A SERIOUS LECTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 9

A SERIOUS LECTURE.

Speaker Asks That Knitting Should Cease. A ban on knitting at lectures on the grounds that it distracted him has been imposed by an Auckland professor, but a request that the practice should cease was made for different reasons at a lecture in Christchurch recently. The lecturer was Dr O. H. Frankel, who is giving a series of addresses on the subject “ The Biological Basis of Life.” In requesting the wemen present to postpone their knitting, Dr Frankel said that the lecture was of a serious nature and required a serious disposition on the part of the audience. (Reference to the Auckland case appears on Page 5).

AFRICAN STATUS BILL.

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 10, 2.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, April 9. The Premier stated in the Assembly that he did not consider it necessary to consult the Commonwealth Governments regarding the Status Bill as it might be interpreted as the subordinating of sovereign rights to the wishes of other members of the Commonwealth and rightly be considered unconstitutional.

Last night Dr C. Malthus delivered the talk to the Canterbury College French Club in the Federation of University Women’s Club rooms. There was a good attendance of students.