SOLDIER STUDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1922, Page 4

SOLDIER STUDENTS

FORCED TO LEAVE COLLEGE. BACK OF FUNDS TERMINATES ENGINEERING COURSE. GRANT BY EXECUTIVE OPPOSED. CHRISTCHURCH, April ‘29. Five engineering students of Canterbury College, who ar 0 returned soldiers, have .this year been forced to leave the college owing to a lack of money to help them conclude their course. This fact was brought to light at lin extraordinary general meeting of college students to consider the grant of £lO made by the students.’" executive to tlie European Relief Fund. Mr I!. M. Davis moved: “That this meeting disapprove of the executive’s .grant of £lO to relieve foreign students, many of them being enemy countries.”

Mr H. J. Mackie said cannibalism was creeping into Central Europe because of the lack of food and money to buy food. The appeal for relief funds had come through the University Senate, and was endorsed by men of authority'. Mr D. Jeuno, in putting the point of view of the returned soldier, asked, “ Why, if Canterbury College returned soldier students have been obliged to leave the college through lack of funds, the allegedly starving students of European countries should he assisted to pursue their studies?” Other speakers defended thb action of the executive in granting a small smn front the students’ funds to relievo students jn other parts of the world. They said the ease of the Canterbury Collego students had not been put before the executive, and that oven so the limitations of the funds of the association would not allow of ade-f quate advances to distressed students, j The president, Mr 11. P. Kidson, U