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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 5. 1969.

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Better start thinking of copyrighting this column —week before last's list of guests at the South African Consulate has been picked up by "Sunday Times" columnist Chris Pritchard. Keep reading "Outside Left" —and be a fortnight ahead of the "Sunday Times". Also we were a week and a half ahead of "Cock".

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Sorry if half of last week's column seemed outdated. It was. In case you haven't worked this out from the rest of the paper, Salient is so disorganised it's printing items which were vetoed by the subs for the first issue.

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So You weren't attracted to Labour Club's ACM by Eta exciting offer of free grog. Neither did many more than fifteen people by this column's count. Maybe if Labour Club thought its politics were attractive enough without free grog it might be taken more seriously.

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This column does choose its words carefully. We never said — fie upon the thought—that Mike Hirsehfeld had used any influence to stop Labour Club members going on the Dom printers picket line. That might have been libellous. All we did say was that Labour Club, the biggest and best-organised left-wing club, could only produce Dave Butler as a picketrr, and Mike Hirschfeld had 300 shares in the Dom. We thought it was an odd coincidence. We still do. Not, of course, that Mr. Hirschfeld was against the printers —that would have been impolitic. We're quite sure he told the unions and the Labour Party he was on the right side, and didn't do a damn thing more to organise his club into action. No, we don't intend apologising to Mr Hirschfeld.

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Last year this column noticed curious political partiality in the award of the Upham Scholarship — Somehow National MPs' sons seemed to get more than their fair share of awards, of course, this was sheer bias and ill-will on the part of this column. So we are happy to set the record straight by noting that the Upham Scholarship this year has gone to the son of Mr. H. V. Donald, M.P., in a year where the standards of applicants was higher than ever, according to examiners.