Underwater

Although the executive of the club hold strong doubts over the value of competitive spear-fishing, particularly in the Wellington area, every facility will be made available to any group within the club who would like to organize or participate in a spearfishing championship. The committee of the club will make no plans for Easter Tournament unless specifically requested to do so by such a group of interested people Up till now club trips have been fortnightly. But with the approach of exams, trips are not expected to be at regular intervals! Lew Ritchie enlightened the Marine Sciences Society Conference recently with an extremely productive and provocative talk on observations that he. Wade Doak, Roger Kempthorne and others had made in a diving/marine biology programme. The theme was one well worth propagating: if you want to study the bloody thing, it may be of considerable advantage to jump in and look at it where it lives, rather than kidnapping it and taking it to your place before looking at it!