed Federation of Anglican Students elected the following national officers: — President, Mr K. A. Mac Diarmid (Canterbury); vice-president. Mr D, Bindon (Auckland); secretary, Miss G. A. Atkinson (Canterbury); treasurer. Miss K. S. Williams (Victoria).

Next year’s conference will be held in Christchurch.