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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

Massey stand firm on mag sales

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Massey stand firm on mag sales

Massey students have left the way open for discussion on the "capping magazine" crisis which recently threatened the stability of relations between New Zealand universities.

The controversy, which received considerable publicity in the New Zealand press, arose last term when Massey students sold their magazine in Auckland, Wellington, and in the northern part of the South Island.

At the 1965 Winter Council meeting of the New Zealand University Students' Association the area for the sale of "Masskerade" was defined as between Levin and Cambridge.

This year in both Auckland and Wellington 6000 copies of Masskerade was defined as Auckland students seized 300 copies of Masskerade from sellers and destroyed them.

At the annual general meeting of the Massey University Students' Association on Wednesday July 6, the president, Mr. A. Harrison, said Auckland students had paid Massey £37/10/- for the destroyed magazines.

Commendation

At the AGM a motion was passed commending the association's executive on its handling of the controversy and confirming the policy of the association to sell Masskerade in areas not saturated by sales of other capping magazines.

An attempt to amend the motion to state that Massey would continue to sell Masskerade throughout the North Island and in northern South Island areas was defeated on the grounds that this would excessively bind delegates to the 1966 Winter Council where the controversy will be discussed.

Mr. Alan Bell, who moved the original motion, said the sale of Masskerade was a profitable business for the university and unsaturated markets should be explored.

As a young university Massey needed the revenue from capping magazine sales to help provide student facilities, he said.

In the discussion on the Masskerade problem which lasted for nearly an hour, only one student suggested Massey should withdraw from NZUSA if discussions failed to satisfy their delegates.

In speaking for the continued large-scale sales of Masskerade, students said neither Auckland nor Wellington universities had reached the full potential of their markets.

The president of the Canterbury Students' Association, Mr. John Anderson, attended the meeting and after the passing of the motion said such squabbles over capping magazine sales as had arisen this year should not be allowed to continue.

Mr. Anderson said he agreed the division of areas for the selling of capping magazines was not perfect and that more discussion was needed.

Fullest Potential

"We are using the Christchurch market to its fullest potential and another capping magazine being sold there would severely affect our sales," he said.

Mr. Anderson said leaving NZUSA would not be a solution to the problem, which is an inter-constituent one.