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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 5. 1967.
NZUSA will promote VSA Pacific scheme
NZUSA will promote VSA Pacific scheme
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Vice-Chancellor Dr. Wililams has announced his decision to retire at the end of the year. The executive intends nominating him for Life Membership of the Students' Association.
NZSPA Reporter
Constituent Members of the New Zealand University Students' Association are to raise sufficient money to send five graduate volunteers to the Pacific as a part of the Volunteer Service Abroad scheme.
The motion, put forward by Otago Vice-President Keith Morrison, envisages the various constituent members of NZUSA using the proceeds of Austerity Day to provide the necessary funds. The cost of partially subsidising each volunteer will be £120.
The International Commission of NZUSA urged full cooperation with local VSA committees in helping with the recruitment of the graduates. Members of the Commission felt that the scheme would be of considerable benefit to NZUSA's public relations.
The Commission was told that if NZUSA wanted to restrict its sponsorship to graduates going to Fiji. Western Samoa, or Tonga, this would be acceptable to VSA.
Meanwhile VSA's 154th volunteer left Auckland for Brunei in North-West Borneo. He was Mr. David Mitchell, of Dunedin, who will spend two years teaching in a secondary school.
He has an Otago BA degree and an MA from Canterbury and was a member of the Otago executive.
His departure brought the number of VSA workers now overseas to 67.