UPROAR DURING DEBATE.
CHEERS AND FIREWORKS. STUDENTS IN CHRISTCHURCH. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHUECH, Monday. Pandemonium reigned during the early stages of the university tournament debate in the Cathedral Hall. Cheering, singing, whistling and throwing crackers many students in the gallery prevented the speakers on the platform being heard. Finally Bishop West Watson, the chairman, who had vainly appealed for a fair hearing for the speakers, adjourned the debate for half an hour. Most of the students who had been creating the uproar then left the hall, presumably to witness the boxing finals.
When tho debate was resumed there was silence among the audienco. The subject was: "That State interference in New Zealand in industry and commerce should be discouraged." The first debate, between G. R. Powles and W. J. Mountjoy, Victoria College (affirmative) and E. Forsman and A. Miller (Auckland), was won by Victoria with 160 points. Tho second debate between Miss C. H. WestWatson and L. C. Webb, Canterbury (affirmative), and N. S. Woods and J. IT. Stallworthv, Otago, was won by Otago with 164 points, making Otago winners for the evening. Messrs. Mountjoy and Stallworthy were placed equal as the best debaters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 2 April 1929, Page 10
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195UPROAR DURING DEBATE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 2 April 1929, Page 10
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