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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 1, February 23rd, 1949.

Altogether

Altogether

Well, we owe great thanks to the hard-Worked (and underpaid?) kitchen staff of the Curious Cove Camp. Meals were always on time, despite great odds, and the fact that Mrs. Cohen ate three times as much as anyone else. To Dave Cohen, also, our grateful thanks for at least one very successful film evening.

Gongs woke us at 7.45 in the morning. After meals, raucous sessions with the Australian "Rebel Songs" became the regular thing in the Evison - Bollinger Barraclough hut. The rafters rang to the strains of the "Wobbly Doxology." "The Four [unclear: isurgent] Generals," "Joe Hill." and "Bump Me Into Parliament." "Returning to Picton on the launch, I fancy Sir David Smith was a little alarmed at the tone of these songs. At least he turned a green face seawards. But then he had already expressed his preference for the type of student indulged in by the American universities!