DEBATERS TO TOUR
VISIT TO AMERICA TEAM FROM WELLINGTON (Special to THE SUN) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A team of students from Victoria University College will leave Auckland on September 24 for Vancouver on. a 'debating tour of the United States. The students are: Messrs. W. J. Hall, M.A., G. R. Powles, L 1.8., and W. J. Mountjoy. These three will form the first debating team from any of ihe university colleges in the Dominion to undertake an overseas tour. The project is the result of an invitation from the National Students’ Federation of America to the Victoria College Debating Society to send a team of three representatives to meet the chief universities of America. Although a detailed itinerary lias not yet been received here, the invitation stated that if it were accepted debates would be arranged against at least 23 Institutions. The debaters will close their America! tour on December 11. There is a possibility that some of the Canadian universities will receive a visit from the New ealanders.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 18
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