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So There were no Press reports of the Teach-in on Security Intelligence —touchy subject Security Intelligence—if you say too much about it you mightn't get any more hot news lips From Taranaki Street. Or perhaps you might just hear your name on a certain file.

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And then there was the case of that public servant —was his name McIvor?— who died shortly after being dismissed from a position as Private Secretary (this was long, long ago) to a certain Minister of Education. Connected with his dismissal was a certain public servant who recently told a public body that Cabinet Minister never interfered in any way in the administration of his Department.

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Notice it's John Wild who's moving this motion about the Licensed Restaurant at the next SGM. John's last big thing was being unprepared to condemn South Africa too readily. Odd the kind of issues that interest Exec. members. Isn't It?

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Yes, we do think that the son of a National MP —so lone as it was Mr. Haddon Donald's son — should have got the Upham Scholarship this year. We never said he shouldn't. What we were on about was the frequency with which National M.P.'s sons get Upham scholarships; and we presume everybody who's a National MP's son isn't as deserving as Donald junior, or we would have had more mail last year when we pointed out two National MP's sons had got the scholarship then. Once is justified, three times, well, is a bit much.