“AT HOME.”
CAMP AT AVAIKANAE. i On Thursday, at AVaikanae, the Stu- ] dent Christian Movement school-girls ’ j camp gave an “At Home ’ to the resident: of the disliict. During afternoon ten the girls entertained their visitors with their camp songs, glees and other musical items. After tea Miss Monerieff. M.A., talked of the work of the AA'orld Student Alovement and gave a bright but interesting account of the Pekiu conference, and of the discussions which took place there between students of various nationalities. She particularly mentioned that students of nations who harboured much bitterness for one another, met and frankly discussed the causes of this bitterness and tried to understand one another better. German and French students met in this way. Japanese and Chinese, l’hillipiue and American, and the Chinese and Indian students met the British delegation and discussed many points of difference. It was hoped in this way to bring about a better understanding among the nations and through world brotherhood, a. realisation that unity in Christ i> not an idle phrase but an ideal to be achieved.
Aliss Graham, ALA., school secretary] of the movement, told something of the ( conditions prevailing in Central Europe ! and Russia. The Central European countries were, it was stated, in this state owing to the conditions prevailing after the war. Thousands of students lived in unheated and unsanitary barracks and abandoned warehouses, were underfed and in rags, sacrificing incredibly that they may contribute to the reconstruction of a devasted Europe. Trained intelligence and technical skill was necessary to this reconstruction. The Student Movement had collected funds and opened restaurants in the student centres, and have put at least one meal a day within reach of many of these unfortunate people who would die of starvation were it not for the help given. More help was urgently needed, and the students of New Zealand were collecting funds and practically showing their sympathy for these starving ipeopie of Europe,
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Otaki Mail, 20 September 1922, Page 3
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