OXFORD UNION DEBATERS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 23 March 1925, Page 2

OXFORD UNION DEBATERS

'ARRIVING THIS WEEK. Three representatives of the Oxford Union Delating Society are to arrive in New Zealand this week, and will spend about a mouth in this country, taking part during that tiiuo in debates with speakers from the local university colleges. The visitors include Mr. Malcolm MacDonald the eldest son of the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain, and himself an unsuccessful Labour eandidate for the House of Commons at the general elections of last year and 1923. Mr. MacDonald's colleagues are Alessrs. J. D. Woodruff and H. C. Hollis, both ex-presidents of tue Oxlord Union, aim, like Mr. Alaci>rmal4, graduates of Oxford. The debaters will arrive in Wellington bi' rhe Auckland express next Saturday, and tbg first debate will be held that evening. The subject is, "That this House does'not believe that the advent to piwer of the Bs»*ish Labour Party will materially improve national or internatiomJ conditions.” For tha affirmative Me.ssrs. Woodruff and Hollis, will bo supporter 1 by Air. R. Al. Campbell, of Victoria University College, and and the negative side Air. AlacDonald will be associated with two speakers irom the local college, Messrs. I’. MartinSmith and J. W. G. Davidson. A second debate will be held on April 8, on the subject of prohibition. In the second ♦.■ bate Mr. AlacDonald and two Victoria College speakers will support prohibition, while the other two Oxford representatives and one local University debater will oppose. The Oxonians have debated a considerable number of topics during •the past six months in the United States nnd Canada, but on the whois they have, debated the prohibition issue more froquenly than any other subject.