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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 1. March 2, 1959

[Introduction]

How do they keep up the tempo?—This question was asked all over New Zealand when the Australian Universities swimming team visited here in January. All-night parties, training at 8 a.m. for two to three hours, sightseeing in the afternoon and carnivals in the evening, followed by parties, etc., etc.

The various swimming centres the team visited turned on everything they could want (we believe the chaps jacked up their own nurses), and the people who were left gasping were the hosts, especially when one boy stood on his head to drink his beer in Napier. The Australians had no sense of time or timetables; it is recorded that a bus was to leave Rotorua at 8.30—one of the girls turned up at 9.20!

The prize must go to the young man who at a party in Napier, having spent the evening with one of the visitors, turned to her at 2 a.m. and said:

"Jane, this is Bill; he'll take you home. Goodnight."

It is reported he left alone about 4.30 a.m.

When the team was travelling to Wanganui they heard the fire siren in Dannevirke. All piled out to watch and, much to their surprise, out came the engine being pushed to get it started. When it did start it went away with a roar—doing 20 m.p.h.