SGM Called on Graduands' Dinners

A special general meeting has been called to discuss subsidies for graduands' dinners.

The Meeting has been called by three members of the Executive—Leslie Jacobs, Graeme Nesbitt and Denis Phelps—to discuss a motion which reads "that there be no subsidy on graduands' dinners for 1970".

This motion arises from a motion carried at an Executive meeting on 14 April. That motion read "That the Graduates' dinners be subsidised in 1970 to the extent of two dollars per graduand" Leslie Jacobs and Messrs Phelps and Nesbitt dissented from the Executive motion.

Last year, subsidies for graduands' dinners amounted to $780. Margaret Bryson said that Capping Ball profits should be use to subsidise graduands' dinners. Denis Phelps said that the use of Capping Ball profits was completely irrelevant to the question of subsidies for the dinners. Only about half of the graduands attend the dinners, he said.