Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978

Get it while you can?

Get it while you can?

Some people might remember a strong bid by most exec members to deny the travel expenses of Vic delegates to NZUSA policy workshops in Christchurch. They lost and four people were elected at SRC to go (Massey sent 25). Some people might also remember that Wellington airport was closed on the relevant Saturday,

Now it so happens that all four delegates were given their flight money on the Friday and only one of them actually flew down that night. The rest couldn't get there, but on Monday where was the money? Obviously there was no dire need to get it back, but it transpires that one member of the delegation, the education rep Sue Cairney didn't have it anymore. Her promise to pay it back when bursaries came out is not, methinks, a suitable excuse for having spent it in the first place.