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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24027, 26 July 1941, Page 10

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VISIT TO UNIVERSITY # ■ SPARSE ATTENDANCE A "DISAPPOINTING REACTION" SYDNEY, July 24 When Sir Evelyn Wrench arrived in the Union Hall at the University yesterday to address a lunch-hour meeting arranged by the British Unity Society he found fewer than 20 students present and refused to talk. With Lady Wrench, he left immediately and returned to town. "I hadn't gone to the University to address an empty hall," said Sir Evelyn last night. "I had been asked to address a large meeting of undergraduates, but if 1 had been asked to address a small group I would have gone gladly. I would then have been spared the disappointing reaction of feeling that nobody was interested." The organiser of the meeting, Mr. Colin Maclaurin, said: "I can quite understand Sir Evelyn's disappointment at such a small audience when he arrived, and, driving him back to town, I told him that X might have felt the same way in his position. But J do not think that Sir Evelyn realised that audiences at these lunch-hour lectures are always small to begin with. I am sure the hall would have been filled eventually 1 ."