The belief that Australia and New Zealand should have a common task in seeking a fuller understanding of the peoples of the Orient, was cx \- pressed by Sir Robert Garran. of Canberra. at one time Solicitor-General of Australia, when addressing the Rotary conference at Palmerston North. For some time, he said, he had been advocating in Australia the institution of a college of Oriental studies, and the idea had the support of many politicians and educationists in the Commonwealth. He thought New Zealand could well share in the project. Sir Robert also expressed the view that New Zealand and Australia themselves made insufticient contacts. Thcv shared the great traditions of Anzae and must share also the formidable tasks which lay ahead in the Held of international co-operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 6
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