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Hear Fritz is very worried about the incidence of beriberi in New Zealand. There were no cases last year.

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Socialist Club, which apparently is responsible for last week's burning of "The Reporter", have the distinction of being the first book-burners on campus. After all, if Hitler did it first, Mao got in on the act later; and now that Mao's supporting the Arab slates firmly against Israel perhaps Socialist Club could burn all members of Jewish Society publicly at Forum as agents of Zionist imperialism.

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If people who object to "The Reporter" are against wasteful university expenditure—and it appear Socialist Club dislike "The Reporter" on quite different reasons—then why not worry about the Chancellor's Mercedes-Benz, paid for with council money? No doubt it would be asking too much of Socialist Club to pay any attention to a West German car, but why is Salient suppressing a story for which it is rumoured "Truth" has offered fifteen nicker for the dinkum oil.

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Hear the SGM gave Andy Chapman food poisoning. Pity there were only four recorded cases of leprosy in New Zealand in 1967 or Gerard Curry might have shown some promising symptoms.

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This column has once again been shown approval by its sponsors—yet another appearance in the Communist Party Paper. If only they'd let us write the whole thing, since we seem to write half of it already.

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Pity there are only seven New Zealand student newspapers (eight if you include "Focus" which fost people would), because if there were more they could pay Roger Wilde to be their Parliamentary reporter. Then Dave Harcourt could edit Salient and Doug White could take over "Argot"—and we'd end up with a decent literary magazine.

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One law for the rich and another for the poor. That's what Paddy Blanch-field told Parliament when talking about the breath-analyser. While miners have this test put upon them after drinking their hard-earned beer, and don't even have a breath sample given them for independent laboratory analysis, the rich racehorse owner gets his own swab from his racehorse to analyse—and if his analysis doesn't tally with the official one, there's swee gorblimey to pay. Not only are the rich treated better than the poor, but racehorses better than drivers. It's a hard world.

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Yes, there are little Outside Left's copulating throughout the student press. It goes now under various names—The End, Muckrake '69. And they all started this year.