V.U.C. and C.U.C. moved the first motion after a report by Mr. P. Brewster on ways of redistributing present bursaries. These colleges and Otago felt that although bursaries had remained constant since 1949, wages and prices had gone up. This, in effect, meant a drop in the effective value of the bursaries.

The chairman (Mr. O'Brien), pointed out that one reason for this wax the emphasis on primary and secondary schools, rather than the university, when considering education budgets and that some move had been made to have university finance handled by the Treasury rather than by the Education Department.

This was election year, claimed A.U.C. If some action was taken on a political level it might have effect. Otherwise, the matter might go no further than it did two years ago when a very full and convincing report was prepared on the topic but was not acted upon by the Government. Chairman: "We very nearly did something recently."

He then explained that the contemplated action was withheld as the Vice-Chancellor wished to have discussions with the executive on the matter of bursaries.