STUDENT’S MISSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 December 1925, Page 9

STUDENT’S MISSION.

PROMOTING UNIVERSITY CO-OPERATION. VISITS TO OVERSEAS DOMINION&. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 20, 5.5 p.m.) . LONDON, December 18. The High Commissioners farewelleu the British University Students’ delegation, at Canada House, prior to their starting out on an Empire tour. The delegation includes Mr May (president of the National Union of Students, anu convener of the Imperial Conference of Students in 1924, where the project originated. Mr McDonald (treasurer of the International Confederation of Students, and President of the Scottish Students’ Union), Mr Molcson (president of tile Oxford Union), and Mr Paul Reed (London University), who recently returned from Africa, with a similar delegation. The purpose of the Mission, which is to promote University co-operation and eomradcrie throughout the Empire, is leaving Liverpool on January <E. The delegation spends ' two months in Canada, going thence in the Aorangi to Auckland, where it will arrive in time for the inter-varsity tournament, in which members will compete against the New Zealand University. The party goes thence to Australia, where negotiations for the programme have not yet been completed, returning to England in June.