RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 6

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES

FACILITIES AT VICTORIA COLLEGE. VAGUE CHARGES RESENTED BY PRINCIPAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. ■’lf the statements reported to have been made at the meeting of the synod cover any suggestion that the religious societies or the religious beliefs of students are treated unfairly at Victoria College, the statements are not true,” said the principal of Victoria University College. Professor T. A. Hunter, in a reply yesterday io statements by the Rev. O. E. Burton and Mr H. P. Mourant. at the Wellington district synod of the Methodist Church. “Subject to the control of the Professorial Board, the organisation of student activities is under the general supervision of the Students’ Association,” Professor Hunter said. “The two religious societies at the college, namely, the Student Christian Movement, and the Evandelical Union, are given all the facilities the college possesses to enable them to carry on their activities, and any suggestion that either the college authorities or the Students’ Association hampers these activities is false. “On questions of religion, students are free to develop their own organisations. Victoria University College has well over 1000 members. Does not Mr Mourant consider it rather cowardly to make a vague charge of ‘pernicious influence’ in the newspaper, when he ought to be specific and report the matter to the college authorities?”