UNIVERSITY DEBATERS
VISIT OF AMERICAN TEAM. ITINERARY OF TOUR. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, July 17. Advice as been received by Mr M. Joel (president of the New Zealand University Students’ Association) that a team of debaters from the University of Washington, U.S.A., will arrive at Auckland on July 28. After holding two debates at Auckland, they will travel to Wellington, arriving there on August 3. The team’s next engagement would be at Christchurch, which they will reach on August 8. Finally they will arrive at Dunedin on August 17. The members of the teams are Messrs Robert K. Bums (economics student) and .Lyle M. Spencer (philosophy). Among the subjects to be debated are “That the U.S.A, should agree to the cancellation of inter-Allied war debts,” and “That the political salvation of the world lies in dictatorship rather than in democracy.” The members of the. team will also give short lectures on various subjects of interest, including “Roosevelt’s New Deal in America.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 8
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