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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 11 June 5, 1968

Out Side Left

page 12

Out Side Left

Now that we learn the West Coast is shaking like a Jelly, (Dominion May 26) and that the first impact of the 'quakes was "just like turning on the TV set" (Sunday Times May 25) —quoting this guy whose first thought when the quake struck was for his mother-in-law, isn't time we did something constructive — like, say, abolishing the West Coast?

After all, most of their coal is too expensive to mine, their harbours get clogged up, their odd oil discoveries get featured on the Dominion's front page only to be retracted two days later, and all the West Coast children move off to Christchurch as soon as poss.

Isn't it time, now most of the houses on the Coast are in ruins, and they've exported ten o'clock closing to the whole country, to abandon the Coast to the seismologists?

* * *

Old Mongolian folk poem:

When I look at the writing in the mirror

I find it hard to read And now I see my own face

There is the same difficulty.

* * *

The Buddha Said Department:

The hungry snake

Bites its tail

And the willow bends

Rather than break.

* * *

At a seance the other day

The medium delivered a message from Che.

'I did not die; I live" he said

"You cannot be both dead and red.

* * *

Note for the religious—

Like a course of resurrection therapy?

Its what the medical boys call their treatment for an overdose of sleeping pills.