The report of the Victoria College delegation (Maurice O'Brien, Paul Cotton and Val Jones) was an interesting document and certainly seemed to be much more comprehensive in coverage than the Reports submitted by the other bodies. Under the Head of Peace Council it reiterated its report of August last which informed Conference that it had refused to send delegates to the Peace Conference and noted that the special general meeting called to oppose it in this action lapsed for want of a quorum. It was a pity I believe not to mention also that Victoria Stud, Assn. accepted an invitation to the Youth For Peace Conference hold in the third term of last year. Under the head of ISS, it reported that "the current Victoria attitude on the rather involved question of Student Relief seems to be that we stick to what we have at the moment." This certainly is the attitude of the Executive here now, but from conversations about the College I am quite sure that it is by no means unanimous. (See Page 6 of No. 1 of Salient for this year).

On the position of Victoria College with respect to the International Union of Students the report mentioned the sending of three delegates by the College who were also observing for the New Zealand Student Labour Federation. "As might be expected," the statement continued, "the attitude of their reports differed somewhat from the Miller Report." This report (i.e., VUCSA. observer's one) will not be cyclostyled but is available for perusal, together with the Miller Report. Quite an extraordinary statement follows this one. "There is no current move at VUC to urge NZUSA to reafflliate to IUS." Of course it may be that such a move is not recommended by the present Executive, but the delegation ought to know that such a step has long been advocated by members of the Socialist Club in the College and at the New Zealand Student Labour Conference being held at the same time, Just such a proposal was suggested by the Victoria delegation as desirable in all the Colleges.

Our Editor—Again

Under the heading of Internal Affairs the Report noted that the publication of Spike had been suspended for the time being. The report has an illuminating paragraph on the question of "Salient." "It is expected that the policy of the paper may undergo a change under the guidance of the new editor." Mr. O'Brien should have known that at the very first meeting of Salient held this year the new Editor of Salient himself seconded the motion of Conrad Bollinger which pledged staff support to the thirteen-year-old tradition of the paper.

The report made mention of its activities in connection with the South African Medical Scholarship scheme.

Bursaries

Certainly the most important remit of the Auckland delegation concerned the Issue of bursaries: "That in-view of the Court of Arbitration's findings on the rapidly rising cost of living, representations be made in the appropriate quarters for a review of all scholarships and bursaries, particularly those which purport to completely support a student and those for students living away from home."

Liquor at Congress

A number of remits and resolutions were received from the Student Congress held at Curious Cove. Among these were that in future NZUSA be recommended to hold Congress permanently late in January, and that Congress be held at the Curious Cove site in the years 1952, 1953 and 1954.

It was also recommended but not adopted that liquor be allowed on Congress site at the discretion of the Controller and the Steering Committee alone with regard to the following points: That liquor be distributed in glasses only: that the distribution be only at meal times; that there be no other consumption of liquor other than as mentioned above.

Congress Resolved

Conference agreed to the holding of Congress at Curious Cove in January for the next three years. Most of the Student Congress For Forum resolutions were treated simply as an expression of opinion and lapsed for lack of support. In particular, two Student Forum resolutions moved by Arch Matheson and Betty Dibble of Victoria were passed over in this way. Arch Matheson's motion was that this Congress urge the N.Z. Government to give greater aid to South East Asia. Betty Dibble promoted the resolution, "That the challenge to our way of life made by the Communist ideology should be met by the widespread endeavour to understand it; to compare the ideal with the facts of its practice and to encourage discussion and publication to these ends rather than by suppression as in Australia and vague prejudiced propaganda against it, and often untrue statements about it." Although it was a pity that these and other resolutions dealing with less immediate questions quietly expired, it was very pleasing to note that Forum Resolutions 3 and 9 were considered, at least. Miss Sinclair of Otago had moved the resolution recommending that "examination marks in all subjects be made known." This was acted upon by Conference and a grievance worrying a large number of students was ventilated thoroughly; representation will be made to the Senate by the executive. The discussion which took place on the expulsion of Indian student "Pat" Charma by the N.Z. Government, was quite unsatisfactory, at least as far as the student press was concerned. Conference went into committee for 10 minutes on the motion of the AUC delegate (Britain and the Iron Curtain was Rung Down). If Conference was satisfied by the explanations given there are a great number of students in the colleges who are going to ask Why? very insistently in the coming months.

Perhaps of greatest moment to sportsmen here and at the other colleges was Victoria-sponsored proposal to investigate the continuance of Winter Tournament. It posed the question: Was Tournament fulfilling its function? As far as it is possible to ascertain the matter is still unsettled and will come up again at the next conference in August.

(But this motion was in the terms of Old Timer's letter in issue 1: i.e., to lead students in the fulfilment and maintenance of rights and duties, keep students informed of events important to them inside and outside the College, act as an honest muck-raker in commentary on national and international affairs, stimulate intellectual controversy and to create a VUW-consciousness by making students aware of the College's traditions, etc—Ed)

(This meeting continued for 19 hours and the minutes run into 18 pages, and since further matters were probably discussed more information is being sought.—Ed.).