RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31107, 9 July 1966, Page 38

RANDOM REMINDER

THIS IS THE WEEK. FOR WUS

Only a week to go before the most wonderful weekend in the lives of Christchurch people for a long time. Or, in particular, the bread-winners of the city. Because next weekend is WUS weekend: and what is WUS? WUS is World University Service, an international university organisation active in more than 50 countries, and helping to provide, among many other things, scholarships and material aid for refugee students and professors; health service among students; better living conditions; textbooks, teaching equipment and laboratory apparatus.

The work is a good one. And next Saturday, Canterbury WUS will be at work —and, if you can see the virtue of the whole scheme, you wont. All you have to do to help an extremely good cause is relax. Oh, no—you have to raise a hand and pick up the telephone, ring 67-270 and tell the people who answer that you have a job for a student on July 16. Which is next Saturday. And the very day you had been scheduled to paint the fowl-house, and clean the car and the house windows and cut down trees and burn them and so forth. Can you see how wonderful it will be—having a

student do one or all these things for you, and leaving you in the wonderful position of feeling virtuous, through inactivity? It’s not often you have a chance of telling your dearly beloved that you would very much like to dig up the whole garden before it gets too wet, but feel you can’t really interfere with such a splendid and selfless organisation as World University Service. And If there are any recriminations, remind her that women students are taking jobs as well . . . The phone number is 67-270. Be a millionaire, just for a day.