a hostel dies...

Victoria House "B" (pictured above) will close at the end of this year. It will be torn down and flats built on the site. The hostel's owners, the Women's Hostel Society, are concentrating their activities on Vic "A" hostel, further up the Terrace.

... another grows

A New scheme of associate membership has been instituted at Victoria House. A Payment of Membership Fee of £1 entitles the associate member to meals at reduced rates and use of the hostel for study, coffee-making and other social activities.

There are about 12 members at present and Miss Hislop, the Hostel Warden, who devised the system in co-operation with University Chaplain John Murray, thinks that the scheme is working well enough at present for it to continue until a capacity number is reached.

Other hostels in Wellington and other centers have shown an interest in similar schemes which give students who live at a distance from the campus an extended opportunity to participate in university life.