Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948

Public Appeal for Building Fund

Public Appeal for Building Fund

The official Association Building Appeal Organising Committee has met and decided on action. At a meeting held on July 29th, it was decided after some discussion that the public appeal for £30,000 for the new student union building should be held this year.

Since the Committee first met last February, a considerable amount of fruitless debating has been held on whether or not it is possible to get the general public in a state of mind sympathetic to the students of Victoria College, and it is therefore a matter for some gratification that the appeal will go forward this year.

It should be understood that this Appeal Committee is distinct from the Committee responsible for the present student appeal in the College, which has been accompanied by the well-known atmospheric and barometric disturbances in the main hall. The official Appeal Committee consists of Mr. H. R. C. Wild (chairman), Sir Thomas Hunter, Professor I. A. Gordon, Messrs. T. D. M. Sout, J. M. Ilott, R. Bradshaw, W. G. Rodger, M. J. Mason, K. B. O'Brien, H. C. Evison and the Rev. Martin Sullivan, and is the committee responsible for a public appeal which is expected to provide the bulk of the building fund.

An experienced full-time organiser will be appointed shortly. He will plan the final details for a three-months' appeal, the opening date of which has been fixed tentatively at 10th September.

The enthusiasm with which present students will be able to offer assistance in the large amount of routine organising and publicity work involved in a public appeal such as this, will be an important factor in its success—and on its success our hopes of a new building must ultimately rest.