BAN ON SMOKING

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 7

BAN ON SMOKING

UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Women students at Auckland University College have reluctantly accepted the ban placed by the Professorial Board on women smoking within the university precincts, states the "New Zealand Herald." In■• spite of information from southern colleges that smoking in the women's common rooms there is an accepted practice, the Professorial Board has officially intimated that the discussion may now be considered closed from its point of view. "I am afraid we have just got to accept the position," one student said on Friday. "The board has written to us stating that the matter cannot be brought before them again this year. Apparently the students' committee cannot do anything about it, although it is supposed to be.allowed to manage its own part of the students block. Judging from the tone of the correspondence, it seems that nothing will shift the Professorial Board." Although the consensus of opinion is that nothing more can be done this year many of the young women are determined to reopen the • question next year, when it is felt that a change in the executive control of the Professorial Board may bring about a "change of heart." "We shall start afresh in our fight for freedom in a matter which concerns only ourselves,' another student said. "It is most annoying to feel that we are up against such a stonewall, but after all, nothing more can be done now. The Professorial Board has control, and defiance would do no good."