NEGRO STUDENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 4

NEGRO STUDENTS

DEBATE IN OPERA HOUSE ON THURSDAY. '■ •< . , — ■ JU 1 The visit of the American negro university debating team from Le Moyne College, Memphis, Tennessee, is outstanding and noteworthy in New Zealand’s debating history. Masterton is one of only three towns, other than university centres, which the team is to visit in the course of its tour of the Dominion. The members of the team are Messrs James S. Byas and Charles W. Gil ton, both graduates in science and sons of Tennessee doctors. They are accompanied by their debate coach and manager, Professor Boris G. Alexander. The subject selected for Thursday’s debate is: “That World Peace is undesirable as well as impossible,” the visitors taking the affirmative. Masterton is to be represented by Messrs J. H. Kemnitz and J. Dwyer, both debaters of wide experience, and they are expected to give a good account of themselves. The chair will be occupied by the Mayor of Masterton, Mr T. Jordan. In addition to the main debate, a short musical programme and a series of humorous impromptu speeches is to be presented. A haka of welcome and of challenge was originally to have been given the visitors by the Te Ore Ore Maori party, but unfortunately this has had to be cancelled owing to a bereavement at the pa. The box plan is now open at Perry’s and immediate reservation is advisable in order to secure a good seat. The Masterton debate is the negroes’ last appearance before sailing for Australia.