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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 1. February 27, 1948

Milk and Sugar?

Milk and Sugar?

Cartoon of two people with a tea set next to them on the floor

An upheaval of a different kind—N. Adams gives an idea of what happened when Robin Oliver and Jim Witten-Hannah were brewing tea on Ruapehu's crater. The eruption which then occurred flung them into notoriety. We publish a letter from "Salient," July 11, 1945, on the subject.

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Dear Sir,—It is with mingled feelings that we hear of the attempted seismic observations of two of our tramping stalwarts, Messrs. Oliver and Witten-Hannah, and we must commend the efforts of Mr. Witten-Hannah to rescue his unconscious comrade. While we are told that their action in camping at the edge of the lake was merely the fool-hardiness of thwarted scientists with their noses to the trail, a suspicious mind inclines us to believe that a hitherto unsuspected sadism, coupled with a too inquisitive investigation of the more intimate parts of Lady Ruapehu, was probably the raison d'etre of that minx's orgasm. May we recommend our ambitious pair; let them either confine their attentions to Ngaruahoc, a male of the species, or direct their researches among the feminies of the species homo sap.

Personally, we would like to see formed a Society for the Prevention of Wanton Excitement of Volcanoes.

Pro Bono Volcanico.