Change of name?

The Governor-General and law student Hamish Hancock have been appointed co-joint patrons of the VUW Atheist Society, subject to their consent within 24 years.

This was decided at the society's AGM on 28 May.

Another motion directed the secretary to write to the N.Z. Geographic Board asking that Christchurch's name be changed because of religious connotations.

This motion has received publicity on radio and TV.

The AGM also congratulated those students who smashed a gravestone in a Palmerston North cemetery at Easter.

Niel Wright is the society's new president. The society will continue the weekly discussion meetings which were successful last year.