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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 3. 1967.

Craccum editorship is now firmly finalised

Craccum editorship is now firmly finalised

Auckland. — The Auckland University Students' Association's game of "musical editors" seems at an end, after the re-appointment of Geoff Chappie as editor of the official student paper Craccum. This followed months without an editor, the production of the first issue by the New Zealand Student Press Association in Christchurch, and the dismissal of Chappie 24 hours after his appointment.

After last year controversy over the dismissal-cumresignation of editor Lei Lelaulu, two applications were received for this years Craccum editorship, which carries an honorarium of £150.

They came from Chappie, an Auckland Star reporter who has worked in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, assistant editor of Craccum, and Mr. Brian Rudman, coeditor of the independent student paper Outspoke.

In a tight vote the executive appointed Rudman, but soon afterwards he resigned, to take over the Labour Party journal the Statesman, and Craccum was again editorless.

In February the Students' Association accepted an offer by the President of NZSPA (Mr. W. Mayne) to produce the first issue pending the appointment of an editor. The issue was produced by Mayne, former Critic editor D. F. Gray and Canta editor G. D. Ritchie, in Christchurch using material provided by a former Craccum editor, Miss Christine Moir.

At the same time the Executive appointed Chappie, and this was featured on the front page of the first issue. But the following day Chappie presented "conditions" and the Executive, on the initiative of President-elect John Prebble, rescinded the appointment, saying the "conditions" should have been presented with the application.

In addition, a halt on the first fssue was ordered because of its reference to Chapple's appointment.

Within a week, however, the association re-appointed Chappie at a later executive meeting, according to reliable sources quoted by the Canterbury student paper, Canta.

Neither Mr Chappie nor Mr. Prebble mere available for comment. In Christchurch Mr. Mayne told NZSPA: "I mill bestow upon them the charity of my silence."