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Did you ever wonder why Sir Leslie Munro hasn't been offered a Cabinet position? No, it's not that. It's just that Cabinet would be

unduly delayed it's meetings. Sir Leslie subscribes to the philosophy that one should never use two words where two hundred will do. Like the time he was asked to speak to the French Ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the Suez Crisis.

His cable to the P.M. commenced:

"Today I took the French Ambassador into a corner, where I probed him privately."

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There is no truth in the rumours that Norman Kirk will become a nun after the next election.

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Several students benefited the other night at the Grand Hotel. Seems Tom Coltman and one of the directors of Waikato Breweries had a bet as to how much beer would be drunk in an unadvertised shout over half an hour. The students did not let the director down. 63 gallons disappeared in the allotted period.

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Hear tell that Truth is planning its next big campaign on a reintroduction of collar studs. the top-class brain down there noticed that as less and less people wore collar studs, more and more illegitimate babies were born. So, they reason, bring back collar studs and we'll have fewer illigitimate babies.

Orsomething like that....

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Well, the party's over. But not quite. It was a particularly good scene down at Typo getting this column out at all, given the fact that most of the Salient people were drinking the booze for the last issue shout, or very happily coming down with the very good noises of the setting machines.

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Outsize Left revealed.