BRITISH DEBATERS
UNIVERSITY TEAM
ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, This Day.,
The British Universities Debating Team arrived by the Aorangi last night. The members are: Messrs. Paul Reed, King's College, London, R. vNunn May, of Birmingham University; H. E. Molson, of New College, Oxford, and T. P. M'Donald, Edinburgh University. They will leave for Dunedin on Mon^ day evening. ; ■
The team, organised by the National Union of Students of England, Scotland, and Wales, sailed from England on 2nd January for Canada. They visited most of the large towns in Canada, and all the principal universities, and engaged in debate on about twenty occasions, being adjudged winners of all but three. Asked if they hoped , their visit to the Dominions would be ' returned, Mr. Reed said that so far as New-Zealand was concerned, it was a question of British students making up the leeway, lihodeg scholars had long been ambassadors of New Zealand, and they were well liked ami popular among English students. The delegation will leave for Sydney on 23rd April, and after touring Australia they will return to England.* Mr. Reed is a - journalist, Mr. May a scientist, and Mr. Molson and Mr. M' Donald arc pursuing the law. ' ; ■ ■ • ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 8
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