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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

Holyoake attacked

Holyoake attacked

Salient Reporter

"I Do Not Believe this association should prostitute the academic tradition for any financial gain whatsoever."

This Marked one of the more fiery moments of last week's annual general meeting.

The Speakers were discussing a motion that the association publicly express its protest at the granting this year of an Hon. LL.D to Mr. Holyoake.

The remark was representative of the note of bitterness shown in the speeches.

Another speaker referred to "this gentleman who is of culture and breeding somewhat bereft."

One demanded to know why the decision to award the degree had been kept secret.

"The decision was made three weeks prior to graduation. Why was this kept secret?" he asked.

The motion was carried by 57 votes to 10.

The meeting, which was attended by about 100 students and lasted for seven hours, dodged the Auckland security issue.

It was 1.30am when the topic was reached, and the meeting deferred this and other topics to a meeting to be called within one month.

A motion that the Vuwsa secretary be paid an honorarium of £100 per year met a similar fate. It was strongly supported by former secretaries Messrs. A. Taylor, R. Lawrence and M. King.

But the meeting endorsed a motion setting the 1967 students' association lee at £6/10/-.

Mr. H. Rennie, editor of Salient, explained that in 1964 students had voted for a fee of £8/10/- per year, but that in 1965 the university, had agreed to collect only £6.

"At the end of 1965," he said, "the executive merely asked the university to collect an extra 10/- this year."

He suggested that unless the 1964 motion was replaced by one limiting the fee to £6/10/-, future executives could repeatedly raise the fee without consulting students until they reached the £8/10/- limit.

An attempt by former accommodation chairman. Mr. G. Bertram to raise the fee to £7 was rejected by the meeting. The extra 10/- would have been allocated to student accommodation.

The association will make submissions lo the Statutes Revision Committee in opposition to the Government's proposal to award voting rights to persons in the armed forces on active service overseas

A motion declaring Vuwsa's opposition was carried by 67 votes to one. It was proposed by Mr. G. Currie.