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the university took on the presence of Security agents on campus.

Mr. Wood also sent telegrams to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Education (Mr. Kinsella) and the Labour Leader (Mr. Kirk) giving the university and Government two days to remove the agent.

Otherwise, he warned, a meeting would be held in the university quadrangle at 10am. The plan was then to protest to the administration.

Academic freedom

"We don't wish to deny the right of education or to victimise any students, but we believe active security agents on the campus are inimical to academic freedom." Mr. Wood told reporter Fleming.

Mr. Maidment's written reply came 21 hours before the deadlne. He assured the students Mr. Godfrey would, because of the uneasiness his presence caused and the university's disapproval of his activities on campus, no longer be an internal student. He would be able to make private arrangements with the department for study and would be able to sit the examination.

Mr. Maidment felt the allegations against Mr. Godfrey had perhaps been exaggerated, although they were basically true.

Mr. Wood accepted Mr. Maidment's assurance. What he wasn't prepared to accept was Mr. Holyoake's claim that the agent had originally had students association co-oper-ation.

Both he and vice-president Alan Galbraith were willing to swear affidavits they had done no such thing. Moreover, he had definite proof Mr. God-frey had been "spying" for, three years on campus and was certain Security activities went back two vears before that. Mr. Wood told NZSPA.

"Roasting"

"The Prime Minister has had a roasting in the House from the Labour Opposition," says NZSPA's parliamentary reporter. Mr. R. J. Tizard asked him, in effect, whether the agent had been planted at the university.

Mr. Holyoake replied that Mr. Godfrey had been studying as a private individual and had only once been asked to act in an official capacity. This was when two members of the Communist-dominated IUS had been in Auckland.

He denied claims that Security Intelligence had been interested in students going on an NZUSA tour of Russia and China.

Mr. Holyoake claimed Mr. Wood's executive had initially given Mr. Godfrey assistance in his investigation.

But Mr. Tizard told the House the Prime Minister had either misled Parliament or had been misled himself by Security Intelligence officer. He quoted:

• Mr. Godfrey's admission to his class and Professor Chapman on the first day of term that he was attending "by direction.''

• An Nzspa report, that Miss Honey Martin had been offered 'rewards "—Mr. Tizard said £10 a week—to work part-time for the branch. (Mr Holyoake had denied then were part-time agents.)

• Mr. Godfrey's approach to Mr. Russell Armitage. Auckland student secretary for information on local students making the trip. (This was confirmed for NZSPA by Mr. Wood.)

• An NZSPA report that Quennell. formerly of Auckland and now at Victoria, had later admitted to an NZSPA reporter in Wellington having worked six months for the organisation in the capital after being recruited in Auckland.

Meanwhile, claims by Auckland student paper Outspoke that Mr. Quennell was well in with "the student political circles in Wellington, particularly the student press association." were taken lightly.

A former president of NZUSA. Mr. Michael Moriarty, who flats with Mr. Quennell, dismissed any idea of "undercover work" by his flatmate, and in Christchurch NZSPA president Mr. Warren Mayne denied any present association by Mr. Quennell with NZSPA.

"Perhaps Outspoke are taking their witch hunt a trifle too far. I wouldn't think anyone would be able to find anything 'classifiable' in our activities," he added.