The following is an outline of a proposal drawn up by a subcommittee of the New Zealand students Arts Council which suggests that in August of 1977 there be a National Arts Festival held here at Victoria.

"The festival", the report says, "should be a consumer-type festival, with a basic function cultural exchange between student and non-student artists and cultural groups. The festival will also host international artists. The festival should be a large budget commercial proposition adequately financed rather than a shoestring attempt that would be bound to fail."