Vaccination

Vaccination against poliomyelitis oral vaccine is now offered to all age groups not so far dealt with, that is to all adults and also to all adolescents not vaccinated at school earlier this year.

Times: 8.45 a.m. to 7.30 p.m., September 4 through 6.

There are No Injections. The vaccine, a pleasant tasting liquid, is taken by mouth from individual cups.

Although Salk injections may have been received, oral vaccination is still needed.

Not only does Oral Vaccine confer better Individual protection but it ensures Community Protection. Oral Vaccine establishes a personal resistance to the disease as well as preventing the virus from being transferred to others.

There will be vaccination clinics established by the Department of Health in the main commercial area of Wellington City and also in the suburban area.

(Health Department)

Statement

A walkout of the representatives of Costa Rica, Mexico and Honduras at the third Central American Student Congress brought the congress to a premature end. The walkout occurred over the refusal of Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala to discuss a Honduran motion condemning the Castro regime. Political views clashed several times in the discussions of inter-American politics.

Sons of Toil

University students in China spend nearly half of their academic year in manual labour. Vice Premier Lu Ting-yi said recently that this was part of the Party Plan that "education should be directed to serve the political interest of the proletariat" and that it "should be co-ordinated with productive labour."

"It lakes approximately 10 years for children who start school at the age of six to grow to full manpower," Tin-yi said.

"The regime cannot afford to extend the present school education to too many persons (without) I taking away too much manpower from production."

Professor Takes Up New Chair

Professor J. F. Duncan has taken up the new chair of inorganic and theoretical chemistry. Prof. Duncan is a pioneer in British atomic energy research. He is one of the few scientists who has worked in four Commonwealth countries—Britain, New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

Born in Liverpool, Prof. Duncan gained a Ph.D. at Oxford. He has worked on ion exchange at Harwell and radio chemistry at Melbourne University.

He is accompanied by a wife and two children.

Problems of Medieval Historiography

Speaking to the Historical Society on problems of medieval historiography Miss Margaret Avery refuted the allegation often made by modern historians that the work of the medievalist was much simplified by the paucity of evidence.

Modern history was so well documented that while any theory would have to be modified with the discovery of new data, at least the broad outlines could generally be maintained; whereas the medievalist, living to postulate a theory on the minimum reliable evidence, often found his whole structure imperilled by the weakness of Its foundations. Miss Avery referred to the recent discovery that Asher's Life of Alfred the Great, formerly supposed to have been written in the ninth century, was possibly written in the eleventh century, and therefore of much less value to the historian.

Among the problems described was the difficulty of deducing from the formal Latin of a legal document, just what the people were actually thinking in Anglo-Saxon. While admitting the value of the philologist in such cases, the speaker was wary of allowing the material of history to be evaluated by other disciplines, citing the example of the topographist who maintained that the accounts of battles contained in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle were entirely correct, because all the alleged battlegrounds were just the right sort of places to have battles.

Lecturer Marries Student

Mr Philip Waldron, a lecturer in English at Vic recently married a lent, Miss Penny Griffith.

The couple met at the beginning of the year, when they were both working on the English Deportment's Wai-te-Ata printing press. An essay on James Joyce, written by Mr Waldron, was being printed.

Mr and Mrs Waldron will be making their home in the United States. Mr Waldron has a fellowship at the University of Harvard for two years. He left for America on August 14. Penny will be following on November 21. After Harvard Mr Waldron intends to apply for a University post in the Orient.

Mr Waldron has lectured in English at Vic for two years, after graduating with first-class honours, and his wife was in the third year of her B.A. course. Both went to school in Wellington.

Refused Visas

The members of the International Student Delegation to Africa were refused visas to enter South Africa. The delegation, visiting students and student organizations in all African countries, included student representatives from Chile, Turkey, the United States and India.

The President of the National Union of South African Students commented: "This is a further example of the extent to which the government, because of its apartheid policies is forced to hide the grim realities from the outside world."

Diplomats Not Guilty

World Affairs Council is protesting over the expulsion of diplomats without the public being given proof. The Council's Secretary (Mr P. J. Shanly) transmitted the following resolution to the Prime Minister:

"That World Affairs Council expresses concern at the lack of evidence adduced to support the allegations of espionage made against the two Soviet Diplomats who were recently expelled, and that in accordance with elementary principles of justice the Diplomats must be considered innocent until proven guilty."

Poor Boarding Conditions

"Quite an experience" was the way in which a first-year student described for Salient his first dealings with Wellington boarding houses.

This student had arranged board in Karori, but upon arrival was informed that his landlady was ill and unable to take him in. Stranded with nowhere to go, in desperation he found board in a house like in inverted shoe-box".

His room had no wardrobe—"One lived entirely from suitcases." In theory, light laundry was done, but this student found that whenever he presented his washing to the landlady he was informed—"Oh no—we never wash that!" He was not provided with anything with which to make his lunch, and he described week-end food is "poor, but at least presentable, Lots of watery cabbage, and the occasional steak."

Special features of his life as a boarder, included having to pay threepence whenever he wanted a h. and frequently having fish and chips bought from a shop by his landlady for the evening meal. The student told the Salient reporter wryly, that his landlady seemed only to be happy when the rent was paid or the lawns mowed. "There was a large back lawn," he commented.

Supper was provided by a chap in a flat upstairs, who also helped the student do his washing. He was permitted to listen to the radio, but "it was on 2ZB non-stop and she didn't like me sitting in the living room."

He was provided with a heater. "My landlady said it was cold at night and she didn't want me getting the flu." But when the heater was put on in the daytime "she came and said it was unnecessary as it wasn't cold then, and to turn it off." He gave it back. "I'd hate to be ill in that place," he said feelingly. "I'd be entirely dependent on her mercy."

The sum paid for the privilege of staying in the establishment was four pounds ten, from a studentship wage of six pounds. These are typical of boarding house conditions in Wellington. The student's final comment was: "She told me she wasn't making any money of me." After moving, he did some reckoning, and "knows differently now".