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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 13 June 29, 1938
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Is Victoria College developing a community spirit? A good case, based on the annual Report of the Students Association could be made out to prove that it is. But another based on the voting at the elections and the atendance at last night's general meeting of the Students' Association would seem to knock the assertion to picees. In the elections, only 38 per cent of the members voted and last night only 75 were present. We hope that such apathy is not indicative of the spirit with which the new Executive will have in deal.
The attendance aside, however, the meeting did us credit. Messrs. Edgley (chairmen), and Heine (secretary) produced order out of the inevitable chaos of absured motions and hilarious amendments, and we can be said to have combined business with entertainment very successully.
By way of entertaining the gathering until the crowd(!) were seated, Mr. Heine read the minutes; then the show began.
Mr. Scotney inquired into what he stigmatised as embezziement of funds. At the previous meeting a sum of money had been collected in Mr. Hott's "hat" to provide six clay pipes for the women's common room. Those pipes had not been installed. What asked Mr. Scotney, had happened to the money?
Miss S. Sanders said the pipes had never, been received; and forestalling a riot, Mr. M. J. Mason explained that the pipes had been bought, pawned, and the money (2/2) donated to the Building Fund.
It was during the chairman's remarks on the report that the only unpleasant feature occurred. For some time a series of unspeakably bad puns had been heared from the rear of the hail; and Mr. Scotney's motion that Mr. Macaskill be supressed was carried with only one dissentient, Mr. Macaskill having his vote recorded.