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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 11. 1964.

Second Floor

Second Floor

(1) Dining Room Extensions:

The planning sub-committee were faced with providing more seats in the existing ground floor dining room or providing an additional lining room elsewhere in the building. It is recommended to the Management Committee that a further Dining Room be provided on the new second floor in such a way that part of the room may be, on special occasions, screened off to provide a private dining room for use by the Students' Association and members of the University staff.

The new dining space on the second floor will provide additional seating for approximately 140 persons. The total number of eating places provided in 1967 will be 650, this is equivalent to 12 per cent of the student population seated at any one time. In 1963 only 10 per cent of the students could be seated in the Dining Room at any one time and because of increasing student enrolment even with the planned extensions to the eating facilities this position will be reached again in 1969. Beyond 1969 the Union facilities will be overcrowded at lunch-time and the planning sub-committee have asked the University planners to include a snack bar in the Physics and Earth Science Building due to be built at the end of this decade. The student roll in mid-1970s will be approximately 8000 (predominantly full-time students) and members of the sub-committee suggest at that stage the major portion of the present Union building would become a refectory block. A new Union building incorporating common rooms, committee rooms and other facilities might be built (probably in Wai-te-ata Road next to the Library) if the pressure on the Union increases as suggested by current trends.

It is anticipated that, when the proposed extensions to the Union are completed, the dining room contract will be re-negotiated. It is planned to offer a wider range of services including extended evening opening and weekend opening to provide for students studying in the Library. The dining room extensions will enable the existing dining room to be used for catering for nonuniversity functions as at the present time (so helping to keep the price of student meals as low as possible).

(2) Common Room: A new common room is planned for the second floor. The area set aside is approximately 50 per cent larger than the area of the existing common room. The Committee have recommended that part of this area be carpeted and the furnishings chosen to make this room more attractive than the existing common room. It is possible to subdivide part of this room if future Students' Association executives should so wish, to make room for other facilities.

A small kitchen for the use of clubs meeting in the common room has been included in the plans.

(3) Music Room: To meet the requests of individual students and several clubs a music room is planned. This is large enough to enable a jazz group or a string quartet to practice and can be used as an additional committee room when required.

(4) Activities Room: An Activities Room for the general use of student groups has been included, this area, approximately 400 sq. ft., is large enough to cater for discussion groups of 30 students.

(5) Services: Toilets; and a kitchen linked to the ground floor by a dumb waiter lift have been included to service the Common Room and Dining Room.