Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955

Stick it on the Stucco

Stick it on the Stucco

Ever since the One Named Marchant used most of the front page to light into the management committee we were sort of left with the feeling that they'd be gunning for us. It seems that the City Electrician went the rounds with the Registrar and some auxiliary testing equipment. The first and the third now consider our approach to electricity unsporting, and the second is deeply shocked at the number of unmade beds. Either they wait till the part-timers get back from work, and the full-timers get out of bed, or they let us have wives.

Following up hard on the legal advantage possessed by a landlord/the committee then forbade us the use of kettles, toasters, three-ring stoves, clay ovens, welding units, radar and voltameters at the three-point plugs which we understood had been installed for a fair percentage of these amenities. They did not wish our rooms to look like kitchens and indicated our kitchenettes . . . three 6ft by 6ft gloryholes, each with its rusty, gusty gas ring and promised pair of three-point plugs. We got fragmentary nightmares seething with disjointed hordes of cocoa-crazed maniacs making supper thirty-strong, wallowing in all the vices of mass beverages-addiction. So while the more excitable among us combed the glebe for ploughshares to convert, Mr. Boon and his loyal sidekicks invited the committee up to get acquainted with our layout.

And do you know we think they liked it! What with some solid spadework by Mr. Boon and a determined Intercession. So we gather, by Mr. M. O'Brien, the committee made toasters and kettles permissible, but we seem to have last out on radar. This is the first time in years a request of ours has been given a favourable hearing by the committee. All reverence to them!