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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 6. 1969.

S.G.M. for anti-racial motions

S.G.M. for anti-racial motions

• Crates of bombs in the factory yard await shipment to the United States.

Crates of bombs in the factory yard await shipment to the United States.

A Special General Meeting of the Victoria University Students' Association will be held in two weeks' time to consider motions laid before it by the Anti-Racialist Action Committee.

At an informal meeting held on Sunday, interested students formulated seven motions to be presented at the SGM.

They included two amendments to the constitution of the Students' Assocition.

These were:—

That in line with NZUSA policy on international sport, it be obligatory for all affiliated sporting clubs in their public statements and in their participation in policy-making in the national sporting bodies to which they are affiliated, to state this policy and effectively promote it.

That any sports clubs affiliated to VUWSA which has a member or members who compete in any racially-based sport must expel this member or members and that the penalty for not expelling such members be disaffiliation of the club concerned from VUWSA.

The first amendment will be moved by Owen Gager, president of the Spartacist Club, and the second by George Fyson of the Socialist Club.

A further motion will be moved by Paul Callaghan:

That the Students' Association direct the VUW Athletics Club to make representations through the Wellington Centre of the NZ AAA that all sporting contact with South Africa should cease, and that the NZAAA request the International Athletics Federation to disaffiliate the official white South African body.

Owen Gager will move:

That the Students' Association urge the Government that all restrictions on Fijian immigration into New Zealand be removed.

There are also three motions dealing with the awarding of an honorary degree (LL.D) to the Chief Justice, Sir Richard Wild.

Mr. David Williams will move:

That the VUWSA condemns the awarding of an honorary degree to Sir Richard Wild in view of his statements condoning the legal racial discrimination practised in South Africa.