While the biased reporting of Salient has long been noted, and in fact, due to the teaching of psychology one would expect it, nevertheless salient news has seldom been omitted.

The last issue does not mention the mountaineering disaster, into which an inquest will have been held by the time this is in print, nor the conference of the Australian Student Labour Federation, which Mr. A. O. McLeod attended, presumably as a NZUSA delegate.

1. Due to the teaching of English, Salient's biased reporting is usually grammatical, which Mr. Jackson's letter is not.

2. Because of Salient's unusual policy of not publishing reports until the relevant information is available, the report on the mountaineering disaster and the report of the ASLF Conference will not be published until Mr. Evison and Mr. McLeod return to Wellington. Incidentally, Mr. McLeod attended the conference as the delegate of the VUC Socialist Club.

—Ed.