Debating Team to Australia

"Salient" would like to extend, on behalf of its several hundred readers and contributors, its sincere appreciation of the work done by the immediate past president of N.Z.U.S.A., Mr. M. J. O'Brien, L.L.B., whoso participation in the realm of international student affairs especially has done an immeasurable amount to raise the status and integrity of N.Z.U.S.A. not only in this country but overseas as well. As vice-president this year, may he continue to servo the student body as efficiently and as unselfishly as in the past.

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Our attention has been drawn to the fact that the Otago University Capping Mag. was censored this year—by a panel of business men. The following comments appear in the latest issue of "Critic," the O.U. weekly: ". . . Everyone will agree no doubt that Capping Book needs some censorship control, but why set the business men of the city up as guardians of the public morals? Why should not the representatives of the trade unions also have a say in the matter? Surely the censoring and control of Capping Book is a job for a committee constituted of representatives of the University authorities and of the Students' Association. Why all this sop to the extra-puritanical element among the . . . public?"

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Weir dancer have a pleasant quality and atmosphere that are all their own and our last was no exception. The quintet came in with a conga singing "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" and their smooth harmony once again delighted the House and their guests. Members of the Social Committee could occasionally be seen fitting to and fro making sure that arrangements were going to plan, while Ross Gilbertson was a most successful M.C., mixing up novelties and dances in a well thought out programme at the same time indulging in some private propaganda soliciting for an inexpensive flat near 'Varsity.