If the job of the Exec. is to look after the interests of the students then it is time it took a look at the wages paid to students who work in the cafeteria. Five shillings an hour for females and six for males seems a trifle low at any time, particularly for Saturday and Sunday work.

The signs seem to indicate that strife may again return to Algeria. When a people take to the sword to win independence it gets to be a habit and the tendency is to solve subsequent differences by familiar means.

Contraceptives?

Mr A. B. Grant's description of the Arbitration Court as the "socio-economic contraceptive which frustrates full play between the worker and his employer" is certainly a gem.

Things in Cuba must be improving. The only news we hear in our papers are of failures and un-savoury doings. No news, we can take it is good news.

The wonderful egotism of L.D.A. was delightfully illustrated by his welcoming remarks delivered to Mr Khruschev upon Mr K's joining L.D.A's campaign against Jazz; "the major evil of our time".

N.Z's acceptance of fifty orphans from Hong Kong shows true Kiwi generosity. It is an act of Christian charity.

The Price of Failure

The amendments made by the Government to overcome some of the anomalies in the changed fee system, instituted last year are welcome but inadequate. The main attack on existing conditions was the shortening of the terms of bursaries. The price of failure is too high, the rewards of success too low.

The refusal of the Hong Kong authorities to accept illegal immigrants from China has been criticised. The particularly vociferous objections of the Australians, whose chief claim to fame is their White Australia Policy, must have rankled.

In his budget Mr Lake has failed to face up to the fundamental problem affecting the country today. We can no longer afford to subsidise the incomes of the farmer at the present unrealistically high level.

Rimbaud writes of the dark beauty of death and destruction. Today death and destruction have assumed a brighter more beautiful form.

Cynics Notebook

"If winter comes can next winter be far behind."

Val Maxwell.