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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 8, No. 3 March 28, 1945
[Introduction]
The Four-Year Dim-out on Sport has been relaxed and once more the Universities of New Zealand assemble to celebrate this climax of the season. Chosen by its nuclear situation Wellington becomes the Mecca of students from Auckland to Otago. From Saturday morning to the Ball on Tuesday evening the plan is complete—event caps event as day merges into night.
Speculation is rife—the Shield, presented for the highest aggregate of points has been, since 1941, the unchallenged trophy of Otago: the Wooden Spoon, so often returned to Victoria, is at present the unwelcome guest of Canterbury. If the Tournament Committee has any rest it will not be by endeavour—results will be published by the press and announced over the radio.
The invasion will begin on Thursday, and continue on Friday. Over two hundred representatives will steam and sail into Wellington, welcomed by the most vociferous haka party VUC has heard for years. The next six days will he variously occupied with sporting and social events, including track sports, aquatic sports, blood sports, snorts and cavorts; also cheering, jeering and beering to say nothing of singing and dancing, sleeping and eating, and other normal functions. The rest of the time you can spend as you feel inclined.