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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 3. March 13 1978

True Facts About Weir House

True Facts About Weir House

Dear Editor,

What is all this bullshit about efficiency at Weir House (Salient, vol.41, no. 1) ? The article says that with the arrival of the new chef 'The change has to be tasted to be believed'. This is true in a way; it would not be grossly wrong to say that the standard of the food at Weir is deteriorating as a decreasing geomtric series.

It is not unusual for the residents to gel an uncooked breakfast (mind you, the usual cooked breakfast is baked beans) on weekdays, or to have to munch raw vegies for dinner. We have just ended a spell of having to go without sugar, an item considered a basic by Kiwis and people from overseas. Is this a sort of exercise at food rationing in anticipation of a forthcoming calamity? As for the efficiency in the Dining Room this year, residents have to queue up for up to a quarter of an hour beyond the scheduled meal times in front of locked doors.

So if it was the Weir House management who were responsible for the Salient article they had better live up to their unfounded boasting. If it was by someone else, well, s/he has been badly misinformed.

Disgusted Weirman

( The article on Weir House was written by the warden, David Norton. I don't know how his name got left off, and quite frankly I suspected as much as your letter reveals.)