Students Warned On Fund-raising
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MELBOURNE, August 30.
The Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Professor J. Matheson, told students today that they cannot collect money for China.
He said they would be put on a disciplinary charge if they used the university to collect money. In an interview with the students today, Professor Matheson said his previous ruling banning aid to the National Liberation Front fund would also apply to China.
He said he wanted the university to remain politically neutral.
But students said later they would continue to collect funds on the university campus.
The students had planned to test Federal legislation prohibiting aid to North Vietnam by collecting money today. A spokesman for the students said they would send aid to Ping Slang, in China, which is five miles from the border of North Vietnam. “This town is on the road rail supply route from China to Hanoi,” he said. “Under the new Act, we feel it is legal to send aid to China because the Australian Wheat Board and Broken Hill Proprietary, Ltd, are doing it”
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31462, 31 August 1967, Page 11
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