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This College, Victoria, has been described variously as a venerable pile, a hotbed of radicalism and a cute little chapel. To accept any of these would be to accept an attitude, so if you are an enterprising Fresher you will walk about it for yourself, say nothing and see everything.
If you stand in the hall where the Big Dogs foregather and you can appear to be credulous and reverent they will look kindly towards you and you will join any of their clubs under patronage. And you are advised to join clubs—mental stimulation or College Spirit are the usual reasons given to support this advice, but, nevertheless, make up your mind to be enthusiastic about something. If you have any Ideas and are prepared to back them against anyone's cynicism you will have a chance eventually to put them into effect, and Victoria needs people with ideas—may be you have noticed that.
Have you Looked into the Art Room yet? As a retreat front the Library, as is peaceful spot to ruminate or eat chocolate bars it is much appreciated but to dig into the piles of
We saw you creep into the Library and stand awed by the mounting shelves of important and dull-looking books, and put a tentative hand out here and there to discover whether it was geography or religion that looked so dusty, and we noticed your rueful eye when you discovered a few of the "missing." Occasionally a blank is filled, so keep one eye always turned towards the New Books shelf as you pass in and out—the other. If you are wise, will be smiling at the librarians. Persistently smiling thus may lead to a little climb up a ladder and the following of an elaborate ritual which will reward you with the privilege of reading lames Joyce or Have lock Ells, who rank, of course, among the "condemned." As an enterprising Fresher yon will need every bit of your enterprise to get the value of your guinea from the Library, Study the plan on the end of the centre table and go whither your enthusiasms lead, but gird yourself against disappointment.
In the common rooms are magazines—old, very old, but you must be grateful for the works of Foundation Members—they did set the pace. That it has lagged horribly is Just too sad. If you are an enterprising person maybe an experiment with cigarette ash once or twice may arouse action. Try it.
The Notice Boards are a free art display occasionally, but an eye for them and a smile for Brookie as you enter the vestibule will assure you of a safe career at V.U.C.
Incidentally, if you feel an urge towards romancing, avoid the stairs, because the click of Brookie's wise and disillusioned fingers will shatter your moment. You may try the art room, the stairs and the halt—even the cafe as a locale for Romance or Argument, bat you will, of course, be hounded out of them all—and then you will ask brightly why there is no common common room, which may, or may not, provoke the raising of some amused or bitter eyebrow. And by and by you will find that through the din of a dance or the ribald flippancy of a debate it is possible to hang on to your intelligence and talk or to parade your charm and flirt. Anyway, there is always the cemetery—a promising site if explored with enterprise.
Freshers approach the University with an almost pitiable veneration for ancient institutions—the sight of a Professor fills them with religious awe: the library is like a cathedral: Brookie remains an insoluble enigma; and putative graduates listen open-mouthed to the sonorous utterances from the lecturers' pulpits, convinced that they are being educated. "Salient" has interviewed the Minister of Finance and the Director of Broadcasting, in an attempt to disclose to freshers the truth about the University.
"'Salient wants the opinions of some competent outside men on the New Zealand University system, Professor." said our commentator.
Professor Shelley smiled. "I suppose you think I ought to be able to speak both as an outside and inside man?" he asked.
"What do you consider the proper function of a University?"
"One of the primary objects of a University is to safeguard and hand on the accumulated knowledge of the ages, and at the same time, to develop the technique of further pursuit
"What do you believe is the most effective method of ensuring this object?"
"The ideal method of developing thought and understanding, of ensuring the Integration of knowledge with human life, is by the free interchange of ideas, and the sharing of points of view by people meeting together in small semi-informal groups.
"I regard the lecture method as inadequate and uneconomic in relation to the educative functions of a University. The best method is for a group of six to twelve people to interchange their views in easy relations with one another, in the presence of someone who is supposed to have learning at his disposal, and who will bring arguments and thoughts back to the path of fact. This method would be more profitable in every way than the lecture method. The lecture method does not sufficiently stimulate intellectual activity in the minds of the listeners, who are necessarily in the attitude of mere absorption."
"What are your views on the subject of free speech at a University? You will remember that public discussion on sex and religion has been banned by our own University authorities."
"Freedom of speech depends upon the discipline of the minds of those entering upon the discussion. It is not sufficiently understood that there are two sides to a speech—its delivery and its reception by the listener. Freedom depends mainly upon the relation between the person who is speaking and his auditors. Where an audience is carefully selected, as in a University classroom, there is no objection at all to free discussion on the subjects you mention, but where the audience is indeterminate, as in a radio broadcast or at a public meeting, the position is entirely different. Freedom of speech is relative to the listener."
"Do you think University students are qualified to speak on international affairs or hold definite political opinions?"
"They are not qualified. Their disqualification does not arise, from any intellectual disability, but from the fact that they are not intimately enough in touch with the various facts involved. We are so far away that it is very difficult for people to understand the values of facts outside the actual environment where the events take place. Things which are accepted by another nation as natural and obvious in their cultural setting may be looked upon by our own people as ridiculous. I am not questioning the intellectual capacity of the students—I am simply saying that the best intellects cannot with any great value discuss such matters unless they are in intimate touch with the social setting of the facts. I think that University students should be more concerned with the discussion of the great principles on which international relations depend rather than the day to day moves that are made on the world's chess-board. I think the attitude of mind or the University students should be open and free, not holding anything in the nature of hard and fast views, otherwise they tend to become what I call intellectually pot-bound'—that is if they circumscribe their thinking with a particular doctrine and try to cram all the roots of human life into it—I fear I am muddling my metaphor—those roots will not be free to grow.
See next week's "Salient" for further interviews.
"The University should be mainly occupied in developing the free and open spirit of inquiry. I know that the tendency is for a person with a limited knowledge or the world—in which category I include the University student—to think that human problems can be solved very much more easily than they really can be and therefore to plunge into some ready-made panacea for the ills that flesh is heir to.
"If a perfect system were set up in a particular country, the young people of the next generation would inevitably try to overthrow that system, in order to satisfy their innate craving for action and adventure. In each generation the life tendency can be seen expressing itself in a different form, and the politicians of a particular era must become sensitive to the form it takes during their regime."
"What is the Government's attitude towards the University?" asked "Salient."
"The Government's attitude to the improvement of the educational system in general and the University in particular is that all facilities at our disposal will be provided, but so that the maximum amount of freedom will be given to the University authorities."
"Should University, students have the right of free speech at University meetings?"
"Certainly they should. The object of the University is to get people to think, and if they can
"Are University students qualified to hold political opinions?"
Mr. Nash laughed.
"Well, what opinions can be held other than political opinions?
"There are religious, social and philosophical questions, and problems of conduct. One of the objects of the University is to provide the environment, together with the material, for the mind to function. Upon the functioning of the mind depends the good or ill of the community. The opinions of University students, however, should not be respected merely because the holders of those opinions are University students—although they may have more facilities than the ordinary man—but should be valued according to their own Intrinsic worth.
"It is my belief that the weight of a certain person's statements., should be judged not only by his status but by
Whether you he rich man; poor man; beggar man: thief.
Whatever obsesses you, be It dress reform, deep sea diving, or darwinism tell us all about it.
Fill yourself full to bursting of Divine Afflatus with 50 horse power apparatus and write for "Salient."
Be assured, all your troubles will vanish as the mists of morning If you pick up your pen dip it in the ink and write.
Let "Salient" be Your Safety-Valve.
At the University every great treatise Is postponed until Its author attains impartial Judgment and perfect knowledge. If a horse could wait as long for its shoes and would pay for them in advance, our blacksmiths would all be college dons.
Old lady, approaching two University students lounging on the front steps in the sun:
"So this is the University?"
Student: "Yes."
Old lady, gazing at the worm-eaten gymnasium: "I suppose that is the
"Smad" is dead. With it is gone the policy which guided it for several years.
The change has been made not because that policy was undesirable but because it was felt the spirit of the times demanded that any suggestion of Olympian grandeur or academic isolation from the affairs of the world should be dropped and should be replaced by a policy which aims firstly to link the University more closely to the realities of the world; and secondly, to comment upon rather than report in narrative style the activities of the College Clubs.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found an expression of the opinion that students are not qualified to hold political opinions. The whole policy of this paper is founded upon a diametrically opposite view For it seems to our staff that unless a sufficiently large and wel-informed mass of public opinion can be formed the world over, and formed within a period of months rather than years, the very academic detachment so forcibly and so often placed before us as the "correct" attitude of the student mind, will.—along with most other things that make a university what it is—be lost forever. Every day things become more critical. The international situation grows worse, not steadily but by leaps and hounds.
New Zealand is only a small place and Victoria College is only a small part of New Zealand. But the influence of a compact body of opinion amongst the students, alive to the significance of events, would be far from small.
It is hoped therefore, that free use will be made of these columns by all who wish to do so. The sole qualification of any article necessary to ensure its publication is its literary merit. The name of the paper is not without significance and we hope that as the weeks go by and "Salient" begins to take its destined place amongst the other College activities, it will prove no empty title.
It is your paper. The Editor and the whole staff will be at your disposal for the purpose of interviews in connection with the journal at definite times each week. Please have no hesitation whatever in castling upon them. Those who do so will find a transformation "n the surroundings formerly associated with the College weekly. For the provision of these pleasant quarters we wish to express our gratitude first to those members of the Students Association Executive who worked to effect the transformation and secondly to the Executive as a whole who have co-operated keenly in getting the new venture under way.
For the rest, its success lies in the lap of the gods, and to no small extent in the hands of the students of V.U.C.
Freshers, we bid you welcome to Salamanca, the place where some of you will continue your education and others will begin it. For it is safe to say that on account of the requirements of the University Entrance Examination, the school life of many has been given a hopelessly academic bias, when it should have been concerned with developing in the widest possible fashion, their interests in non-academic things. In your 5th and 6th form years when you should have been learning how to paint, to write verse, you have been learning Latin verbs. When your emotional development urged that you should spend considerable time listening, say. to the "New World" symphony, you found it necessary to listen to "geometrical illustrations of algebraical identities"—about which no one really cares—————or to the subtle intricacies of "sine a" or "tan theta."
But good people, the point is this. You now have the chance to restore the balance. You will find up here activities which go far beyond the process of learning and which provide for your full development. Those who played all the usual games—Rugby, Hockey, Basketball, Cricket, Tennis, Swimming, Athletics and so on—who are interested in the physical side of their education, will find clubs to cater for their needs.
For those who incline more to the outdoor life, the Tramping Club (which at the present time, thanks to efficient management, is enjoying a successful period) offers an excellent form of activity. The Dramatic and Debating Societies should receive your patronage: and you should lose no opportunity of using the latter to air your grievances and voice your contents.
Thanks to Mr.
Last, and we are afraid least upon the scale of educational media, comes the lecture system—that is. the inculcating device used within these walls, A lecture has been defined as "The name for a fifty-minute process whereby the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either." Whether that is true or not. you will soon be able to judge.
In the meantime, we would point out the difficulty of making a pre-arranged division of your time. Experience alone will enable you to discover what attention you can afford to pay to other activities beside "swot."
One thing, however, is certain, and that is that if you are to resist successfully the fossilizing effect of your studies you will for your own sake, need to take part, in as many different activities, and to lead as full a life, as is possible.
If you need information, or to talk over unofficially with an older student who might help you. questions related to your life at V.U.C.—anything from lectures to "digs," call over to the "Salient" room and ask for the Editor. He'll be only too glad to help if possible.
Now that you are here. "Wikitoria" bids you welcome. Its resources are at your disposal. Go to it freshers!
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This tall grass fidgeted greyly. In-undated, with moonlight, the hill sloped heavily to the inexorable sea. The air was gently and bewilderingly alive. He and she sat close together. couched deeply in the grass and stared at the sea as it flooded in past the dark brooding rocks who always seemed to be pondering about things, but who really didn't because they were only rocks after all.
Just above stood the trees—thick and viscid against the impalpable-sky.
And as they watched they saw him turn, his eyes wide with wonder like a child's, his veins tense with a deep unaccountable ecstasy.
But the trees were not in the least surprised and only looked on in the off-hand kind of way that trees have for they had watched this sort of thing ever since the time they were old enough to see over the heads of the grass and, through the years, they had grown to accept It for what It was, which shows that trees are far, for wiser than you or I have the wherewithal to imagine.
As his eyes widened she lifted her smiling face to the skies, and was glad when the stars laughed back and shone more brightly for their sake. She knew that soon all would be one soft annealing flow its when Solomon sang to Sheba and kissed her Arab eyes.
She waited, her heart pounding as hearts sometimes do. Then he took her and kissed her lips defiantly, to show the moon that the earth was made for youth and for love.
And the trees nodded as they heard him whisper—"Dearest, Just think. We never would have met if you hadn't gone to Freshers Welcome."
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The intention of all students is drawn to the following points:—
Staff will be available— During the day—Mr. E. Robertsun. Evening—7 p.m. onwards on Thursday.
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"Salient" has been informed by the Hon. Sec. of the Students' Association that a letter has been received from the Registrar intimating that the Professorial Board has agreed to refrain from holding any terms examinations during the last three weeks of the first term.
It is unlikely that exams, will be held in the few days after Easter.
The moral is: "Don't be afraid to participate in Capping week functions
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A University Service has been arranged at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral for Sunday 13th March. The Bishop of Wellington will preach and members of the Professorial Board and Students' Association will assist in the service. A cordial invitation is issued to all students to be present at this College function.
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A "Salient" worker was coaxing a graduate to purchase a year's subscription. After ten minutes' work, the graduate at last gave in, and handed were his 3/-.
"Anyway." he grumbled, "why call It Salient? What does it mean?"
"It means outstanding" "replied our worker.
The graduate snorted.
"I wish my subscription was," he growled.
Foreword: Film reviews are intended this year to take their place as a regular ingredient. The inter-relation of cinema and society is so inclusive that it is almost entirely overlooked. Generally it is thought of (if at all) under the head of Entertainment. which means the titillation of jaded senses by brainless coquettes like Joan Crawford or by vulgar ape-men like Clark Gable (who played Parnell without his heard lest it should mar his manly looks).
It is high time that genuine and fearless film criticism became the function of a university paper. What we read in the commercial press is almost always the reprint of blurbs sent in by the makers of the films themselves! Each company is given a free hand to boost its own goods—provided it pays the newspaper proprietors advertising money. And the review space given is directly proportional to the amount of advertising. No wonder every third-class film is hailed as an outstanding masterpiece.
It is hoped in the next issue to publish an article discussing the cinema as an art form and stating a few critical canons.
Ever since I saw "Dead End." I have been ransacking my baring for the reasons that prompted Samuel Goldwyn to produce It. Why should someone who for years has been preoccupied with photographing hair-dressed jezebels with million dollar legs suddenly turn out a first rate piece of realism? A change of heart perhaps, Unlikely. Well maybe someone did it while his back was turned. Maybe. Still it remains as inexplicable as the duck-billed platypus.
For the first time in my experience. a Hollywood camera man was permitted to use his camera dialectically. What I mean by "dialectically" is the presentation on the screen consecutively of opposed graphic ideas (i.e. thesis and antithesis).
For example—in "Dead End"—a blowsy old char pinches a half-eaten biscuit from a kid—while next shot, a 12 year old snob in a stiff collar tips his morning milk on the ornamental shrubs.
The meaning (i.e. synthesis) in implicit but sorely to a wide-a wake mind is as obvious as a roman nose.
The plot retains all the strength and indignation of the stage play. Closely-knit and never descending to sentiment, it is splendidly realistic throughout: e.g. tenement interiors. "Baby Face" and his girl friend.
It had lines which were more revolutionary than any I have heard in a Hollywood picture before.
For the first time picketing was seen in its true light—Remember.
Deena pulls back her hat and says: "See that bump—one of your dirty cops did that today while we were picketing the store and three more girls were hurt bad."
Dave, speaking of the kids, says, "Enemies of society the papers say. What have they got to be so friendly about?"
And "Baby Face" to his girl—"Why didn't you get a Job?" Fransi—"They don't grow on trees."
Still I suppose one has to band the show to the six kids—brought over from the original stage show.
These six boys hold the picture to their own little destinies giving it colour and vitality all too seldom seen in latter purified days. Their speech has been cleaned up. of course, in the transition from stage to screen, their mouths have been washed out with the soap of Legion of Decency, but even under these handicaps the boys manage to make "Dead End" a vivid piece of dramatic literature.
Altogether a memorable show.
As I was being submerged in the avalanche of picture-goers who crowded the exits I heard one stolid little middle-class matron mumble—"Well how'd you like It?'" To which came the reply—"It wasn't very edifying, was it?"
It Just shows you how things are
But as Tommy says: "It all comes from learning." —J.D.F.
What a pity! Really It would have been far more romantic If doddering old Gabriel was killed in a chariot race or had arranged to fall from a flag-pole. Anything to keep up the sorry sham.
The famous
No wonder he died of cerebral hæmorrhage.
Advice to Old Maids:
Be good sweet maids and let who will be clever.
Advice to young. maids:
Be good, sweet maids, and let who will. Be clever.
Positively: Means being mistaken at the top of one's voice.
A copy-writer is a lost literary soul writing in eternal torment because magazines have to be paid to print his stuff.
A film that has for its aim the portrayal of Zola's struggle for truth yet which flagrantly distorts what actually occurred.
A film which is dripping with sentiment like a leaky spout.
A film with some fine sustained overacting.
A film whose emotional crescendo is dependent upon the numbing of the onlooker's critical conscience.
A film which will be a box-office prodigy because people like "Uplift." especially when it's made-to-measure and wrapped up in pretty paper.
Motions Presented for Discussion at the University Debates Last Year.
That Training College is a menace to V.U.C.
That the time is ripe for the abolition of the monarchy.
That Britain should actively support the Spanish Government.
That the legal profession deserves the disrespect of the community.
That freedom in the British Empire is a hollow pretence.
That social violence is necessary in human affairs.
That the establishment of Weir House has been of no benefit to V.U.C.
That Commercial Broadcasting is A menace to N.Z.
That the N.Z. press does not reflect public opinion.
That organised sport in N.Z is a racket.
That the Labour Party justifying its mandate from the people of N.Z.
We met in the Hot Dog. He was devouring, with the appetite of a half-starved animal, one of Angela's large grills. The rough edge of his collar had made a red mark on his neck, and his shirt had the off-white appearance in vogue with the big laundries. His discolored eyes and unhealthy complexion were those of one hopeless and depraved.
Boarding in Wellington is hard enough for one on a good wage, but for a Training College student like my vis-a-vis it is gruesome. Years of stuffy "singles" and squalid "shares" had done their work, and had broken what had once been a gloriously independent spirit. I thought of the hundreds like him. and of their hideous hunted lives; of the pathetic shitting from place to place in the hope of retaining some last shred of decency; of the waning of that hope, and of the final state, the nadir of degradation, when one settles down at last to a boarder's lot the chief characteristics of which are:—
I could write much more about "digs," but It would be sordid and bitter stuff. I have at least conveyed on Impression Of the type of person forming a large proportion of students at V.U.C. and Training College.
Are these shattered, cynical spirits the people to teach the new generation? If not, what is to be done?
In little more than a month, the big event of the 'Varsity year will be upon us and our team will be preparing for the Annual Inter-University Easter Tournament held this year at Auckland. Last year by a supreme effort Victorian managed to get rid of the Tournament Wooden Spoon, some of the teams, notably the Basketball, Rowing and Shooting teams, performed excellently.
In spite of some successes the standard of performance of the V.U.C. teams has been regrettably poor. If it is to be improved this year—and it must be improved—it behooves every person Who has the remotest chance of "making a team" to get into training right away.
There can be little doubt that the teams would be strengthened if all those who were eligible to play for this College were willing to do so. Unfortunately there are always a few who find stronger claims to their services than the claims Victoria. We would urge upon Freshers that there can be no stronger claims than those of your College.
It would be a mistake however, if everyone played for their Alma Mater (old woman) merely because they felt it was their duty to do so. There is more in it than that. Apart From the
Here's hoping that this year will see, not merely better things in sport but the Tournament Shield in our glass case, and at least there Club Championships. It Can be Done.
The most notable achievement of the Seniors was the defeat of the hitherto unbeaten
For the Second XI. Cornish and Johnston have scored centuries, with Sharrock and Fitzerald also batting well. The all-rounders, Parkin and Drake have taken most of the wickets. Parkin did the "hat trick" on one occasion. Fitzgerald and Kirkham have also bowled with some success. Three new members. Whiting, Jarrett and
The Junior B team is a well-balanced side, with all members doing well at times. Macrae, the captain. has bowled well and has received good support from Walker and Taylor-Cannon, Palmer and Sweeney have batted consistently and Bray is developing into a stylish batsman.
The Junior C team confounded the critics recently with a meritorious win over Institute, the leaders of the competition. Centuries have been scored for the team by Campbell and Wells, and Wilton reached the 80's on one occasion. Moore and Porteous have taken many wickets, and Roberts, with shrewd variation of length and direction, has bluffed out a few. Edgley, staging a come-back, has batted and bowled outstandingly well.
All things considered. it can fairly be said that this season is proving a better one than
Results:—
Tournament prospects are brighter than last year. Trials are beginning immediately and with N. A. Morrison, B. M. O'Connor, H. J. Hartley, F. H. Renouf, L. B. Sandford and B. W. Brock eligible the selectors should be able to choose a team capable of extending Canterbury. The girls to play in the trials are S. Phillipps, E. MacLean, L. Mete Kingi, K. Pears, P. Edwards and M. Fletcher.
A. K. Quist, Captain of Australian Davis Cup team and in
Every Wednesday night during the Summer season, the University Swimming club disports itself at Thorndon Baths at its weekly club night Owing, no doubt, to the splendid weather, and the work of an efficient committee the weekly nights have been the most successful for years, with an average attendance of about forty, good fields in all events, and races to please all tastes from that of the learner to that of the putative Weismuller.
The men of the 'Varsity Club are uniformly good—although none are yet up to Tournament standard. More steady training is urgently needed. Since the departure of Mason, Carlyon, and other good swimmers, the younger members have had a hard task to attain to the old standard of excellence, but already a substantial improvement can be noticed, especially in the swimming of Ryan, Rawson, Hamilton and O'Flynn. who are all shaping well in sprint and distance
The women are another story. With the exception of Miss S. Hefford, who should win the Ladies' Breaststroke event at Tournament this year, and Miss M. Ongley, who is improving, they do not approach the average Wellington club standard. Again lack or training is the chief obstacle to their
The C Polo team has been defeated once only in the matches this season and next year should easily win its grade. As the result of practice and increased fitness, the team is now beginning to combine well. The A team met with some overwhelming defeats at the beginning of the season, but the number of goals by which their opponents win is now steadily decreasing. The challenge game between the A and C teams at the Annual Inter-Faculty Carnival, to be held on March 16th at Thornton Baths, should prove very interesting.
The Inter-Faculty Carnival will provide some thrilling races. Besides special handicap events for freshers, two Club Championships will be decided, an Interesting novelty event will be included, and an attractive subsidiary programme has been arranged.
Another unique attraction will be the appearance of Professor Ah Mihk, a Yogi Professor of Occult Science, who will perform a remarkable under-water escape from a sealed and examined sack. This miracle, which rivals the effects of the great Houdin!, is entitled: "A Challenge to Death."
The date—March 16th; the time—8.15 sharp; the place—Thorndon Baths (off Murphy Street). The admission is only 6d., which includes entry fees for the various races.
The V.U.C. Women's Hockey Club last year entered two tennis in the Wellington competitions—one in the A grade and one in the C grade—but it cannot be truthfully stated that they distinguished themselves.
The A team lacked combination, Especially the forwards, who were also too slow in seizing opportunities of shooting, We had some very good players among the backs and halfbacks, but the team as a whole showed great need for improvement and enthusiasm.
The members of the Junior team were for the most part new players, who improved greatly during the season. Towards the end the team was combining well and Showing much more enthusiasm than the Senior team.
The Club is definitely handicapped by its small membership and by its difficulty in practising. A training night was held once a week during the second term. This was quite well attended but unfortunately was almost always held inside, and though we were able to practise stick-work we had no practice in combination.
There is a possibility this year of having a portion of Kelburn Park flood-lift for practising purposes. If we can use this ground there should be a definite improvement both in practices and on the field.
With plenty of practice and enthusiasm the Women's Hockey Club can achieve anything Let's hope that this year it will do something Worth recording.
The G. F. Dixon trophy for
The Annual Meeting of the Club will be held on the 21st.
We started the year well by winning the Basketball Shield at Tournament, chiefly through the enthusiastic support of the Haka Party.
In the Association matches we had our "on and off" spells. We entered a Senior A and a Senior B team, and both teams were well up in their grades in the first round of the draw. but owing to absence of players during the holidays and poor attendance at practices, we lost our place in the second round.
This year we hope to do really well. Many of the players who deserted us last year in favor of Training College are back among us. For the latter half or last season we were lucky to secure the services or Max Riske as coach, and he has kindly consented to coach us for the coming season. Under his guidance, the teams have livened up considerably, and we feel sure they will continue to improve.
The Basketball Club deserves your support. Freshers! Play basketball and keep fit! Don't risk losing that "School girl" figure!
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