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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 4. 1965.

Concessions and Cards

Concessions and Cards

Identity Cards are popular with Victoria students. About 3650 students have applied for cards, out of a total student roll of about 4400.

"This would indicate that the idea has found favour with students," an Executive spokesman told Salient, "since application for the cards was voluntary."

The cards are to be sold to students at 2/- each, which approximately covers the basic cost of producing the cards. To keep costs down, about 50 students have spent some of their spare time over the past four weeks preparing the cards.

Alister Taylor, Association Secretary, estimated that at least 1250 manhours have been put into the project.

"They are permanent cards," Taylor pointed out, "and in future years cards from returning students will only need to have a new sticker gummed on the back."

Replacement cost of a card will be £1. While cards will be more expensive to replace, the cost is artificially high so that abuses of the system will be effectively discouraged.

Executive had originally hoped that the cards would persuade the City Council to give students concessions on the Cable-Car—a hope which did not meet with success.

"However, some concessions have been obtained or are in prospect," Salient was told. A Concessions Manager is to be appointed to seek concessions, and it is intended to issue a list of those now available shortly after the cards are issued.

An approach to the Retailers Federation for widespread concessions has failed. There was a categorical refusal on the part of the Federation to grant concession to students.

Identity cards have also been introduced at Auckland, though on a less ambitious basis. There, photos do not appear on the cards, and the cards themselves are in rather impermanent cardboard.

Student interest in the cards has also been shown by the number of students who have called at the Students' Association office to inquire when they will be available. A number of students who missed having their photos taken in the first week of university have also inquired.

Students who have not yet applied for cards can still do so, Salient was told. They must procure a passport-sized photograph of themselves and present it to the office. The photographer who took the photographs here at the beginning of the year will apparently still supply photographs for a small charge.