Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 8. June 17, 1947
Secretary
Secretary
Oscar Melling
Oscar, is an Arts student finishing B.A. this year. He was at Victoria and Training College in 1943 and 1944, and returned from overseas service at the end of last year. He is secretary of the Political Science Society, is on the Socialist Club Committee and is a member of "Salient" Staff. He is a keen member of the Tramping Club and took part in Extrav. this year. Oscar is a member of the retiring Exec.
Aiming at close co-operation between the Exec. and the student body as a whole, Oscar also wants to see the students here maintain close contact with students in the other university colleges, at Training College and with student and youth organisations overseas. Plans to hasten the building of the proposed new Student Union building have his full support. He intends to improve, wherever possible, present student facilities in the Gym, common rooms and the cafeteria.
Kevin O'Brien
Kevin has his B.Com. and is studying Honours part time. He has been Treasurer of the Debating Society for some years, and has won the Union and New Speakers' Prizes for Debating, as well as the Plunket Medal for oratory. He has twice represented Victoria in the Joynt Scroll Contest. He was business Manager for "Salient" for 1946, when the net annual loss was reduced from £115 to £42. A member of the original VUC Exam. Fees Committee, he was also financial adviser to NZUSA on the 1946 petition, following which fees were finally reduced. He is a member of the special committee' appointed to examine the Association's accounting system, and is Treasurer of NZUSA.
Apart from general policy such as improved facilities, his main ideas concern improvement of the Association's business methods, delegation of more of the routine Association work to special committees and student representation on the Senate.