NEGRO DEBATERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1938, Page 8

NEGRO DEBATERS

COMING TO MASTERTON NEXT MONTH. The two American negro student debaters (Messrs J. S. Byers and C. W. Gilton) and their coach and manager, Professor Boris Alexander, who arrived in Auckland yesterday, are to spend three weeks in the Dominion. After debating against Auckland University College, the team will proceed via Rotorua and ■ Wairakei to Napier and Hastings, where a public meeting is to be held. Their next engagement will be a debate against Massey College, at Palmerston North, after which they will leave for the South Island, the first'stop being at Oamaru, where a public address is to be given and where they will be the guests over the weekend of Mr Frank Milner, C.M.G., Rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School. Following on a debate at Dunedin against Otago University, the team will visit Timaru and Mt Cook before debating against Canterbury University College, at Christchurch. Crossing Cook Strait once more, they will engage Victoria College in verbal combat, leaving Wellington by car on Thursday, July 21, for Masterton, their final appearance before sailing for Sydney. During the afternoon of the day spent in Masterton addresses will be given by the members of the team to secondary schools in the Assembly Hall at Wairarapa College. Accommodation will be available for a limited number of the general public. The debaters will be given a civic welcome by the Mayor of Masterton, Mr T. Jordan. At 8 p.m. a debate will be held in the Opera House against a Masterton team on the subject, “That World Peace is Undesirable as Well as Impossible.’’ The visitors will take the affirmative. The Masterton team will be selected on Friday next, the judges being Mrs T. R. Barrel’, Miss O. Suth- I erland and Mr G. W. Morice. During the evening a canoe dance will be per- ; formed by a party of Te Ore Ore i Maoris, who will also open the debate 1 with a formal Maori haka of welcome , and of challenge. <