Salient. Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 26, No. 4. Monday, April 8, 1963
Said M. C. Rowlands: "Someone dashed into my hut shouting that there was fighting out front. Outside a groggy young poet was being beaten into Insensibility by a white-shirted bloke. I tried to restrain him. Another bloke—I didn't see his face—hit me above the eye. He followed up with a cross to the jaw, then as I went down he put his boot into me. When he saw the blood streaming from the cut over my eye he drifted off. Students easily outnumbered bodgies but not one came to my assistance, or t…
Said M. C. Rowlands: "Someone dashed into my hut shouting that there was fighting out front. Outside a groggy young poet was being beaten into Insensibility by a white-shirted bloke. I tried to restrain him. Another bloke—I didn't see his face—hit me above the eye. He followed up with a cross to the jaw, then as I went down he put his boot into me. When he saw the blood streaming from the cut over my eye he drifted off. Students easily outnumbered bodgies but not one came to my assistance, or to the poet's. They Just stood and watched."