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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20894, 9 June 1931, Page 13

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SOUTH AFRICA AND NATIVES. STUDENT IN NEW ZEALAND. The difficulty of natives in South Africa in securing training in that country for any of tho great professions was referred to at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church last week by Dr. E. N. IMerriuglon, master of Knox College. The report on tho work of tho college slated that the Student Christian Movement had nominated Clarence G. K. 3'iliso, a native South African student, who had been selected for medical study at Otago University with residence in Knox College. There were already a Maori and a Fijian in tho college. Dr. Merrington referred to tho nomination of lhe native South African student for training in the profession of medicine in order that he might return to South Africa to give service there. No provision was made in South Africa for training a medical man from among native races, said the speaker. They in New Zealand, with a more hospitable and charitable feeling toward their fellow men, found jt difficult to understand that the colour problem should bo so terribly severe and exclusive as in South Africa. It, was impossible for a riativo to be trained in South Africa for any of the great professions.