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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 4. March 23 1981

[Introduction]

At the third Special General Meeting since Simon Wilson was forced to resign late last year, NZUSA has elected a new president - Derek Shaw of Lincoln.

There were two candidates for the position of president of NZUSA this time round - Shaw, who was standing for the first time, and Gary Stewart of Waikato, standing for the third.

Instead of making an appearance, Stewart simply sent a memo which was read to the meeting by Chairperson Brian Sweeney. In it, Stewart expressed his unwillingness to pay for another airfare from Hamilton to Wellington to see people who, he said, "have already made up their minds, and ask meaningless, insincere questions."

"I am prepared to put my record of pedestrian pen pushing up against that of Derek Shaw's any day," he added.

There was very little further discussion of Stewart's candidature.

In Shaw's initial speech to the meeting, he said that NZUSA was in certain difficulties. It had lost credibility following the last president's forced resignation in the eyes of both its members and the public, he said.