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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 8. April 30 1968
Letters To The Editor
Letters To The Editor
Danger on the campus claimed
Sir—When is something to be done about the deceptive gradient leading from the S.U.B. to R.B. It is difficult enough to detect the irregularities on bright sunny days let alone in the dusk of a post-five or six o'clock lecture.
I have seen several people with leather soled shoes go 'a' over 'k' upon encountering the depressions in this path with ah above average speed. I would suggest a few shovel-fulls of tarseal be introduced to alleviate this problem before some Q.A.I, student rushing to his part-time job in the early evening breaks a limb, lacerates an exposed place or bruises a part.
Your faithfully,
R. Bryant.
Mitchell
Sir,—I am delighted to find Salient publishing at least one column of impeccably sound political comment; to wit, the thoughts of Mr. J. H. Mitchell. It is rare indeed that such an acute political wit and such a fierce contempt, for the milky-kneed liberal myths are combined with the more traditional views, but in Mr. Mitchell we find both.
When Mr. Mitchell wittily pokes gentle fun (however obliquely) at the beliefs held, I am sure, by many of our readers, and certainly reflected on occasion in your columns, how can we fail to realise that there are two sides to any issue: the Right, and the Wrong side. May I say that I am on Mr. Mitchell's side, and indeed, will support anyone whose political faith is securely based on the trinity of Morality, Private Property, and the Superior Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Race.
God bless you in your persecution of the Good Fight. Mr. Mitchell. When the 'Dominion' describes you, who can doubt but that it will call you. 'The William F. Buckley Of Karori'
Yours sincerely,
J. R. Anderson.
Goose manure
Sir,—In the issue on April 9th you included a photo of surfing. The caption below read, "Dropping in on a perfect four foot curl at Houghton Bay."
1. The surfer was not dropping in.
2. The wave was nowhere near four feet, more like 2(-3 ft. Exaggeration is a well-known feature of a gremmie.
3. There was no curl as the photo shows.
4. The wave nowhere near perfect—it was a small, slow, there was a short ride, and it was closing out that day as the photographer (a surfer well-worth watching) would confirm.
We would like to know, as members of the V.U.W. Surfriders Club, the name of the goose who wrote this manure.
A more appropriate caption would have been., "He also surfs, who only stands up on waves".
[I have no knowledge of surfing. The photo and caption were supplied by somebody purporting to be a member of the V.U.W. Surfriders Club,—ed.]
J. Paine.