Administration

As well as this, each sport has a national council, situated wherever the next Tournament is to be held in most cases, that looks after the affairs of the particular sport on an inter-university level. These sports councils are mostly concerned with the administration of sport at Tournament.

Hence to NZUSU, which reunifies the two divergent themes. The New Zealand Universities Sports Union was formed in late 1957 as a sub-committee of NZUSA, under the chairmanship of the NZUSA Sports Officer.

Meetings were held twice a year, consisting of the resident executive and two delegates from each University students association, these latter usually being members of the local sports committee. One ex-delegate records being ashamed of wearing his Victoria Blues blazer—everyone else was a NZU Blue!

NZUSU grew in importance steadily, opening up new avenues for sport. In 1964, at the Auckland Winter Tournament, the first procedural moves to set up NZUSU as a separate body were initiated. After much discussion on who should get how many votes and so on, it was decided that, the new Sports Union should be fully representative of both sports councils and Students associations.