Students Demand Increases

The proposals mentioned above were adopted unanimously at a General Meeting of the VUC students' Association on the motion of Ron Smith, Secretary of the Student Labour Federation, seconded by Jim Battersby, Secretary of the N.Z. Student Christian Movement. They were also adopted in principle at the Annual General Meeting of the Auckland Students' Association and by the Winter Conference of NZUSA. The latter body appointed a subcommittee to investigate them but at the time of writing the report of this committee has not become available. So far as is known no representations have yet been made by NZUSA to the Government.

At the recent Student Congress in Curious Cove the question of bursaries was again discussed and the following resolution was carried unanimously: That this Congress considers that University bursaries should be increased in value and number and the whole Bursary system rationalised. It urges NZUSA 1o expedite its submissions on this subject to the Government and to request that NZUSA be represented on the Conference of Bursaries proposed by the Scientific Manpower Committee to represent the student point of view,"

In an age of science and large-scale Organisation". New Zealand needs scientists, engineers, economists writers, artists, etc. The Report on Scientific Manpower, referred to above reveals the vast increase in chemists and other scientists that has occurred in the past period. There is no reason to think that this rate of growth will diminish in the future. Students studying to meet these needs must not suffer financial hardship and must be enabled to study full-time. In Britain this has been recognised in the Barlow and Percy Reports.

The matter is urgent. NZUSA must hasten in its task and at the, earliest date present to the Government the student's point of view on the question of an improved Bursary scheme in New Zealend.