Lit. Soc:

40,000 Beers

At short notice there was arranged on Tuesday, 11th June, at midday, a talk by a visiting New Zealand writer from Auckland—John Yelash. Mr. Yelash was down these parts to arrange the selling of his book of short stories called "Forty Thousand Beers Ago", and was prepared to talk to the Society about that, and on such topics. From his personal experience he told us about the Auckland literary scene and something about how it differs from ours in Wellington, a little about the late Rex Fairburn and problems which he knows from first hand which beset young writers today. His book, he informed us, was well over two years in the process of priming—or rather was at the printers for that length of.—D.G.J.