’VARSITIES OF EMPIRE.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 7

’VARSITIES OF EMPIRE.

DELEGATION OE STUDENTS. • TO COME TO NEW ZEALAND. London, December 18. Tlie Dominion High Commissioners larewelled the British University students’ delegation at Canada House, prior to starting on an Empire tour. The delegation includes Mr May, the president of the -National Union of Students and convener of the Imperial Conference of Students in 1924, where the project originated; Mr YlcDpnald, treasurer, of the' International Confederation of Students and president .of the. Scottish Students' Union; Mr.Molson, president of the Oxford Union; and Paul Reed, ol tlio London University.' The purpose of the mission is to promote University co-operation and camaraderie throughout the Empire. The delegation is leaving Liverpool on January 4 for a two months’ tour of Canada, thence by the Aorangi to Auckland, arriving in time for the Inter-Varsity Tournament, spending a month visiting, and debating at the colleges of the New Zealand University. Thence to Australia, where■ the negotiations are not completed, arriving in England in J line.