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There seemed so many of them at Festival that an informal competition to find the Biggest Beaurocrat had to spring up somewhere.

Apart from write-in votes for David Harcourt (who was disqualified because he wasn't in Dunedin) no candidates attracted more votes than the Proctor at Otago University.

Not only does this man have extraordinary powers, but he uses them. Just drop him the word where it's all at and the only bouncer in Godzone with a degree will make your stir safe from all those long-haired law fac. types.

One Vic exec, member, lost in a huge crowd and sinking a can or two at a pre-dance function, yawned, can in hand and had his right arm arrested in mid-Might.

"We don't do that sort of thing around here" he was told.

The same evening a student editor from a Canterbury university, whose vocabulary is not noted for its excessive delicacy, was reprimanded for using words that "we don't use at Otago."

The other finalist in our bbc was Mr. Robert, [gap — reason: illegible]ulp Richard Weatherly who was in charge of films. We won't say any more about Mr Weatherly.

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A motion of confidence in the editor of Focus was warmly applauded at council. By Peter Rosier and at least three others.

But Gerard Curry dropped a clanger by observing Victoria had to formally disassociate itself from the motion because of a motion of no-confìdence in Mr Rennie which had been passed by the SRC.

Returned Mr Rennie "Thai's all right Mr Chairman."

"I have no confidence in the SRC."

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A recent example of continuing American assistance was the despatch on Monday of Detective Inspector M. T. Churches to the Michigan University School of Police Administration where he will study the latest techniques of the CIA. This is the same place that trained Ngo Din Diem's secret police except they didn't use the Harkness Scholarship as an academic front.

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Who's the most suave, smooth, fluent and altogether pleasant-to-listen to news announcer in W'gtn. Did I hear Bill Toft? Oh yes. And those little witty asides he is so fond of, Remember the riots in France last year? "Good news from France," he said when the General "defeated" the students. A man of principle Bill Toft. He resigned from the PSA in 1965 when that organisation decided to oppose Govt. policy on Vietnam. Man of principle.

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