MISS WEITZEL’S CASE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14775, 14 October 1921, Page 7

MISS WEITZEL’S CASE

A. CONSIDERED BY COLLEGE COUNCIL A WARM DISCUSSION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Mr Levi, chairman of the Victoria College Council, presented a report on Miss Weitzel, who was recently convicted of selling lawless literature, j He said he could find nothing supporting the suggestion that her views were acquired by any teaching or influence received in the College, or that she used any means to disseminate her views amongst the students. Her record as a student was good. Her leanings and inclinations came from her family associations, and there was no reason to believe lhat any student was affected with revolutionary ideas. Mr Lomas moved: “That the Council strongly disapproves of any of its professors or students giving recognition to any society known to encourage revolutionary socialism.” This led to a warm discussion, and eventually an amendment was passed to the effect that the Council had no reason to believe that any organisation of students encouraged, approved, or countenanced violence or lawless propaganda, and considered that so long ns they kept within the law students should be free to select and control the procedure of their debates.