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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 1. March 22, 1956

[Introduction]

On June 22 last year the newly elected Executive of the Students' Association was announced to the AGM of the association. Since that date Executive has met on eleven occasions (one a special meeting) and the time it has spent in deliberation amounts to some 40 hours. Many hundreds of hours more have been spent by individual members and sub-committees in investigation and discussion of the many schemes and ideas presented for their consideration.

What have they to show for it?

The activities of Executive have covered the whole field of student interest; from the Student Union Building to assistance given to newly formed clubs, from the Cafeteria to new lockers in the Gym and from hot water in the cloak rooms to discussion on the South-East Asian Scholarship fund. The cafeteria is amongst the most important of these as it is this facility which brings the majority of students into contact with the Association.

At the end of last year the firm then in control of the Caf, left, stating that neither they nor, they suspected, anyone else would be prepared to take over the management of the Cafeteria until a great deal was done to provide the proper facilities necessary for its efficient control. It should be noted that that firm did little or nothing to assist in this direction. The Caf, was left in an extremely dirty and disreputable condition when they vacated the premises.

The Executive sent a letter of thanks to the manager of the firm thanking him for his excellent service to the Association, white as all users of the Caf, in the third term will testify, the "service" left a great deal to be desired.