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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 1. 1965.

Executive News

page 10

Executive News

The Squash Club has led the Sports Committee and Executive members astray. This charge was made at the last Executive meeting for 1964. Earlier in the year, president Tom Robins reported, £65 too much had been granted to the club.

Treasurer Tony Ashenden had discovered that the cost of court hire had been £50 below the figure claimed by the club from Executive.

The initial grant had been passed only after enforced affiliation of" the club, and even then met with considerable executive opposition.

Now the Executive learned that at least six of the nights which the club had claimed charges for would be in 1965. Most Executive members called for the return of the money. David Shand, Public Relations Officer, suggested writing out bankruptcy papers for the club. Susan Madgwick, Women's representative, urged that the money be returned to Executive.

A motion was moved demanding the return of the money. However after Chris Robertson, Publications Officer had pointed out the danger of setting a precedent which would force clubs to spend all of their grants, the motion was lost.

The matter was instead referred to the Finance Committee, which will meet with Squash Club representatives.

Capping Controller, Denis Paxie. suggested that new clubs should have a probationary period. How ever, since a club cannot incur expenditure before it is affiliated, other members queried how a club could operate without money.

The meeting then fell into disorder, despite Robins's efforts. Vice-President Bertram, who had been rather irate at the loss of the motion, moved that £60 be paid to the Law Faculty Club to defray the costs of its Australian tour. Alister Taylor pointed out that the motion was contrary to the terms of the previously-passed Law Faculty Club grant.

Robins agreed, and refused to accept the motion. In the ensuing disagreement, Bertram stated that the executive was denying itself the right to rescind motions passed at previous meetings.

President Robins pointed out that the A.G.M. of the Law Faculty Club had decided against what the motion proposed. His ruling was then upheld by the meeting—more it seemed as a matter of course than from any conviction of the credibility of the arguments put forward by either person.

Victoria Students' Association Executive has doubts that the use of the University crest on white sweat shirts is legal.

The sweat shirts appeared to wards the end of last year. They are apparently being made in Auckland by a group of Teachers Training College students. Tim Bertram pointed out that the use of the University crest without permission was illegal.

Alister Taylor reported that the Wellington selling agent was making a profit of seven shillings per shirt. It was resolved that the manufacture and sale of the shirts be investigated, with a view to the Students' Association taking over their sale.

One sometimes wonders whether the Victoria Executive progresses with the times. It seems there are some avid traditionalists on Executive.

They have recommended to the next General Meeting of the Association that under-graduates should wear academic gowns on the campus.

Salient notes that recently Oxford University abandoned the compulsory wearing of gowns.— R.J.S.

The Treasurer of the Students' Association, Tony Ashenden, has resigned from the Students' Association Executive. Ashenden said to Salient that he regretted very much having to resign before his full term was up, but had found that the pressure of work was so great that he could no longer do full justice to the job of Treasurer.

This year he is doing Honours in political science and economics, is engaged in research into the 1963 elections, is writing two papers, one on the partisan actions of New Zealand voters and one on Maori Seats in Government, and is going to Kawerau to examine the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill and the surrounding districts.

Ashenden is being succeeded, for the rest of his term, by Kevin Tate, who works at the Reserve Bank.

Ashenden is being succeeded, for the rest of his term, by Kevin Tate, who works at the Reserve Bank.

Questioned about the workings of Executive, Ashenden said that, in his opinion, the time has come for the Association to consider the possibility of appointing a full-time salaried President of the Students' Association. He said that present office-holders will testify to the great demands made on their time by the routine matters of Executive action. As a consequence, Executive often can not devote as much time as it would like, and ought, to devote to more important issues. A full-time President with executive authority would have the time to examine proposals which, so far, have often been dealt with insufficiently.

Said Ashenden: "I feel certain that various proposals that we have undertaken have suffered because we have not had an otherwise uncommitted person to devote his whole time to them. It is desirable, even essential, that the Association should provide for the appointment of a full-time President as soon as it is expedient to do so."

Ashenden stressed that there would be difficulties. Particular care would have to be taken, he said, to ensure that an inexperienced person was not appointed as a full-time President.

"However," Ashenden said, "despite the difficulties and the increased cost for the Students' Association, students would, in my view, be well rewarded if a full-time President were employed."

Plans for improving office efficiency in the New Zealand University Students' Association were recently put before Victoria Executive. The proposals included a salary increase, the purchase of an electric typewriter, and the use of additional typing facilities.

Alister Taylor explained that the N.Z.U.S.A. Office Secretary was overburdened with work, especially the organisation of the Australian and Fiji trips. It was suggested that consideration and co-operation from N.Z.U.S.A. executive had been wanting.

A salary rise, and up to £125 to wards the purchase of an electric typewriter were agreed to.