Exec Motions

The following motions were passed at a Special Meeting of Executive held on Friday 26th March, 1965.

Note: These motions are subject to confirmation at a future ordinary meeting of Executive. In addition, they are not taken from the official record of the meeting (which is of course not available at the time Salient goes to press). However, there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the motions printed below.

That this Executive expresses its firm intention to proceed with the proposed boycott within the next three weeks on the following basis:

(1)	Social work to be done in the morning.
(2)	A procession to Parliament in the afternoon with a view to presenting a petition of student signatures to the Prime Minister and Minister of Education.

Carried 7/1

Dissent: Cornwall

That the Executive, pursuant to the motion passed at the Special General Meeting on 24th March, 1965, adopt the following course of action:

(1)	Set up a committee comprising four persons, to prepare the necessary documentation for the purposes of obtaining the support needed from constituents of NZUSA to obtain student signatures for a petition to the Prime Minister to be presented within three weeks. Matters to be covered being: (a) providing halls of residence, (b) adjusting boarding bursaries in line with cost of living increases, (c) removing anomalies in the present bursary system.
(2)	Set up a committee comprising four persons to consider and determine those details necessary, and the documentation required, to release to all interested parties the reasons for the direction of the Special General Meeting to organise a one day student action.
(3)	Set up a committee comprising four persons to prepare a programme for action, to be presented to the Government; this programme to be closely associated with the documentation for the petition to Parliament.

Carried 7/0

Four members did not vote.

The committees were set up as follows:

Committee One: Helen Sutch, Tom Robins, J. Turner, Mike Hirschfeld

Committee Two: Alistair Taylor, David Shand, R. C. Boshier, Mike Hirschfeld

Committee Three: Murray Boldt, Tim Bertram, Geoff Bertram, and one other.

Andrew Cornwall was an unsuccessful contender for a position on the second committee in the only secret ballot necessary.