Building Committee.

Your Executive reappointed last year's representatives. . . . . . The Committee has not met. However the past year has been one of considerably greater activity in this respect. During the visit to Wellington of the Director of the Carnegie Institute your Executive attempted without success to obtain a grant from this source. Considerable publicity centred on the project during the Capping Celebrations, and your Executive earnestly recommends that the numerous vague theories at present in circulation be subjected to early and close scrutiny, and if found workable put into operation. The end of the coming year should at least see a site chosen, the plans drawn and an active and continuous convass for funds in progress. During the year the fund has increased from interest, Students' Association grant, proceeds of the Capping Book, sales of "Spike," and grants made by the Dramatic club. Your Executive records its warm appreciation of the Club's action in paying profits from their productions into the New Building Fund, and suggests that it is an example well worthy of emulation by other clubs.

Numerous replacements and repairs have been effected in the Gymnasium, but its annual upkeep is a constant drain on the Association's finances, and its facilities, even when bolstered up to the very limit, are so pathetically inadequate that your Executive appeals to every member to spare no effort in working towards that most cherished ideal of Victoria University College—a new and adequate Students' Union Building.