Exam. Fees

Reaction in the universities was immediate. A petition was drawn up by the Examination Fee Committee appointed by N.Z.U.S.A. and sent to the constituent colleges, training colleges and commercial colleges. The committee also made inquiries to the Price Tribunal, and sent letters solociting support to organizations such as N.Z.E.I., and the Junior Chamber of Commerce; to these letters encouraging answers were received. Salient was unable to report any further progress for almost a year. During this time the Senate who had been approached, politely but firmly said that they were unable to make any statements until the results of the Court of Appeal case N.Z.U.S.A. v. Senate were announced.

We regret to state that the case was lost. This may be attributed to the fact that the Price Tribunal was unable to take any stabilizing action as "the University sells nothing, neither does it perform any service to the community:"

So there the matter rested, until in 1947 it was quietly announced that a reduction of a whole two shillings per paper had been made.