Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 16th, 1949.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Sir.—Sympathetic as I am towards your need for good and interesting copy for Salient, I feel I must ask an apology of you for an incorrect reference to me appearing on page 3 of Salient's issue of February 23.

As a journalist, may I remind Salient (usually so willing, often justifiably, to condemn the rest of the world's Press) of the absolute necessity for accuracy in its reporting. Congredients, after Mr. Combs, were at any rate convinced of this.

As a political science student, may I suggest that if attempts be made to tabulate student voting at Curious Cove or elsewhere, they should be made by competent observers who can and do distinguish yea from nay.

And as a student who happens to know no more than the average student about W.F.D.Y., I should like to state that, far from voting in favour of the affiliation of N.Z.U.S.A. with that body, as Salient reported, I on the contrary seconded a motion that consideration of affiliation be deferred until N.Z.U.S.A. had sent a representative to the triennial congress of the federation this year. Since this motion was, after discussion, ruled out of order as contradicting the original motion, I am scarcely likely to have voted for the latter.—Yours etc..

Pauline M. Hoskins.

P.S.: No, I hold no grudge against Salient for the verbatim report of portion of my remarks—it sounds to me a most faithful reproduction.

[We are very sorry, Pauline, for getting your affiliations all mixed up.—Ed.]