STUDENTS' DEBATE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 12

STUDENTS' DEBATE

LAW V. ACCOUNTANCY

i... The merits of the quota system were debated last evening between the Wellington Law Students' Society'and the Public Speaking Circle o£ the Wellington Accountant Students' Society, the motion before the meeting being "That the principle of the limitation of imports into the United Kingdom by the quota system is not in the best interests of the British Empire." The Law Students' Society spoke in the affirmative, and led an argument, to show that the quota system would result in increased prices to. the consumer in the United Kingdom, whilst there would be surplus supplies of produce in British possessions which could not be utilised to their true value. The effect of the proposal was illustrated by the fact that eleven countries had attempted restriction in a manner similar to that of the system, but aft^r a short trial had discarded the restrictions. The negative was taken by the Wellington Accountant Students' Society, whose speakers stressed the necessity for a quota system in order to restrain the general slide in prices which had resulted from countries dumping produce into the United Kingdom. Profiesor H. H. Cornish judged the accountant students —represented by Miss M; Kearney, Mr. E. Gaustad, and Mr. R. B. Gray—the winning team. The law students, were represented by Messrs. R. J.'-Larkm, C. M. McNaught, and T. E. Ennis. After commenting on the speakers and giving useful advice, the professor placed Miss Kearney first, Mr. Ennis second, and Mr. Gray third. Mr. M. R. Jackson, of the Law Students' i Society, occupied the chair, and in opening the debate expressed the hope that further debates would be held- in the future. __ — mmmmmmtmmmmmmmm i^- _