Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 10. July 16, 1947
[Introduction]
Out of all the hot-air, side-tracking, wise-cracking, eruption and disruption of the Annual General Meeting in its two sessions, some interesting facts emerge. The most important is that the work of the incoming Executive has been delayed for a week, at a time when the preliminary organization of VUC's first Winter Tournament is a matter of growing importance. This delay is an unnecessary burden on an overworked committee. It was found at the second sitting of the AGM that the lawyers of the Association had very effectively led the rest of us up the gum tree at the bottom of the garden path; that a few members with more common sense than rhetoric were justified when they called the question of non-registration a legal quibble; it will be found in the Statement of Accounts for next year that this quibble cost the Association a fairly healthy lawyer's fee. What is perhaps even more significant is the probability that those who originated this spanner in the works knew the situation in time to have the matter rectified before the meeting, as anyone interested in the welfare of the Association would have done.
On nearly all other matters considered by the AGM, much more sanity was displayed, and in some cases even a reasonable amount of speed. The difficulties which face the Treasurer should now be obvious to everyone (since "Truth" has a far larger circulation than "Salient"), and this year's events will, we hope, result in a far more satisfactory situation in the future, whatever scheme is adopted.