Grave Doubts about the future of Easter tournament were expressed by members of the NZUSU sports council at their Easter meeting.

Many Delegates saw Easter tournament fast approaching unmanageable proportions as regards sole student organisation. Some delegates even suggested the extreme solution of disbanding Easter tournament in favour of small sports meetings between individual university sports clubs.

Easter tournament has fast become an institution of top importance in the university sports calendar, but as time goes on the tournament is involving greater and greater numbers of people in giving up more and more of their own time. John Hutton, controller for the Otago Easter tournament admitted that he had little chance for study outside attending lectures and he knew that many of his colleagues on the organising committees were in much the same position.