STUDENTS’ WORLD TOUR

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 23

STUDENTS’ WORLD TOUR

UNIVERSITY VISITORS FROM BRITAIN DERATING CONTESTS / ARRANGED As a result of an ambitious scheme arranged some mouths ago by the National Union of Students (Great Britain), the Victoria University College Debating Society is shortly to be in a position to arrange debates in Wellington with several of the leading debaters from the universities of Great Britain. Four representative students Iroin English and Scottish Universities have been chosen to tour the Empire, and these are due to reach New Zealand next Monday. The students m the delegation are:’Messrs. N. Nunn May, of the University of Birmingham; 1. »• McDonald, of Edinburgh (president of the Scottish Students’ . Union), Paul Reed, from the University of London, who has latclv toured South Africa as a member of a’university debating and A. H. E. Molsoti, who is president of the Oxford Union. These gentlemen were farewelled in December. last by the Dominion High Commissioner m Loudon, and they have since been engaged in an Empire tour. Their y isit to'New Zealand is a somewhat unique event. The tour of three representatives of the Oxford Union last year, though on a smaller scale than the present one, was so successful as to encourage the more ambitious scheme which has now been undertaken. Tn fact, as far as Wellington was concerned, the visit last year could scarcely have been more completely successful,, for, on the occasion of the first debate in the Town Hall, every seat had been booked four clear days in advance of the debate. .. , , t The arrival of the British tcmii of utih’ersitv debaters coincides with tlic annual Tnter-’Varsity tournament, which is this vear to be held in Dunedin, lhe visitors’ will proceed south immediate y upon their arrival, and will then engacc in public debates m the four mam centres. Thev will be accorded a Mavoral reception _m bate Thursday, April la, and wilt . de ' J ‘ with Victoria College students in tlic main Town Hall later in the week. Arrangements have already been n a for the public to reserve scats. A sn all charge will be made to cover the actual cost of the tour, ..kiiors In the debates some of the tlsito is, and some of the local students, in • 1 pear on each side of the platform, it has been found that tins practice of "dividing” has marked advantages over the method of marshalling the whole visiting team against the entire local team. ,