MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

UNIVERSITY SHIPS. ["The Times" Service.] this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, July 15. Touring university ships is a suggestion elaborated in a letter from the Rev. Christopher Storr, the purpose being to establish close touch between Britain and the Dominions, educationally and imperially. He says that many hoys are unable to afford a full university course, though the parents would gladly equip them better for life’s business after school. Numbers would welcome an Empire university course enabling them to see and study the dominions at first hand, thus making them better British citizens, and perhaps would return to the dominion which suits them. The Rev. Storr’s ambition is that each university should have its own ship to carry three hundred hoys, under masters who would supervise their studies on route, and this should greatly benefit the masters, many of whom would gladly seize the opportunity to travel to the dominions. The hoys could become paving guests in suitable homes wherever they travelled. The scheme is capable of great development, and could he extended to girls. The scheme needs an endowment providing also for scholarships for the less well to do.