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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 16. 12th July 1973

Medical Aid Appeal

Medical Aid Appeal

Even though the American military involvement in Vietnam is now at an end the work of reconstruction must go on. In fact the need of the people of Vietnam for materials to reconstruct their landscape and the health of their wounded and ill after the devastation of the bombing is greater than ever. To aid the Vietnamese, the Vietnam Aid Appeal has under taken to raise money for two specific projects: rotary hoes and mobile hospitals.

An Aid Appeal subcommittee has been established at Victoria to raise money for one mobile hospital. This hospital will be set up in a PRG area of South Vietnam, which has suffered from the bombing by the Americans. Staffed by a team of seven the aim is to provide villages with essential medical care.

This mobile unit is easily transportable and contains 140—150 items such as: Complete midwifery set, $260; Instruments for minor and immediate surgery, $200; One microscope, $200; Dental equipment, $70; Equipment for eye surgery, $80; Resucitaion and anaesthetic : equipment, $560; together with other items. The total cost of the mobile hospital will be $2000 (NZ) and it will be assembled in Britain.

It should be pointed out that the health service in the PRG administered areas is freely available to all civilian Vietnamese who live in South Vietnam, including those under the Thieu administration.

A programme to raise the finance will begin at varsity on July 16 and the support of students both in active work and in making contributions is absolutely vital.

Fund raising activities for the week from July 16 include:
  • Radio Vietnam: Entertainment, information and competition through the Union all week. Second Hand Record Stall: Listening Room. Collection of records. Thursday and Friday, 12 and 13 July, 12—2pm; Monday 16 July, 10—5pm. 1) Price your own records. 2) 10% commission to Vietnam Aid Appeal on all LPs sold. 3) 45s — we will accept old 45s as do nations, which will sell for a fixed price of 20c. Record Sales: Tuesday and Wednesday, July 17 and 18, 10-5pm. Unsold records and money will be returned:- Monday and Tuesday July 23 and 24, 10—4pm.
  • Auction: Lunchtime auction in the Union Hall in which all manner of items both useful, useless, entertaining and novel will be auctioned off from the President's underwear to Adam's apple.
  • Cake Stall: Bake or buy. The Cake Stall will be hawking off various edible objects in the Union Foy on Monday to aggravate the dental and [unclear: besity] problems of Vic students. Male [unclear: Chvinist] Pig Competition: This is the [unclear: comition] for the label of the most [unclear: chauvin] male pig that prowls the corridors and the womens" of this university. Vote for your favourite lecherer at the foyer table on Monday or Tuesday. Ten finalists announced on Wednesday.

    Disiotheque/Stein Evening: Stein Evening on Wednesday, Union Hall. The 10 finalists for chauvinist pig will be announced here. Winner announced on Friday.

  • Lunchtime Concert: Lunchtime concert in the Union Hall. Thursday. Also, Karl Thayer, an American expert on the PRG will speak. The Fair: All the fun of the carnival in the Rankine Brown courtyard. White Elephant, the chance to get rid of all the old blades and whatever items you may have around that may be useful to somebody sometime. Raffles, and various "games of skill". Have you fortune told by Madame ZaZa the Sino Soviet Gypsy recently returned from the Cod War in Iceland. Union Hall if weather bad.

    Watch the noticeboards for details of activities.

    Add your name to the Studass Office list or see Ken Howell, Geoff Woolford or Don Carson if you can help.

"Maybe we can help" drawing

Indochina After the Agreement to End the War and Re-establish Peace in Vietnam'.

Speakers include Carlyle Thayer U.S. Vietnam expert and Walter Pollard from Auckland University. To be held in the Union Hall, Victoria University on Saturday July 21.

Topics to be covered include:-
1Past and future wars in Indochina
2The formation and present nature of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.
3The negotiations and the contents of the Peace Agreement.
4Political Prisoners as a violation of the Agreement.
5The role of Non-Signatory Nations in the implementation of the Agreement.

All inquiries to the Committee on Vietnam. Box 534 Wellington.