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Victoria '65 Supplement to Salient, Vol. 28, No. 1. 1965.

Many Facilities Provided For Students Here

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Many Facilities Provided For Students Here

About the campus, many small services are available which are taken for granted by those who have come to know of them. Yet many students do not realise the wide variety of services available and as a result waste both time and money. The many small details below will more than repay the effort involved in checking through them.

Many rooms in the Student Union Building are allocated to special uses. The Club Storage room contains lockers and duplicating facilities which are available to affiliated clubs. The Activities room frequently contains exhibitions of interest to students, and can at other times be a quiet place for study. Two committee rooms are available and may be booked by any student through the Association office. When not booked they may also be used for study.

Outside the Association office a blackboard carries messages for student Alongside is the caretaker's office, and down the passage may be found the Executive's meeting room and the offices of Mr. Boyd and his secretary.

Rooms

Three Common Rooms are provided, separated by folding doors which can be moved for dances and similar functions. The Common Common Room contains a piano, and the Women's Common Room has a radiogram. The Men's Common Room lies between both sources of sound. Regulations govern conduct in the Common Rooms, in particular the playing of cards.

The Quiet Room is found at the town end of the building on the second floor. It may be booked for religious services and at other times provides a haven for quiet contemplation. A room close by is allocates to the chaplains appointed to the University.

Toilet facilities for men are found at both ends of the Union building on the ground floor, and at the town end of the building on the first floor. Women's toilets are on the ground floor at the University end and the first Boor at the town end of the building.

Cloak rooms may also be found in each of the University buildings, as a general rule on the ground floor. Downtown the following may be mentioned: Men: Railway Station, Cnr Featherston St. and Lambton Quay. Public Library. Courtenay Place. Women: Railway Station, Masons Lane (off Lambton Quay), Willeston St. (Stewart Dawson's Corner). Public Library, Pigeon Park (behind Royal Oak Hotel), and Courtenay Place.

Meals

The dining room and shop are let to a caterer, Mr F. Levenbach, who has a contract to provide meals at fixed times during university terms. Tea, coffee, and snacks are available from 9.45 a.m., and the shop, which sells cigarettes, sweets, soft drinks, ice cream, and stationery, opens at the same time.

A sandwich lunch room off the main foyer is open from 11.45 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. during the term. Tea, coffee, milk and snacks can be purchased. During the May and August vacations it is open from 10.30 a.m. to 4 00 p.m. and sells snacks and some hot dishes.

Coffee Bar

The Coffee Bar is operated by the House Committee for the Student's Association and is located on the ground floor of the Student Union, off the main foyer. During the day the room serves as a lunch bar.

The Coffee Bar is open in the evenings, at present from 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m., although it is hoped to extend these hours shortly. It is a popular social meeting place and offers a range of drinks and food at prices well below those to be found anywhere else.

Notice Boards

The principal student noticeboards are found on the first floor of the Student Union. Here are club notices, part-time and full-time jobs, chaplains and accommodation notices. Executive notices are found outside the Association office, and in the same foyer is a noticeboard for forthcoming events and one for notices of Sub-Committees. A useful feature of this latter board is a list of typing services available. At the Hunter end of the Union further boards give space for general publicity.

Faculty noticeboards are generally found near the offices of the faculty, while the Registrar has noticeboards on the ground floor of Hunter Building. On this last board a list of the names and location of all teaching staff may be found.

Newsheet

Newsheet is the weekly publicity bulletin, organised by House Committee, which publishes a weekly calendar of events and other information of interest to students. Copies are distributed each Monday in the Cafeteria and through distribution boxes in the main foyers.

Any student can advertise in Newsheet free of charge; hand copy into the Students' Association office by Thursday for the issue for the following week.

Chaplains

The Rev. John Murray is the chaplain appointed by the National Council of Churches. He represents all major churches except the Roman Catholic, and is not attached to any particular religious society in the university.

The Roman Catholic chaplain is Fr. Matthias of St. Anthony's Friary, Northland.

A full-time Anglican chaplain, the Rev. Peter Stuart, begins his duties in 1965.

The following are the addresses of the main churches:

Anglican (St. Paul's Cathedral), Molesworth St. Thorndon.

Anglican (St. Peter's), Cnr. Willis and Ghuznee Sts.

Roman Catholic (St. Mary of the Angels), Boulcott St.

Roman Catholic (Sacred Heart), Hill St., Thorndon.

Presbyterian (St. Andrew's), The Terrace (Cnr. Parliament Bldgs).

Presbyterian (St. John's), Cnr. Willis and Dixon Sts.

Baptist (Central Baptist Church), Boulcott St.

Congregational (Corner Cambridge Terrace and Lorne St.

Christian Science, Bolton St.

Society of Friends, Moncrieff St., off Elizabeth St.

Churches of Christ, Cnr. Rintoul and Colombo Sts., Newtown.

Salvation Army (Citadel), Vivian St., Cnr. Taranaki St.

Methodist (Wesley), Taranaki St., near Ghuznee St.

Mail

Mail pigeonholes are in the main foyer of the S.U.B. All mail addressed to students care of the university is placed here. It is not recommended that they be used as a Wellington address.

A posting box is also installed and is cleared each afternoon, and stamp-vending machines have also been installed.

Phone Booths

Two phone booths are provided on the ground and first floors of the Union building. Local calls are free, and toll calls can be made through a coin-in-slot mechanism.

Bank

An agency of the Bank of New Zealand is open in the Robert Stout building daily from 11 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. Full details of facilities may be obtained on application to the agency.

Office

The Students' Association office is located on the ground floor of the Student Union. The office staff are always ready to answer student queries. Messages may be left for Executive members, and the office also arranges theatre discounts, the ordering of candid camera photos taken at student dances, and the sale of a wide range of periodicals of special interest to students. Generally capping magazines, literary periodicals, and student newspapers can be bought. Copies of the minutes to Executive, Association and sub-committee meetings can be inspected.