Otago students can book travel tickets, hand in dry cleaning, bank money—all without leaving their Union.

Under Union manager Mr. J. Abbott, their Student Union has become a home for commercial enterprise as well as a meeting and eating place for students.

Further expansion is intended, "We aim to offer in due course a pretty complete range of services," Mr. Abbott told a Salient reporter recently.

Otago's Union is a long one-storey brick building, with a mezzanine floor of offices and a hall at one end. It will eventually be in the centre of the university campus, but at present the only university building nearby is the library.

Many of Otago's students live as close to the university as the Union. A thousand students live in hostels, with common room facilities and dining rooms. The medical and dental students have cafeterias of their own at their schools.

When Completed, Otago's Student Union will look like this. A view along the cafeteria toward the common room, which projects forward to conceal the hall behind.—Critic block.