SUBVERSIVE TACTICS ALLEGED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 7

SUBVERSIVE TACTICS ALLEGED

ADMINISTRATION OF COLLEGE

BOARD’S REPLY TO' CRITICS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. Recently a controversy arose in Wellington as to the administration of Victoria University College, in which it was suggested by some critics that influences were at work at the college subversive to religidii, morality and and. that those influences were operating through the subjects discussed by various clubs arid societies within the ' college, and through outsiders invited to take part in those discussions, and that college authorities failed to check such influences.

Following a report by the professorial board the college" council made a careful inquiry into the condition m the college regarding the! college clubs and subjects discussed by persons invited to address the clubs and discipline and control.

The board’s finding may be summed up as follows: That the very siriall number whose conducts and beliefs are in conflict with the great majority of the community attracts attention entirely out of proportion to the influence" in the college. Such influences must, and will be, restrained within reasonable bounds, and the public can rest assured that the college spirit is, on the whole, good and that the great majority of students live an active, normal life and deserve to stand well in the estimation not only of the teachers’ council, but also of the public council.

The report adds that the board fbels ib should not conclude its report without re-affirming the confidence already expressed in the professors and lecturers at the college, who it is satisfied, are faithfully serving the college and the community.*