LACK OF QUORUM

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 8

LACK OF QUORUM

Late Start Of Meeting

Lack of a quorum delayed for an hour the start of the half-yearly meeting of the Canterbury University Students’ Association.

Before the meeting was opened students went round rooms at the university to obtain the requisite 70 members for a quorum. A proposed constitutional change that the number for a quorum be increased from 70 to 100 was approved. At 100 the quorum represented only one forty-fifth of the students, the meeting was told. There had been an increase in student interest in nonacademic matters—a welcome change from the apathy that came in 1962, said the president of the association (Mr D. W. Botherway) in his halfyearly report. Recent publicity given to the Vietnam “teach-in” and the student guide service had more than outweighed public criticism of capping throughout the country. At national level, he said, there had been much criticism of the New Zealand University Students’ Association, in particular of its apparent over-interest in overseas matters to the detriment of the student body it represented. Canterbury’s stand on this had been to press for priorities in inter-university coordination and matters affecting the whole student body before the association directed its energies to the international scene.