Science Supplement Success

Salient Reporter

The 16-page supplement issued with the last edition of Salient on "Science in New Zealand" proved more successful than its originators expected it to be.

The supplement was paid for entirely from advertising sales, and 6100 copies were circulated in New Zealand universties and to the general public.

The supplement was initially planned to provide space for an adequate coverage of the First New Zealand Science Students' Conference held at Victoria University in the May vacation.

A number of the conference papers were secured, and in addition it was possible to obtain articles from prominent men in the New Zealand science world not able to be present at the conference.

"The opportunity was also taken to print some material we had on hand for our normal Science feature in Salient," Co-Editor Hugh Rennie commented. "We are trying to encourage student writing on science, with some success, and we were glad of an opportunity to publish some excellent material by non-students which we had on hand."

It is believed that the venture is the first of its kind in New Zealand student journalism.