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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 17, No. 16 August 5, 1953
A Message To The Team
A Message To The Team
Dear Fellow Sportsmen and Sportswomen.—On the eve of Tournament I am happy to be able to use my official position as a platform from which to wish Victoria's Tournament teams the best possible luck in their respective sports. I would like to thank all club secretaries, from whom Bernie Galvin and myself have had excellent co-operation in every case. If it were not for the lack of constitutional power on my part Bernie would be writing; this himself, for he has done practically all the work involved in the delegate's position. Both you and I owe him a great debt of thanks.
When 100 Victoria students descend upon Auckland in a body a considerable amount of organisation is needed to get them satisfactorily fed and bedded, apart from the organisation required by the actual tournament itself. "Auckland's lot is not a happy one." We must be grateful for what they have done, working under difficulties the scale of which only a person who has been behind the scenes can appreciate. If Auckland have made any mistakes please bear with them unless they are overwhelming.
Anybody who has been to a Tournament wants to go again, and those who haven't been before will soon find friends to introduce them to the time-honoured ways in which time and energy are spent during Tournament week. Perhaps the most lasting benefits one receives from Tournament are the friendships made with people from other colleges in this respect it is like Congress, and like Congress, given the participant a feeling to attach to the otherwise rather empty words "the University of New Zealand."
This year you will be one of the strongest Colleges; Canterbury is having a lean year and cannot enter a soccer or Fencing team. Hard, consistent playing on our part can still bring us victory.
Play your sport, make the most of your entertainments, and enjoy yourselves, for fundamentally, that is what Tournament is for
Ian Free.
Senior Tournament Delegate.