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Left Out Side

Great varsity, Canty. They've just given the Upham (V.C) Scholarship to the sons of two M.P.s (National, naturally) — Messrs. McIntyre and Walker Jr. One of them was deputy head of Christ's— surprise, surprise. Canty. Uni., that where the elite go, not cruddy old Vic.

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Whatever has happened to the campaign against rising prices in the Caf? Seems to have been one of those nowyou see it now you don't efforts—rather like a Fritz meal in fact.

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Did you hear that antianti-war-marchers (me, I'm an anti-anti-anti-war-marcher) felt it necessary to keep Wedders out of their organisation? Seems that the only group that will let Wedders in now is the National Party, which Wedders has just resigned from the Democratic Labour Party to join. The real question is: what will happen to the Democratic Labour Party now its leader has resigned? Perhaps Owen Gager will take it over.

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Publishing gossip has been interesting this week. Rumour is that new DOMINION editor, Kelleher, is staging a last-ditch fight to keep the paper from total collapse. And two new papers are coming up—from Christchurch The New Zealander an "independent fortnightly" edited by Stuart McMillan, cable page editor of the Christchurch Press, and from Auckland a 'newsweekly' run by spasmodic Labour Party publicity man Gordon Dry den.

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How do you keep a conference secret? The Dominion seems to be quite sure that somebody, to be precise, New Zealand, strongly spoke out against Britain's withdrawal from South-East Asia—though the official communique said everybody "accepted" Britain's reasons for pulling out. Could it be that some New Zealand official is telling the press All About these top secret talks? Surely it couldn't happen in the New Zealand public service.

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Finally, in case the delays of the law had stopped you noticing, the magazine grab by the police (back last August when they had the Catholic Housewives pressuring Hanan into bigotry) has been pronounced illegal by the Supreme Court. These dirty books are supposed to corrupt us—but it seems that a zeal for censorship can as easily lead to a breach of the law.