All members of students' associations are automatically members of the N.Z.U.S.A., and in fact are levied the sum of 2/7d. per head for the privilege of membership.

N.Z.U.S.A. is administered by a resident executive in Wellington, consisting of a president, three vice-presidents, a treasurer, the sports officer, travel and exchange officer, hon. secretary, a public relations officer, a records officer and one representative from each of the universities and agricultural colleges. The resident executive meets at least once a month, and administers the affairs of the association and implements the policy directives of the constituents. Only the constituent representatives are entitled to vote at these meetings.

Policy Made

The policy-making body is primarily the annual general meeting of the association, held at Easter at the place of the university tournament, this year in Auckland. To this A.G.M. each university and college sends three delegates. The four major universities have two votes each, while the agricultural colleges have one vote each.

The council of N.Z.U.S.A. also convenes at the venue of the university Winter Tournament in August, though this meeting is invariably briefer.

Affiliations

Affiliated to the N.Z.U.S.A. are the N.Z.U. Student Press Council and the New Zealand Law Students' Association. The N.Z.U. Sports' Union, set up in August, 1957, to control the administration of N.Z.U. sport, remains a standing committee of N.Z.U.S.A. and is not yet a separate body. The N.Z.U. Rugby Football Council is not affiliated or in anyway subject to N.Z.U.S.A.'s jurisdiction.

In the international sphere, N.Z.U.S.A. is a member of the International Student Conference (I.S.C.) which meets every 12 to 15 months. This I.S.C. is intended to be a platform for representatives from national unions of students from all over the world where bases of co-operation can be worked out on a non-political basis as far as possible. It is to this body that N.Z.U.S.A. gives its support rather than to the International Union of Students.

As a national Union, N.Z.U.S.A.'s main concern is with the interests and welfare of its membership. It has presented successful submissions for bursary increases, investigated conditions of entry of overseas students into the country; it presses for a student representative on the University of New Zealand Senate; it is currently preparing submissions on proposed reforms in the tertiary institutions of education, and arranges in conjunction with the Australian national union (N.U.A.U.S.) an annual student travel and exchange scheme.