Massey Book To Be Sold In Auckland

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 5

Massey Book To Be Sold In Auckland

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, April 16.

An Auckland City Council decision tonight to allow Massey University students to sell their capping book in Auckland on Thursday drew criticism from the Auckland University Students’ Association capping controller, Mr R. S. Rudman.

Commenting on the decision, Mr Rudman said that the students considered it a gross injustice that the city traffic committee, which made the decision, should allow Aucklanders to be cajoled into financing capping celebrations 300 miles away in Palmerston North, to the detriment of the local capping He' said that the ruling amounted to a reversal of last years policy. Mr Rudman said the Auckland student charity collection of $7OOO made up onethird of the income of the community chest in 1967. All the activities of capping week were financed from the sale of the capping magazine. The acting chairman of the

traffic committee. Sir Keith Park, agreed that approval for the Massey magazine to be sold was a reversal of last year’s decision. “This was a majority decision,” said Sir Keith Park. “Most of the committee felt that as Massey is a national university which is allowed to sell its capping book in other centres, it was entitled to the same privileges allowed the local university.”