Reconstituted

The first meeting of this reconstituted body was held at Victoria in May of this year. Two delegates from each university were in attendance, in addition to one delegate from each sports council. The meeting adopted the new constitution with relatively few changes. Points of contention were: quorums (after the example set by NZUSA at Christchurch earlier in the year); jurisdiction over sports councils; form of the new executive; and eligibilities. These last will be dealt with by a special committee at future Tournaments.

A special closed-door discussion was held with association Treasurers and the NZUSA Treasurer. The result was that NZUSU gets its finance direct from the various students associations in the future.

Elections were held for positions on the resident executive. NZUSU have a rather charming way of electing officers—the night before all those interested go to a party, and all or most of the positions are decided upon then. The next day a person is nominated, seconded, someone else moves nominations be closed, repeat a few times and hey presto! an executive. Incidentally, this year's executive is: President. B. Boon; vice-presidents, G. Hewitt (sports) and I. H. Boyd (administrative); secretary, Patricia Grieg; treasurer, T. Verhoeven; finance secretary, A. Hassed; tours officer, D. Lind-Mitchell; contests officer, T. Dobble; and J. Perham, T. Gault.

So there it is—a national Sports Union, sports councils, association sports committees, and sports clubs—all so we can chase a ball round a paddock in company with other students.