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In a Budget not noted for great concessions — categorised by one economist as "totally lacking in imagination"—universities gained several valuable concessions:
• Tax deductions up to £500 for donations by companies to universities for research purposes.
• Masters' bursaries rise from £100 to £150
• Third year fees and allowance bursaries rise from £60 to £80.
• Boarding bursary rises from £80 to £125.
• Hostel subsidies rise from 66⅔ per cent to 80 per cent.
• Introduction of a 10 per cent loan scheme for hostels.
All measures come into effect immediately and the hostel scheme applies to hostels being currently built.
An attempt to predict the effect of these measures must be partly based on guesswork.
The research donation provision should stimulate some donations, but the ceiling will discourage one donor from sponsoring a whole research programme. Individuals are not eligible for the concession. Universities will have to actively solicit donations, as the scheme is more an argument than an automatic incentive.
Hostel schemes should now spring ahead. It is unlikely that the government will use its new veto powers on building against hostel schemes.
Some schemes may grow in size. Otago has collected £200,000 to finance a £600,000 hostel. The same sum could now finance a £2,000,000 scheme.
The Sharp rise in boarding bursary will help bridge the gap between possible earnings and essential expenditure which now affects many students.
Still untouched are bursary anomalies, the standard and size of university building schemes, and university salary scales. However Mr. Kinsella has announced that bursary anomalies are under review.
What prompted government action? Many factors appear to have combined against the Government.
The quiet anger of student protests on a large scale in Auckland, Dunedin and (in particular) Wellington are known to have concerned the Government.
Protests have come from other strong organisations, including the National Party Annual Conference, the Association of University Teachers, the Federation of University Women, and the Wellington Watersiders' Union.
One of the most potent forces is believed to have been the way in which the situation has been brought home to the Government in places not normally associated with student protest.
Graduation ceremonies this year caught the Government unprepared.
At Otago Mr. Hanan's platitudes found a hostile reception.
"One thing Mr. Hanan can be pretty sure of is that he won't be invited back again to insult intelligent people with political drivel," one Otago student wrote of his performance.
At Victoria, the Chancellor, Sir
(The "Dominion," it may be noted, so appreciated the importance of the speech that it reduced it to a couple of paragraphs.)
Yet even the "Dominion" did its bit to shake the government. In an editorial, it denounced students' methods, but acknowledged the justice of the student case, and in this the "Evening Post" concurred editorially.
We started with everyone apathetic or against us. With one budget past, we are on the way.
It is useful to pause and consider methods.
We may need them again.
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Late News, Letters ... 3
South Africa Sport ... 4
Wellington's Kings Cross ? ... 5
MRA Reply ... 7
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Reviews ... 10
Short Story ...11
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The Budget ... 16
Salient Reporter
Security police have been checking on Victoria students — and they seem to have received the traditional student "runaround."
Information believed to have been "revealed" to them bears no relation to the actual facts.
But students supposed to have been involved have clammed up when approached for details.
"I've my family and future to think of," one student told this reporter.
It is believed that Security Intelligence was particularly interested in the political affiliations of students engaged in recent protest movements, and the political composition of the outgoing executive.
Presumably it is by methods such as this that pro-government newspapers obtain the "leaked" information which enables them to make assertions like the following:
"At least 13 avowed members of the New Zealand Communist Party and people who are believed to be members of the party have been actively promoting some of the demonstrations against the government." (N.Z. Sunday Times, 6/6/65.).
Just how far Security Intelligence has penetrated the strange world of student politics may never be known. One of the persons involved has told Salient that it is his firm belief that Security Intelligence has contacts in the university.
However, he was unable to produce names or other proof of this.
Operating from offices in Hawkestone Street, the organisation is stated to have only nine full-time employees. However, just how many "stringers" and contacts it has cannot even be guessed at.
In addition, the organisation can call upon personnel from the police and the armed forces when required.
During a recent debate, a student approached Salient with the allegation that a security policeman was present.
It was not, however, possible to substantiate this claim.
What is clear is that information has been sought on student activities and probably still is.
One prominent campus conservative is supposed to have been described as "a Communist."
Any students who have been contacted by or encountered security intelligence in any way are requested to contact either of Salient's editors.
My Attention has been drawn to the article headed "Yankee Go Home," accompanying photographed letter, and the editorial in Salient of June 15, 1965.
I do not propose to deal with the snobbish editorial written from such a dizzy height above mere school certificate.
First I shall make a general comment. Many people who, for one reason or another, are not suitable for permanent entry to New Zealand endeavour to use temporary permits as a lever. We have good and well documented reasons for keeping entry permits under very strict supervision though I doubt if we are quite as strict as some other countries such as the United States. Also, the consequences of over-staying an entry permit can be so serious to the individual concerned, again in countries like the United States as well as here, that the conditions upon which a permit is granted have to be stated with particular clearness. This is done in the best interests of the recipient. There is also a considerable difference between a letter which is no more than a follow-up or confirmation of an interview where the points have been more fully discussed and a letter written in other circumstances.
The letter in question is not "imperious." It is a business letter following an interview and should not be read apart from the context of the interview. The letter is explicit and the recipient would have cause to complain if it were not explicit. It is a letter from the Secretary of Labour irrespective of who signed it. It gives correct information. It is clear on all points on which the recipient has a right to expect clearness The function of a letter is to be adequate to the particular circumstances. In the light of his interview Mr. Stone found the letter adequate and said so.
Mr. Stone applied for a permit to stay in New Zealand until December 15, 1965 and was granted a permit for the full length of time applied for. He has made no other application that I am aware of. His mind was set at rest on April 21. By letter of April 23 he expressed his thanks in generous terms and there has been no subsequent complaint from him. He is going home at the time he nominated. It surely takes a lot of immaturity to get an emotional boil-up out of such a humdrum set of facts.
In my experience it is a normal courtesy on the part of the Press when dealing with allegations of such a kind to check with the Department before and not after publication. Representatives of the Press are always welcome in my office. I have found them responsible and confidence-worthy, and their questions are answered as fully and frankly as possible.
Acting Secretary of Labour
June 16, 1965.
I sympathise with a certain lecturer who has the misfortune to have the same name and initials as a politician who indulges in loud noises against undergraduates. It's some consolation to consider how ignorant the latter must be of the, younger generation and students in particular, but no doubt the world will believe him none-theless. Someone should check up on the failure rate of those suave young men and women whose only sin in the eves of society is to park their sports car on the university grounds, or blacken their parents' standing in the eyes of the neighbouring station-owners by missing units.
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No-One sent me a card for Queen's Birthday.
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Hooray! Let's go to war. The trouble with this generation is that we haven't had the thrills and travel opportunities of a decent war that our fathers and grandfathers had. We've got the RSA on our side, anyway—they know what fun it is. Just about got the government feeling the same way too. Give us some bloody thrills.
The future of South-east Asia was decided on the 4th. A Special General Meeting of this Association, no less, decided that it opposed the sending of New Zealand troops to South Vietnam. One imagines hurried, concerned Councils in Hanoi, Peking, Moscow, Washington, London, as the news spreads—"VUWSA opposes! and opposes, and opposes."
But Holyoake doesn't worry—he knows that there were only about 100 people there, and that only half of them voted for the motion, and he knows that the majority of the students will follow the Holyoake line.
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Is the Committee on Vietnam Communist or not? Depends on your definitions. Also on its actions. That is, does it agree with the Government or not. If it doesn't, it must be. Ask any good Government member.
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Elections will be over by the time this is on sale, but are a week away as copy closes. Interesting to note that seven people mixed up in Winter Tournament are candidates. Another four were campaigning in the Mid, the other night. Some people take this seriously. Bound to be a pretty lousy Exec. whoever gets in anyway. Especially the seven members who were elected unopposed. Very shabby that, very shabby.
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Saw the NZ Ballet. Candy floss and soap suds. What a pity they feel they must have a programme aimed at the younger audience. Oh for some of the drama, the intense involvement that any of the other arts can achieve. Modern dance. Luisillo. Powerful stuff all.
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There's a cat been floating around the place lately, in the caf. and in the Exec. workroom. It should be locked up for its gastronomic and mental health.
— By Latent
Religious Clubs Reporter
During the week of prayer for Christian Unity held at the university between May 28 and June 6, much reference was made to the New Testament prayer "that all may be one." Were these meetings, held under the auspices of the three chaplains and supported by religious clubs, relevant to university activity?
Religious club functions for the first half of 1965 have shown an increased interest in co-operation between denominations, but by far the majority of activities are still sponsored by individual organisations
For its series of talks this year, the Student Christian Movement has deliberately chosen topics of interest to as many sections of the university as possible.
Talks planned for the remainder of the year will be of similar general interest: "The Challenge of World Poverty," "The French Nuclear Bomb," "Aspects of Mental Health in New Zealand," and "Religious Psychology."
The Catholic Students Guild began the year with the Academic Mass at St. Mary's on March 4, Since then, regular activities have included daily recitation of the Rosary and Mass said once a fortnight. Study groups are being conducted on topics of immediate interest.
A study weekend was held at Raumati on March 27 and 28, with prominent speakers examining different aspects of the theme "Freedom and the Individual." There have been two coffee evenings: at the first Dr. Sutch spoke on education in New Zealand, and this was attended by over 100 people; and at the second,
The Evangelical Union holds weekly meetings during the Wednesday lunch-hour, and missionary meetings on Fridays at 7pm. Prayer meetings ore held twice a week, and Bible study groups are in progress.
From May 31 to June 4, the EU sponsored a series of five lectures on the biblical doctrine of God, presented by Prof.
The Anglican Society, which has traditionally regarded itself as a "bridge group" between the Protestant right and the Catholic left, is again making its influence fell in the university, after a few years in the doldrums. No doubt it has been weakened in the past by having a good deal of its potential membership sapped by the more firmly established SCM and EU. However, with a new permanent chaplain, the Rev.
At its headquarters in Ramsey House, 36 Kelburn Parade, preparations are well under way to provide a Common Room, in which coffee will be served morning and afternoon, and an interdenominational library and bookstall. These should be ready some time in July. A small chapel is also planned.
Every Friday the Anglican Society holds Holy Communion, and is at present conducting two seminars: "What it is to be an Anglican," and "The Church in the university." The Rev.
The Christian Science Organisation holds fortnightly meetings on Tuesdays, usually in Committee Room 1, at which testimonies of Christian Science healing are given. Visitors are always welcome.
Before Easter the Organisation held a week-long display of the Christian Science Monitor in the Sub Activities Room. A large supply of Monitors were on hand for distribution. In the same Room, and also before Easter, a lecture was given by
In August of this year, the sixth biennial meeting of Christian Science Organisations from all over the world will be held at the Mother Church in Boston. At least one member of the Victoria Organisation, secretary
Plans are afoot in at least two of the societies to increase the number of co-operative efforts, such as the Corso collection and the week of prayer for Christian Unity. The formation of a committee representing the various clubs has been suggested, to facilitate the organising of joint functions, and to avoid clashes in programmes. It has been proposed that inter-club social functions should be encouraged to increase personal contact between members, a feature which has so far been largely lacking.
But optimism, however justifiable, should be tempered with realism: as the spirit of religious co-operation has so markedly increased within the university, so has the number of chaplains. Perhaps the former is a result of the latter? Rev.
The growth in the chaplains' ranks is not really incongruous with increased co-ordination of religious activity. For when the societies have reached the coming-together stage, and are in a position to accept each other's integrity and sincerity, then the next logical step would seem to be more specific definition of areas of agreement and disagreement, with a view to expanding the first at the expense of the second. Apart from patience and enthusiasm, a task of this nature would naturally require a great deal of specialised knowledge.
Whether definite steps will be taken in this direction it is impossible to say at the present time. Meanwhile the aim seems to be, as
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Forum—the most successful student institution of the year—has ascended to its greatest heights in recent weeks. But the highest peaks have the reputation of being the most precarious.
Free thought and speech are prominent features of university life and Forum has become their mouthpiece. Free speech, however, must be accompanied by responsibility and there must be some means of ensuring responsibility if this privilege is not to deteriorate into licence.
Unfortunately there have been signs of deterioration already.
The discerning observer could have anticipated this for some of the most important safeguards against licence have been coldly and deliberately sawn out from under the Forum superstructure These safeguards include the likelihood of Forum statements being presented before a much wider audience and put up for searching examination of fact and logic
The convener,
He has had two reasons for doing this. First, he has declared his complete lack of confidence in the press to report accurately or to interpret at all; and, secondly, he has pointed out that speakers may have some worthwhile arguments which they would not present if they felt their statements might go further afield.
On the first count, it is perhaps best to look to overseas commentators for comment on the comparative competency of the New Zealand press.
Mr. Ashenden has documented his opinion with clippings of misreportings
These mistakes will occur from time to time as reporters working to deadlines do not have the chance to correct their work that most other workers have. But mistakes are infrequent and Mr. Ashenden would probably be pleasantly surprised if he allowed the news media a little more of his confidence.
His second point has more weight, however. A speaker may go in fear of his Job or his social position if what he says is circulated more widely. This is the reason why newspapers allow anonymous letters to the editor, providing the writer lets the editor know his real name.
But an editor is able to scan such correspondence to make sure it is fair and accurate before he puts it into his paper. A Forum chairman can only slam the sonic hatch after the Steed of Slander has flown.
If those in full possession of the facts are prevented from hearing, axe grinders and scandalmongers will thrive in an atmosphere of half-truths and the students will be the worse off.
The problem is then, how to suppress irresponsibility while still limiting the audience when speakers have provocative material to present but have genuine reasons for not wishing their authorship to circulate freely.
The solution seems to lie with the chairman. There is no reason why he could not reach agreement with the press not to publish any material which, in his discretion, he feels should not go past Forum.
Such discretion should be exercised only after careful consideration.
Some of these remarks might apply equally or in part to other closeted gatherings which take place from time to time around the university — Penn Pattison.
The Salient report concerning the cancellation of Forum last term was only partially correct. Salient.
Salient had reported that Forum was cancelled by Ashenden after heavy rain had soaked the lawn outside the cafeteria, but that students had held Forum without him.
"What really happened," said Ashenden, "was this: Some acquisitive student stole the Forum notice from the lawn outside the cafeteria. Many students interpreted the absence of the notice as meaning that Forum would not be held. When only a few people were on hand at 1 p.m. Forum was officially cancelled.
With a notice on the lawn, students could be advised of the alternate venue simply by placing a placard over the fixed notice. Ashenden appealed to Salient to ask through its columns for the return of the notice.
Salient Reporter
Mr.
His main attack was directed against what he called "the Taylor ticket," and in particular executive members Shand, Taylor, and Hirschfeld.
He claimed that certain executive members had "diverted money to their own causes" but tailed to state when, how much, how, or what causes.
Speakers in rebuttal of Mr. McKinley's remarks included executive members
One student alleged that Mr. McKinley had come along "to bask in the lime-light he created."
Mr. McKinley was, he said, completely uninformed. He asked for specific allegations instead of generalities.
NZUSA is making a survey of bursary anomalies for presentation to the Government. NZUSA asks all students who know of any anomalies in the present bursary regulations to notify NZUSA at
NZUSA,
37 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
After collecting evidence of all bursary anomalies. NZUSA intends to present the government with the findings and press for remedial action.
Mr. Boshier, who is now widely known on campus for his boisterous, violent and
Which brings to mind Mr.
Boshier clearly did not enjoy listening to McKinlay. "Politics," said Boshier afterwards, "sometimes gets like this." He sounded sad—G.E.J.L.
A Maori campaign to raise £30,000 for Halls of Residence at Waikato University will open in July. The campaign will be on a national basis. The secretary of the campaign committee. Mr.
The paper used for the last issue of Salient would have covered an area of 2½ acres. Laid end-toend, the four-page units would have stretched for 7.2 miles.
Surveillance will appear on July 21. In a telegram to the Wellington editor recently, the Managing editor of Surveillance said the first issue of the national student newspaper will appear on campuses all over New Zealand on this dale. Price 6d.
The Easterfield lifts, rated to carry 3000 pounds, are often crammed full of students whose combined weight greatly exceeds the permissible maximum. The result is often a lift sunk about six feet below floor level. After study week, however, this situation will be no more.
A cunning device is being fitted to each lift to prevent operation while overloaded. When the load on the cables reaches 3000 pounds, a switch is tripped and the lift won't operate. The only way to get it to go again is for enough people to get out to bring the load down to 3000 pounds.
Sounds like a wailing of a tortured cat have been emanating from the Hunter Building at sporadic intervals over the last few weeks. An ex-physics student told Salient recently that it was not a cat but a stage II physics class that was responsible Tor the ghastly cacophony. This student talked learnedly of glass tubing, corks, harmonic frequencies. And things. We didn't understand a word of it. Perhaps some physics student could throw some light on the whole intriguing matter.
Folk Singing. The first ever large-scale, locally-produced folk concert is to be presented in the Concert Chamber on Thursday next at 8pm. The programme should be interesting—singers include the student group of Geoff and Linda, commerce student
Students attending the Annual General Meeting last Wednesday described it as the usual shambles. The meeting, they said, seemed to descend into procedural chaos as the chairmen,
Despite the mismanagement of the meeting, matters of importance to students did manage to get discussed.
The AGM has directed the new executive to arrange for an independent slate of student candidates for the Wellington City Council elections.
Mr. Haas in moving the motion pointed out that it would be to students' benefit to have direct representation on the City Council on matters such as transport concessions and the Wellington town plan. He said that this would be the most effective way of bringing the problems of students to the Wellington public.
The AGM spent over an hour wrangling about the absence of Cappicade this year. Amongst other things, the new president,
Mr. Robertson was accused of not contacting the editor of Cappicade, Mr. Markham, in time for him to change the parts of Cappicade that the printer was not satisfied with.
Mr. Robertson explained that he had attempted to contact Mr. Markham five limes in three days Miss Sutch pointed out that at an executive meeting he had said that he did not have the time to contact Mr. Markham.
After drawing the meeting's attention to this contradiction, Miss Sutch asked Mr. Robertson why he had not delegated the contacting of Mr. Marknam if he was not available to do it himself.
Mr. Robertson, repeating what he had said, stated that the unavailability of Mr Markham before Easter resulted in
The disaffiliation of Victoria from the New Zealand Universities Students' Association was also considered by the meeting.
Affiliation to a proposed National Union of Students was also debated but both matters were allowed to lie upon the table.
The president of the Wellington teachers college students' association, Mr. Steve O'Regan, who proposed the motion, said that NZU SA was going into a well-merited and foredoomed collapse.
A national union of students on a much broader base and with more political power would be a much more worthwhile organisation for Victoria to Join.
Such an organisation would include all students engaged in tertiary education. It would have a national membership of 50,000, making it a more effective pressure group than NZUSA.
Former executive treasurer,
Defending his organisation,
Other items discussed at the meeting included the sending of NZUSA to Vietnam on a factfinding mission at their own expense, the installation of bidets in the men's common room, a compulsory monthly meeting of executive members with students, and the action of the South Vietnamese Government in recalling its students from abroad.
Moves among ultra-conservatives in the university may result in the formation of a "Far-right club."
Despite claims that the movement results from a split in the National Party Club, it is reliably reported that most students interested are not members of the National Party Club.
One of the prime movers is second-year law student
A source close to the group told Salient that between 15 and 20 students are interested. The scheme is believed to have originated only some 10 days ago.
The line-up for the new executive is:
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Men's Vice-President
Women's Vice-President
Public Relations Officer
Cultural Affairs Officer
International Affairs Officer
Capping Controller
House Committee Chairman
Publications Officer
Education Officer
Accommodation Officer
Sports Officer
Race discrimination in sport is almost universally repudiated as incompatible with the ethic of sportsmanship. But in contrast with the international character of sports competitions and sport's inter-racial traditions in the rest of the world, in South Africa the ideal is for sport to be organised rigidly along racial lines.
Selection on merit, however fundamental to sport abroad, is meaningless in South Africa when it comes to the selection of national teams, for no non-white is eligible for selection, however great his ability. For almost every South African national sporting body which admits only white South Africans there exists a parallel non-white body, generally with a non-racial constitution.
In almost all cases, however, it is the exclusively white and not the non-racial body that is affiliated to the international association governing each sport: the non-white sportsmen are confined to the locations and denied all chance of ever providing national representatives.
Non-white South Africans have gained recognition only by going abroad—a choice available to but a few players. Nevertheless, nonwhite South Africans have won professional contracts with cricket, rugby league, and soccer teams in Britain and the Continent.
Amongst these sportsmen are Basil D'Oliviera, who played for Ron Roberts's touring Commonwealth cricket team but is not eligible for selection in any representative South African side;
In South Africa itself nonwhite sportsmen have more to contend with than government policy and the monopolising of representative opportunities by white sports bodies.
The gross inadequacy of sports facilities has been the subject of frequent comment. The lack of facilities and the shortage of playing fields make week-day practice very difficult.
It is said that even some of the best players are only able to get a game once in three weeks because teams have to take turns in using the available grounds. In addition, non-white South Africans suffer through a lack of expert coaching and lack of experience against the visiting teams from Britain, Australia, France and New Zealand, which confine themselves to competing with white organisations only.
The Campaign For NonRacial Sport
There was a time when South African sport was organised almost entirely along racial lines—White, Coloured, African and Indian— with the while sportsman monopolising the privilege of representing South Africa at the Olympic Games and in all other international contests.
As non-white sports bodies became stronger, several of their associations formed themselves into inter-racial national bodies. Europeans were invited but rarely joined.
The new organisations began to contest the right of the exclusively while bodies to affiliation with the international association governing each sport.
Sport And The Government
The action of the International Table Tennis Federation in withdrawing recognition from the white South African body and registering the non-white non-racial body had immediate political repercussions. The Chairman of the white Table Tennis Union called for positive action to combat such activities by non-white organisations.
The table tennis decision and the wrathful comments of some Nationalist members of Parliament, together with the insecure position of the white South African body in the International Federation of Football Associations elicited a statement from Dr. Die Burger on June 25, 1956.
Dr. Donges denied the allegation that the South African Government interfered with non-white sport and declared that sport did not fall under the judicial control of the government.
The South African Government, the Minister maintained, was anxious to help all "legitimate Non-European sporting activities," but these must be in accordance with apartheid. Whites and nonwhites should organise their sport separately, no inter-racial competition should take place within the Union's borders, and the mixing of races in teams should be avoided. Sportsmen from overseas "should respect the Union's customs as she respected theirs."
Non-white sportsmen would not be debarred from entering South Africa to compete with nonwhites. Dr. Donges said the government would withhold support from any non-white sports body which sought international recognition and would not grant passports to non-whites guilty of "such subversive intentions."
Apart from regulations which prevented boxing between races, no laws were enacted to prevent interracial sport, and the government was very particular to emphasise that its policy merely reflected the traditions and customs of the country. In 1960, after the South African Sports Association had made representations to the Imperial Cricket Conference regarding race discrimination in the affiliated white South African Cricket Association, this body wrote to the Minister of the Interior, Mr.
In a reply dated June 16, 1960, the Minister stated:
The Government does not favour inter-racial team competitions within the borders of the Union and will discourage such competitions taking place as being contrary to the traditional policy of the Union—as accepted to all races in the Union.
The policy of separate development is in accordance with the traditional South African custom that Whites and non-Whites should organise their sporting activities separately. The inclusion of different races in the same team would therefore be contrary to established and accepted custom.
The South African Sports Association claimed that the Minister did not issue an express order that the Cricket Association should exclude non-white players, so the while cricketing body must take responsibility for their restrictive membership policy, Questioned in Parliament, Mr. Naude repeated the terms of Dr. Donges's earlier statement, but made it clear that visiting white teams would not be permitted to play non-whiles.
In February, 1962, the Minster of the Interior, Senator de Klerk, stated that as far back as 1956 his predecessor had explained that the policy of separate development expressed the South African custom that Whites and Non-Whites should organise their sporting activities separately; that there should be no inter-racial competitions within our borders; and that the mixing of races in teams to take part in competition within the Republic and abroad should be avoided. This is still the policy of the Government.
The Minister later amplified his statement, saying that the government could not approve the participation of mixed White and Non-White teams from the Republic in world sports competitions, nor would racially mixed teams from other countries be allowed into South Africa.
The Senator also indicated the government's policy on mixed race sport even more bluntly and warned sports administrators that, if this policy was not observed, the government might introduce a law to ban multi-racial sport.
In accordance with stated policy the South African Government has consistently refused passports to representatives of non-white sports bodies seeking to present their case to the international organisation controlling their sport. In March. 1959, on the eve of its departure for the world championships, a non-white table tennis team had its passports seized.
In recent years the South African Government has borne down heavily upon individuals and organisations which encourage sports activities considered to be out of keeping with local conventions. In 1960 the homes of the leading officers of the South African Sports Association were raided and its files and records removed by the police, Mr.
He was banned from teaching and journalism by which he earned his living; he could not attend social or political gatherings: he could not be quoted in South Africa; he could not leave the magisterial district of Johannesburg even to visit his family in Port Elizabeth; and he had to report weekly to the police.
In September, 1963, while waiting trial for an alleged infringement of the ban on attending meetings, Brutus left South Africa, and in an attempt to reach Baden Baden to plead the case of nonwhite athletes before the International Olympic Committee was captured by Portuguese security police and returned to South Africa. He was shot and seriously injured by the police in Johannesburg white allegedly trying to escape.
You may know the University has a shooting club—you may even know they have two. As a guide to the differences between the two clubs, as a guide to shooting as a sport,
At Victoria two types of target shooting are catered tor: smallbore, or miniature rifles: and fullbore, or .303 rifles.
The term "miniature" is somewhat misleading, since smallbore rifles weigh up to 16 pounds. This heavy weight makes the rifle less susceptible to wobbles, and also reduces the recoil. "Miniature" actually refers to the bullet, the well-known .22 calibre. Naturally enough, .303 rifles use .303 calibre bullets.
303 rifles are fired out-of-doors— locally, on the Army's range out at Trentham. Nearly all the shooters are men, and this leads to the average outdoor shooter being a somewhat more Crumpian character than his indoor counterpart. Miniature rifles are fired on an indoor 25-yard range, with many women participants, and the sport is more socially orientated. Of course, some schizophrenic types do both kinds of shooting!
The smallbore target has a bullseye only
Indoors, of course, there are no problems of varying conditions, and it becomes a matter of aiming in exactly the same manner for each shot. All misses become the fault of the shooter directly, and cannot be blamed on a capricious breeze.
Rifle shooting calls for concentration ton each and every shot), determination (to improve one's technique and hence scores), and judgment (as to whether the sights are set correctly, etc). These things come with practice, and are in themselves worthwhile rewards.
The Victoria shooting clubs are quite strong, both numerically and in ability. At last Easter tournament the .303 team took second place and nearly defeated Canterbury. Two members of the team shot for NZU against a provincial side, while the other four shot for North Island against South Island. The Miniature Rifles team that competed in last year's Winter Tournament did equally as well— second to Canterbury once again.
Anyone who is now convinced that shooting is the sport for him/ her, etc. should garb themselves in ancient raiment, and will be made welcome at the basement of the Winter Show Building on Monday nights at 7.30
This year, the Men's Hockey Club acquired a greater number of newcomers than ever before— and their standard of play is encouragingly high. Last year there were four teams, this year six.
The senior team, Wellington champions for the past three years, has been toppled from the top position this year and now lies third. However, the season is comparatively young, and determination to get Co the top again is growing.
The team lost three Wellington reps, from the side last year,
There are two teams in the Senior Reserve Grade, one in each division. The team in Division One, consisting of more experienced players on the whole, started the season badly, but is now starting to pick up.
Unfortunately there has been some swapping of players in the club, and this team and especially the second grade teams have suffered as a result. However, this is inevitable. Played 7, drawn 1, lost 6.
The team in Division Two is comprised almost completely of new players. The enthusiasm and talent they bring with them has made this an extremely strong team which la now leading the competition by three points. With a continued effort they could well win this grade. Played 7, won 5, drawn 2.
There are three teams in the Second Grade. One of the most unfortunate aspects of these teams is that some players are not fulfilling their obligations to the club and the other players by not being readily available to play each Saturday.
Nevertheless, a spirit of enthusiasm continues, and the standard this year is higher than previous years. Indeed, enthusiasm among the players is remarkable, because on a recent Saturday two of the teams travelled out to Strand Park at Lower Hutt merely to find that they could not play because the grounds had not been marked out.
Let us hope their enthusiasm overrides this disappointment!
Div 1: Played 7, won 4, lost 2, drawn 1.
Div 2: "A" team—Played 6, won 3, lost 2, drawn 1.
Div 2: "B" team—Played 6, won 0, lose 6.
On the whole, the season has begun well for the club, and with most second round games on the way, we could see some changes— for better or for worse.—
The Greatest problem by far with the whole Vietnam question is the paucity of available facts. Governments are having to make important decisions, and it often seems that they possess no more facts than those possessed by the average reader of the daily newspapers. The vital questions as to what extent the uprising is a civil one, and to what extent China is supplying arms, have not been answered with any degree of certainty. One would imagine that the United States Information Service would endeavour to answer these questions, honestly and conscientiously.
And yet it seems that, on a simple checkable fact like the level of the Vietnamese rice exports, the USIS can be plainly, demonstrably, Wrong.
The picture above shows the cover of a booklet received by Salient from the United States Information Service on May 24. The caption on the photo reads:
"Full bags from a bumper rice crop, being loaded for export, tell a part of South Vietnam's story that is too often overlooked: Its people's solid work to develop their country."
On the 7.10pm "News Review" on the main national stations on Thursday. May 27, the NZBC relayed a commentary from the BBC's Saigon correspondent. In the course of discussing the current situation in Vietnam, he gave the following figures for rice exports from South Vietnam (tons):
The booklet is undated, but gives figures for refugees for the "first few months of 1965" which would place its date at about MayApril. 1965.—G.E.J.L.
By Salient Reporter Rod Edmond
New Zealand's first allmale revue has already made a shattering impact on the local entertainment scene.
Playing before a packed audience of one Salient reporter. Salient's advertising manager, and all the staff members, the "boys" turned on a class of performance not normally seen in a city the size of Wellington.
The recently-opened Purple Onion revue and coffee bar claims to support a cast direct from a highly-successful season at Sydney's King's Cross. The manageress disclosed that she has also had several lucrative offers from Las Vegas nightclubs, but unsure of public reception there she decided to join Wellington's already glittering array of sophisticated night spots.
Sharp on the dot of 11.15, a mere 45 minutes after the advertised starting time, there sounded a fanfare or trumpets reminiscent of the opening bars of the national anthem. This was immediately and very cleverly switched over to a blaring rendition of the Charleston, which served to emphasise the dualistic nature of the performance about to be seen, and the fading red curtains swung back.
They revealed a six-foot-plus, well-built and closely-shaven young man in his late twenties, who by the addition of long strawcoloured pigtails, a pretty little pink frock, and specially imported size 10 sling-backs, had been cleverly and convincingly disguised as a little girl of four. With mincing strides she proceeded to gallop around the stage, holding up her dress so as to reveal the obvious femininity of her bulging thigh muscles, while opening and shutting her mouth in time to Shirley Temple's "On the Good Ship Lollipop. Unfortunately this record had a tendency to get stuck in a groove and several times we in the audience became mightily alarmed for the safety of this talented young performer, fearing that she may have been suffering from either a dislocated jaw or asphyxiation. However, this was but a minor drawback in a convincing and moving portrayal of the imaginary world of a four-year-old.
The standard set by the opening item was maintained throughout the evening, and all performances were well-received and royally applauded by the large body of actual staff members present.
Although titled the "Roaring 20s" the producers showed an admirable and praiseworthy flexibility in thematic treatment, drawing on the music of Gershwin, Lionel Bart and many noted, if as yet obscure, contemporary writers of considerable merit. While cleverly bringing in these Universal implications, the producers never lost sight of their original intention and in the lull between each item it was always the Charleston which returned. In this way the audience was never allowed to relax and there was a perpetual upsurge in rhythmic excitement which was climaxed with the group appearance of the massed chorus. This was undoubtedly the high point of the evening, and the accumulated tension was well mixed with humour when one of the cast suddenly found his left breast dangling around his waist, white another went through what must have been a harrowing experience with a slipping g-string.
When interviewed later, the manageress and co-producer accounted for the success of the show by explaining that the "boys" were able to put everything they had into their work because they enjoyed it, in fact they loved it. Observation would support this; the "boys" are obviously inseparable, they work as a team, and they love their work.—
Recently, in place of the Constitution, an old Scottish adage has been used as the basis for running a Special General Meeting of the Lincoln College Students' Association.
It would appear that a quorum is no longer necessary to formulate policies at Lincoln.
On the night of June 9 a Special General Meeting was held to discuss Constitutional amendments and the running of the mid-year formal dinners.
A quarter of an hour elapsed before a quorum was at last present and the meeting could begin.
After the passing of one motion, later in the evening, an amendment to it was immediately proposed. The Chairman, however, was at a loss as to the correct procedure, but this was soon pointed out.
After the voting it was pointed out that the sum of the votes did not add up to a quorum.
To put this "straight," a substantial number of abstentions were recorded without any count having been taken.
The vice-president at this stage expounded his "old Scottish adage" which apparently states that "a quorum is only necessary for a meeting to begin, but once underway is not essential for its valid continuation."
When the next motion was due to be put, the question of the quorum was again raised from the floor. The vice-president, who was now in the chair, over-ruled the point-of-order, referring once again to his Scottish adage, amid howls and general student commotion.
After his ruling it was demanded that the Constitution be referred to. There followed a rapid perusal of this document by an impartial member, and eventually the relevant section was found. This, however, was misquoted to the meeting to back up the Scottish adage.
The member who raised the question of the validity of the meeting was then threatened with eviction, but this action was not necessary, for the member concerned and one other, both being among the most senior present, walked out in disgust.
Prior to this, several counts had been taken by certain members, each count revealing that the meeting was short of a quorum. Notwithstanding this, the meeting continued.
The constitutional amendments were supposedly designed to make the Executive offices more attractive to senior students. Obviously this is a good move, when one considers the fiasco described above.
Salient Reporter
Two recent additions to Victoria's variety of clubs are the Commerce Faculty Club and the Karate Club.
The Commerce Faculty Club existed previously, until its function was taken by the city club, the Accountant Students' Society. Insufficient university students have been attending the latter society. Consequently the need for a university club arose again. The Commerce Faculty Club will perform a similar function to that of other faculty clubs. It will arrange lectures, dinners and social evenings for commerce students.
HMV's access to the American Vanguard catalogue has made it possible for them to release some very interesting disks not formerly available locally.
A beautifully played and recorded collection of Bach-Vivaldi organ concertos played on the organ of the Songs of the Auvergne sung by
But the bulk of these Vanguard releases seems to be various collections featuring
The Virtuoso Oboe, Vol. 1. (MALP 6014) and Vol. 3 (MCLP 6162), these being collections of concertos by Albinoni. Cimarosa, Fischer, Handel. Haydn, Le-clair and Vivaldi. In The Virtuoso Guitar, the same string group (conducted by
Besides having recorded a concert of Airs, Dances, Fantasies and Serenades railed Notturno (MCLP) 6158), the Solisti di Zagreb, conducted by
The Virtuoso Trumpet, Vol. 2, (MCLP 6180) and a Telemann Suite coupled with the Mozart Flute/Harp Concerto, K599, with flautist The Virtuoso Flute (MALP 6017).
The Virtuoso Harpsichord (MALP 6015) and, finally, there is a concert by the Taylor Recorder Consort (on MALP 6018) called The Dulcet Pipes which should hearten anyone who has struggled with this refractory instrument to no apparent success.
With the exception of the BachVivaldi concertos, these disks are available in mono only, but not one of them has anything less than well-balanced natural sound.
They are well worth while investigating, especially if you are interested in the lesser known works of the Eighteenth Century.
If only the new Ansermet/Suisse Romande collection were available in stereo it would be a high fidelity enthusiast's showpiece. Ravel's Bolero and La Valse, Honeggers' Pacific 231 and Dukas' Apprentice Sorcerer are perfect examples of physical sound generating interest where the music itself doesn't.
Unfortunately the record is released here in mono only (Decca LXT 6065) but even so it is a good demo of large, technicolored orchestral sound.
Ansermet's advocacy of these pieces is probably the best yet; his phrasing and timing ensure the precision and accuracy of attack that they must have to create their proper impact. The orchestral weight is most faithfully simulated by the engineers (I note, with special approval, the recording of the low bass) and the percussion transients come across very well indeed.
Julius Katchen's disk of Brahms' piano pieces, Opp. 117, 118, 119, is entitled The Complete Piano Works, Volume One, and as his playing is of such a high level of performance I hope the other volumes will soon follow.
There are one or two moments where he sounds uncomfortable in his particular choice of phrasing but his control and realisation of Brahms' markings is practically always very good.
Indeed, though I admit that his recital is not the overwhelming experience that Curzon's Liszt collection (reviewed last month) is, nevertheless this is a very enjoyable concert and fully equal to the Liszt one as far as mono recording is concerned and far better in stereo (Decca SXLM 6106).
Noah, standing on a little bit of desert, shouting through his loud-hailer. Come ye, come ye, animals, I want two of everything.
A magnificent stew! said one of Noah's henchmen, loudly and giggled. The few animals who had come up all ran away again. Why did the bastards do that? Noah wondered. He was getting deaf. Come back, he shouted, and waved his bony white finger at them. A hyena laughed at him.
Noah got mad. If you arent all right here at dawn tomorrow Ill abandon you, leave you as bloated corpses on the seabottom. See what I mean? And Ill go by myself, with my pet canary.
The animals went down in a gully and chanted some obscene songs at him. Noah went savagely back to his ark and thought what a crummy job it is, just as well they arent going to send the bill till its too late. He flagellated a few slaves and thought he felt better, and painted some horror pictures to scare the peasants next door. He commandeered a hoarding in the main street and stuck his lurid posters on it Will This Be Your Fate? Animals your last chance to be saved. Write . . .
The next day he found a luxury corkhouse stuck in the desert next to his ark, with a sign saying The Original Noah's Ark, and another, a six colour revolving neon one, Travel 1st Class the Elshishah Way. (Then an exclamation mark: ! Noah hadnt thought of that.) Suspicious Noah went up to it and made sure there was nobody round and poked a few holes in it with his walking stick. Poor-workmanship, he sneered. But he went and poked a few holes in the bottom, just to make sure.
Then a man arrived and went in the El-Shishah corkhouse. ElShisnah! Noah muttered. He turned on the man. Whats the idea fast guy? he snarled. You El-Shishah?
Hell no, said the man. Im only his slave.
(Perhaps he can be bribed by me, thought Noah, and fiendishly twirled his moustoches).
Whats the idea of this here outfit? said Noah.
Its just that Shish doesnt want to get drowned. His horoscope for next month says Beware! of possible trouble with water. It worries him the fool thinks theres going to be a flood . . . He will be taking passengers of course. A thousand shekels. Payable to me. Now . . .
Im not here for that, said Noah (trying as hard as he could to sound dignified). I have . . . my own craft. Some crank sent me an anonymous letter—the sort with words cut out of newspapers so you cant see the writing—saying unto me: To Noah, see here mate Im telling youse theres gonna he a lotta watta round for the next 6 wks so dont say I didnt tellya, so long Mister Noah, yrs afftly Anon.
And, said Noah, I am (after all) renowned as Noah, no mere Seah, That man is verily right. Theres going to be a lot of rain here soon—see how low the wells are—all the water sucked up into heaven to store as rain, and see how suspiciously blue the skies are these days. Its significant. I mean symptomatic.—Why, of the decline of the age, what else? Would you like me to make a little speech about this? Animals, yea and peasants, no longer obey their superiors.
. . . They all refUsed to come on my ark. Serves them right if they get drowned. (But then what can we eat?)
Shish is taking animals too, said the slave. But he isnt going to eat themmm.—He wants to form them in a sort of leg show for when the floods go down, Make money.
Have you a passenger licence? said Noah (acting the stern bureaucrat).
Never eard of it.
You cannot carry animals without one (shutting his mouth fast to keep up the appearance).
The slave scratched his head, Sure?
Positive. (Very quick words.)
This is going to worry Shish. Where can you pinch them.
While I disapprove of your sentiments, said Noah . . . Huhh! As it happens I have the only one.
Lets have a look . . . cant read It.
It is inscribed in that ancient language they keep finding signs of, out there in the desert. Always the inscription aloc-acoc, all the experts baffled. Mystified.
Im not convinced, said the slave after a while (uneasily, Noah fancied).
. . . Shish is a sly type. He can do without.
Noah promptly hobbled off with a sneer on his walking stick. But later he found Shish the slave's Hyde up in a cactus bush with a megaphone, gigaphone, teraphone, and so on, loud enough to wake Noah from his apathy, stuff some cottonwool in his ears, and listen to Shish:
Join our cruise . . . better conditions . . . unencumbered by cranks bureaucrats puritan-hermits and bandits from the mountains . . . hear hear . . . cheapah cheapah cheapah!
Noah wasnt slow, he came out with his loudhailer and his stepsladder and his tribe of henchmen:
Join the smart set . . . the economy minded but oh so! luxurious . . . a lighthearted trip and youre in gay Rio . . . be rid of the three doubleyuze worry work and water . . . be rid of your taxman at last!
Then Shish took up the giant (but so charmingly painted!) Speakophone and blasted Noah out of his own ears: Float away your sex troubles.
Escape worldly floods, said Noah. He saw a few animals nearby. One might be, he hoped, nearer to his ark than Shish's. You down there, said Noah: Take the Marble Ark! He thought this animal might be a rabbit, he thought rabbits eat marble. Come one darling . . .
In the end all the animals went on Shish's corkhouse. Noah was mad. He relieved himself by swearing aloc-acoc, at his henchman. Me repeated to himself. I am not deterred in the slightest I am not deterred in the slightest I am not det. (Though he was visibly upset.) He consoled himself by making some lifelines and two heaps of death certificates and more holes in the bottom of the corkhouse. He even, very scientifically, made a few holes in the top (for the rain to come in).
On the twentieth of the month he climbed into his ark and symbolically put on his rainhat. He took his loudhaller in the middle of the night and shouted Get up you b——'s. Youre done for.
On the twentyfifth he took off his rain hat.
On the thirtieth he was boring some more holes in the corkhouse and there was a bomb test.
As long ago as June, 1953, Radio Moscow evaluated Moral Re-Armament as "a global ideology with bridgeheads in every nation in its final phase of total expansion throughout the world ... it substitutes for the inevitable class war the eternal struggle between good and evil."
Quite recently "Isvestia" carried an article saying, "Many citizens talk about equality and brotherhood but hate their comrades living next door. What the Soviet Union needs today is a movement like the one called Moral ReArmament in the West."
It is an accurate assessment.
The objective of Moral Re-Armament is quite simple—to create a world where all men, whatever their race, colour, faith or nationality, can live without Tear, in freedom, with adequate food, housing and education. It is clear that these objectives will never be reached without a revolution in the character of man.
It is to Khrushchev's credit that he still hoped that the new type of man would emerge in Russia. The evidence of nearly 50 years of Communist experiment in that country is that a totalitarian revolution built on the bitter reactions of men to evil conditions around them does not change the nature of man.
The evidence of the work of Moral Re-Armament in the last 27 years is that world history can be changed through change in the character of men.
Anyone who thinks, knows that a concept of the world which does not include every person whether they live in Hanoi, Saigon, Washington. Wellington or Peking is too small and dangerous for this age. Moral Re-Armament is for anyone and everyone from capitalist to Communist who will pay the price of building a world that works by deciding to change themselves.
Mr.
Moral Re-Armament is financed from the conviction of people. There is no mystery about it. People who attack it often infer that it is financed by big business. Actually very few people connected with big business help to finance it. Most of the finance comes from very ordinary people. H.B.R. in his Salient article refers to the visit of the MRA force to Mt. Isa.
This was in fact initiated by a young New Zealand accountant who, on his own initiative, sold his shores (£400 worth) in the Mt.
This article, in reply to that in Salient 6, is by Mr. R. K. Pearce, chairman of the MRA conference held recently in Wanganui.
The MRA force with the play "We Are Tomorrow" was invited to Mt. Isa by the Shire Council. The cast of the play and others with them met and talked with all sections of the community. The play was performed to full houses. The mine manager came to the play. The disputes committee which organised the strike voted unanimously that all members attend the play.
Later, on the invitation of
The statement quoted by H.B.R. from a memorandum of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions has long ago aroused vigorous protests from trade unionists in many countries. A report was prepared by a member of the I.C.F.T.U. staff and was circulated. It was not voted on by the Executive nor was it put forward to the Congress floor for discussion.
It quoted nine extracts from MRA publications in support of its allegations. Of these seven were gross distortions from the original. In their original state they did not bear out the charges made in the report. It is also very difficult to align these charges with the fact that labour leaders of the reputation of
The smear of Frank Buchman's alleged statement about Hitler cannot stand beside the fact of the Gestapo instructions to the Nazi Military Authorities to destroy Moral Re-Armament wherever they found it. In a 126-page report discovered in France by the advancing Allied armies the Gestapo say that Moral Re-Armament "frontally opposes the Swastika with the Cross of Christ," that it had become their "avowed antagonist" and was "lending the Christian garment to world democratic alms."
The fact is that Buchman spent his life and energy answering the materialism in men which inevitably in the end issues in the cruelty of totalitarian governments—whether they be fascist or communist.
H.B.R. also quotes a report which is inferred to indicate a critical attitude to MRA by the Church of England. It is true that a report was presented to the Church Assembly by the Social and Industrial Council. At the time that the Assembly 'received' the report the then Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Fisher, observed in relation to it that "to receive a report does not mean that the Assembly approves of it." The Assembly did, in fact, pass a motion saying it "does not desire to record any Judgments either upon the merits or the demerits of this particular movement." It is also a fact that many prominent Anglicans have expressed their wholehearted support for the work of Moral Re-Armament.
Youth and students in every part of the free world are being gripped by Moral Re-Armament. In India this programme is being led by
In 1953 63 per cent of India's taxes were not paid and the head of the railways said more than £2,000,000 of unpaid fares were discovered.
Gandhi has enlisted a force of students to deal with this very serious problem in a realistic way. Last year 1600 students were trained in how to take Moral ReArmament to the country. They have ended corruption in their own lives in simple matters like cheating in exams and not paying bus and rail fares. They have moved from the realm of pious intention to practical action by being honest about cheating and paving back the accumulated unpaid fares. They now have the authority and the conviction to tackle the leadership of their country.
In April the Speaker of the Indian Parliament arranged a meeting of Members of Parliament and distinguished Delhi citizens to hear some of the students that Gandhi had trained. They told how they had conducted seven training camps and had produced nine plays in four languages. They expressed their determination to create a new society on Indian soil. After hearing them the Speaker stated: "Moral Re-Armament is restoring God into the lives of people and with it the sharp sense of right and wrong."
He feels it is strange logic to exclude nations just because they happen to rate as white.
Much more could and should be made of the community of interest between India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. What happens in these nations can assuredly determine the future for all Asia. At a time when Communism is bidding for the mind and control of Asia, the success or failure of the new democracies in India and Japan could be critical. Gandhi is determined that democracy shall thrive and prove equal to the tremendous problems facing it in India.
What of Japan?
This fact is fundamental to Moral Re-Armament and applies with equal force to those of the left and those of the right.
In the last two and a half years five stage plays have been produced in Japan to carry the idea of Moral Re-Armament to the notion. Last month Shibusawa announced that "Tomorrow will be Too Late" had been invited to Korea. This play was written by a former Communist student,
Mr.
New Zealand has a vital role to play today. At some point some nation has got to show a spirit in its society which men across the world will recognise as the cure to hate of class or race, to the selfishness which means hunger in a world of plenty, to the thoughtless lack of care which means millions are born without hope when that need not be so. A society founded on self-interest, even the so-called "enlightened" variety is not going to do this.
A society which accepts absolute moral standards as the norms for human conduct and which seeks the direction of God in its affairs will. This is New Zealand's task. You, students and any others who have the audacity and sanity to believe that the future can be different from the past should take the lead in it.
A Completely new type of University for New Zealand is being planned at Hamilton, according to Mr.
The recently appointed Registrar of the University of Waikato said that the traditional New Zealand University pattern would not be followed in New Zealand's newest university. Instead a more flexible and integrated series of degree study courses were being designed.
Mr. Kingsbury told on NZSPA reporter that final details or the new university were still in the melting pot. However, the university administrators had several broad alms:
Instead of the traditional rigid division of academic teaching into subjects, several broad "schools" would be developed, such as Social Studies and Humanities, and Biological and Physical Sciences. The various subjects in each school would not be autonomous units, but parts of integrated and comprehensive courses.
It was possible that the degree courses would have widely spread credits, rather than specific units as their basis. However, final degree types were still to be worked out.
The university hoped to set up an extensive tutorial system to develop a close staff-student relationship. This would require a higher than normal staff-student ratio, but the University Giants Committee supported this view.
The university was planned to be a full-time residential university, rather than the mixed full-time and part-time university that is now normal in New Zealand. A campaign to set up halls of residence was under way, and already (1964) £30,000 in donations had been received. Local interest in the university was tremendous. Mr. Kingsbury said.
Attempts would be made to organise students into groups of a non-faculty nature in order to prevent the development of the sense of isolation, which many students at big universities felt.
In 1964 the University of Waikato had only 150 students. Mr. Kingsbury told the interviewer. By 1980, 5000 were expected. A vast and continuous expansion would thus form the basic problem which the university had to face. Already a number of Professors and other academic staff had been appointed, and others were being interviewed.
There was considerable enthusiasm amongst the new appointees at the prospect of being able to build up a new type of university, Mr. Kingsbury said.
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The Government has, in one budget, increased assistance to students by nearly 40 per cent.
It has accepted the idea of tax-free grants to university research.
It has increased grants for halls of residence to a point where such projects become financially feasible.
We have our reservations on all these points. We would have liked to see a higher grant for first-year students. We would have liked a higher limit on taxfree grants. And we think it inconsistent that hostel subsidies are calculated on £1800 a bed when current building costs are known to be £2000 a bed. We would have liked an interest-free loan scheme for students on overseas models.
We have the background fear that the Budget is an inflationary one and that our increases will be reduced in value by a rise in living costs.
But basically, we must be profoundly relieved that the Government has so thoroughly confirmed the justice of the student case.
The Government had, after all, given us good reason to doubt that they had perceived this fact. We have had too much of inane emotion from people like the member for Hawkes Bay.
We could have done with more of Mr. Lake's terse prose two months ago, in place of the childish attempts to deride and undercut the student case.
We offer Mr. Lake our, qualified, thanks.—H.B.R.
One of the most stupid acts regularly perpetrated by university students is the calling of Special General Meetings to pass mighty-sounding motions on such topics as South Vietnam. More often than not a very small number of students attend the meeting, which discusses, and eventually votes on, many motions. All this may seem quite harmless in itself, and so it is, but the ramifications are often quite serious.
At a recent SGM, less than 80 students voted on whether or not the New Zealand Government should send troops to South Vietnam. Repeat—80 students, only 2.0 per cent of the Victoria student population, voted. And yet the decision was gaily reported by the newspapers, and it became necessary for
Who should be blamed for this ridiculous situation? The newspapers? Perhaps. But it would seem more sensible if we were to clean up our own back yard first. The SGM motion originators should look at their actions and decide what, if anything, they hope to achieve.
If the aim is to have an evening's intellectual discussion, then there can be no quarrel with this objective. This is what we come to university for.
But it follows that if the idea is solely to have an intellectual discussion, then there may be no need to vote on it and there is certainly no need to broadcast the result to the world at large.
The aim, however, may well be deeper than this. At the SGM that voted on the Vietnam issue, the meeting was happy, nay demanding, that the result of the debate should be released to the news media.
This attitude is irresponsible. Such people know that Victoria students will be lumbered with the decision, and it apparently worries not one whit. The answer regularly trotted out to such charges is that the other 4120 students could have come along and voted against the motion had they wanted to.
But this argument is spurious. The other 4120 did not know before the meeting which way the voting would go, so while they did not come along to vote against the motion, just as surely they did not vote in favour of it either.
To be fair, it must be pointed out that the meeting resolved that the numbers who voted be included in the press release. But this is always an empty gesture.
The number was never mentiond—either it was never released or the news media did not see fit to publish the information. But the reason is immaterial —and the result was to be expected, for it has happened many times before.
Our professional SGM wanglers have not learned past lessons. Either they are stupid in not realising the consequences of their actions, or they are irresponsible insidious schemers, intent on furthering causes in which they believe at the expense of honesty and far representation.—G.E.J.L.
Our city planners are squares! When it comes to building a city they think of little else than squares and boxes.
For instance the street system is laid out on the rectangular or "grid" pattern, in spite of the hilly and rather unaccommodating topography of Wellington. Hence, steep streets leading straight up the sides of hills — for example upper Vivian Street or
Some writers on town planning have pointed out the high, and increasing, number of road accidents which occur at right-angle intersections and suggest that the grid system may need some revision.
Many continental cities are laid out with radial and contour type traffic systems. Possibly Wellington could utilise some similar pattern. Probably though, such proposals would be shrugged off as being too costly. Services such as water, sewerage, telephone would all be disrupted, and not all buildings in any one area can be removed and replaced at any one time.
The grid may be excusable on economic grounds, but what excuses can be found for the building designers? Almost every major building project in Wellington for years has been yet another plain, functional, square-looking, slabsided box.
In spite of severe criticism this trend continues. Shell House, the Manchester Unity building, Dominion Life, and parking buildings are a few examples.
The odd exceptions such as the "beehive" and some or the blocks of flats in Oriental Bay, and one or two buildings elsewhere deviate from this pattern. Some of these hove more aesthetic merit than others, but the paucity of their numbers is the deplorable thing.
The question is whether it is economic considerations, or sheer lack of initiative, that is the deciding factor in the planning of the buildings. Overseas cities have experimented with building shapes, round, crescent, hexagonal and achieved distinctive and pleasing forms. They have circumvented the economic aspect, why can't we?—
On April 27, 1965, a
The foothill motorway plan
Three-level streets with
Other ground level pedestrian malls, and extensions to the proposed one-way street system, together with a number of parking buildings surrounding the Central Business District.
An underground railway extending from the present suburban commuter service to Courtenay Place.
Superficially the public relations of presenting the draft plan at this meeting were very good. However, the majority of the members of the public who attended were confronted with a series of rather esoteric discourses on the finer arts of town planning. The lack of discussion, induced by both this and the restrictive attitude towards questioning, was interpreted by the Council and the Press as favourable reaction to the plan.
To assess the merits of this plan it is necessary to isolate the assumptions on which it is based and test their validity.
• The assumption that "the residential population will increase to approximately 150,000 persons by 1985" has not been based on any statistical research. Population projections by the Wellington Regional Planning Authority, based on statistical analysis, for the whole of the Wellington city area estimate a 1986 population of only 133,000. It would appear that the Council planning authorities have been rather optimistic.
• Given the present negative attitudes of New Zealand urban dwellers towards high density housing, it is not unreasonable to assume that only certain sections of the community can be expected to live in the large area planned for high density housing—single businessmen businesswomen, young couples, the estimated 20,000 university and polytechnic students and staff.
This feature has been edited by D. J. Hewitson with contributions from Salient staff reporters W. A. Leagron, A. G.
Loesch and G. F. McDonald.
To persuade the family man employed in the inner city to live in these areas instead of separate suburban homes will require a drastic revision of the existing New Zealand housing mores.
• It is estimated that the plan will cost £50,000,000, the investment to be spread over the next 20 years. It is questionable whether there will be enough money in New Zealand society to ensure this. There are many other capital investments which will be hindering the plan's chances—for example, by 1976 £56,000,000 will have been invested in the establishment of the Iron and Steel industry.
• The planned three-tiered Willis Street-Victoria Street area is rather optimistic in view of the patterns of retailing decentralisation which have occurred in overseas centres. It is doubtful whether this retailing agglomeration will be able to draw on a sufficiently large buying power as establishment of considerable retail centres in Upper Hutt, Porirua, Tawa and Paraparaumu points to the local adoption of these overseas trends.
• The emphasis placed on the car in the draft plan is another cause of problems. The planning committee do not appear to have completely grasped the dual function of the car. It is:—
The proposals regarding traffic problems have been aimed at preventing peak-hour traffic congestion and keeping the traffic moving throughout the inner city. This fulfills the car's function as a transporter to and from work. However, it inhibits its function as transporter to and from the market-place.
The inner city of the future should have a special market and intellectual atmosphere stimulated largely from its function—the fact that most car owners will not be able to drive themselves directly to the markets (or to the restaurant before the theatre) will help to ultimately destroy the essential atmosphere of the inner city; a factor that the retailers' associations seem vaguely aware of. This loss of atmosphere will have a detrimental effect on the retailers' economies and is a factor which will increase the decentralisation of retailing.
Finally, there is the rather incomprehensible situation of a draft town plan without any list of priorities. There is a need for the co-ordinated development of the various projects, otherwise there is the possibility of a motorway coming into the inner city without sufficient parking facilities to accommodate the incoming cars; a situation not completely unrealistic when one considers implementation of some previous City Council schemes!— D.J.H.
An enlightening sideline to
". . . It does contain, Editorial Even Post. 27.4.65.
"The Wellington City
"While the draft Architecture Centre. 20.4.65.
"One-way streets would J. A New old president Wellington and Hutt Valley Retailers' Association .5.64.
"Shop rents are high enough, Saul Goldsmith,
Comments by various City Councillors, who were only too
"It (the Town Plan) seems to Cr. J. M. Turk.
"... A pie in the sky . . ."— Cr. J. F. Jeffries.
". . . Too dreary . . "'—Cr. C. H. Benney.
The Town and Country Planning Act, 1953, requires each City Council to submit to the Government a draft town plan covering anticipated development for a period of 20 years in the future. The Wellington City Council have notified the Minister that their Draft Plan will be finally presented to him for his approval in early August. This means that all interested parties have until August 1, 1905, to comment on, or object to, the plan if they so wish. Because the Government has the final say on the acceptance of the plan and because right in the middle of the city centre an area has been set aside as a Government sector, whose planning is principally the responsibility of the Government architect, it is essential that there is harmony between them and the City Council.
When Salient spoke to Mr. Shepherd, the Government
The Ministry of Works and the Government Statistics Department gave assistance, while architects from Mr. Shepherd's own staff were loaned on a temporary basis to the City Engineer.
Mr Shepherd admitted that his own sphere of interest lay in the Government sector and not with the general Draft Plan. But he underlined the fan that harmonious development with the Council, from an architectural point of view, would be pursued.
On being asked about Mr. Connell, the Chief Town Planner, who resigned last January, Mr. Shepherd outlined his views thus. Mr. Connell was on the staff of the City Engineer and any recommendations to the Town Planning Committee had to go through the channels.
This situation was peculiar to New Zealand, where City Engineers have carved a strong position for themselves, and must have been a singularly frustrating experience for the Town Planner.
When the conversation turned to the "Beehive," Mr. Shepherd clarified some popular misconceptions about this controversial topic. Local architects were of the opinion that the new Parliamentary building should be constructed in the "contemporary idiom" and when Sir
Sir Basil spent only a short time outlining his ideas of a circular building on a piece of paper approx. Gin by 4in. Mr. Shepherd conceded that Sir Basil had been paid a fee for his services and that a large amount of correspondence between himself and Sir Basil had taken place since the latter's return to England. All-in-all, he did not think that the policy of consulting overseas experts was likely to be continued.
Mr. Shepherd said that although the "Beehive" was revolutionary in design, the function of the building and the nature of the site had to be examined.
It was his considered opinion that the "Beehive" was aesthetically pleasing, yet at the same time, strictly utilitarian.—W.A.L.
Prior to the presentation of the Draft Town Plan, two Wellington architects submitted a very comprehensive report on city planning to the Council.
This report, known as the "Gabites and Beard Proposals," suggests that a reappraisal of the Transportation Plan should be undertaken and a plan embodying the traffic-free precinct principle should be initialed.
It recommends several changes in detail from earlier plans, including a realignment of the motorway from Tinakori Road to Grant Road, and three smaller tunnels for directing traffic around the bottleneck area between the hills and the sea in the vicinity of Lower Willis Street and Lambton Quay.
This is an alternative to one very large tunnel for the big motorway, and the three-level block proposed in the town plan which are primarily designed to relieve traffic pressure in the bottleneck area.
Also, rather than a single, large, high vehicle-capacity motorway, it suggests that traffic volume be spread over a network of reasonably wide feeder routes. There would be frequent and easy access to these main routes and they would feature compact intersections.
There would be no need for huge flyovers such as those which in the Draft Town Plan require the despoliation of Bolton street cemetery and the Basin Reserve. In addition, parking buildings could be strategically related to the feeder routes.
With this scheme the city could be planned as a series of precincts on the basis of the functions that different areas perform. For instance, the government centre, Lambton Quay retail area, Manners Street retail area, Civic Centre (in the vicinity of the Library) would each be separate precincts. Traffic in each precinct would be localised, since through traffic would use the feeder routes and Secondary Distribution cross routes.
In some cases certain streets could be completely closed to traffic (except for emergency services such as ambulances), and these would become traffic-free pedestrian malls. These could be serviced by a system of slowmoving minibuses.
These proposals have many merits and represent some realistic alternatives to the City Council's present plans. In addition to the obvious savings in land spare required for traffic routes and intersections, valuable reserve areas are retained.
In addition, the plan embodies the traffic-free pedestrian mall principle without having to create the costly multi-level block over Willis Street, and there are no one-way streets, This is a sensible plan. It does not require such drastic and sweeping changes as the Draft Town Plan, while retaining many of its virtues. It deserves careful consideration by the authorities.—G. F. McD.
Barry Mitcalfe.
Poetry Magazine, on its own admission, is directed particularly at teachers and students. Its supplements feature the work of established New Zealand poets, presumably in selections considered suitable for schools. This intention does not result in any lack of forcefulness and conviction in the second and most recent of the supplements, Barry Mitcalfe's; Morning, Noon and Night. Some recent poetry that has been published seems to bear out a belief that obscenity is the golden road to literature, that sensationalism is the chief tree of the sacred wood. Mr. Mitcalfe makes no concession to sentimentality or puritanism, but shows quite clearly that his intention is to create poetry, not to record impressions willy-nilly, regardless of the meaningful use of words or of what is being communicated.
Mr. Mitcalfe is conscious, for example, of form. When he ends a line or begins a stanza, more often than not it is for some distinct purpose. He has brought himself to a sufficient distance from his experience, his donnee if you like, to give it poetic organisation. Even in the simplest and least profound of poems the form has some relevance; it works towards making the poem:
In this stanza from Hiroshima Day March we may illustrate, at the risk of being obvious and pedantic, that the lines carry a unity within themselves—the second and third lines stand apart to direct our attention to their balance and ambivalence of meaning, in their opposing but possibly concomitant attitudes: there may be, we realise, pride in the drabness, and shyness in the defiance. "Together" has a line to itself, because, being the central and final quality of the marchers, it qualifies all that has gone before. Just as important is that the lines lead on from one to the other, and thus allow the poetry to move: this is true particularly in the opening stanzas in this poem, when the coldness of the weather leads, by sound and meaning, to the coldness of the reception from the public.
Such a basic and self-evident principle should not, of course, need to be illustrated at this elementary level. It should hardly be possible to distinguish poets on whether or not they show a grasp of fundamental principles. Yet, in view of much that has passed for poetry, this ability in Mr. Mitcalfe has seemed unusual, and as such must be noted: not that Mr. Mitcalfe is writing great poetry, but that he is writing competently, and to a point with sensitivity.
Mr. Mitcalfe pleases then in his arrangements and patterns of words. Perhaps, however, he is most successful in his evocation of an atmosphere he finds in the New Zealand scene. It is a landscape in which man has lived, and which he has changed: but it is a landscape which is still close to the raw forces of Nature, the "vague tumult" and the "tooexplicit shriek of gulls." It is an "apple-tree world
where summer comes with shrill cries
to climb the branches and quarrel";
it may be ordered, and meaningless—a gesture without an answer, or a wall which will not open. It may be wild, yet gentle, like "the moon that comes like a wild deer
to drink at the edge of the sky . . .";
or it may be extravagantly portentous:
". . . and leaps in terror
As a thousand suns explode around him
and the drops from his muzzle
are charged with fire."
Such an atmosphere is successfully evoked not only because its means of expression are effective; but also because it presents a balanced and not a hysterical view: there is both beauty and ugliness, love and death—and the positives give to and gain from the negatives, a new meaning and vitality. Thus it is a landscape of provincial afternoons, in which the highway is an intruder; but it is a landscape which enables people to touch with each other only for a while, as if by chance —for "night must come"; there an undertone of Doom is creeping. Even when it is most beautiful there may be blind hostility and passive violence:
Morning, Noon and Night is by no means without faults. The worst is probably a weakness and unsureness of imagery, especially of that which is extended in scope.
Some images dissipate their effect and leave only a tasteless remnant of the force they must have had in conception:
"Grey cat morning uncurls, digs in its claws
Licks round the rim of the sky, goes
on velvet paws, tail held high."
This is the sort of stanza that may appeal to the poet, and be saved, treasured even, for all the wrong reasons. Undoubtedly, there is as well the occasional gaucheness, or incoherence, or an attitude that rings false. Perhaps, too, there is overmuch fondness for the rhetorical question.
But there are lines which manage to redeem themselves—as when the awkward opening of Metho unexpectedly snaps tight in a well-caught image, horrible in its childhood echoes:
"For gardens closed at dusk are liable
to open suddenly and swallow you
completely up."
The success, the lugubrious finality of that long-awaited "up," is symptomatic of the book as a whole: the shortcomings exist, but we have little difficulty in compensating for them. We can forgive a lot for those short, active images which Mr. Mitcalfe uses to such effect—the sun "swirling" out of the sky, the Tasman "pouring" over the land, where
"leaves flutter like unspoken syllables
on the salt air."
Mr. Mitcalfe is most successful where he limits himself in scope: the most that can be asked of minor or of most young poets is that they be prepared to work within their limitations. Mr. Mitcalfe realises this most of the time: and when he does, his work is valuable: he is the sort of writer who can help build an active and healthy literary framework, in which his own talent or that of others may develop.—P.G.R.
A Successful exhibition of paintings by
The habit of buying works of art has not been developed among the general public in New Zealand.
The organisers of galleries, such as the Centre Gallery in Wellington, freely admit that the vast majority of purchasers are personally known to them. Artist and patron have tended to withdraw into an isolated, esoteric community of their own. A wider circle would be more lucrative, and probably more healthy.
Paintings by New Zealand artists are offered for sale fairly regularly in the main centres, and generally exhibitions may be viewed free of charge. To foster interest, or if that is too much to hope, to provide information, Salient has decided to give as much emphasis as possible to exhibitions by New Zealand artists, and will endeavour to feature some of the artists represented in the University painting collections. There is no reason, after all, that students should not become buyers of original pictures—artists have even been known to offer them prices reduced by as much as half.
We begin with a review of an exhibition by
It is to be hoped that this review will prove controversial. Many people may feel that it gives
Downstage has made a new departure—its latest production. A Dock Brief, is a very different thing from The Dumb Waiter or The Maids, and not nearly so good a play. There are two characters: an elderly lawyer and his client whom he interviews before and after the letter's trial for murder. The play purports to study the relationship that develops as the play progresses.
There is a considerable debt owed to Thurber's Walter Mitty— he is taken over, cut up, and parcelled out between the two actors. Morganhall indulges in his fantasies, and Fowle is as henpecked as he. But it is hard to pay as much attention to their development as we would like, for what really interests the playwright is his jokes. Frequently we are distracted while he takes time off to be funny in a way that advances the play not at all.
To carry tills off, to get at the kernel of pathos and the incongruity of Morganhall's dependence, the play must move fast. And on the first night it did tend to drag. It was not conspicuously slow—
Nevertheless there was some good acting. Alastair Bisley.
The exhibition of paintings by
Mr. Wichman believes that the success is attributable to comments received, both critical and helpful. He believes that such comments are completely necessary in the development of young painters. Mr. Wichman has had two previous exhibitions in the Hawkes Bay area and the works on show at the third included the best of those already exhibited.
Mr. Wichman also believes that the extent to which viewers feel the same way as he about his paintings (extracting the same emotions for example), determines the success of his exhibitions. It was therefore encouraging to see the interest taken in this exhibition by students.
The paintings numbered not more than two dozen and were extremely varied in style, medium and techniques: Mr. Wichman worked in inks, watercolours, charcoals and oils. There was little extravagant use of colours: in the main sombre earthy browns, blues and reds were contrasted with the flesh whites.
Mountain Village, a water colour with simple lines, follows the style of the Futurists (or more War Mother, with its circular movement and deep moor browns and reds, has Portrait of Billy Budd, a charcoal face study on pale blue, was quite impressive with its powerful lines.
Mr. Wichman is a firm believer that abstracts are a line in the maturity of painters; perhaps the lack of abstract works could be attributed to two factors. Firstly, he could lack the artistic confidence needed, and secondly, he may be more interested in humanism than abstraction. In the works on show he has concentrated more on the deep human aspect, and has developed his painting through reeling rather than technical education. He has also drawn from the experience of many famous painters in the galleries such as The Louvre and The Prado, which he has been fortunate enough to Visit— M. J. R. Gaffikin.
No more the
In the first of two interviews with Mr Henry. I set out to establish the political climate of the Cook Islands, its future relationship with NZ, and to And out how Henry as Premier will grapple with the problems facing the Cooks.
Out of four choices, the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly decided unanimously in 1962 to opt for self-government. NZ sent constitutional advisors to the Cooks who prepared a draft constitution with the co-operation of the Legislative Assembly. This constitution was put to the people in April. They could accept or reject it by electing a government which based it policy on the future status of the Cooks.
What led to Albert Henry's return to the Cook Islands'! "It was in October, 1963, that I received a tape-recording," he said. In it all leaders and chiefs spoke a few words asking him to return. "What they wanted was to get together and do something for the country." Several industries endorsed these sentiments.
Contrary to the common occurrence of emergent one-party states, four parties contested in the Cook Islands elections. Explaining how they arose, Mr. Henry enumerated the United Party "formed by
The Labour Party, whose policy was
'It did not matter how young they were, back from school or not, as long as they received a scholarship," said
And then, of course, there was his own Party, the CIP, formed soon after Henry's return. A wellorganised, vigorous group, active throughout all the islands, winning 14 out of the 22 seats in the election. "We studied the draft Constitution and decided self-government was the best policy," he said.
I asked Mr. Henry how long he expected his own Party to remain consolidated. "I think it is here to stay," he said. "NZ la very happy that a distinct majority has been a party. Formerly Legislative Assembly members were elected without a policy of their own and therefore could only work accord
Did
"They will break up again," he stated forcibly. A few had already come over to the CIP. At present, he said, the Opposition have no reason to oppose anything "except
It was noticeable that Mr. Henry's conception of the role of an opposition was a characteristically Polynesian one. An Assembly comes to a decision through discussion. Each side may compromise, but all will be satisfied with the ultimate choice without the formality of a vote.
"Our purpose as the Government is to present a policy to cover all needs. If they oppose that, then they have got to give us something better."
An opposition is not there, he said, just to oppose the Government's plan. "That is obstruction. Just as they are behaving at the present time."
An example was the issue of selfgovernment. In their platform policies all parties favoured selfgovernment, although the Independent Group wished Integration with NZ to be looked into. Now certain members of the Opposition who were in the former Assembly are asking if the people really know what self-government entails.
"Well, what have they been doing?" asked Henry. "It was their duty to make sure the people knew all about self-government as well as the other choices, while they were getting their ministerial salaries."
If all the parties supported selfgovernment in substance, what was the main issue of the elections? Referring to his own Party,
They were told quite clearly that the CIP would only consider the Constitution if candidates could be eligible after one year's residence, instead of the three years. This was the clause which excluded Henry from participating as a candidate.
Sir
He agreed it would have indeed, and spoke of several groups who fought for it. "I stated before the Select Committee that I approved of a referendum. But it must be done before the elections. Not now," he added shrewdly.
He explained that the constitution was not for full independence but self-government, although the Cook Islands was quite free to break away completely from NZ if the people so desired.
How much freedom did he envisage in making internal policies? Apparently the answer lay in consultations with the NZ authorities "Previously NZ made the proposals and we accepted them. If we didn't like them, we still got them. Now we do not have to accept NZ plans and we can also submit our own, and in this way come to some agreement."
Henry expanded his theme with an illustration. "It's tike this. We want a car, say a Ford car. The NZ Government says 'no, a Ford car costs too much, but a Holden is _300 less!' After discussion we say 'alright we will have a Holden.'"
He emphasised that the Cook Islands now has a real power to negotiate on financial matters, choosing NZ personnel for the public service administration, and on plans for economic development. No longer do they have to submit to all policy issuing from the Island Territories Department in Wellington.
What was Mr. Henry's attitude to the outflow of Cook Islanders to NZ. Here he was most emphatic if a little vague. "It is essential if we are to remain a country of sorts that we must have people. I believe that Rarotonga can carry 20,000 people," he said. The present population is about 13,000.
"But before we can say 'you come back,' we must try to provide something for them. At present there is a trend of homesickness and a going-back-home spirit that in Auckland is very strong. Cook Islanders are migrating for financial reasons," he said.
Salient Reporter
Salient's attention has Just been drawn to the following statement:
"A meeting of the Wellington Central Branch of the Social Credit Political League held on Tuesday, May 4. 1965, commended the student body of Victoria University of Wellington.
"This commendation was in regard to the responsibly conducted protest and march through Wellington City on April 8, 1965."
This commendation does not seem to have been released to students, nor, seemingly, to executive members, until now.
Among the matters raised at a Public Relations Committee Meeting recently was the question of the film to be made on University activities.
After several years of thought and hard negotiation towards the production of a film on student life, the project appears to have got under way. Being produced on behalf of the Students' Association for publicity purposes in schools and other interested institutions and organisations, the film content is being concentrated around academic life and student activities.
Production is under the control of
Although still of uncertain financial backing (a Students' Association grant is being supported by Salient reporter he was confident of success through the enthusiasm of all those connected with the project. Both the main team and many others giving generous assistance.
Shooting began at the end of the first term when "The Devils," Procesh and Capping were recorded for possible inclusion in the finished product, planned to run for 20 minutes in 16mm. black and white. Filming will continue over the next few weeks.
Salient Reporter
The 16-page supplement issued with the last edition of Salient on "Science in New Zealand" proved more successful than its originators expected it to be.
The supplement was paid for entirely from advertising sales, and 6100 copies were circulated in New Zealand universties and to the general public.
The supplement was initially planned to provide space for an adequate coverage of the First New Zealand Science Students' Conference held at Victoria University in the May vacation.
A number of the conference papers were secured, and in addition it was possible to obtain articles from prominent men in the New Zealand science world not able to be present at the conference.
"The opportunity was also taken to print some material we had on hand for our normal Science feature in Salient," Co-Editor
It is believed that the venture is the first of its kind in New Zealand student journalism.
The finances of students are the subject of an enquiry being made by NZUSA.
Dr.
The material will be used in documentation to be presented to the Petitions Committee of Parliament.—NZSPA.
Sirs,—I note in your rag of June 15 a somewhat backhanded snipe at myself under the heading of "I.D. Cards." To quote you— "a booklet (containing details of concessions) is to be published. It is all organised. (So was the boycott.)" As you well know, it is at present extremely difficult to obtain concessions with the Retailers' Association and one Businessmen's Organisation having flatly refused any concessions to students whatsoever.
I say "as you well know" because it was drawn to my attention at a recent executive meeting that Salient was running their own little concessions race and the present Publications Officer. Mr. Salient had obtained no less than seven separate student concessions! It was pointed out to Mr. Robertson that I had obtained four of these, and that two of the others had already been brought to my notice. The remaining one was a cut-rate subscription to the Bulletin, which I fully realise is of simply inestimable value to students. However, it is extremely petty of Salient (1) to have even thought of having a race with the Concessions Director, and (2) to have seen lit to pass comment in a way that you no doubt feel reaches the acme of satirical journalism.
For the information of you news-starved folk up there in the Editorial Room it is somewhat uneconomic to publish a Concessions Booklet until there are at least 30 concessions of some value to students (and by this I do not mean low subscriptions to the Bulletin). At present I have 13 and sometime in July I should have the rest so as the booklet can be published. It is possible that a list of the concessions available to date will be put in the Newsheet, so that students can make use of these right away.
R. S. Lawrence.
Concessions Manager.
Salient has been is not/will not be running any concessions race with anybody. It was merely pointed out that in the normal course of Salient advertising, seven concessions for students had been obtained.
We are well aware of publishing economies. Mr. Lawrence, and you are equally well aware that Salient has on numerous occasions offered to publish a list of concessions but has been refused.
We hope that our readers, better acquainted with the Bulletin, will be aware of this weekly' excellence in the fields of reviews. South-east Asian news and financial notes.
It is, for example, recommended reading in Economics, and students of Asian Studies have found it very valuable.— Editors.
Sirs,—In the editorial initialled by co-editor Llewellyn, he has made a mountain out of a molehill in connection with a letter which does not concern him or anyone except Mr. Stone and the Labour Department.
If Mr. Llewellyn is blaming the Labour Department for sending such a letter, I would ask Mr. Llewellyn if he expects the Secretary of Labour to peruse every letter sent by a member of his Department for possible illphrased sentences. If he is blaming the writer concerned, is he suggesting that Mr. Irvine should be sacked in a similar manner to Dr. Sutch and with less reason?
Is Salient's editor making an implied assertion that overseas students (especially American) should be pampered? The American Government is also paid insurance premiums by our country in other ways!
I am not contending that the letter sent to Mr. Stone was courteous. But I do not agree that the writer is obviously not to be trifled with.
As to Mr. Irvine's qualifications. The only comment I can make to Mr. Llewellyn's snobbish attitude is that it is far better to work for an honest living than to rave for a dishonest one.
It seems to me that it is not Mr. Stone who is "not wanted here," neither Mr. Irvine, but possibly Mr. Llewellyn who uses in his editorial more "imperious" language than Mr. Irvine in his bona fide administration of New Zealand Law.
Sirs, On Monday, 31st May. 1965, I bought two 6d bread rolls in the caf. In one of them the filling consisted of one piece of lettuce! One piece of lettuce!!! In compensation for the deficiency in fillings, both pieces of the bread roll were buttered. I ask you—is this a fair go? Should we be subject to this type of exploitation by Mr. Now. No doubt I am not the only person who would appreciate an investigation by the Students' Association.
Sirs,—With reference to your interesting highlight in the article on Blues-winners at Christchurch tournament. I would like to say that full-time students need not feel too ashamed about the report that all winners were part-time students. At least one Blue was awarded to a full-time student.
Sirs,—The Victoria Judo Club feels that it has a duty to publicly acknowledge a circular letter praising its fine performance at the recent Easter Tournament held at Canterbury.
Members wish to thank this apparently mysterious team which did so well. Not only were their phantom-like shapes victorious but they even managed to impress Victoria officialdom.
This success "in absentia" has lifted our morale no end. We await the team "in substantia."
Sirs,—May I reply to Miss
She may certainly view my credentials and testimonials.
One will establish my bona fides, and the other my sex. . . .
Sirs,—As a member of the Students Union and a candidate for the City Council. I am concerned that as many students as possible become voters at the local body elections.
How many realise that being over 21, British subjects, resident 12 months in New Zealand and three in Wellington entitles them to enrol on the Municipal Electors Roll, which is not, repeat not, the same as the Parliamentary Roll?
I am assured at the Council Offices that there will soon be 38 places at which to sign up. So help ensure a more sensible council, with a majority of the one group which is approaching the elections with unity and dignity— Labour!
Sirs,—Hbr's article is a crude attempt to surround MRA in mystery when he could have discovered the truth had he bothered to contact the Wellington office and inquire after the facts.
I attended the recent May conference at Wanganui and can say that no member of the force that went to Mt. Isa made the claim of having solved the dispute. Their intention was to take an ideology big enough to help the community see beyond themselves so that their way of life could be a pattern for Australia.
Briefly, MRA states that for the world to change people must change first. How can a world operate sanely when the people who live in it are dishonest, have hate for others, loose morals and, where self first and foremost is the conscious or subconscious philosophy of most people? I hope that all of us want to see and live in a better world, but most of us wish to see the other person change first. To hope that someone is going to create a better world for us is completely passive and reactionary. It is up to every one of us to begin creating this new world. The question you may ask is, how do you propose to create this new type of man? If you are willing to try an experiment, write down absolute love, unselfishness, honesty and purity. Next, ask God how these absolutes apply to you. It works, believe me, as I have tried it. Even an atheist can make this experiment by being specific in how he wants to see others live and then trying to live that way himself. Once you have straightened up your own life, then you are in a position to create a new world. "You can't live crooked and think straight."
You will never reach the ultimate of each standard as this is God Himself. But by basing your life on these standards you have a guiding line. The standards must be absolute for a relative standard is no standard at all.
MRA is definitely not anti-Communist, for an ideology that cannot include everyone is too small for this time and age.
H.B.R.'s main accusation against MRA is that the people who practise its philosophy, which is the Christian philosophy, do not think. On the contrary, you begin to think of matters other than those that concern yourself and to question prevalent values of society. You also ask why is the world so corrupt?
Is it the institutions or the people that create these institutions?
It has been pointed out to us that there is no connection between the "Social Credit Association" (page 15) and the "N.Z. Social Credit Political League"— the well-known political movement. We understand that the views of one are not necessarily the view of the other.—Editors.
Executive Reporter
A Takeover bid for Auckland Student publication Craccum by Salient was revealed at a VUWSA executive meeting on June 8.
A letter from the New Zealand Student Press Association requested that slight restraint be imposed on the Victoria Publications Committee and the business manager of Craccum.
Publications officer Salient his committee had decided it would offer to help Craccum out of its difficulties, which included a loss of something like £1400 last year.
An approach was made to the business manager of Craccum after the move had been approved by the Victoria executive.
Unfortunately, the lady Editor of Craccum had not learned of the offer until the last Student Press Council.
On hearing of the proposed deal she "kicked up bobsy-di," Mr. Robertson said.
In view of the turbulent reaction of various members of the Press Council the offer had been withdrawn.
Science Reporter
Students as a whole consume an amazing amount of "relief" pills every year. But, "an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away," is not as safe as you think.
Aspirins, sedatives, and that most important student standby, alcohol; all come under in part of narcotics; along with heroin, opium, and the like. The other side of the pill pile contains stimulants or "pep pills" (containing benzedrine, caffeine, etc.) and vitamin pills.
Narcotic drugs produce certain levels of disintegration of the nervous system, i.e., the brain. The brain has the ability to integrate the actions of all parts of the body. The drug therefore lowers the ability of all parts of the body to function. For safety, this disturbance should be only transient, so that the body can regain its normal balance.
Alcohol is a narcotic drug. A moderate dose of any narcotic achieves the same effect of removal of tensions. Increased doses produce first, sleepiness, then anaesthesia, the condition, known as "flakers." Chronic excess alcohol can produce hallucinosis, neurological disorders, and general physical and mental deterioration.
Pain relievers or analgesics like aspirins, reduce pain by a moderate degree of disintegration of bruin function. Potent analgesics in large quantities have harmful effects.
Stimulants are of two types; potent, like "pep" pills, and mild ones like tea, coffee and cocoa, "Pep" pills act on the heart and brain. They cause mild intoxication, lack of appetite and anxiety. From large doses hallucinations may develop. Although they offer a period of wakefulness, this is acquired at the price of diminished accuracy of memory and reasoning powers. It is courting disaster to take these as preexamination "pep" pills. Mild stimulants are of use in normal amounts, an excess gives an "after depression" effect.
A word of warning from another quarter. With winter's chilly blast preceding a barrage of Vitamin D type anil-cold pills; beware, excessive Vitamin D can produce calcification of the soft tissues of the body.
All of the aforementioned drugs are harmful in excess. If you must use them, do so in moderation, but do not regard them as a continual crutch for living.
The last issue of Salient featured an advertisement for the Rolendo Coffee Lounge in Molesworth Street. Unfortunately, a letter was deleted in error, giving the wrong impression that the name of this new coffee bar was Rolend. Your attention is drawn to the correct spelling in the Rolendo's advertisement an the back page.
We apologise to the management of the Rolendo Coffee Lounge for any inconvenience wo may have caused them.
A Japanese New Zealand Student Exchange Federation has been formed in Japan. The Japanese president will be coming to New Zealand on June 17.
NZUSA were advised about this recently, having heard nothing about it previously.
The Australians had apparently initiated the activity.
The federation hope to arrange exchange tours between New Zealand and Japanese students.—NZSPA.
Salient Reporter
A Survey on the quality and quantity of student accommodation in Wellington is being prepared by both the University Council and the Student Executive Accommodation committees.
Both reports will be completed by July.
The executive report will deal with the cost, quality and availability of hostels, private board and flats. It will include case studies, and attempt to analyse the effect of flats on study. It will be specifically aimed at increasing government aid for halls of residence.
The Council report will be based on returns from questionnaires placed with the examination application forms. The returns will show the present accommodation position as a basis for further action.
Science Reporter
This strange gadget is not the 1965 Budget, nor is it the latest in the "Beehive" proposals. Our Science Editor assures us that it is in fact part of the multi-million dollar United Stales space programme.
In our next two Science features we will be considering aspects of this programme, with the aid of background material provided by Dr.
In particular, we will be looking at the basic scientific alms behind the Ranger and Mariner space programmes, and some of the technical challenges which have been overcome.
In the meantime, we leave you in contemplation of this piece of "space junk." (Photo courtesy of United States Information Service.)
Some of you will be delighted to know that seven of our thirteen member executive have been returned, unopposed, to lead us.
The last minute power struggle for sinecures was enlivened by the juggling of two new posts. Women's Representative, who has had nothing to do for years now, has been replaced by an Education Officer. The effect of this change is that in future a male or a female can have nothing to do.
Social controller has been replaced by a position known as Accommodations Officer. Fortunately he will have nothing to do as there is already a full-time accommodation bureau in Stud. Ass. Never mind, it'll mean a taxi home in the evenings.
The Secretary, the. Treasurer, the Publications Officer (why officer?). House Committee Chairman (he polices the common room and turns the television off—an outstanding position), and Sports Representative have also been returned unopposed. These people have no election policy—no election promises. They will hold sway over a gaggle of committees and command an impressive range of filing cabinets.
They will be experienced air travellers by the end of the year. Last year, important members of the student executive pleaded a persuasive case for having air fares to Auckland. They had to be fresh and alert for the meetings and no one, but no one (except ordinary old students) can sleep on the train. So they were at parties till four o'clock on the morning of the flight and were an hour late for the meeting. Total cost to the students of this University—two return air fares to Auckland.
Most executive positions are decided about one minute before nominations close. All interested parties foregather in the executive room. Well, it isn't the executive room any longer, the executive room has been transferred into the magazine library upstairs and the subscriptions to the magazines cancelled.
ID cards which give us concessions in municipal conveniences are glued up in the old exec. room. Anyway they gather in the exec. room and wait and see who is standing for what position. Then they nominate themselves.
It is not uncommon for frantic nominees to rush into the foyer calling for a nominator and a seconder, seconds before nominations close. It's heart-warming to see such forethought. Some of our perennials have moved on to postgraduate student fund spending on the NZUSA level.
I have no doubt that they will throw their hair and hands up in horror, "after all, it's not our fault that no one else stood, is it?" It's not our fault that you stood.
Are students interested in anything else but their own pockets? Over 1500 students demonstrated to protest to Government about inadequate fees and bursaries.
Would 1500 (or even 15?) turn out to help someone else besides themselves? And how many students are aware that in some areas of the world 80 per cent of the student population suffers from diseases such as Tb, dysentery, malaria, or pleurisy, all partly induced by malnutrition? How many even care?
Apparently though, somebody doesn't think we students are beyond hope. A campaign to increase student interest in overseas problems is being planned for Victoria by the World University Service (WUS). The local WUS committee has noted the vigour with which Vic students have protested against their own conditions. It hopes to help channel some of this vigour into helping improve the far worse conditions of students overseas.
The average student may be pardoned for asking exactly what WUS is, and if he is indeed a WUS member as the blurb sheet tells him. Well, the World University Service is a voluntary association of university people—students, staff and administrators. Its aim is to help students of all nations and creeds. Born in the ashes of World War I as a relief service, WUS now operates in 60 countries. It channels effort and funds into fields such as student health, hostels, scholarships, co-operative projects, and the provision of books and equipment in underdeveloped areas. Prominent amongst its activities has been the provision of help for student refugees from many strife torn lands. Refugees from Algeria, Angola. China, Hungary, North Korea, Mozambique. South Africa and North Vietnam have been aided. So have student victims of racial discrimination and natural disasters. Globally, WUS now has an annual budget of £830.000.
WUS has long been active in New Zealand Universities. Under its earlier name of the International Student Service it was first fostered at Canterbury University. Led by Sir
Currently WUS in New Zealand has Dr.
D.A.P.
Sirs,—I would like to make the following comments on Mr. Stone's predicament.
I presume that Mr. Stone was fully aware of Section 8 of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920 which seems to me to be the section under which he was granted his visa. This provides for various contingencies, not the least being sent home. Mr. Irvine, an executor of Government policy under this Act, has written only one statement in his letter that I could find objectionable, and this refers to the absolute extent of the visa, viz. the 15th of December, and this could not possibly be his decision.
Every condition covered by Mr. Irvine comes out of Section 8 of this Act. Perhaps his public relations leave something to be desired, but I do not see this as a justification for a vindictive and splenetic attack on his person or credentials.
For Salient to have picked this material out of the classification list and to have published it is distasteful in the extreme. Salient howls like a stuck pig when one of its ilk reports inaccurately or with bias, but this latest example of immature, overplayed sensationalism is in extremely bad taste. >Certainly Mr. Stone may feel aggrieved but nothing has been done to him that is not in the Act, and it is my contention that as a responsible citizen of a foreign country he should have been familiar with the conditions of entry, etc., that applied to him, one of which is that the visa may not be renewed. This is in the Act and whatever the Embassy staff said at the time could not amend it.
It would not surprise me if the Secretary for Labour did not reply to your article if only for the reason that Frazer Finlayson's infantile acidity certainly does not warrant it and, in any case, your complaint should have been addressed to the Secretary himself —not through an attack on his personnel—or to the Ombudsman, whose office exists for this express purpose.
Nobody pretends that the Public Service is infallible, but where they do make mistakes, in my experience they are only too willing to admit it.
Sirs,—It is interesting, to say the least, to see what the House of Representatives, that buzzing bunch of bees of Beehive (oops, sorry—Capitol) fame think of the political persuasions of us students! Once the McCarthyites of our government get into stride, even the left wing Opposition is afraid to dissent, for fear of being lumped in with the "Other communists" tag.
But behind this willingness to label freedom-loving free thinkers "Communist" I can perceive the first stirrings of a quasi-Fascist hysteria, which the government is trying to spread in a so far vain attempt to sway the collective mind of the ignorant public to their side in the Vietnam issue.
How long before Cabinet appears in black uniforms and jackboots? How long before Holyoake revives the pre-war German craze of bookburning with the Un-New Zealand Activities and Publications Tribunal as his willing tool? How long before a "Communist attempt to burn down Parliament, our Reichstag?
I fear this government is veering towards Hitlerian tactics when it indiscriminately labels intellectuals, demonstrators, leftists and rightists who oppose its foreign policy, plus of course the pacifists and the few Communists as being all "Communists." After all, we know only too well that the only way to stop the Communists is to form a powerful Right wing (or Fascist) government. Look at South Africa, Rhodesia, Spain, Portugal, Nazi Germany!
Let us have no more of this hysterical name-calling, Mr. Holyoake and Mr.
Dear Sirs,—I read with interest your column "On the Grapevine," in the Salient issue of June 15. In this you state your refusal to print a statement made by Mr. Kinsella about the Government education building programme. I seem to recall the NZBC refusing to broadcast a certain programme by Professor Herd of Otago some weeks ago. Surely Salient is not going to resort to similar practices? If the Minister has something to say, why shouldn't we the student body hear it? Why can't the salient points of Mr. Kinsella's statement be printed in a shortened article, if 2500 words takes up so much of Salient's valuable space?
Our correspondent will find the salient points he seeks on the same page as the comment he refers to, under the heading "Impressive Development for Victoria."—Editors.
Sirs,—The Devils in the last edition of Salient tells me that he has not read the play. If he does read the play he might be better placed to "allocate responsibilities" between the play and the producer for the "antidramatic production" which he declares he saw.
"The Lower Hutt mayor and his councillors are doing more damage to Petone than the French nuclear tests will do to us," Sir
However, Sir Ernest did not condone the testing.
"We must do what we can to stop nuclear warfare. We must do what we can to promote nuclear disarmament. We must face up to it this year or we will never face up to it," he said.
A modern high-power nuclear bomb would obliterate everything as far out as Titahi Bay if it was dropped on Wellington.
If France wanted a nuclear deterrent it must test to ensure its nuclear resources would go as far as possible. This was logical unless war was outlawed.
If the French kept to Pitcairn for their lest then not much fault could be found with it. Natural soil radiation in some parts of the world caused greater radiation exposure than would be found 250 miles from the intended French explosion.
Only one-tenth of the number of mutations caused by natural means were caused by fallout from past nuclear tests.
But test fallout could become a serious danger if the testing habit spread and increased fallout tenfold. The results of the United States tests of three years ago were more serious than had been thought and fallout had increased 700 per cent. Much fallout in the upper atmosphere had drifted down to the Southern Hemisphere.
Also recent research had caused scientists to lower the limit of radiation considered "safe."
Coherent clouds of nuclear fallout could form and drift far from the centre of the testing area. This had caused the burning of some Japanese fishermen after an American test. The Swedes had observed such a cloud about 2000 kilometres from a Russian test. So the Pitcairn lest could be a greater hazard than was thought, especially if the French exploded their device near to Tahiti than was at present intended.
If the gene structure of people in overseas lands was affected it would only take 10 years for cross marriage to bring genetic defects to New Zealanders. Genetic changes were everlasting and future generations would have to put up with whatever mistakes were made today, Sir Ernest said.
One of Yeats's later plays, Purgatory, produced by Downstage until July 5. Playgoers should not miss it; for its sake, they should put up with the preceding poetry reading.
The play, however, is a very different matter. To begin with, Ian Mune's scenery is superb; starkly and beautifully, the bones of a tree and the suggested ruins of a door and window manage, on that tiny stage, to hint at the huge and gutted house behind. And with the music, and the sudden illumination of door, window, or tree, the ruins come to life in the Old Man's mind; the past plays itself out through his attempt to frustrate its power.
This, not the somewhat facile theatre of The Dock Brief, is what Downstage should be providing.—A.M.B.
Sirs,—One who reads the Dominion will soon discover that this paper overwhelmingly supports anything that will promote a good image of the National Party and plays down or ignores anything that will damage that image. Students are putting the National Party on a spot. Hence the failure of this paper to give fair coverage of Student activities may well be due to that cause and not to "lazy petty-mindedness."
This bias extends into a wider field and is not confined to one paper—though the Dominion is more actively engaged than others —but one must read in order to discern the veracity of this statement. It is in marked contrast to the claim made in Newspaper Proprietors Association advertisements that they enable an informed public to make judgments in respect of voting at Elections. Be assured that the lack of fair treatment complained of in Salient Vol. 28, No. 6, Page 1 is as nothing compared with that meted out to those seeking reforms in the field of finance.
At least you have done the writer the courtesy of printing his letter in full and without alteration. As to Whether Salient is read it is suggested that Mr. Rennie study the Ian Cross article (No 3, Page 8) and, in the scientific spirit; examine my earlier letter and his own reply. To assist be it observed that the possibility of Mr. Rennie being narrowly read is given added weight by his statement: "that magazine run by
Is he a scientist of Professor Soddy's standing? Or is he just an Editor with power of closure when the questions get close to home? Mr. Rennie does not know the full circumstances of the Albertan Act relative the Press. Lord Tweedsmuir (have the ultimate word."
No, Mr. Rennie, you are not so well as you proclaim. Or is this opinion also of no worth because Lord Tweedsmuir was not an economist? Quotes to the same effect are available from many persons of standing but they receive no publicity, Why? This particular quotation was chosen for the Canadian connection. "The Act to ensure Publication of Accurate News Information" was proposed and passed for the following reasons amongst others:—
"Because control of the news and the control of credit are both exercised by financial interests. Because "the freedom of the Press" has become a licence to distort news, misrepresent facts, and withhold information from the public. Because this anti-social aspect of the Press, under inspired direction, is being used to thwart the people of Alberta in their struggle against finance."
In common with most peoples of the world Albertans were starving in the midst of plenty. But the question of the Press in Alberta is irrelevant, Douglas's whole philosophy and his writings had one object. The greatest amount of Freedom for the Individual. If Mr. Rennie is widely read he would know of this and plain honesty would have required mention of the fact in his writings. Is it possible that Social Credit Theory is not so wacky as Mr. Rennie believes? During the depression years and at the 1934 monetary inquiry Social Crediters particularly were described as charlatans and worse when they maintained that trading banks created credit whereas banking experts and economists stated categorically that they did not.
Witness, however, the evidence of Mr. Whyte, Chairman of the New Zealand Bankers' Association, before the New Zealand Monetary Commission. 1955, Vol. V. P.
Finally, Sir Martin Nestor." The closure has been applied and there is no right of reply. This is the treatment we have been accustomed to from the daily Press and true to pattern it follows an opinion that does not stand objective examination and uses a reason that does not apply to the letter published.— Yours, etc,
J. A. Cameron.
President, N.Z. Social Credit Association, Inc.
PS: "A certain blindness to the duty of thinking." And you, too, Brutus?
PPS: The statements of Soddy, Buchan, Kelliher and many others are not matters of economics but of observation of events: do they make these statements for their own perverse personal amusement? Certainly the mind rebels! But are they incorrect?
With this we must leave you to the contemplation of the Student Image as it is unlikely you will risk "loss of face" by publishing this letter and letting it stand or fall on its own merits.
Salient Reporter
Now that the library is in full working order two quite considerable changes in organisation have come to light: the extension of library hours and the restriction of periodical borrowing.
Mrs.
In the first week of the change more than 20 students were working through the evening and the increase of library staff, particularly student helpers, seemed warranted. At the same time, however, undergraduates may query the new rule which restricts the borrowing of periodicals to graduates and staff. Mrs. Barker, head of the periodicals department, explained that student demand for certain periodicals can be met only by retaining them in the periodicals room— just as books are kept on reserve.
Furthermore, many periodicals are irreplaceable and the restriction of their use is an accepted procedure in other universities.
A few undergraduates have questioned the librarians on the new rule but with the new Xerox service (at a modest charge) and with the extended library hours students should have adequate opportunity to make use of all the books and periodicals.
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". . . but it will win the next election."
Mr. Lake's 1965 Budget reminds me of the behaviour of a small boy in bed who thinks he has seen a bogyman. The boy hides his head under the blankets and hopes fervently that the bogyman will vanish.
So with Mr. Lake and the economic situation. He looks at it, shudders, and hopes the problems Will vanish if he does nothing.
Basically Mr. Lake was faced with an economic situation that has become all too frequent in New Zealand. Spending has been rising rapidly for some time. Labour shortages are growing. Import demand continues to rise and price inflation is becoming quite rapid.
Indeed the Budget admits quite candidly that "prices rose over 4 per cent last year." At the same time, however, export prices are falling and New Zealand is faced with a rapidly widening balance of payment deficit. This is a situation which the Minister of Finance diagnoses quite clearly in the Budget and in the Economic Survey. Having made his diagnosis he proceeds to do very little about it.
The present Budget, in fact, continues an irresponsible fiscal policy which has been evident for some time. When export prices rose rapidly in 1963 Government policy should have been aimed at restraining internal spending and building up overseas exchange reserves to act as a cushion against future export price falls.
Instead, because of Government reluctance to take any really strong measures, such as increasing taxes, a policy of spending all of New Zealand's extra earnings was followed, and an internal boom allowed to develop. Quite predictably it led to the present situation.
Several main features stand out in the Budget and in the economic policy statements contained in it.
Firstly, the Government has not increased taxes, despite the excessive level of internal spending. Indeed, it gave some further tax concessions, though these were relatively minor. This shows that the present Government is determined to remain known as a "low tax" Government, whether this is economically justified or not.
Secondly, Government expenditure will show another large rise in
Thirdly, the pattern of expenditure and increase is something of a mixed blessing. Social Services expenditure is up a satisfying £27.5 million, including £6 million more for education. Works and other capital expenditure is, however, scheduled to rise less than £2 million. Once again capital spending has borne the brunt of the Government's need to cut spending somewhere since it is determined not to increase taxes.
Fourthly, it seems that Mr. Lake is going to rely on a bank credit squeeze and controls on building activity to cut back internal demand. In the absence of tax increases these policies will, of course, have some effect. However, they mean investment rather than consumption is being cut back. To give Mr. Lake his due, though, it must be admitted that the present boom is more an investment boom than a consumption one.
Having criticised the Budget for its overall weakness a few good points may be noted.
Top of the list is the increase in bursaries and hostel subsidies for university students. Masters bursaries are up £50 to £150, boarding bursaries up £45 to £125 and cash allowance in the third year of a fees and allowance bursary up £20 to £80. Mr. Lake is apparently becoming the students' friend.
Secondly, Mr. Lake should be congratulated for abolishing the "gift" provision for no-remittance import licences. This was one of the biggest avenues for dishonesty in the country. Unfortunately, he slightly soured the high moral note by extending the eligibility date for ownership of overseas funds. The big boys will still get their cars, apparently.
Thirdly, the taxation incentives granted to farming, fishing, mining, forestry and research are welcome and should help stimulate development. So will the Development Finance Corporation being set up, and the Export Guarantee Office. These are all positive steps.
However, despite some good points, the Budget as a whole is an unsatisfactory and inadequate one. Ever since 1958 and the "black budget," New Zealand Ministers of Finance have lacked the courage to increase taxes when such an increase became necessary, Mr. Lake's 1965 Budget falls clearly into this category.
This time, though, Mr. Lake might just get away with it. Falling export income will eventually cut internal demand, and overseas funds can be shored up by borrowing from the IMF. This won't do New Zealand's long-term development any good, but it will mean that the Government will win the next election.—Special Correspondent.
Canterbury Correspondent
A Special General Meeting of the Canterbury University Students' Association decided a fortnight ago that it approved the government's action in sending troops to South Vietnam.
A Similar meeting a week before had decided just the opposite.
Four hundred and sixty-seven students attended the meeting, which was called after students had signed a requisition for a second SGM.
The motion approving the government's action was first declared lost on voices.
However, when a division was taken it was declared carried by 276 to 175, with 16 abstentions.
A motion that the association "believes that the firm measures taken are in keeping with the desire of the South Vietnamese people for freedom and democracy" was carried. 220 to 189.