Travel Agency Opens Here

Salient Reporter

A Travel agency is to be opened in the Student Union for a trial period of six months.

It will be open every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 noon to 2pm.

It will be situated in Committee Room 1 on the first door of the Student Union Building.

The hours of the agency are subject to alteration if the current ones are found to be unsatisfactory.

The agency will pay an hourly rent which will be paid into the Student Union building fund.

It is understood that a number of concessions will be available.

A student travel agency has been in operation this year at Otago University, and after a slow initial period of establishment has proved fairly successful.

A student travel agency is to be set up on a trial basis by the New Zealand Universities Students' Association.

The trial agency should be fully functional by April of next year, the association's winter council decided in Wellington recently.

The proposal envisages an agency with offices at each New Zealand university.

It was pointed out to the council that students spend large sums on travel, both within and outside New Zealand. A successful agency would allow for considerable reductions in fares.

A similar scheme underway in Great Britain nets £40,000 annually.

The part-time bureau within each university would work in conjunction with a selected travel agency.