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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Volume 40, No. 5. 27 March 1977

Marshall gets pay cut

Marshall gets pay cut

Then came a Mr Christie who wanted Union Management to employ a Deputy Marshall (of the John Wayne type—not anyone of the stature of Gyles Beckford or Steve Underwood) to enforce the smoking ban in the cafeteria. $500 was to be paid to this intrepid fellow, plus a $50 weapon allowance. Bruce Robinson informed us that physique was not necessary for such a job, as from his experience as a cleaner, he had deduced most smokers to be extremly short persons, for the butts were inevitably on the floor rather than in the ashtrays.

Asked how he envisaged the enforcement should be done, Mr Christie said he didn't care whether the Marshall stuffed the cigarette down the offenders throat or used a spray can of 'femme fragrance' as long as he did his job. He said it was obvious that beer group pressure was not working so that some action needed to be taken. An amendment reducing the money involved to $50 was lost, and a close vote on the motion proper saw it bite the dust—or ash.