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Mr. Holyoake had better bring his own chair when he opens Rankine Brown building next week.
For the library is 250 chairs short of its boasted 1000 seats— and these are reserved for students.
And he'd better be prepared to tolerate the humidity in the lower floors of the building.
It's fortunate, too. that he doesn't have to go to lectures to get his degree. For he might then be one of the students who have to sit on the floor because the rooms are too small—or on the desktop so he can see the blackboard.
Indeed, the decision to "open" Rankine Brown will surprise many students, The building has been "open" now for nearly 15 months.
The building is now said to be complete At least we students are not now walking through, under and over the tools of builders, plasterers and electricians. The faculties favoured with offices in the building have moved in.
To some it would appear the right time for a little pomp.
Ever Ready?
But after half an academic year completed in a supposedly complete building, it may be asked whether it will ever be ready for lecture and study purposes.
Perspiration poisoning is the main attraction of the room called B104. The system euphemistically called air-conditioning clanks and grinds —while the room gets hotter and hotter.
There are no windows to open and the one door is right down the front ot the lecture theatre.
Those students who survive the lecture must then force their way out of the room. This can often take over 10 minutes—and they still have to get through the waiting class outside.
Conditions in other rooms on Floor 1 are much the same.
Dr Culliford. of the university administration, told Salient last week that conditions in Rankine Brown will ease with the completion of a new lecture theatre building m 1968.
The new building, which will be situated next to Easterfield, will house two lecture theatres—for 300 and 150 students respectively.
Years Away
He says that the air conditioning and heating system has not yet been handed over to the university, In this sense at least the building is still not complete.
Dr Culliford also says that in future most of the building will be used for library purposes and the areas which at present cause inconvenience will not be used to such an extent.
But this time is years away.
Asked to comment on the building's grossly overcrowd d toilet faculties, he said that when the building was designed the number of toilets in the whole of the university was considered.
Evidently the university authorities expect students to walk to the other university buildings to use the toilet facilities there. When the library expands, toilet facilities will actually decrease.
When Mr. Holyoake declares the Rankine Brown building "open" next Tuesday, he can be expected to use the opportunity to stress the National Party policy on education.
What else will he announce?
It is probable he will announce a pay rise for university stall.
The Government is known to be planning a small pay rise for university staff—of the order of £50 per year— and it is quite probable that he will take the opportunity to do so.
This pay rise, to be justified by reference to recent rises in comparable Government services, could be a powerful political move.
It is believed that the universities' salaries investigation hopes to announce its findings just before this year's general election in the hope of extracting action from the government. A rise now would slightly, offset the effect of this.
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The library is short of 250 chairs. It is also short of expansion space so that even the claimed seating figure is below the standard of one seat per four students.
Bag Space is Impossible to find, and the bag checking system has collapsed.
Meanwhile, university staff have had a lighting survey made of the lighting standards in the buildings, lecture rooms and staff studies.
A recent count conducted by Salient staff showed that it had 743 chairs. 22 couches, and 16 stools. With two people to each couch this means the total number of seats in the library is 803.
But when the chairs reserved for graduates in the Stack Room (Floor 0) and the chairs marked "For quick reference only" are excluded, then the chairs available for students studying are reduced to 750.
Dr. Culliford says that the complete number of chairs have not yet been bought because the administration wants to discover student reaction to the type of seating at present provided. More carrels (individual desks with chairs) are to arrive shortly.
But the library has been operational for about a year now and Salient can trace no efforts to test student views on the seating.
Limits On Use
Dr. Culliford says that in the 1000 chairs to be provided are included the chairs in the Fine Arts Room and in the seminar room on the fourth floor.
The seminar room contains about 20 chairs, but poor ventilation prevents concentrated study.
The Fine Arts Room is used for lectures for four hours of the day and outside that time is often locked.
Most parts of the library are well lit—bat the same cannot be said for offices and seminar room in the rest, of the building.
With the lights set back in the ceilings, they cast shadows. Students can see what they are doing but the standard of lighting is not high.
Earlier this year members of the university staff had a lighting survey made and it is understood that this revealed some substantial deficiencies.
Low Standard
Dr. Culliford says it does come up to the New Zealand standards and that a survey had recently been taken to see whether the standard should be raised.
Salient discovered that the New Zealand lighting standard is lower than both the British and American standards.
Space for student bags and satchels is also short. In the entrance foyer and on the floor below there are 501 cubicles for students' bags.
Many of the spaces on the lower floor are used by students at lectures and this leaves about 350 spaces for students using the library. The spaces provided were originally intended to fit four bags each—under supervision. After a trial last year this was found to be slow and inconvenient.
With the cubicles open to students the system breaks down and bags are left all over the library foyer floor. Dr. Culliford said the university has been contacted by the Fire Department and told that this constitutes a hazard for people using the library. The bags have to go.
The administration is looktog into the conversion of lecture room 206 into a cloak room and it is hoped this will case the situation. But it will probably be well into the third term before this eventuates.
Salient Reporter
Some university staff plan to boycott the award of an honorary degree to the Rt. Hon.
Invitations sent to staff have already produced B number of written refusals to attend.
But other staff members, at less senior levels, have remained silent, afraid prejudice their chances of promotion.
Others again will attend to avoid slighting the other recipient of an honorary degree, the retired librarian, Mr.
While the number of protesting staff will be high. some staff members see no objection to the award.
At least one is known to have asked individual students not to protest
Students
Student protests will in any case be muted, for the award will lake place during study week.
Salient interviewed hall a dozen of the students it was thought would be anion the most likely to demonstrate the award of the degree.
All said they would be out of Wellington or at work during the week.
But Salient investigation also disclosed at least one group actively planning a demonstration.
They say they have already commenced painting protest signs.
Christchurch.— Canterbury's vice-chancellor (Dr.
Earlier this year Dr. Pownall slated the contractors for the delays at a university council meeting. At last month's meeting he renewed his attack on the builder's tardiness.
At present science lectures are taken in the new buildings. but students have to travel into the old town site, three miles away, for practical classes.
The council decided not to protest to Cabinet—already aware of the delays—but will write to the contractors,
Commenting on a letter from Chemistry Professor
"I cannot believe that this is the attitude taken by New Zealand tradesmen," he added.
In Dunedin. the University of Otago's Arts Faculty is suffering similar problems— but this time because approval for a new building was not given.
The faculty is faced with an accommodation crisis in 1968, the Dean (Professor
"Permission to call for tenders for Phase 1 of the new arts building, originally due for accommodation in 1968, was withheld throughout the last three months of; last year, and the possibility of completing it by the target date receded," his report stated.
However, the Minister of Education (the Hon.
Nzspa Reporter
Asiiburton.—Girls may be deterred from entering the teaching service by the new three-year teacher training course, says the principal of, Ashburton College (Mr.
Mr. Thurlow told the college board of governors that girl students now face "seven years of bondage" — three training, one probationary and three teaching under bond. Previously the bond was for five years.
The old clause for releasing women from the bond when they married has also been deleted, added Mr. Thurlow, and this would also make the service less attractive.
Sometime, somewhere, somehow next week I am going to be killed. How it will be done I do not know. And my sole consolation is the knowledge that the Canterbury students' association and the police for sure do not really approve.
For after a talk with the organiser of the latest "student game," "Carnage"—a sophisticated name for the latest American college craze, "The Hunt," I was enrolled as a victim.
Somewhere a hunter is waiting for me. He doesn't know who I am, and I have! naturally less idea of his identity.
The game, which runs in weekly rounds (a macabre term, that) from midnight Monday to 5pm Thursday, was advertised in Kobald, a student news weekly. A telephone number was supplied for participants. The organiser, "Lane." has offered to supply instructions for killers and victims each Monday in the Students' Union Building.
And so to the game, designed to cater for the killer instinct in all of us (except me. because I'm a victim).
Everyone entering the game is either a hunter or victim. Each killer will receive a letter saying he or she has been chosen for this role and naming the victim without any other clue on who he or she is or may be found.
Each victim will simply be told he is a victim without any clue on who is hunting.
Four days will be allowed to devise and execute "a technically-feasible kill.'' Success will win one point. "A technically-brilliant kill" will earn ten points.
If the victim is able to first kill the hunter, the hunter loses one point and the victim wins one. If any "innocent bystander" is killed by the method chosen the hunter loses two points.
All contestants must report to the panel of judges, hunters and victims preferably having agreed on the merits of the kill, Lane told me.
"Technically brilliant kills?" For example:
• Victim hit by pillow labelled "20001b safe."
• Victim reads long dull letter from Senate, Ps added "This paper was impregnated with contact poison. You are groaning on the carpet, dead."
• Victim answers phone, hears note A on tuning fork, notices, headless, gun in earpiece representing A-sensitive explosive.
All dead simple.
After each round killers and victims will exchange roles and start again.
The first to accumulate 10points has a party thrown in his honour.
Within the four days allowed a kill may be made in any way, time, or place which is technically feasible and does not cause offence.
No offence? Canterbury executive member
Other executive members were also dubious, although the meeting took no action.
Commenting on this, Lane said he and the other dozen organisers saw nothing wrong with the practice. However, he emphasises he was urging non-violence to all competitors.
"We will award points on ingenuity only."
Lane had his answer ready:
"It is not expected that victims will be attacked in bed. It is not expected that they will be stabbed in a crowded street. But a tie may be slipped round a throat (but not pulled tight) in some alley; food may be poisoned if there is opportunity to do it without detection; and assault may occur in the course of the daily routine although more subtle methods are preferred." said Lane.
But the police countered with the cry "sick." What with the recently-turned-murderous population, the police have enough on their hands, a spokesman said.
"Surely the students are old enough to recognise the dangers of such pastimes as 'Carnage' — dangers possibly not so much to themselves as to others, especially those of similar intellect likely to emulate their poor example." the officer said.
"Instances are known of similar activities having resuits far removed from those the perpetrators intended, but for which they could not ignore responsibility.
"Why endanger a university career, probably gained at the taxpayers' expense through a generous bursary, by risking involvement in criminal proceedings?" the officer said.
"It is a 'sick' game. We would expect something more healthy and constructive from university students, the same students who constantly seek finance from the public to better their place of learning, standards of teaching, and other things."
University of Canterbury officials had no comment to make.
There are at least 30 people entered this week, and more are expected before entries close, and for succeeding rounds. The game will continue until it dies.
Warning: This newspaper may be radioactive!
Salient Reporter
The commission of inquiry into the presidential election has released its report.
The report runs to eight foolscap pages and deals with the matter under twelve heads.
The full text is included in the Vuwsa annual report, which may be inspected at the student association's office. The following summary is taken from the report:
"We can find no single factor which, if regularised, would in our view have changed the result of the election.
"We do not think that the combination of irregularities can even be said to have significantly influenced the result.
"We think it is important to mention that this was one of the highest percentage polls on record for a presidential election.
"The defeated candidate Mr.
"It is worthy of note that after the election had been in progress the first day a meeting was convened by Mr. Robertson with the two candidates and he discussed the steps which could be taken to remedy the irregularities.
"Both candidates then agreed that the election should be continued with an extra day for polling.
"We do not think that the principles of democracy were outraged in this election despite the constitutional irregularities.
"But we think Mr. Woodhams and his associates have done the association a service in bringing these matters to public attention.
"If the trends observed in these elections were to continue and are accentuated there would be obvious scope for corrupt and undemocratic practice."
The report is signed by the three members of the inquiry. Messrs
Salient Reporter
Auckland's Security Police issue has passed from the news headlines, and the university has returned to near-normal.
Films on the French bomb tests, introduced by
The films are official reports prepared by the French Government on various aspects of the tests,
But the issue is far from closed. Recent developments include:
• The appointment of a Government commission of inquiry.
• Auckland students' association decision to say nothing further until the commission meets.
• Rumours from Auckland that deans of other faculties had also encountered security police activities.
• The unprecedented appearance at a public questioning of the security service head. Brigadier
• Fears expressed by Auckland students that the commission of inquiry will make a scapegoat of certain Auckland staff members.
Auckland president
"I cannot now, nor will I name students involved because of a genuine fear of repercussions, he said.
Auckland students' association has since ceased to make any statements at all.
"I made it quite clear that Godfrey had been active on campus, that he had inhibited discussion within his class, had recruited students, and through his ineptitude created suspicion," Mr. Wood said.
"Providing you accept this, then academic freedom has clearly been endangered.
"Our administration obviously agreed with us or they wouldn't have taken the action they did. The Association of University Teachers also supported us.
The Auckland Student Christian Movement—which Mr. Shand criticised for not supporting Mr. Godfrey—has declared their support for the students' association, as has the university branch of the National Party.
Meanwhile, the Security Service has launched a belated counter-offensive of publicity.
Its head, Brigadier
And details of the service's pursuit of one Russian spy were released to the papers.
All parties admit that something must be done before a pedestrian is killed. At Left, a crossing as it might be erected. Below, the latest news from the battle front.
Mr. Anderson, Wellington's Traffic Superintendent, says
However, Mr. Dasent, of the university, says that the project is held up because results of investigations by the university's architects show that if the bridge were erected in the position originally agreed on by the university authorities and the City Council, it would not be used fully.
A letter has recently been sent to the City Council requesting that they approve the erection of the bridge in a position close to that of the illegal crossing recently painted. If this is agreed to, the university council will then apply to the University Grants committee for the required finance.
The original proposal for a bridge across Salamanca Road near the tennis courts was decided at a series of, meetings last July and August by the city engineer a Traffic Department representative, and Dr. Culliford, of the university. A complete report on pedestrian movements on and around the campus is being prepared, and an interim report suggests that this site is not the best possible.
While discussions continue, pedestrians are still being endangered and inconvenienced by the lack of a crossing. Mr. Anderson does not consider this intersection a danger to pedestrians, and says he "does not intend to lose any sleep over the proposed demonstration." However. Cr. Turk, the chairman of the Traffic committee. is prepared to consider warning signs as a temporary measure.
A letter has been received by the students' association from the Rotary Club offering their assistance m this matter, and the Kelburn Progressive Association has also offered its support.
Student protests continue. A motion was passed at the students' association Agm to stage a one-hour "paint-in," blocking traffic while painting a crossing.
The executive, however, is seeking legal advice before continuing. However, as Mr. Boyden, of the Traffic Department, has told Salient that a claim that his department had threatened the association with prosecution is "nonsense." it appears that the association has little to fear, although individual demonstrators could be brought to court.
The unauthorised crossing has been painted at least three times, and removed once by the council. The position chosen was described by Mr. Anderson as the most dangerous possible site.
An overbridge may eventually be erected—if the University Grants committee provides funds.
But Salient understands that the committee will almost certainly refuse finance on the ground that the matter is the City Council's responsibility.
If the proposed demonstration does not take place, even without the painting of a crossing, there seems little hope of a satisfactory interim solution.
• See Also "Road Safety Call" — pl2
V.U.W. National Club
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Hon.
Tuesday, July 26
Tickets 32/6 at Student' Association Office.
The Sports social committee and the plans to set it up have been approved by the sports council at its last meeting.
The Basis of the social committee structure lies in the individual sports clubs themselves. All sports clubs officially affiliated to the union have been divided into seven groups of four clubs.
Each club will nominate one member of their own choice to be a possible representative on the committee. The final decision lies with the sports council who will then select two representatives from each group, making the membership of the committee a total of 14. Appointments will be made every two years and all clubs will have the chance to be represented.
The advantages of a system such as this, and the idea of a committee so set up. are not so much in direct material gains to the clubs but are rather more indirect. The aim of the committee is simple … money! Money for "blues" dinners, for overseas trips and to a lesser extent for the financing of tournament social activities.
Sports clubs then can expect no great increase in grants through the committee, but rather more in the advantages that a unified and strong club structure brings. The committee will. for instance, help to dispel the narrow-minded outlook of some sportsmen towards their own activity. It will bring, I am sure, a greater efficiency, which is sorely needed if we are to emulate the smooth operation of other tournaments at which we have been guests.
Easter Tournament is a joint responsibility of all sports clubs as are the social functions that we must arrange as members of Nzusu.
The sooner many struggling clubs realise that they have a collective responsibility outside the spheres of their own activities, the sooner we will get new, strong activities' which are universally attractive to students throughout the university.
Must Christ perish in torment in every age to save those of us who have no imagination?—Shaw.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.— Swift.
Spotlight On Sports Clubs
Judo has existed for a number of years as an active sport in the university. However, the club still suffers from the disadvantage of not having a core of high-graded members.
At Present, each year, the club has to build up from a group of enthusiastic but nevertheless inexperienced members. This enthusiasm makes the club an active body, giving it a social and financial reputation the envy of less fortunate clubs.
The future of our Judo club looks promising and the signs of the sport's development in New Zealand were evident at the recent New Zealand schoolboy Judo championships.
Here boys of primary as well as secondary schools demonstrated "the ways of gentleness" or maximum efficiency from the minimum of effort, the teaching of which is embodied in our Judo activities. The championships also proved that even a ten-year-old can master the curriculum of skill necessary for good Judo.
In a few years' time it is hoped that some of these boys will reach our own university clubs. Already graded members from high schools arc members of the Victoria club and the trend is sure to continue.
Victoria's Judo club has been fortunate that from the moment of its inception enthusiasm has been its hallmark. A strong committee, composed of both men and women were able to raise the funds necessary to begin the club and that impetus has continued to keep the club in a good financial state.
The club has needs, however. A far larger Dojo (training hall) is necessary and this we hope will be incorporated in the new gymnasium. In spite of this, the financial position of the club has enabled it to keep a stock; of suits always on hand.
Another advantage of sound finances is that it allows the club to share in sponsoring Judo visits from overseas teams. It is this ability that is making the universities some of the strongest centres of Judo in the world.
The club can at present offer even beginners an opportunity of competition at winter tournament. At the last tournament the women of the club were able to put on a display of advanced women's Judo. The present membership roll is high. Our women members include even outsiders—no doubt attracted, as other clubs have discovered. by the exploits of one "Emma Peel."
A small core of past members is able to pass on instruction and outside Black Belts have also been giving instruction. These instructors. including past and present New Zealand champions, have helped and continue to help the club.
With the outside interest the enthusiasm of the members themselves and the growing interest in Judo both as a sport and a means of mental relaxation, the future of Judo in this university can only be viewed with optimism.
Sir—Thank you so much for publishing my letter re penfriends and I received your magazine today. I was very interested to read it, and thank you so much.
Also I'm pleased to say that so far, about eight young men have written for girl penfriends and I've supplied some However, if you know of any more that fancy writing there are still a lot of young ladies wishing for a university penfriend. I heard from the social secretary of our Kenton Lodge Teachers' Training College yesterday, thanking me for those received so far, and saying they have 700 girls at Kenton and can find a home for any more letters received. I think letters from girl students would be welcome, too.
Oddly enough I've supplied most of the nurses' addresses and haven't any left at present, but these do trickie in (and others) from time to time.
Re spotlight on sports clubs Deerstalking Club article. I was highly interested, as I've heard from a professional deerstalker at most colourful. Also, it appears he is educated up to university standard, but works at a sawmill half the time and deer-stalks the rest. He is half European, half Maori, and his letters of deerstalking would make a wonderful article for your magazines.
Also, it might be that he would act as tutor-deerstalker, or take a small party out at weekends, if you needed a guide to best spots. Of course, he sells the deer, but seems very good at getting them. He's had several giant stags and they bring a big price for antlers, etc., from New Zealand Government. Also, he lives in a lonely spot and would welcome penfriends, male or female (especially the latter. I think!). if you know of anyone at all who'd write. He is a marvellous correspondent, and quite generous. He'd answer as many people as cared to write, he says.
Address is:
Reg. Tauwhare (Esq.)
c/o Kopara Sawmilling Co.,
Haupiri, Nelson Creek,
Greymouth (S.I.),
New Zealand.
He's single and 29 years old.
Best wishes to you, and your magazine.
Joyce Irving (Mrs.). P.S. Could you please find a student who'd care to write to a qualified teacher (friend, she's not in pen club at all, and I'd like to
[Miss Wilson's address is obtainable from Salient on request. Mrs. Irving's address is 137 St. Cuthbert's Road, Newcastle - on- Tyne, 5, England. -Ed.]
Sir I'm a Japanese boy. and would like to make a girlfriend through correspondence. I would like to write to girlfriend in New Zealand.
I would really like to get a New Zealander girlfriend. I'm 18 years old and am in the 1st academic year of the "Kyoto University of Foreign Studies."
I'm very much interested in New Zealand. Japan is a small island country of Asia, but it has an old culture. I think I can write about lots of things that will interest you.
For several years I've wanted to correspond with someone in New Zealand.
I would be very pleased if you would answer my letter.
Yours truly.
Fumio.
Ps. My name and address is the following:
Name:
Address: Kyoto-shi Fushi-minku, Yokooji Shimomisu. Kajiwarachon S3. Kizakura-shuzonkik, Kyoto, Japan.
How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.— Shaw.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.—Shaw.
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.—Burke.
Sir. I used to condemn the all - too - audible indigestive rumblings of one of my lecturers. but now I must regretfully confess that I fully understand the cause and sympathise with him on the subject of the aforesaid rumblings.
A recent evening's questionable culinary cafeteria masterpiece was unbelievably inundated with pepper in all of its elements and decidedly lukewarm. Above all, I was impressed by the magnificent portions—just enough to satisfy the cravings of the stomach and certainly enough to remind one of the presence therein of alien matter for some time to come.
Had there not been some species of circular object floating in the (soup) I believe that its colour, distinguishable only by the pepper which it contained in profuse quantities, would have Been camouflaged completely by the "white" surface of the bowl. The mutton required complete dissection of the bone (two thirds) and fat (one third) before the insignificant morsel of meat could be extracted (by that time it was stone-cold anyway). While the atmosphere was lugubrious, the immediate surroundings were dirty, greasy and cluttered to an extreme.
I have carefully persevered with cafeteria servings for some time, and I think could fairly claim to have sampled all the delights which it promises, but I now feel safe only when consuming the milk, on the assumption that its content hasn't altered during its journey from cow to can. If the only remedy is to raise prices, then let's see that done—or at least some action taken to bring the food up to edible standards.
Across.—4. Actors. 7, Charades. 8. Strive. 10, Fairy. 13, Bean (stalk). 14, Fido. 15, Bath. 16, All (Baba). 17, Bail. 19. Ills. 21, Mistletoe. 23, (In) Want. 24, Omit. 26, Gin. 27, Eros. 29, Taps. 32, Wren. 33, Roman. 34, (Ball of) String. 35, Aba-na-zar. 36, P-rope-1.
Down.—1, Scoff. 2, David. 3, Lad-y. 4, Asset. 5, Turn (over). 6, Revels. 9, Tahiti. 11, Air. 12, Robin. 13, Balloon. 15, Bit. 16, Ale. 18, Astern. 20, Lotto. 21, Man. 22, Ems. 23, Winter. 25, Spa. 28, Regal (lager). 30, A-maze. 31, Snore. 32, Wisp. 33, (Mary) Rand.
The Visit of A Lincoln Portrait. He also distinguished himself by being one of the first (of many) Hollywood stars to take an active interest in the civil rights movement.
On the other hand, he has been narrator for at least two Usis propaganda films, and the political implications of his visit are far from clear. The only safe comment one can make in this respect is that Heston is as far removed from the Hollywood Left as he is from the antics of John Wayne and his Commiebaiting pals in the Motion Picture Alliance.
His position in filmdom has been obscured by a succession of Messianic portraits in good and poor spectaculars. In this sense he has become supremely type-cast, but removed from this setting he has shown himself capable of performances of intelligence and restraint (eg in the recent The Warlord). When it comes to films one can always rely on the French for an unusual viewpoint.
"Hiroshima Mon Armour and Citizen Kane.
This undoubtedly overstates the role of the personality in the aesthetic of the commercial cinema, but it is certainly provocative.
The distinguished British theologian. Canon Hugh Montefiore, will be visiting Victoria Universitv from July 11 to July 17. He Is wellknown for his books "Awkward questions on Christian love" and "Beyond reasonable doubt." He has also contributed to the well-known books. "God, Sex and War" and "Soundings"
At present Canon Montefiore is vicar of the Cambridge University church. He has been invited to New Zealand by the university chaplains, whose aim is to bring out as many well-known theologians to this country as possible. He will lecture on religious and Christian thought, the very nature of faith itself in relation to Jesus Christ, and the vexed question of numerality and the very existence of the Church which has come under such radical criticism in recent years. He will also conduct as many open discussions as can be arranged.
The aim of the canon's visit is to help clarify Christianity in the light of new situations, and to restore religious perspective in a world in which religion is on the decline. He will attempt to make people aware of the changes which have taken place in the church in the last ten years
He will be visiting the remainder of the New Zealand universities after his stay at Victoria.
July 1, 1966
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Vuwsa.
The University's decision to award an honorary degree to the Rt. Hon.
It must have been a singularly short-witted council which could not see the ridiculous nature of such an award at the present time.
Mr. Holyoake is fortunate that his degree was not presented at the annual graduation ceremony. The silence from the audience as he walked forward to collect it would have been stunning.
For students have not forgotten—even though it seems that the university has—that just one year ago at the graduation ceremony the Chancellor of this university bitterly attacked the government's policy towards universities.
Nor have students forgotten the contempt with which Mr. Holyoake treated student protests at that time.
Throughout this university, students are dismayed at this honorary award. Conservative, radical—these political tags have nothing to do with their objections.
Indeed, some of the most outspoken students have been members of Mr. Holyoake's own party.
The university administration has goofed. There's nothing that can now be done about this award.
But it must be made abundantly clear to the university that their act has debased the standing of this university and debased the award of honorary degrees.
To award a politician an honorary degree when he is still in office and months away from fighting an election is a political act that is both dangerous and foolhardy.
—H.B.R.
Sports Clubs in this university have it pretty good—or so the saying goes.
In point of fact, the university sports clubs deserve a considerably better deal than they are getting.
The fact that one of major reasons why nothing has been done lies in the sports clubs' silence on the matter is not a reason for no action.
The clubs annually receive £2000 from the students' association. While this is a large sum, a fair case can be made out that they should have more.
And they should have freedom to allocate it at their complete discretion.
The sports clubs have an enviable record in administration and in activity. They have shown a cohesive spirit and an efficient approach towards sharing the monies available and stimulating weak and new sports.
But, large though their grant is, it is not sufficient. New Zealand universities' teams are still not able to tour and compete on the strength of their ability. Few tours are possible, and these are hamstrung by lack of finance.
The extension of two existing principles into the field of sports organisation would do much to help this university's clubs.
The first is the splitting away of sport from the main students' association into a union of its own. This has been done overseas and also at the national level here.
The second lies in recognising that participant and non-participant students have an equal obligation towards promoting university sport.
An initial budget of £3000 a year would not be an unrealistic assessment of the sports clubs' real needs.
—H.B.R.
In The United States, there is a weekly tragedy. A boy sits in his university dormitory and grinds his teeth. His blue cord suit hangs pristine in closet. His greenbacks, rolled up in his trouser pocket, press against his leg. His Mustang stands quietly outside the window, poised to take off for adventure.
The Pages of Samuelson's Economics lie unturned in front of his eyes. If he thinks about it all much more, his eyes may begin to swim. For it's Saturday night, and he doesn't have a date. Oh. why can he not find a woman? Oh, to be a getter of women!
Somewhere else in vast America, at the same moment in time, a young woman sits. She listens to the radio, and distractedly runs a comb through auburn hair. The open Samuelson on her desk is also ignored. Her dorm is strangely quiet tonight. Almost all the other girls are "out." Oh. to be a getter of men!
Oh, if only someone, somehow, could bring these two melancholy spirits together! They would be snatched from tragedy. promised golden times. If only someone would save them, and the thousands and thousands of other young Americans who are also yearning to reach the sunfilled, sandy shore!
Wait! Check that emphatic teardrop.
Someone has come. A lifesaver. A hero of the twentieth century. His name is
With humanitarian sympathy, keen initiative, and a sharp feel for money, Tarr has singlehandedlv introduced a major new remedy to the social dilemma of educated young America. He calls it "Operation Match." It is a dating service run by computer.
The idea is simple. A lovelorn university student sends away for a "Compatibility Research" questionnaire.
He completes and returns it, along with three dollars. Then he waits, while an Ibm 7090 computer "matches" his qualities and specifications with other individuals stored in the machine's "memory." Soon a letter comes in the mail, listing no less than five names and phone numbers.
It's not only the boys who subscribe to the services of Operation Match. In fact, the girls are just as keen, it not more so. There is no doubt about it. "Computer Cupid" is sweeping America.
What a dag!
In two years of operation. Tarr's service has been called on to grapple with over 200,000 barren love lives, and by the ever-mounting number of cries for help throughout the continental United States, it has proved a distinct capacity for holding loneliness at bay.
How does Tarr go about "taking the blindness out of a blind date?" The questionaire he sends out requires 135 coded answers and includes queries on your sexual experience, ethics, height, belief in God. interest in tv. and of course what qualities you would like to see in your Match mate. There is even a special code to identify where you com? from, to make sure that the computer doesn't insist you drive from your varsity in Virginia to pick up your date In California.
The only competitor to Operation Match comes out with a somewhat more intellectual questionnaire. Called "Contact," this service admittedly caters to the sophisticated "Ivy League" varsities in the Northeast. Contact asks its clients, for example, to assess on a scale from one to five their "verbal fluence," "tempo of life," and capacity for "emotional expression.''
Only offering 100 boxes to fill in with the correct code (35 less than the Match form), the Contact questionnaire is proof that even the triumph of science can take itself with a grain of salt. Contact's computer happily processes reaction to this one: "The computer is invading too
many aspects of our personal lives."
The astounding success of the computer as a matchmaker in America must go beyond the novelty. When the enthusiasm is so strong, what lies behind it becomes a serious question.
One answer lies in American dating habits. The American emphasis on dating places great pressure on those who find themselves without a partner when the weekend rolls around. And the unhappy fact is, that many of the varsities in the United States which are not co-ed are located in pastoral corners— perfect for cloistered study but fatal to keeping any kind of normal heterosexual society.
The upshot is that students in these retreats adopt a weekend mentality, and they are prepared to go to any length—often travelling hundreds of miles—to find some kind of company with the opposite sex.
In this world, the problem of meeting others becomes a real one. One solution has been the "mixer"—a kind of informal ball organised, for example, by a girls' varsity, to which boys from varsities near and far are invited. The mixer, however, has built-in limitations. The shy boy, and the girl who no matter what her many other qualities, may not be a dazzling blonde, will come out of mixer after mixer with no more than an added sense of failure.
Into this discontent, Operation Match has come to make meeting others easy. No more fears about those awkward first moments. A subscriber to Match knows, before he goes to the telephone, that the name printed on the Ibm card in his hand will be someone as eager to meet him as he is to meet her.
One American student of economics, an active client of Operation Match, puts it this way: "The essence of the service is one of economic efficiency—that is, in the dating markets there are both mands and supplies of
However, the strength Operation Match comes
The scientific basis of Ibm 7090. Also, to the
A student can regard his eaponse on this form in the same hopeful way he regards is College Board examinatons.
A good performance on College Boards will probably
Unfortunately, the fulfilment occasionally lags behind the hoping. The same economics student quoted above, whom I shall call Earnest,
"Moreover," Earnest continues, "computer questionnaires seem to bring out the
"From one of my ghastly
I should relate," Earnest Femaleus mericanus. Match came through. Now worn out, with an aching back, a mind, and a lethargic outlook. I conclude mv report."
There is others suggest, a possibility that Operation Match also brings out the Maleus mericanus.
Match's director
Undoubtedly, he has not yet considered expanding his each to the Antipodes.
But think of it!
For a pound. Tarr and his computer would make you a promise, as they have in America. A promise of mystery and adventure and reams - come - true. Who nows? You might even hit the jackpot and discover on our Ibm card the name of the New York fashion model who is "Miss Match of 1966." Any buyers?
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In Salient 6 We Outlined The Rights Of A Citizen In New Zealand. Many Students Doubted The Need For This Information. Consider Now The Case Of The Student Who Who Knew His Rights And The Inspector Who "Broke The Rules" ...
Christchurch.-In a surprise decision Mr. H.
Jesson had only to pay costs and £10 restitution after his two accomplices in antiRoyalty slogan painting and each been fined £40. restitution and costs.
Interests in the case rose sharply after the police inspector told the court he had refused Jesson the right to ring counsel and that political prejudice may have influenced the arrest and subsequent three days jailing of Mr. Jesson.
Mr. Evans. Sm. said the prosecution case had been factually proven on the two charges Jesson stood trial on. Two other charges against him—Jesson pleaded not guilty on all counts—were withdrawn by the Crown. These were the charges to which his companions had pleaded guilty and for which they had been fined by Mr. Sm. at an earlier hearing.
After the evidence had been heard on the Thursday Mr. Evans reserved his decision to the following Monday
Mr. Evans, in his decision, said the refusal at the police station to allow Jesson to consult his lawyer was not justified. "I consider the reasons by which the inspector seeks to justify his action unacceptable. Defence complaints are well grounded." He added that neither the impending Royal visit nor police fears of trouble could be justification.
Making allowance for Jesson's three days in Jail. Mr. Evans added that any deterrent sentence was rendered unnecessary by the majority of the populace's esteem for Royalty.
In fixing the penalty, Mr. Evans noted:
• The damage Jesson had actually caused.
• The infringement of one of his important rights at the hands of the police.
• The fact that, apart from the means he adopted. Jesson was not in breach of the law, but exercising one of the freedoms which the law guarantees to him—freedom of expression.
The admission that he had denied Jesson his lawful rights by refusing him access to counsel and illegally searching him was made by Inspector
Jesson (21). a fourth-year law student, was charged with wilful damage in that he painted anti-Royal Tour slogans on the track wall at Adding ton Raceway the night before the Royal trotting meeting.
He was also charged with attempted wilful damage of the Royal dais in Victoria Square the same night.
The original charges of unlawful entry of the raceway and being a rogue and vagabond in Victoria Square were withdrawn by the Crown Prosecutor (Mr.
Opening the prosecution, Mr. Roper said it was contended that Jesson and two others had painted antiRoyalty slogans in 3ft high letters on walls at the raceway.
Jesson had attempted to paint similar slogans on the floor of the Royal dais, but after two letters had been painted the paint ran out and they were interrupted, Mr. Roper said.
The supervisor of Addington raceway gave evidence of finding the slogans painted on the racewav on the night of April 22, and of ringing the police.
Although be estimated the damage at £38 only £4 worth of paint had been used to paint out the slogans.
Students
They said they had all entered the raceway together but neither could "remember" if Jesson had actually done any of the painting.
Goring also said he was with Jesson when the two letters were painted on the Royal dais. Later they had been taken to the police station together.
Goring told Mr. McClelland that when they had been accosted bv a policeman Jesson had asked if he was under arrest and the constable had replied that they were not under arrest but were being detained for questioning.
They had been held while the constable called Inspector Silk and. when he arrived. Jesson had asked him whether they were under arrest, to which Goring thought the inspector had answered "we don't need to arrest you."
Mr McClelland: Did the inspector say get into the police car or I will arrest you?—Yes.
Did the inspector search you both?—Yes.
Did Jesson say to the inspector you can't search me without a warrant unless you arrest me?—I don't remember.
Goring admitted he was not aware of what his legal rights were at the time he was taken to the police station.
The constable who first approached Jesson and Goring,
To Mr. McClelland Constable Kington said Jesson. after supplying his name and address had asked if he was under arrest. Told he wasn't he asked if he could go.
Questioned as to why he thought Jesson had not left Constable Kington said he did not think Jesson wanted to.
He had seen Inspector Silk search Jesson but said he did not hear Jesson question the inspector's right to do this.
Inspector Silk said in evidence he had been supervising officer on duty on the night of Jesson's alleged offence.
After hearing a report that anti-Royal Tour slogans had been painted on the fence at the raceway he went there to inspect the scene. After this he had set up road blocks in the area, sent out mobile patrols with dogs and arranged for patrols of the route to be taken by the Queen Mother next day.
After receiving information from Constable Kington he had gone to Victoria Square, he introduced himself, and Goring and Jesson gave him their names. Goring said they were connected with the Committee to Oppose Royal Tours (Cort), but Jesson said he had only to supply his name. at Addington. Are you calling Goring a liar?
"He said 'You're pretty clever, aren't you? I have said too much already'," Inspector Silk said.
He had then asked Jesson to remove his clothes and when Jesson refused called Constable Kington to remove them. Jesson had been given a boiler suit to wear until other clothes were fetched from his home.
Cross-examined by Mr. McClelland Inspector Silk said he had taken the whole matter very seriously. The tenor of the messages had caused him to take extensive measures, and he admitted that this was because the slogans were opposing the Royal Tour.
Had the slogans been in favour of the Royal Tour or some some such thing as "vote Labour." the police would not have taken such drastic measures to apprehend the offenders.
Just before he had taken Jesson and Goring from Victoria Square to the police station Jesson had asked if he was under arrest and had been told he was not.
"I told him I would like him to go to the station."
Pressed by Mr. McClelland
Inspector Silk said that he thought Jesson had voluntarily stayed at the police station until his arrest. For some time during their interview, Jesson had propounded the application of case law to rule 10 of the Judges Rules to him.
After the interview. Inspsctor Silk said he told Jesson he was under arrest for being a rogue and a vagabond in that he was a suspected person and warned him that anything he said might be taken down and later used in evidence.
"I remember Jesson asking if he could consult a solicitor. That was when he was formally charged.
"I told him that there was a third party involved in the case and I was not prepared to let him use a telephone until the third person was in the station.
"I told him the reason for this was that I felt he might try to warn the third person.
"I denied him his rights at that point of time." Inspector Silk said.
"It was not a group of youths behind this. I was aware of who Jesson's associates were and their political affiliations. And because of the stated intentions of this group I was concerned about the outcome of that night," Inspector Silk said.
Mr. McClelland: You broke the rules?—I broke the rules.
Did Jesson ask if he could ring his mother?—Not to me.
"We did not have a search warrant when we went to Jesson's home. Sergeant Downs may have searched Jesson's room.
"It has been the custom since time immemorial to search the home of an accused person without warrant." Inspector Silk said.
Mr. McClelland: You deliberately charged this man with an offence on which he was not bailable as of right just to keep him in jail—No.
You did in fact oppose bail? —Yes.
Inspector Silk said he wanted Jesson locked up while the Queen Mother was here if it could be achieved within the law.
In his closing address. Mr. McClelland pointed out that Jesson had been illegally searched and the actions of the police had been, "clearly and palpably wrong."
"It was fortunate that one and not three pots of paint was at stake or Inspector Silk would have called out the Army and the Air Force as well." Mr. McClelland said.
He then went and inspected the letters on the floor of the dais, and Constable Kington told him Jesson had a can of paint in his pocket. He went back to Jesson and asked him what he was doing in the area, saying he (Jesson) had been seen kneeling on the dais. Jesson made no answer.
"I asked him if he had anything to say. He said 'I am a fourth-year law student: I do not have to tell you anything.'
"I told him he was a suspected person and I thought he was loitering in the area with a felonious intent."
Inspector Silk said that at the police station he had interviewed Goring first and at 11.25pm went to see Jesson. The two had been kept apart. Neither had been arrested at this time.
He had told Jesson that Goring had admitted the painting of the slogans at Addington. painting slogans in Fitzgerald Avenue near the Avon River, and starting to paint slogans on the Royal dais. He asked Jesson if this was correct.
"He replied: 'You 're telling me—you should know.'
"I asked him where the can of paint he was using was. and he said: 'I am a law student; I don't have to tell you.'
"I asked him how the specks of paint on his glasses got there and he said he had been painting placards about two hours ago.
"I then put it to him that that was the time Goring said they were painting signs as to whether he had not ordered Jesson to go to the station. Inspector Silk said he was certain he had used the word "like."
It was not fair to say that Jesson had been told he had to go to the police station.
Mr. McClelland: Do you recall searching the defendant in Kilmore Street—I did not search him.
Informed by Mr. McClelland that Constable Kington had said earlier that Jesson had been searched by the Inspector, he said he "frisked" Jesson by tapping his pockets.
He had done this to ensure that Jesson was not carrying weapons which might have been used to injure him or other police officers. He did not regard that as a search.
Mr. McClelland: Do you remember Jesson saving you had no right to search him— Yes. He objected to my taking the tin of paint.
Jean-Luc Godard has been described by the British director
There are two principal objections to this film. Firstly, the characters are doing nothing which could be construed as being interesting or involving for the audience. Arthur and Franz, having entertained thoughts of larceny, enlist Odile's cooperation in the proposed venture. The three then proceed on a jaunt of aimless drifting and adolescent activity which, although pretty in parts, inevitably bogs down in a morass of irrelevancies. There is no attempt to build up suspense and the robbery, when it is finally staged, falls flat on its face, the senses having been dulled by the previous hour's superfluous meanderings.
Arthur's death is unmoving because his paroxysms echo the previous "parody" on what is presumably a Hollywood killing. The "parody" muffs because no Hollywood killing ever looked like this. The film crawls round In a tedious circle without getting anywhere. At the film's core lies a stolid blancmange of stagnating non-significant significance, and it is a reactionary film because Godard made it with this end in mind. The mess left me bored.
My second objection concerns this boredom and reflects, to some extent, the old dichotomy between form and content. There is a category of films which describe boring people doing boring things but as Antonioni and, to a lesser extent. Fellini have demonstrated, the situations can be presented with such artistry that we are excited by them. In the case of Bande a Part (and I include it and its characters in this category. Godard's technical resources and imagination are so poverty-stricken that we cannot even take refuge In the appreciation of cinematic brilliance as compensation for the appalling lack of dramatic content.
In this film there is an occasional close-up. Rather more frequent are the tracking shots which consist, in the main, of placing the camera alternately on the front and back of a moving car. This enables us to experience the full impact of the three characters and their inane conversations.
The most common visual image is. however, a simple one It consists of a person, people, vehicle, or vehicles, moving on to the screen from either the left or the right. Godard waits until the object is about onethird to one-half way across the frame and then, fixing the object. pans in the direction that it is moving. This process is repeated in the next shot, either from the same direction or from the opposite one. In fact. this process is repeated ad nauseum, and constitutes about three-quarters of the film's running time. During the last half-hour of Bande a Part I predicted, near enough to exactly, every camera movement that took place. This does not make for very exciting cinema. If Godard intended this monotonous technique then he can show his films to himself: if he did not then his incompetence and lack of inspiration stand revealed.
This film was advertised as being a spoof on the "Bogart-type" gangster film. I do not accept this as the director's intention, but since Bande a Part. Indeed, a look at the Bogart films The Maltese Falcon, The Bifr Sleep, or Desperate Hours, would show only too clearly just how gutless and unimaginably pallid Godard's film is.
Films
Congratulations must go to the invaluable Hud, Killer's Kiss, The Killing and The Paths Of Glory would do credit to any film society. In July he hopes to screen Inherit The Wind and Touch Of Evil. The Kramer film is notable for a magnificent acting duel between two Hollywood veterans.
In view of the demise of the film society, it was courageous of the Labour Club to undertake the screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible (part 2). This film was made in 1946 but was not released by the Russian authorities until 1958. Seen today it stands almost as an anachronism, an echo of a glorious past which highlights the not so glorious state of the Soviet industry at present. So far as I know, part 1 of the trilogy has never been screened in New Zealand. Eisenstein began work in part 3 but it was uncompleted at his death in 1948. There are reputed to be a few reels of this film somewhere but nothing has been heard of them. Presumably they are rotting in some dingy vault.
In Ivan The Terrible Eisenstein abandoned the frantic cutting of his earlier films and created instead an elaborate pictoriality of symphonic proportions. There is little rapid editing and camera movement, the emphasis bring on camera placement, lighting, decor and the staging of the action. In a sense this is the most "theatrical" of his films. The almost operatic acting, sets and costumes, and the magnificence of Eisenstein's conception make this a film in the grand style, —a true epic on a non-spectacular scale. It is a rich historical tapestry.
Rumour hath it that the Labour Club is to show Alexander Nevski (1938). This film provides a convenient bridge between Eisenstein's early films and his Ivan trilogy, since it combines elements from the two disparate periods. Once again
Capping Has passed, and we are firmly set in the academic solemnities of the second term. But it would be sad to let those distant frivolities altogether fade without making some sort of commemorative gesture. For it has been proved to us that, rceent Extravs, Cappicades, and Proceshes notwithstanding, Capping Can be Fun. and students funny It would be scarcely well-bred to mention this year's procesh; but Extravanganza 66 and English Leather Cappicade were solace after lean years.
Certainly. Extravaganza had its weak moments, most of them during scripts which were longer than they were funny. But the important thing was that we were entertained. The show went at a gallop. Its choruses boomed; it had accurate imitations, grotesque clowns and some quite beautiful dancing. It had the services of some very witty musicians, not the least of whom was the visiting violinist, that prodigy from Petone, Mr.
Cappicade was a tour de force, largely, one suspects, because its editors recognised that a joke is not automatically funny because it has Mr. Holyoake for its subject any more than there is anything intrinsically amusing about toilet paper. It had a variety of targets and missed few of them. One recalls with special relish the lovely tribute (in the luxury lift out middle section) to the Jokes of Capping Past, and the article that established with the clear logic of our best known weekly, that if
Immortality for a Year award.—A.M.B.
The First Jazz concert to be held in Wellington for a considerable time struggled to life in the Concert Chamber on June 13. Local jazz musicians of the Wellington Musicians, Club provided almost three hours of jazz which afforded followers with another disillusionment with local talent.
The evening provided nine groups ranging from Chuck Fowler's big band with 10 members to a collection of quartets and quintets. The jazz produced, however, was generally lifeless, uninspired, unoriginal and amateurish. Only on two occasions was there any music that could qualify as average jazz.
The best performance was by the
Lewis was melodically pleasant and by utilising the whole range of his instrument he produced more than one solo in which he wandered around the melody with refreshing originality. The swing and freshness of the
The rhythm sections were stilted and amateurishly behind the leaders; but their general low standard, especially in drumming, was only one of the contributing factors to the failure of the groups to play good, or even average jazz.
Another more successful effort was the
Most of the groups, for example the Brian Hand Quartet and Jack Freidlander's Band, played main stream Jazz. The only ambitious music was played by the
In the number of musicians who rushed to qualify for the most tasteless performance though all the trumpeters tried hard, the prize must be given to trumpeter
Despite the uninspiring improvisation and lack of vitality even in the better drilled groups the concert at least set a standard to try to double next year.— F. D. Finlayson.
by Mrs Catherine Bishop, Head of Circulation Dept., Vuw
University Time passes swiftly; already to more than half the students the conception of a university library—their library —is a spacious, uncluttered pleasant building, with well-designed mahogany furniture and carpeted floors (well, not exactly carpet, but the New Zealand flax substitute, Brussella, not. luxurious, but quiet and warm).
Yet the new library is only just into its second year of effective life. Pre-1966 students will remember the delays, frustrations and makeshifts of 1965; even until March this year the Circulation Department looked as though it were camping on the main floor. Now at last the handsome new desk is installed and the worst growing pains are over. On July 5, the Rankine Browne building is to be officially opened. The ceremony will be held in the library and at the same time, honorary degrees will be conferred on Mr
What does the new library mean, What will it mean, in retrospect, to the students who swarm into its comfortable, informal and welcoming areas?
For those who remember, it is a complete break from the old traditional university library, with more than half the stock in closed stacks with its one large reading room, its long tables and hard chairs, its pervasive smell of dust, silver-fish and stale air. Elbow to elbow it could accommodate less than 200 students. The new library can accommodate nearly 1000 readers.
Something of the changes can be measured in statistics; in the increased demand for books and periodicals, in the number of readers who use the comfortable chairs and reading tables, in the growing need for information and service. On this level this year's figures are impressive. Rather to our surprise issue figures for books did not rise in 1965. This was due we decided, to the increasing number of books read in the library, for longer hours, by more students. Perhaps, also the still unfinished building, the sounds of hammering and welding which punctuated one's thoughts from time to time discouraged some borrowers.
This year shows a sudden and marked increase all round. In March-April, 1966, the issue of books increased by 25 per cent (8500 per month to 11,000). Another 6000 books were used each month within the library. Issues of reserved periodicals rose steeply by a remarkable 300 per cent. The emphasis on up-to-date periodical articles is also reflected in the heavy use of the Xerox copying service. 3798 pages were reproduced during March-April this year for student use.
The request service supplied 3000 urgently needed books in the first term, against a total of 4500 for the whole of last year.
Checks taken daily show, even at a relatively early stage of the year. 400-500 students studying during morning or afternoon on any week day. Most of the other Spaces at the tables are occupied by books; and papers, if not by their owners, who have, gone off to a lecture or a coffee break.
Pressure on seating may well mean that this kind of "parking" will have to be curtailed. Sunday afternoons are popular, attracting 100-200 students even in the first term. During the second and third terms the library is open also on Saturday afternoons 1-5.30pm.
But statistics are not the whole story. In the demeanour of the students, absorbed in study, relaxed in the pleasant easy chairs, or seeking information and advice from the library staff, is an air of purpose, confidence and achievement, an attitude of friendliness and courtesy. When the final examinations are over, and the need for that precious book, that invaluable periodical article has lost its urgency, we hope that this is the concept of the library that you will take with you into the world outside the university— a source of knowledge in an attractive setting, informal and welcoming. It is worthwhile, sometimes, to take time from study to enjoy the magnificent view, rivalled by few universities in the world. Look also at the lovely little bronze near the reference room, and while you are there turn south towards Woollaston's painting, "Landscape With Fire" which has never looked as well as in this setting. The library makes a fitting background for the fine collection of New Zealand paintings, pottery and sculpture which a committee of the Council selects and purchases for the university.
Having Been a brass bandsman, many times subject to indifferent performances of indifferent arrangements of standard classics. I was not particularly keen to listen to the new Hmv stereo disc. "The National Band of New Zealand" (Csdm 6204) —a disc made from recordings of the band in its Wellington concert prior to the 1965 American tour. But what a pleasant surprise Economists and geographers have often classed New Zealanders as a nation of precisionists and this performance would certainly support, this—it is rather an outstanding example of precision brass playing of the highest standard.
Conductor
The delicacy of the bass sections of the band is rather amazing—a beautifully light touch from the euphonium section through to the Bb basses. Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" is a showpiece for all the attributes I have discussed, excellent sectional playing throughout. Thorn takes the band on a guided tour of the more dynamic aspects of Liszt and what a spectacular effect—magnificent! This is the same throughout the record—from Sousa's "Stars and Stripes" to Eric Ball's "Tournament for Brass." Unfortunately, the two contributions from the Aotearoa Maori group at the end are rather a letdown—this is not helped by exceptionally poor recording.
Possibly I have over-enthused, I have been prepared to overlook the occasional "blue" and the overall lack of sympathetic interpretation—but the sheer enjoyment of splendid brass playing makes this record an extremely recommended purchase.
Lkm 4724) describes her as an American traveller who is now using England as a home base. She is definitely one of the "new" generation of folk singers —"songs of warning, songs of protest, songs of new love and songs of lost love. All of the songs have been written during the past two years." Her voice is reasonably pleasant but rather innocuous, her guitar playing is satisfactory, however the whole record lacks the necessary vitality. One small irrelevant point: I wish the record companies would stop thinking that every folk singer must provide some verse for the sleeves of their discs!
Three comedy records have come my way recently—"Cambridge Circus" "Columbia Pmcm 1208), "It's Hancock" (Decca Lkm 4740) and "Benny at the Bbc" (Decca Lkm 4723). The disappointment. of the three is the Benny Hill disc, the scripts are not particularly humourous and after a few tracks Benny's performances begin to pall. One track is good, that is an interview with
I was expecting a real treat with "Cambridge Circus," the student revue that toured the country only a short time ago. However, only a couple of the sketches are particularly effective on record—unfortunately. the nature of this group's comedy does not prove particularly adaptable to recording, from audience reaction I would suggest that there is much visual clowning, which is not very entertaining to the buyer listening to this disc.
It Is A Pity that the "Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Vocational Training in New Zealand" has not been more widely discussed, Much of what is said is the wisdom which has not yet been quite accepted by the establishment—that "schoolleaving age should be raised to 16 as soon as possible." that the first three years of secondary education should be aimed at giving a good general education, that students should be able to read before they leave school (arising from a common complaint of employers-while the central theme (that expenditure on vocational training is an investment) seems to have hardly penetrated to large sections of the community.
In general the commission is satisfied with the present non-professional training (apprenticeship etc.) and suggests modifications rather than major alteration. The only important radical recommendation is the Institution of a vocational training council with an overall object of co-ordinating technical education and relating it to the country's economic development.
Regrettably however, the commission's instructions were to consider only nonprofessional training, thus perpetuating the mythical gulf which is thought to separate the professions from others and which suggests university education should be qualitatively different from that of technical education at the same.
The other failure of the report is the conclusion upon adult retraining. Less than a page is devoted to this topic and the recommendation is weakly summarised as "if the occasion arises trade training schools should be set up." As far back as 1958 the Swedes discovered that such a need did arise and now each year about 1 per cent of the work force are retrained in courses averaging 6 months, and in some cases lasting 2 years.
Of particular interest to students are the commission's comments on hostels:—
"We are told that other hostels (university, teachers' colleges) have priority over apprentice and technician trainee needs We urge most strongly the order of priority be reviewed so that the group of apprentices etc.) should be given equal priority …"
It is true that the income of a 15-year-old apprentice is about that of a first year university student, and since either boarder is in his first year away from home the argument must be accepted as valid.
Fortunately it would seem that the present demand of the "non-professional" students for such hostels is considerably smaller than the university demand and even more fortunately I note that the next speech opening of Parliament offers further assistance for hostels for both groups.
Report Of The Commission Of Inquiry Into Vocational Training In New Zealand, Government Printer, October 1965. Reviewed by
"The Lions are staggering under a load of misfortune," said the Evening Post. Their visit has provided the opportunity to show "that provincial might can leap down the throats of bewildered giants."
This bizarre image began the second leader on the Lions match in Wellington, and appeared on Monday. June 27. The leader unmistakably bears the footprint of the Evening Post's rugby correspondent,
The match, "a sporting occasion that kindles the greatest goodwill, and allows the exercise of healthy physical endeavour,' ended in a victory that "sparkled with points."
For the Lions there is a heartening note, however. "Death has not seized them and closed their careers."
"Their shield may have been battered and dented, but they are bearing it courageously, and they have the great public with them in their hard fight against narrow fortune."
"Narrow fortune" is, of course, the opposite of "wide fortune." The style might be described as blotchy, neo-Neville Cardus.
The editorial continues: "And perhaps next time they will be able to enjoy with hearty appetite the roast beef of Old England. It is a long lane with no turning."
What is "a long lane with no turning?" One has to assume it is the tour. Or perhaps the throat down which the Wellington players have leapt and the roast beef is to follow.
The description continues with the delicate assonance of "danced danger down."
"The players rushed upon their opponents and felled them, not with a sling and stone, but with an athletic and boisterous genius. They advanced through the breaches with banners flying, as at a jolly revel. They cut their capers, fiddled, and the Lions danced to their tune."
Although Wellington has not used "sling and stone." they advance "through the breaches." an awkward physical feat to perform while jumping down the Lions' throat at the same time.
The match is "a jolly revel" in one paragraph but it is "the battle over" in the last sentence.
The Lions are apparently measured in "cubits" despite the fact they were not felled by "sling and stone," and were attending a "jolly revel," presumably something to do with "Old England" (where the roast beef came from).
And so the final picture is of the Lions, staggering under a load of misfortune, throat clogged with provincial players, shield battered and dented, with the Wellington players advancing through the breaches with banners flying, as at a jolly revel. Oh, yes, they are also cutting capers, fiddling, while the Lions dance to their tune.
"Probably no one knows the pain they are enduring." muses the editorial. Understandable with all those players down their throats. Probably no one understands the pain of the "great public" when they read this curious piece, marking a milestone, or possibly a millstone, in Evening Post journalism.
"Four Girls Are In Trouble," read a piece of paper sent in for the "grapevine." What promised to be a startling story turned out rather differently: "Varsity is getting us down and we feel a change is as good as a rest. Money not being over-abundant, we would like to relieve someone of an ox-cart, two tandems, aeroplane, hovercraft, or any form of transport (preferably a car) for a return trip to Auckland. We'll consider any terms—see the, honorary secretary of Vuwsa."
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Salient Reporter
A Deputation of six students recently called on the Leader of the Opposition. Mr. Kirk, to present their views on the proposed legislation giving votes to minors serving in the armed forces in "danger zones."
While members of the delegation (Messrs. Easton, Hirschfield, Shand, Bertram, Saunders and Miss
Easton claimed the legislation was a breach of our fundamental democratic principles.
And that the Labour Party should oppose the legislation on these grounds.
However. Mr. Kirk pointed out the Labour Party had done a similar thing during the second world war.
He suggested instead of demonstrating, students should prepare submissions for the Statutes Revision committee, giving the case against the bill.
About One-Third of the number of eligible students (1300 out of just over 4000) voted in the recent students association elections.
Elected were the following:
Sports Officer:
Cultural Affairs:
Accommodation:
House Committee:
Picture above shows a voter about to obtain his voting paper from the Students Union election booth.
A New - style law course will be introduced to Victoria University next year. The existing 19-unit Llb course will be replaced by a 17-unit degree course followed by a series of professional examinations.
Arrangements for the course and the formulation of regulations are not yet complete but at present plans are for the division of the degree course into two sections.
The first group is of 11 compulsory units: three Arts units. Legal System. Contracts. Criminal Law, Torts, Land Law. Equity and Succession. Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence.
The second group contains Company Law, Commercial Law and Personal Property, and Family Law. which are compulsory subjects for people entering the profession. In this group there are a number of subjects from which a choice must be made to bring the total number of units in the degree to 17.
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Subjects in this category include Administrative Law, International Law. Conflict of Laws. Taxation and Estate planning. It is hoped other subjects will be added to the options available—these may include Industrial Law, Criminology, International institutions, Legal history and Planning Law.
After completing the degree a series of professional subjects have to be studied — evidence, civil procedure, conveyancing, taxation and estate planning, legal ethics and advocacy, and office administration. The last two are parttime courses and will not carry the weight of full subnets.
The shape of the Llb honours course has not yet been finalised as it is dependent on the final arrangements for the Llb course. It is expected the honours course will be similar to the planned degree course with increased emphasis on full-time study It will demand a higher level, of attainment and students will attend special seminars in small groups.
Under the new regulations, the difference between the qualification for barristers and solicitors will be removed and all people wishing to qualify for entrance to the profession will be required to complete the degree and pass the professional subjects.
All students who have commenced their course will be able to complete it under the old examination regulations if they do so by the 1969 exanimations. They will have the option of changing to the new course.
Present students will be able to change over next year but this will present some disadvantages for those students who intend to enter the practising profession. However there may be advantages for those students intending to take up careers in the civil service, in academic life, or in business.
The Vuw National Party Club was successful in having a remit on student accommodation passed at the Wellington Division's June meeting. It calls for low interest loans to supplement the present subsidies for halls of residence. Another remit which the conference passed, sponsored by the Pahiatua electorate, called for the abolition of the accrediting system. Both remits go forward to the party's national conference.
The Next Faculty of architecture in New Zealand is to be established at Victoria. The University Grants Committee has approved this in principle, and invited Vuw to prepare academic programmes designed to produce forty graduates per year.
The Library's report for 1965 shows a drop in book issues over 1964. In 1965 readers borrowed 85.575 items. (12,095 being periodicals). In 1964 readers borrowed 95,103 items (10,737 being periodicals). During the year 14,716 volumes were added to the Library, bringing the book stock to about 192,000 volumes.
University Council has invited its ceremonial committee to reconsider the date of graduation. It has suggested either the end of the year or early stages of the following year.
Tournament Loss is Still undetermined. However, the students association has provided £892 in its accounts to cover the loss. Whether this sum will be adequate will not be known until the winter tournament accounts are available.
Sir.—How about regular student contributions, on a "guess-who" format, rubblshing very deserving lecturers? The actual identity of the lecturer could be made patently obvious while direct criticism could be avoided Something like this:
"The class bristles with hostility the moment he struts into the theatre. The prevailing antipathy towards the lecturer is reinforced by his small, petty and pointless gibes. He generally takes an hour to say 10 minutes' worth of material. He makes no attempt to present any original material and, at best, provides a boring fourth-rate alternative to the most simple text. His lectures are delivered in that nasal, noxious, alltoo-familiar accent."
This sort of thing could develop into an entertaining feature and no one can deny that the sheer numbers of second-rate, pretentious clods lecturing and lurking about in this university are a cause for alarm!
Name Withheld.
We have permitted this writer to remain anonymous so that he may retain a slight chance of passing a certain subject. While there may well be the advantages he suggests in such a feature, we do not propose to institute one for two reasons:
(1) Such anonymous features are repugnant to us.
(2) We would feel obliged to offer the university staff the same facility to comment on students. Somehow, we feel the students might come off worse.—Ed.
Sir,—Our university would appear to have been subjected to feeding by a variety of architectural mothers; consequently, today, our university is not exactly an aesthetic temple whose servants are dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge.
Victoria, then, represents a clash of Red Brick (Kirk) with Traditional or Oxbridge (Hunter). Rankine Brown is a plateglass office block— Vic's "air conditioned nightmare," dedicated to the mass production of ? … the mass produced.
Thus it would seem all tradition has gradually melted away from Victoria and tie ivy has rotted.
This, I presume, is the price of the "socialisation of knowledge."
Gad, Sir, those crafty fellows in the administration have decided to give
To the tobacco fields lads. If you want a good degree Motueka is the place to start.
"Passengers are requested not to present the larger sized prams for conveyance on buses, owing to the limited facilities available." You're quite right—it is governmentese. Nzr actually. One can imagine a little grey man in a little grey office thinking, thinking, and lo! Setting his thoughts on paper, after sharpening his quill. Lovely, sonorous phrases to fool the masses. Does anyone know what it means?
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I Am Told that Mr. Holyoake states that there is one known Communist amongst New Zealand university students. Let him be hunted down! I cry, let him be found out and with all due ceremony horribly photographed. We can't have people like that in our midst — the public might think we are all that way inclined. It's only a matter of time before they draw their conclusions from the presence of the odd Moslem, anarchist, Jew, Roman Catholic, homosexual, lawyer, Christian, cynical columnist or biter of fingernails.
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I Think that rather a lot of fuss is made about 'tickets" in student elections. It seems to assume that those nominated or supported by the president will necessarily be swayed by his line of thinking all year. Quite ridiculous—not everyone wants to follow the vice-president.
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This Column is mildly amused at the cyclostyled publication circulating Vuw. Sulient or something—it seems to have certain resemblances to a pirate Newssheet last year. Although the wit is of rather lesser quality in my opinion, but who am I to Judge? I wish they wouldn't try to copy my style though, as they did in one recent paragraph. The English language is in enough trouble as it is.
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It's Rather a laugh, really, the way that They have not yet realised that the purpose of this column is to transmit information on relevant topics to the Security Intelligence. In code of course. Mind you, the said Service has as yet been unable to break the code. Between you and me it's called "English Language." Heh Heh—cunning, eh?
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Progressing down The Terrace, as is my apt, I chanced upon a parking building or two and ruminated thereupon. Have you them also adjudged of late? There is the one constructed by Private Enterprise (worship, worship, genuflect) and the other erected by Local Body Politics (sneer, sneer, spit). The former is a pile of lumps of grey concrete, big solid thick lumps, heavy, even, and regular. The latter is of slim, tapering platforms, edged in tubular steel, with a pleasing and reasonably imaginative entrance. We await with interest the completion of the Boulcott Street office block.
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I See that one can now obtain an Efficiency Decoration after so many years of good and loyal service to the Territorial Forces of our native land. But it can be withdrawn, I read, for "disgraceful conduct of an unnatural kind." Thinking?
Sir.—Patricia Caughley. in her assessment of the Labour Party (Salient June 3), is, I think, making several misconceptions which are, however, common in much political and historical writing on New Zealand. The main misconception is that of equating "Socialism" with Labourist "ideology," and hence the interpretation that by rejecting overt ideology Labour is illustrating the impracticality of Socialism. Indeed, Labour may have espoused, at one time, socialism for New Zealand, but this is begging the question, for Socialism is no mere myth acting as an idealist panacea, but is as Marx defined it, a total transformation of man and society.
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Far from throwing "ideology" and "doctrinaire Socialism" to the winds and opting for "pragmatism," Labour is merely slightly modifying the Labourist ideology it has in effect been preaching for nearly thirty years. Socialism for Labour meant Labour in power, as it did for Labour's opponents, but to view the creation of the welfare state as more than the perpetuation of the petty bourgeois is illusory. Labourist ideology is a reality, and it is based on a mixture of Protestantism, liberalism, statism, glossed in [phrases like "fair share for 'all" and the "brotherhood of man."
Labour did. in fact, effect a complete absorption into a society dominated by rural interests, the ideals of the small businessman and the 'Labour aristocracy. Labour's failure to create a hegemonic Socialist ideology is because it alienated the farmers by a policy of inefficient industrialisation and import substitution. Moreover, Labour was itself absorbed into a political system based on the ideas of the ruling class: how could it; do no more than offer, as Professor Airey has noted, "a working solution for a particular set of circumstances"; in other words, a truly corporate party.
The question of ideology in New Zealand is an interesting one, if only because everyone denies that there is any. The effect of the "behavioural" approach to politics, and the tendency to skirt analysis in history, has been, I fear, a damaging influence to a radical critique of New Zealand society. At worst, it implies a conservative approach, where only "pragmatism" can solve problems, and fundamental issues of social relations, etc., do not require the radical transformation that, for example. Socialism demands. The non-ideological approach, if accepted, is implicitly denying that ideology plays an influential role in our life. In ignoring this we are far from rejecting the truth of ideology, rather we have been seduced into what
The future of the Labour Party does not depend on "pragmatic appraisals" or "realistic solutions," but upon an ideological revolution that recognises that New Zealand's relations of production are a fetter upon the productive forces. Unless Labour has a Socialist answer to the imminent crisis, its policy for the future of our welfare state will remain no more than pipe dreams.
Nzspa Reporter
ChristChurch: The University of Canterbury will establish a chair of American Studies. The University Council has accepted an offer of 55,000 dollars from the American Council of Learned Societies to assist in the cost.
The Council also accepted the offer of a further 25,000 dollars to expand the university's library holdings on American Studies on the condition that the university contributed a like sum between now and January 1, 1971.
"This will put us right in the forefront of American Studies in Australia and New Zealand." said the vice-chancellor (Dr.
Dr. Pownall spoke of the part the United States Ambassador (Mr.
Dr. Pownall said he was sure the university could raise the money for the library; £1000 had already been given and a special committee had been set up in Wellington to approach American business interests there.
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In 1965 The Vuwsa financial records were reduced to a complete shambles. This is revealed in the treasurer's report, just released.
Amongst the points revealed :
• Current treasurer
• The association's auditor has refused to certify the books.
• Threats of legal action against the association were made in December, following the non-payment of accounts.
• Over £6000 is owed to Vuwsa but has never been collected. This includes £2200 on one single project.
• Over £7000 has been invested at the rate of 3 per cent when interest rates of double this are available in trustee investments.
• The association has failed to accumulate any substantial reserves.
• The club grant system collapsed which was one of the major reasons why the association finished the year with a £1400 surplus.
The annual general meeting of Vuwsa carried with acclamation a motion congratulating Mr.
But his report revealed that, before he took office, the associatlon was in serious trouble.
He outlined the haphazard payment of accounts, the irregular banking of cash, the lack of effort in collecting the debts of the association, and the inadequate control over the incurring of debts.
Student clubs received £1000 less than in 1964 because of the breakdown of the grants system This represents almost all of the association's 1965 surplus.
Outstanding debts of £6000 date back to 1963. The "Aframe house" project (promoted by Vuwsa in aid of Corso) has still not been completed, and the association is owed £2268 on this. £369 in loans to clubs have not been repaid, and £1700 in Extrav and Cappicade profits has not yet been paid into the association's general funds.
The coffee bar has been advanced £308 by the association. Whether this can be repaid will not be known till accounts are complete.
Other New Zealand student associations still owe Vuwsa £1118 for tournament levies. These go back in one case to Easter, 1960.
The auditor. Mr. P. M. McCaw, commenting on these amounts, says about £500 of the "A-frame house project" is likely to be irrecoverable.
He says he has seen nothing to indicate that club loans, coffee bar advances, or tournament levies will be recoverable.
He also indicates that a sum of £286 described as "fixed assets" may be in error. "There is some doubt as to the existence and ownership of the items included," he says.
He also criticises the failure of Salient to supply audited accounts for 1965 in time for the main audit.
£500 Loss
The University owes the students' association hundreds of pounds in interest.
Mr. N. Woodhams, incoming publications officer on executive, told the association's annual general meeting this.
And he says he intends to see that Vuwsa gets the money.
He pointed out that over £3000 in 1965 student fees were paid over to Vuwsa one full year after they were collected.
Mr. Woodhams says that at normal bank overdraft rates, this represents over £200 in interest charges.
He points out that the Students association does not receive student fees until some months after they have been collected by the university.
In the last two years, the association has twice incurred substantial bank overdrafts as a result.
He believes that the same situation applies to other student funds also.
Salient Reporter
Mr. Peter Blizard has been selected by the Labour Party to contest the Karori seat in the coming general elections.
In 1963-64 he was president of Vuwsa. A psychology honours graduate, be is at present a teaching fellow in the Vuw psychology department.
In 1965 he edited "The Transition from School to University." a symposium of views arising from an Nzusa seminar on the subject.
He was also awarded a United States State Department student leadership grant on which he visited the United States in 1965.
He has taken a very active part in the debating society and forum; and is married.
He will be opposed by the sitting member for Karori. Hon. J. R. Marshall.
Salient Reporter
" I Do Not Believe this association should prostitute the academic tradition for any financial gain whatsoever."
This Marked one of the more fiery moments of last week's annual general meeting.
The Speakers were discussing a motion that the association publicly express its protest at the granting this year of an Hon. LL.D to Mr. Holyoake.
The remark was representative of the note of bitterness shown in the speeches.
Another speaker referred to "this gentleman who is of culture and breeding somewhat bereft."
One demanded to know why the decision to award the degree had been kept secret.
"The decision was made three weeks prior to graduation. Why was this kept secret?" he asked.
The motion was carried by 57 votes to 10.
The meeting, which was attended by about 100 students and lasted for seven hours, dodged the Auckland security issue.
It was 1.30am when the topic was reached, and the meeting deferred this and other topics to a meeting to be called within one month.
A motion that the Vuwsa secretary be paid an honorarium of £100 per year met a similar fate. It was strongly supported by former secretaries Messrs.
But the meeting endorsed a motion setting the 1967 students' association lee at £6/10/-.
Mr.
"At the end of 1965," he said, "the executive merely asked the university to collect an extra 10/- this year."
He suggested that unless the 1964 motion was replaced by one limiting the fee to £6/10/-, future executives could repeatedly raise the fee without consulting students until they reached the £8/10/- limit.
An attempt by former accommodation chairman. Mr.
The association will make submissions lo the Statutes Revision Committee in opposition to the Government's proposal to award voting rights to persons in the armed forces on active service overseas
A motion declaring Vuwsa's opposition was carried by 67 votes to one. It was proposed by Mr.
Next target for students Dow battling the City Council for a Salamanca Road pedestrian crossing may be these two corners. Some students believe these also need safety measures (not necessarily crossings). At left. Glasgow Street/Kelburn Parade, at right Mount St./ Salamanca Road.