Tim Bertram

A Fifth year B.Com., Aranz student completing professional accountancy, Tim Bertram has been a marine engineering cadet, a former manager of the Mt. Cheeseman ski-ground and is at present employed with a firm of Public Accountants. He is treasurer of the Debating Society and a member of the House, Accommodation, and Education sub-committees. As well as being a former Plunket Medal Contestant he represented VUW in Joynt Scroll 1963.

He is also membership-secretary of the Wellington Accountant Students' Society and a committee member of the Wellington PubLic Accountants' Employees Union.

In offering myself as a candidate for the position of Men's Vice-President I would draw your attention to the urgent need of a healthy student executive. The student body, at the present time, faces the serious problems of accommodation, little say in the running of the Student Union Building, and the urgent need of a bookshop on the campus. These policy points, and others, with which I am particularly interested, and intend to pursue if elected to office, are as follows:

• Accommodation. This problem, with the expected increase of students, gets more serious year by year and requires urgent consideration at executive level. Public Relations with an unfriendly public must be pursued and a tenant-guarantee service needs to be provided to increase the willingness of property owners to let accommodation to students. Bursaries, if increased, would also help meet this problem.
• Bursaries. This Association should be demanding an increase in the boarding allowance. It ts inequitable that the cost of living differential, recognised by the court of arbitration in wage orders, should not also be appLied to bursaries, which might be adequate in Dunedin but miserably fail to meet Wellington's high cost of living.
• Student Union Building. The idea that students have an equal say in the management of the Student Union Building is a misconception. It is high time that some action was taken to ensure a change of or greater student representation on Management Committee. Students should have more control of the facilities partly provided from student funds.

• Bookshop. This needs thorough examination. I personally think it possible for the University to run its own bookshop, or at least one stocking only paperbacks if nothing else. Whatever the outcome of who will run and own the bookshop, we need one on the campus.

  Other policies which I particularly favour are an amended constitution, to allow for a more efficient executive organisation, and a "Salient" scholarship to obtain a paid editor for 'Salient' in order that mid-year editorial resignations might be avoided and to establish a high standard of campus Journalism.