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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1930. Volume 1. Number 2.

Hui Marae Club

Hui Marae Club.

What's in a name? Certainly there ought to be sufficient in the name of Hui Marae to arouse even the most apathetically resigned woman student to activity. The Women's Club having died a natural death, the Hui Marae, armed with noble ideals and fired with terrific energy, has valiantly stepped into the breach.

Though yet in its tender infancy, it soon hopes to have every woman student of this College as an active member. Women, protect your own property, fight for your rights, right your wrongs, and join the Hui Marae Club! The time has now come when exertion is necessary, and when an intelligent interest ought to be shown by the women at the Annual General Meetings. The aim of the Club is to make itself felt and heard throughout the life of the College, and this noble aim can only be achieved by the united strength of the vast number of women students.

The third term means for all of us nothing but nerve-racking, endless examinations, so the social activities of the Club for the remaining year will be somewhat limited.

The Club wishes to point out that the women of the College are suffering under a gross injustice of which the large majority of them are entirely ignorant. In the forthcoming College of Electors the women will have three (3) votes and the men a mere thirty-one (31) votes. This, of course, means that the women on next year's Executive will be placed there by the men of the College. This state of affairs is preposterous, and the Hui Marae Club intends to wield the banner of "Women's Franchise." If the Club increases its membership the Students' Association has promised it an extra vote We thank them for their generosity, but at the same time we wonder whether a minority of four (4) is really more desirable than a minority of three (3).

Thus, blazing with righteous wrath and burning with divine energy, we proudly sign ourselves,

—The Hui Marae Club.