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[unclear: The l] matter of substance was the [unclear: Acting-Chancellor's] report. The most [unclear: impor matter] as far as students were [unclear: conce was] item five, the report of the [unclear: Profers Boards] Overseas Student [unclear: Comm At] the same time a Students [unclear: Associ motion] calling for Council [unclear: suppo ainst] the cutbacks on Overseas [unclear: stude nd] urging the Overseas Students [unclear: Admis Committee] [OSAC] to fill the [unclear: quote by] the university was to be [unclear: discus The] recommendations of the [unclear: prof B Committee] were passed after [unclear: the Ch an] of the Committee, Stuart Johnston spoke to the report. The recommendations include one calling on the NZ Vice Chancellors Committee to set up its own standing committee on overseas students to co-ordinate and rationalise university policy on the whole area. The other recommendations were that the new committee if set up should direct its view towards various issues such as the length of student permits, the English language tests, and the need for on-going language courses.

Then came the Students Association motion. All Council members had been given an informative and factual background paper prepared by the NZUSA Research Office. In addition many members had been seen beforehand to gain their support.

David Cuthbert [Former President of. Canterbury and NZUSA and now Governor General's representative on Council] moved an amendment which more clearly expressed the intent of the motion. After that amendment was passed Professor McCreary moved a second amendment that dallied around with the wording somewhat without changing too much of the meaning. Then it was a dispute over wording. In the original motion a word had been left out

Chancellor asked Thrush what the wording should have been he admitted that a word was missing and then quite unneccessarily said "in fact I couldn't vote for it myself in its present form". For the second time in the same meeting [unclear: pained l] expressions were seen around the room. In spite of Thrush the motion in all its amendments was put and carried.

There remained little else for the public to witness. A few degrees were confirmed, accounts passed for payment, a pat on the back for the Acting Vice Chancellor who was going back to being an academic and that was it. The press gathered their papers, the students left, and the meeting went into the part with the "Public Excluded".