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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 8

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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 the great professions was referred to at the General Assembly of the 'Presbyterian Church by Dr. E. N. Merrington, master of Knox College. ■The report on the work of the college stated that the Student Christian Move-, ment had nominated Clarence G. K. Piliso, 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 the college. Dr. Merrington referred to the nomination of the 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 .it difficult to understand that the colour" problem should be so terribly severe and exclusive as in South Africa, It was impossible for a native to be trained in South Africa for any of the great professions.