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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 19, No. 1. March 2, 1955

Forum at Congress

Forum at Congress

Owing to the large number of motions placed before the forum this year, It was necessary to hold a second meeting on the final day of the NZUKA Congress. These meetings at Congress are the only opportunities for students to meet on a common ground and discuss items of both national and International importance, apart from the NZUSA Council meetings which are confined to the College representatives. It has been the custom In the past to forward to the Easter Council meeting of NZUSA any motions which have to be dealt with at a higher level. Much concern was voiced at the forum this year at the apparent lack of attention paid to these motions by the delegates. Two reasons have been given for this: one, that the motions were not discussed with sufficient seriousness at Congress and were passed in a spirit of levity; two, before a motion is discussed by the Council it mat first be token up by one of the Colleges present, and this support has not been readily forthcoming, probably because of the first reason.

Whether these arguments were valid in the pant or not we are not sure, however, as an attempt to bring the Congress motions closer to the eyes of our College executives and through them to NZUSA Congress has appointed representatives to the various colleges and also to NZUSA. All those who attended the last Congress will hope that their efforts will bear fruit, as much thought was put Into the phrasing and merits of the motions.