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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 9. 1962.

Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

The A.G.M. of Thursday, June 21, swiftly developed into a sounding-ground for all sorts of diatribe and abuse; hurled from one side of the theatre to the other.

The minutes of the 63rd A.G.M., of the two earlier S.G.M's, the reception and adoption of the 64th Annual Report were quickly dealt with. Then came the Report of the Provisional Exec. Self-appointed spokesman William Dwyer rising to his feet, started accusing his fellow interim-Exec. members of being "traitors", "back-stabbers" and "more disgraceful (in their attitudes toward the S.G.M. resolutions) than the previous Exec." It appears that the interim Exec. wanted to incorporate into the report a motion to the effect that demonstrations be discontinued.

Something had to give. Once past the Report of the Provisional Exec. factions quickly developed; Dwyer and his men placed against the left-hand side of the Theatre, ex-Exec. members and supporters arranged against the right-hand side. Criticism and invectives were being freely exchanged, and upon the motion:

That the Exec. shall, and is bound to, organise orderly demonstrations on the fees issue which are to be held until fees are lowered to or below the 1960 scale of fees being put, chaos broke out. After much discussion, the motion was put and carried, 89-45.

Mr Tony Pointon then got in a motion to the effect: That this Association has confidence in the evicted Exec.