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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Issue 3. 15th March [1976]

Questions for $30.50

Questions for $30.50

Dear Editor,

I paid my $30.50 (Stud.Ass.Fee) for this year and learnt sometime last year of the VUWSA's decision to take over the Sweet and Maxwell Bookstore which has since been renamed Victoria Book Centre Ltd.

I do not object to the association's move per se to have an enterprise of its own in the form of a bookshop.

Since student money is involved in the Victoria Book Centre I would like to know exactly how the association's book centre is being run.

At the SGM, Wednesday 10th March the Vice-President said that he saw it fit to discuss the former office manager because she was being paid too much in relation to the job that had to be done. If feat that people who work in the book centre, and who come under the association's jurisdiction (and who may not have a bill of rights like the VUWSA's office staff) may incur the wrath of certain capitalist roaders of the VUWSA's Executive.

In this regard I would like the President to reply to the following in his weekly column in Salient:
i)How many people are employed in the Victoria Book Centre?
ii)What are the respective wages of these individuals?
iii)Who hires and fires staff at the Book Centre?
iv)Is any one person in overall charge of the day-to-day running of the Victoria Book Centre?
v)Is the Book Centre being run on a profit or break-even basis?
viDoes any member of the Executive make money from the bookshop?
vii)Will the committee formed at the SGM on the 10th March have the authority to formalise realtionships between the workers in the bookshop and the employers on the Executive.

I trust the President will give me an answer to each of my questions. If I don't get an answer then SRC is not too far away and the Executive could be in for crisis No.2

Yours sincerely,

$30.50c