SEPTEMBER 25, 1969

VOLUME 43, No. 12

The University Administration is cedures by which persons will be sity decides to stick to the proposed at present drafting amendments to accepted for or declined enrolment." figure, the Arts Faculty will be most the University of Auckland Act to At present. Council has adopted affected by exclusion regulations. provide regulations for exclusion. measures to keep the increase next At a meeting of the Arts Faculty They will go forward to the Univer­ year down to 500 students. Exclu­ this term, the Dean of Arts, Prof. sity Grants Committee, and then to sion regulations will be enforced K. J. Hollyman was directed to Parliament for legislation next year. more strongly. It is estimated that report to the Deans Committee that Under the present Act it is stated 200 students would be re-admitted, the faculty considers 40%. of the (Calendar, p. 628) : "Every person as opposed to 400 this year. projected total roll is a better esti­ who is academically qualified for The number of overseas students mate of the final Arts enrolments. entrance to a University in New will be fixed at 600 (working through The figures for Arts seem to have Zealand in accordance with the the Labour Dept entry regulations), been the left over figures arrived at requirements of the Universities and gradually reduced to a limit of after Fruits were first submitted by Entrance Board shall be eligible to 5% of the total roll. the other faculties. The report of the matriculate at the University without Transfers of students from other Deans Committee of June lists the further examination." Universities will be slowed down. maximum enrolment figures a t :— NIVERSITY The only grounds for refusing It is understood that the possi­ Firm figures: single enrolments at present is Sec­ bility of directing Training College Engineering 770 tion 24 (2) : "Insufficiency of accom­ students to Massey w as looked into, Law 850 modation or of teachers in the but unfeasible under the present Act, Human Biology 350 University or in a faculty or depart­ because of lack of accommodation Architecture 576 ment of the University." at Massey. Fine Arts 150 V E S O N As the Act stands, there is no authority to limit a certain class of Tentative figures: student, for example overseas stu­ Science 2600 dents, or to exclude students on Arts numbers Commerce 1200 academic grounds (except in cases Arts 3554 of insufficient progress at other uni­ Total 10000 EXCLUSION versities). The suggested alterations to the Act would enable the Univer­ facing cut Professor Hollyman told Craccum sity Council to "limit the enrolment that Faculty hoped to take up the of any category of persons to an Arts professors will be asking the "slack" from the faculties with fixed annual quota being either a specific next meeting of Senate to adopt numbers. This refers to the fact that number or a fraction or percentage special measures to avoid a large each faculty's enrolment never quite of the maximum number of persons cut in the percentage of Arts students reaches its fixed limit, in practice. who may be admitted to the Univer­ planned to meet the 10,000 limit at Professor Hollyman said that the sity or to a particular faculty, de­ the University by 1972. Commerce Faculty was under a partment, course or class." A meeting of the Deans Com­ strain also, partly because of Wai­ Council would have the power to mittee in June set the tentative Arts kato University not having a Com­ refuse enrolment of students on the enrolment at 3554 when the univer­ merce Faculty, and partly because grounds of academic ability under a sity reaches its 10,000 maximum. qualifications for accountancy are proposed amendment giving Council This is 35|% of the total roll. The being tightened, meaning more uni­ the power "to define and provide present percentage of Arts students versity study. for the criteria of acadenvc ability at the University is iust over 41%. (Continued page seven) or attainment and the selection pro­ It seems obvious that if the univer­

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Owen Gager: “ Happy days are here again, and what is more, played by Frank E. Evans Lunchtime Band. That is how the Sep­ tember 14th demonstration began; and more significantly, that is how it ended, with fifty or more people desecrating the Myers Park turf with sinful Sabbathday dancing, to celebrate what Tim Shadbolt called 'the most marvellous day of the year'. People, between the beginning and end of the demonstration, had clambered up to the Vincent Street Police station and returned unscathed; this, they seemed to think, was worth dancing about. "Myers Park free speech area, for the first time on record, had all its speeches delivered from a piano; about a quarter of the audience, obeying admonitions from a dog called Brutus, wore fancy dress; not a single police helmet overshadowed the day by an arrest, a caution, or even an attempt to unstraggle marchers who occupied most of Wellesley Street West rather undisciplinedly at one stage. It was almost as much fun as a Sunday afternoon at the beach; and it did show demonstrations can take a different form from either polite Sunday afternoon walks for the middle-aged or ferocious banner-bashing of cops to raise extremely hypothetical workers' class consciousness." Tim Shadbolt: "This was one of the biggest demonstrations in New Zealand that has included such a diverse range of youth and that has had so little police 'protection' and has had such a lack of violence. One point was blatently proven — no police equals no violence. The youth of Auckland talked and marched and debated. Several valid points were suggested by the meeting. • That lists of our civil rights be posted in every cell in every police station so that everyone arrested knows his civil rights. • Legal aid be given to those who need it. If the state can afford a public prosecutor surely it can afford a public defender. What chance has a young man got of defending himself in court if he can't afford a lawyer. • That people arrested be treated as though they are perfectly innocent until they are proven guilty. • That those arrested on September 7 have all charges against them dismissed. "It is more than unfortunate that the New Zealand Herald neglected to print a word on the whole event. This was a prime example of mis-directed journalism. Why do violent demonstrations, however small, get headline news and large peaceful demonstrations are completely ignored. ls it to appease public prejudice? Will it not encourage violence? Young people refuse to be ignored. Why not publicise the good things they achieve instead of only their faults." 1r ietvpoin t radicalism in the university

The 1037 votes (47.3%) in favour of legalis­ people, and students, are degenerating as a ing a basic level of existence. In short, young ing marijuana confirms the suspicion that there has whole. Bill Rudman, one of the university's top people have had more time to think critically been a growing rejection of conventional values scholars (PhD student in cell biology), was the about the quality of life. among New Zealand students in the last few original proponent of legalising marijuana. He It is significant that the Engineering School years. Reactionaries against social change, with also happened to be the best student president should so strongly oppose legalisation of mari­ their self-assuring jibes about 'Vocal minorities" A.U. has had for several years. juana. By the nature of the occupation, which pre­ and "lunatic fringes" must at least be puzzled and The apparent answer to the growing change supposes a strong tendency towards upward disturbed by this movement. Even more unsettling among students falls back on social processes that mobility in New Zealand's middle-class oriented must be the fact that of the staff and graduate are occurring world-wide: system, engineering students can hardly heip be­ students who voted (in a separate poll), legalisa­ • The knowledge explosion which has not only ing conservative, even reactionary. Upward tion of marijuana was favoured by 31-10. produced better, more comprehensive educa­ mobility demands conformity. Conformity is anti­ But not just the marijuana issue reflects this tion, but has also meant that the amount of thetical to change. student shift: the overwhelming opposition to the information available on any section of The essence of radicalism is not militant action South Africa rugby tour, and the call for an inde­ human thought (including philosophical and or blatent non-conformity. It is embodied in the pendent, non-aligned foreign policy for New social thought) has increased many times difference in outlook between two groups; differ­ Zealand are equally indicative. Students have since the war. ing presuppositions separated by a gulf, and that even tackled issues which the House of Representa­ • The communication explosion, which through gulf is widening. tives will not touch: the question of legalising mass media, especially television, has made This is why legalisation of marijuana will be­ homosexual relations between consenting adults. suffering of the Vietnam war, or police come official student policy; this is why more and Two years ago, this was voted down by Auckland brutality in Chicago, identifiable with every­ more young people will become estranged from students. It was passed overwhelmingly this year. one, in the true sense of the "global village" values they cannot understand or sympathise with; The public may ask why are students thinking concept. this is why the reactionary base, in trying to main­ like this. The answer that they are a vocal minority • A more affluent life, which has produced tain its own.pride will flourish labels such as has been disproved by the marijuana vote. It is what social scientists call "value politics" "lunatic fringe" in attempting to discredit those absurd to say that students are being led astray where social issues have supplanted the who question their presuppositions. ■ y lecturers or some subversive force in the univer­ need to concentrate total effort in establish­ — J. S. Laird. sity. It is equally absurd to conjecture that young

I know that various Faculties use the machines to a great stooge” planted in our midst to report on the Malaysians. extent, but in m y opinion the student who has to fork out for Evidently, it was due to such fears of intimidation and Stirn his own copies should not be subsidising those copies of the suppression on our return home that made the M .S.S.A., the ing to dn various Faculties. body representing M alaysian and Singaporean students re­ B r a s s e d Off frain from taking a stand on the issue. the publii The present M .S.S.A. committee prides itself (justifiably Zealand t Students using the Xerox copiers w ill get a better deal or otherwise) as above and beyond politics. In this sense, Society sh so o n. the M.S.S.A. has failed us and so we must look askance "more co| Discussing a letter received by Craccum complaining for help. AUSA and NZUSA have been sympathetic to our that the charges are too high, M r Ley, deputy registrar, said cause and though we have to look to our Kiwi friends to It won’t wi it was cheaper than the rates in town. Xerox copying in champion our cause, perhaps it is best this way as these WHAT MAKES A RADICAL? L a w s nec town costs 20 cents for the first copy and 12 cents per copy people are beyond the clutches of the M alaysian Government. Sir, — I would like to comment on the “radical” view thereafter. Mr Ley said that the charge to use the Xerox In case Mike Law and company are accused of poking much as cr expressed in Issue 9 Craccum . in N e w 2 copiers w ill soon be reduced to 5 cents per copy. This would their noses into M alaysian affairs, we wish it to be known Through the centuries we have observed revolution after happen when slot machines have been installed on the that we M alaysian students welcome M r Law ’s stand on our fashioned ar revplution, the revolt of the slave against the master, the beat w ith th Xerox copiers. beehalf. We look to him not as an interferer but our revolt of the poor against the rich; all in the name of M r Ley would not discuss the running costs of the Xerox ‘Crusader’. Success in his campaign is success for us and They are th( humanity, justice and truth. Today in universities through­ copiers but he did say that there was at the moment a sm all anyone who is against the formation of a government and th e u out the western world we are witnessing the same form of have to fo r profit margin. financed and government orientated association is a friend revolt, that of the masses against the leaders. Still in the o f o u rs . youth. Y o u tl name of humanity, justice, and truth. And now it is coming For precautionary measures, it would be appreciated if them. Y o u t l to the fore in our univers’tv in Auckland, with cT''r>Vn Jewel in Rubbish Dump our names are not published. drink before Chan’s N.Z. dialectics: Revolt in the name of Humanity, Sir, I cannot refrain from expressing the pleasure I had swear, resist 20 signatures attached Justice, and Truth. Isn’t it time we showed these word’s up in reading the spendid article in the July issue of CRACCUM shoes a f t e r 1 for what they are: Abstract indefinables used by a would-be by Jolyon Firth. It shows intelligent and balance, puts things dictator to disguise his political ambition. in focus and perspective and is moreover well expressed. Last year it was Shadbolt, this year it is Chan. When How different from so much of the rotten drivel which w ill this pretence at a superficial affirmation of human dignity appears in CRACCUM! cease? When will th^se blind fools realise that a change of Why is the University so lacking in good sense, taste and SUPPORT T IE government, or leader leaves the international situatmn as judgment as to be always displaying their most rotten speci­ it is — a shambles? What is needed is not m erely a political mens in their shop windows. Do they deliberately want to revolution, but a cultural one: — a complete change in the thump the nose and poke the tongue at their patrons — western way of thinking; for we cannot change our actions the taxpayers. without changing our ideals. Chan speculates that the fight There is much justification for dissatisfaction and demon­ 'oE)0iM 3[a s ? ™ B for a psychic revolution hopes that “ political redemption w ill stration regarding the university — but by those who find the be a spontaneous result.” He is right. But political redemption funds for producing superior citizens and get the opposite r— ~y ~~ can be a result of a psychic revolution only. All the m ilitantism deliberately flaunted before them. in the world will not rectify political situations (history Such things as blatant advocacy of pornography and teaches us this) — it will only serve to aggravate them. dope do not enhance your public image. l/ w&y / L He admits it is a desperate measure. I will go further and M r Firth’s article in CRACCUM is like finding a jewel in say it is suicidal, to the point of being murderous. a rubbish heap. Mr Chan and his radical friends are all alike; they A. II. Jeffs, Papatoetoe. equate human dignity with public recognition. They are a n wrong. The most nameless, faceless artist in the world acquires the ultimate in human dignity, when in a paroxysm CRACCUM AND THE MALAYSIANS (§© 'll© ^OiāIIp R®® 0 of joyous emotion, he cries aloud to the stars, “ I AM A LIV E .” Sir, In typical manner, you ducked behind flimsy excuses Descartes’ “cogito, ergo sum,” is human dignity far above and accused me of distorting the central point of a Craccum mere recognition by man. article. “The problem is not so much domination by M alays — M. J. Robertson in Auckland, it is a question of who w ill have control over a students association” . You have misunderstood the facts. Surely it is up to the members to vote for the committee Xerox Profiteering they want. In fact, any Malaysian who wants to influence Sir, Those students who make use of Xerox machines in Malaysian Government opinion could have done it more the Library seem to be taken advantage of by the Library, effectively by being in the MSA Committee; instead of print­ for in my opinion, the charges for the use of this machine ing anonymous circulars and forming renegade societies. This are exorbitant. is only foolishness and dangerous. By remaining anonymous Students are charged 8 cents per copy. these students (they could be anybody) are only showing that Yet the machines are hired from Rank-Xerox at the they are in the wrong, and they know it themselves. following rate: The Director of MSD in Sydney has asked for the com­ For the 914 Copier: 3.5c per copy for the first 2000 per month. position of the MSA Investigation Committee, W H ETH ER OR 1.5c per copy thereafter. NOT IT COMPRISED OF MEMBERS FROM OTHER For the 3600 Copier: 3.5c per copy for the first 15,000. SO CIETIES AND CLUBS. But you characteristically twisted 1.5c per copy thereafter. the facts and stated that he wants the names of the com­ On top of this, the Library pays for paper, which is of mittee, presumably to be blacklisted. Frankly speaking I miniscule price per sheet, and the wages of two assistants, am fed up of this talk about governmental interference in who are paid little more. Malaysian students affairs. I would love to see the ‘con­ The monthly number of copies is fantastic, and the 1.5c clusive evidence’ that Mike Law seems to have. I myself, rate would be reached early in the month. Thus I would was never a member of the so-called MSA. But I have to estimate that, on average the copy for which the student protect my interests. I detest the way Mike Law is inter­ pays 8c costs the Library 2.5c - 3.5c, a profit of about 5c per fering with M alaysian students’ affairs with his fact-twisting c o p y . antics which are clearly anti-Malaysian and anti-Malay. I am unimpressed at his efforts. I am already disillusioned by the M alaysian students in Auckland who seemed unable to handle their own affairs themselves. And Mike Law is willing enough to play with CRACCUM the fire. Fair enough, since he is already desperate for cheap publicity. Of course he should be hopelessly concerned that CO-EDITORS: John S. Laird, Jim Bentley an independent MSA would not be his puppet in Studass. Mokhtar Ahmad Sub-Editor: Brian Harris Reporters: Graham Frank- lin-Browne, Denis Byrne, Craccum and the Malaysians News Editor : Pip Evans Farrell Cleary, Sadha Sir, We would like to express our delight and apprecia­ Politics Editor : Ranasinghe. tion at the efforts of A.U.S.A. and N .Z.U.S.A. for their stand w o r n b k j w Chris Smithyman Photographers : Gary Cos- against intervention of the Malaysian Government in our ton, Tim Haslett, Mur­ students’ affairs. Mike Law and Peter Rossier have placed ray Jones, Alan Kolnik. themselves at the vanguard of such a move and our support Illustrations Editor : Advertising Manager : and good will go to them. m Max Oettli Gregory Waite As Malaysians, we dare not voice too vociferous an objection to the moves of our government however unpalat­ Contributing Editors : Circulation Manager: Charles Battley able they may be. Very often well intended objections are Bill Holt, Richard Rud­ construed as “subversive, communist inspired and disloyal” man, George de Bres Technical Editor: by our home government. These words were recently echoed Secretary : Wendy Lee Richard Harman by one Moktar Ahmad in the August 14th issue of Craccum BUY SOMETH!* which makes us wonder if our friend is not a “government QCidfoerffccf&SMe tflufersrty M M ) a d . CEKXUMOKIO/ CRACCUM — September 2 5 , 1969 Reporting staff are bitter over reactionary Herald policy

Feeling among the New Zealand Herald reporting staff is extremely bitter about the young paper's new law and order editorial line — by George Wallace, out of Enid Blyton. ritically The Herald, a glaring ex­ clippings of a round dozen strengthened crowd control shuttled into and out of the ample of the reactionary items from the paper of Sep­ gates on the Wyndham St en­ building through another en­ establishment press, has tember 15 and the heading: trances dropped and locked trance by a uniformed security School come under some biting “ Nominated for first prize as because of last Sunday’s con­ guard. Only half in jest, it has F mari- criticism around the campus greatest collection of non­ tinuation of the Myers Park been widely suggested inside of late ending in a public stories of the year.” h a p p e n in g . the office that these guards ch pre- burning of one edition last And underneath was the While Gran cringed in fear w ill soon be issued with jack- jpward F r i d a y . comment: “Exciting isn’t it? behind those panic gates (sym ­ boots and rifles; and that the iriented In the paper’s reporters’ Fearless hard-hitting report­ bolically painted gold) because guards are there not to keep room outraged comments have ing on the great gut issues of of the outrage it has inspired the rioters out, but to keep the eip be- been appearing anonymously the day. Twenty-six column in youth by aloofly ignoring s t a ff in . jpward on a notice board. inches of unadulterated pap. their protests, staff were By Staff Reporter But the Editor’s staff and But where was the report of is anti- other party liners — known to the latest confrontation be­ Herald staffers as the Grey tween the police and radical Guard — have been censoring y o u t h ? ” Oettli tops SRC poll t action the board regularly. Now, with their outlet to in the And now this notice board, legitimate criticism closed, re­ WORLD LEADERS which had become the equiva­ porters are searching for a differ- lent of a Prague wall news­ new wall newspaper — outside ARE "ASTOUNDED" nd that paper, bears a petulant official the office on neutral territory. Craccum has not yet re­ notice complaining of the nasty Many of them feel covered from the devastating tone of recent contributions ashamed of working for a flow of favourable and luke­ will be- and giving a thinly veiled paper which pays lip service warm comments which have warning that contributors of to the basic tenets of demo­ been pouring into this news­ >re and critical graffitti are likely to cracy while at the same time paper following the announce­ id from b e s a c k e d . suppressing dissent on the ment of the election to the SRC of English Honours student, One such contribution, le ft . >e with; and sometime Craccum photo­ posted after the M yers Park Final straw for some was graphic editor, M ax Oettli. d main- scene of September 14, which arriving at work on September This sincere, unabashable the Herald ignored bore 21 to find the Herald’s recently uch as country lad from Eureka, six t those miles east of Hamilton, beat his nearest rival by a wide CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN NZ margin in a four-way fight for . Laird. three positions. people under 29. unskilled workers. Scores of Considered by many to be My God ! In New Zealand the laws for young Maori boys are receiv- a rabid centrist, but with cer­ Me on SRC ! Tim Shadbolt speaks the poor and the laws for the unjust sentences simply be­ tain quasi-nihilistic tendencies rich are developing an even cause they cannot afford a Oettli is a man of varied in­ be contacted for comment. He a y s ia n s . wider gap. In 1964, 94% of the lawyer. How many people can terests and pursuits (see Jenni­ has barricaded himself in the io n a n d Stirred up by the sensation-seeking press, try­ professional class were granted afford the right of anneal? fer Dean ad, page four). Craccum darkroom, and ans­ 5.A ., th e ing to divert political election issues from Vietnam, bail compared with 61% of the (Continued on page 7) This sudden leap into the wers all inquiries with certain e n ts re - the public hysteria over violence and crime in New political arena by Oettli has high-pitched snatches from ob­ been interpreted by certain scure Grand Operas known istifiably Zealand has almost reached a point of absurdity. conservative politicians as the only to the members of his 5 s e n s e , Society shrieks for "cures" — "bring back the birch", first step of an insidious infil­ c liq u e . a s k a n c e more cops", "harsher fines' Education slated tration into the higher organs C o m m e n ts fro m w o r ld to o u r of Government by a nefarious leaders:— Richard Nixon: “I e n d s to It won’t work. done any of these things, clique of post-graduate English am prepared to discuss any­ is th e s e Laws need reforming as you’re a crim inal. Medieval Drama Scholars. thing with anyone, no matter rn m e n t. at Dunedin Council much as crim inals. The laws The Law is hypocrisy, it Oblique references to the “do­ what his ideology”. Harold p o k in g in New Zealand are old enforces petty morality. mino theory” have also eman­ Wilson: (no comment; on holi­ i k n o w n (by Bob Dey, Critic) fashioned and obsolete, out of What’s “ pot” compared with a te d . day in Scilly Islands). Lin I o n o u r The Auckland delegation led by Education OflFi- beat w ith th e n e w g e n e ra tio n . Biafra? What’s a swear word Unfortunately Oettli cannot Piao: “What is an ‘Oettli’?” ju t o u r They are the laws of old men compared to the obscenity of cer Peter Stallworthy, opened a new era in NZUSA George Pompidou: “Where is u s a n d and the unfortunate police V ie t n a m ? thinking with the presentation of a model education this University of Auckland?” jm m e n t have to fo r c e th e s e la w s o n Youth will not accept these system to the education commission at Winter Spiro T. Whatsisname: “Where i frie n d a m I ? ” youth. Youth will not accept double standards. And crim e is Council. them. Y o u th w il l s m o k e p o t, a problem of youth. 1964 Jus­ Indecision ia te d i f drink before 21, demonstrate, tice statistics show that 70% The comprehensive plan was tional development for th$ swear, resist, or wear rubber of convictions for petty ittached set out in four phases of educa- individual. shoes a f t e r 11 p .m . I f y o u h a v e offences were committed by All children would pass WRIGHT through the first two phases, on Union SUIT HIRE as they do now: primary school and post-primary Indecision still clouds the s c h o o l. construction of the squash The third phase would be courts and theatre complex SERVICE the terminal point, where tentatively proposed to be • NZ's best selection students branched out into placed behind the student • Lounge and dinner different sections of educa­ union block, and on the suits tional institutes, with the corner of Alfred and • Top quality latest styles community college as the Princes Streets. • Moderate charges starting point. The squash courts were to They could then go to the have been built during university area, which would this year but were put off HUGH WRIGHT’S include teachers’ colleges, or at the last moment. to the technical and tech­ When they are finally Phone 362-180 nological area, at the poly­ built, the squash courts t e c h n ic . could prove quite a worth­ There would be provision while venture from a profit for movement between these making point of view and tw o a r e a s . could go towards the sub­ There would also be pro­ sidisation of the theatre. STATION vision for movement between But it is understood that the research school, at the top of strongest opposition to the HOTEL the fourth phase, and the tech­ squash courts comes from nical institute, also in the the pro-theatre faction. fourth phase. Just what is happening in MONDAY to (Continued on page 7) official and governmental circles no one seems to THURSDAY k n o w . 8 to IS One thing is certain Late Dining and Alfred St. though, there w ill be neither a squash court nor theatre - Dancing next year for students. witb MIKE WALKER’S QUARTET Tenders are about to be Featuring Ray WooU called for construction of a would be a freer degree struc­ Meals from $1.25 min. footbridge across Alfred St, ture, with more interchange joining the Student Union to between departments — a MENU A LA CARTE the Library-Arts block, the trend which is becoming more apparent from discussions be­ PATRONS MUST BE SEATED Vice-Chancellor, Mr Maid­ BY 11 P.M. ment, announced at a meeting tween student representatives of the University Council last a n d s t a ff. week. Construction will start One problem is: at present, FRIDAY and directly after exams. students who fail one paper by a few marks may be pulled through for the year by reason- SATURDAY Composite ables passes in other papers of CABARET NIGHT that unit. In a single paper SPECIAL MENU . units system , they would have to sit with a cheque or savings account that paper again before taking The Arts Faculty has re­ $4 per person their degree. Generally, this is solved to ask the Administra­ seen as a measure to upgrade tion to draft regulations allow­ at the BNZ the degree. ing the combination of two or FEATURING three papers from different Old Student Union Block subjects to be credited as ad­ Sociology THIS WEEK vanced units. Faculty has also asked that these regulations be course Exclusively alongside University Mailroora re-submitted to the Faculty to the Station: Committee for further con­ Sociology will start at MA sideration. level only next year, after M Open 10 am to 3 pm much discussion about estab­ lishing a limited stage one Unit abolition class. Prof. Tim m s was unable Tommy everyday throughout the terra. The Arts Faculty Committee to recruit any staff this year, next year will consider the and will have to teach the Adderley question of issuing passes in whole course himself. There papers rather than unus. This will be a limited number of and the was decided at the last meet­ papers offered, but they will Bank of New Zealand also be available for students ing of the Arts Faculty. K doing MA or Stage 3 in other Some staff members would Vision 9.9 like to see the abolition of the associated departments, with unit system. Implicit in this permission. Where h

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Shorters Parking Station As Auckland University’s new permanent home continues to Designed for eventual complete occupation by the library when take shape around us, an increasing number of students - especially other departments move to their own buildings, the building has “The brief th LIMITED. those with a professional interest in the subject, the architects - are two different storey heights - 7ft 6in in the podium (the wide base contained little m L . M . V . D . - developing serious doubts about that shape and the thinking behind consiting of the first two floors) and 10ft in the tower. The former proposed spaces? it. height is the optimum for library stack use - is the extra 2ft 6in on ‘ ... should be an 55-57 SHORTLAND STREET, AUCKLAND Numbers of faults, some of them glaring, in successive buildings the other floors then so much waste? and some sketchy opened, as well as obvious anomalies in site planning, do nothing The report calls into doubt the whole concept of erecting such “However con Phone 30-145 to allay these fears that future generations of students and staff may traditionally-styled buildings on the campus, and suspects there may way a statement c have to put up with housing that is a source of frustration to all. be a feeling among planners that a university on such a-site has to This failure t Fears that, far from meeting the challenge that the site offers echo the constructions of the city surrounding it. Thus our faculty symptom of the 1 with a unified and boldly-conceived university complex, our planners buildings are in danger of becoming, like the library, glorified touched on in tl are merely providing a collection of monuments to mediocre design office blocks. almost total lack and hazily co-ordinated planning. The sun louvres surrounding the podium are a waste of money campus of isolate WE PASS WITH HONOURS! Craccum tried to discover whether these fears are justified, and according to the report. Those on the south side are totally relation to each c if so, what can be done at this stage to improve things. ineffective - having no work to do - while all the others can be What then is ti How does the building programme stand at present? expected to be just as useless within a few years when their exposed done, and how? I: »"»'"«SPECIAL DISCOUNT Buildings now completed include the A and B stages of the joints deteriorate to the point of seizing up permanently. ly in control of Ai science building on the corner of Wellesley and Symonds Street, the Meanwhile their adjustment - all the louvres on one side have to To all appearai biology department next to Government House grounds in Symonds be adjusted together - is only likely to cause contention between the Obviously all AND STUDENTS Street, the engineering school (corner of Grafton Road and Symonds users of the building. That is if the unknown person possessing the of academic build °* BATTERIES Street) most of the Studass complex and, the latest to be occupied, adjusting handle can be found when a change in lighting is decided university, Count the Library-Arts building. on. happens. Under construction are the C stage of the science building which Apart from this, the students contend, such things are really Likewise it is Phone or Call should be occupied by March 1972, and, away from the central only a gimmick of debatable effectiveness. In the case of the library detailed discussio site, the first stages of the preclinical (nearly completed) and the shade from nearby trees has been disregarded at the expense of Buildings Commit clinical Oust started) buildings of the medical school in Park Road. a large part of one of the buildings best features - its commanding in any of these £ Several more arc in the planning stages. view of the city. business in hand; The human sciences (physiology, psychology, human biology, The podium roof is also intended to provide good natural light­ The committ Auckland Battery Services anthropology and geography) building which will take over Havelock ing for the library, with its giant open-ended corrugations. But the (currently chairm LIMITED Street, has now reached the working drawing stage and could be problems encountered with this form necessitated so much extra Rudman (Studen started by the end of the year; an architect’s brief is in preparation material that the lighting obtained is probably not as good as architecture), cu Planning), Professi for the school of architecture and it is hoped an architect will be artificial sources would provide at considerably less cost. Thus the 49 NAPIER STREET, PONSONBY. Ph. 761-404 engaged soon despite problems justifying space requirements because roof is in the students’ opinion another expensive gimmick. and Hooton (Phys of recent course changes. * Fire escapes in the building are locked. Only a few oi * The stairway at the north end, well away from the bulk of Mr Dart, the lates A construction contract is also soon to be let for the final D user traffic is an expensive piece of construction that is hardly used. All Batteries Fully Guaranteed stage of the science building, consisting largely of parking spaces and virtually the leadt a concourse. * Study facilities leave much to be desired. The ultimate plan laymen, are justil Beyond this the programme is still fluid, but the next building calls for a concentration of study areas in the tower while book if the professiona collections remain in the podium. This is at variance with current under consideration is the final home for the Arts and Commerce they need ask no i concepts of library design in which the aim is to provide a homog­ But, says Mr faculties below Wynyard Street. PAUL'S This is a formidable catalogue of achievement - ot the thirteen enous unit. on the committei projects listed above twelve are under way, yet planning in earnest The authors of the report feel that as the library is organized at taken as tacit agre is barely a decade old - and all should rejoice to witness such present, more study space should have been provided, even at the Or have they prodigious activity on their behalf. But buildings, no matter how expense of other areas. There is a need for a less formal area related reasonable to ex] BOOK ARCADE urgent the need for them, must not just rise in haste; they must to all the books. The open reading deck along the front of the build­ taxing task of v serve their purpose and continue to do so. ing is both too long and narrow and too exposed for congenial use university? How are our new buildings measuring up to this basic require­ and would have been better replaced by a number of small decks. The Buildings and Hie Penguin Bookshop ment? The building on the whole is of simple design and was thus amount of its tim The latest addition to the campus, the library, which should efficiently erected, and it is possible to praise its architects, say the bane of most com surely serve as the focal point of the university as an academic students, for putting up such a structure in a hurry when it was “My impressio institution, would be the ideal example to measure this. needed. But the resulting lack of attention to detail and user-needs example of Parkir negates most of the benefit - a criticism which can be applied to the is going on and university building programme as a whole. Other buildings have not been subjected to such a scrutiny but The library report are known to be far from perfect. The science building, for example, sports large prestressed con­ Mr Bi Craccum was able to view a report on this building, carried out Somme assista this year by senior architectural students, which lists numerous crete slabs in front of its windoes, whose function many must have the m ultitude of faults and annoyances. Some of them follow. wondered at. They were put there with the same intent as the before such a co The main south-eastern entrance is in conflict with the historic library louvres - as sun screening devices. Registrar for Bu When experience demonstrated their inability to perform this barracks wall section which runs through the old university site. responsible to th( job the claim was extended - also very debatably - to screenint the “The wall was a nuisance in terms of the original planning,” say the “When plannir building from the noise of Symonds and Wellesley Streets. But students. “The idea was to knock a large hole in it near the en­ government archi according to the architectural students the things are not only trance.” Through the intercession of architectural students the wall architect for the was retained because of its historic value, but not in time to avoid expensive and useless but dangerous as well. Each heayy slab in only secured by two large stainless steel bolts, and poses a serious only a short time major interference with the critically important criculation pattern Dean of Architec of the library. threat in an earthquake. planners to whor Why, in a university of all places, was no consideration given to detailed evaluatioi Z i U e - - the wall’s place in our grounds? The future of such a historic Mr Bramwell c structure should have been a matter of discussion for the whole Engineering School entities. university before any decision was made. “I think we lu The same entrance is poorly aligned with that of its near neigh­ In the case of the engineering school, origianl plans astoundingly with our consulta bour, the studass building, both laterally and vertically. Though the called for the buildings to be placed directly alongside Symonds is better than givi two concourses are parallel to Symonds Street, conforming to the Street, and only the last-minute intervention of the Dean of to others, and one original concept of relating all varsity buildings to a central axis, Architecture saved the eastern avenue of trees from destruction. *}!m t/olM W An example o they are on different levels and the library entrance is yards further Few of the buildings are designed to have floors added. Surely a the land behind north than the studass entrance steps. certain amount of expansion might be expected even in the event Streets. Earlier pi Yet these two buildings, together the centre of student activity, which most deem unlikely, of the university roll being indefinitelj site for the comm were planned and started construction simultaneously, though by held to its planned level of 10,000? talk of using it for different architects, one in Auckland and the other in Christchurch. The new human sciences building will also include a permanent make a study of t The resulting breakdown in planning co-ordination, plus the face home for the university maintenance staff. Apart from the ferocious the architects of b that the library was designed in the belief that Alfred Street would design problems combining two such unlikely functions poses the sought. soon be closed (now regretfully dispelled by traffic authorities) has architect, there is also the fear that noise problems will be insur­ Others who < caused major problems with the most-used thoroughfare in the mountable without resorting to the expensive solution of aircon­ architect and the university. ditioning, to eliminate non-soundproof windows. depended on the r The positioning of this entrance on the south-east corner of the To return to the case of the library block, the students’ report “Though it is building robs it of nearly all sunlight but ensures it is frequently * attributes most of the blame for the shortcomings to one factor - to a definitive ov swept by prevailing south-westerlies. Consequently performs its poor communication between clinet and architect resulting in an tainly do not lack 49 High St Phone 32203 intended function of providing a central meeting place very poorly. inadequate brief for the design of the building: “Much of the “Since 1960 a Few who use the building are unaware of the inadequate and criticism of the building can have foundation in a poorly developed another is in prep, unsupervised bag storage facilities. These are a source of frustration programme. As the most concise statement on intent before the act to work to. An a to students and custodian, but have proved themselves very satis­ the brief (summary of the programme) is the most easily criticised affinities is consta Auckland factory for the inevitable pilferers. and its inadequacies most easily noted. cept of the site i; time circulation p< CRACCUM — September 25, 1969 5 JONATHON CAPE IS HERE MINERVA BOOKSHOP has all CAPE Publications

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ary when ilding has “The brief that we were able to peruse was indeed brief and Again, Mr Bramwell felt the present system of stating building wide base contained little more than a summary of the square footage of the requirements (writing the brief) was perhaps better than the alterna­ e former proposed spaces? one or two comments (of the public entrance: tive of employing a full-time brief, writer, suggested by architectural 2ft 6in on 4... should be an invitation and inspire at least some confidence ...’); students as one way of overcoming the building shortcomings as in and some sketchy circulation diagrams. the library. :ting such “However concise this document may have been it seemed in no “Not every head of a department is able to sit dow n and state there may way a statem ent of the building task.” his requirements clearly - and 1 think the person to help him should ite has to This failure to communicate building requirements is but a be the architect. For this reason we try to appoint the architect ur faculty symptom of the basic trouble with our building programme, hardly for each building as early as possible so that plenty of discussion can follow”. , glorified touched on in the above list of particular grievances: there is an almost total lack of co-ordination in planning. We are building up a “If the architect later blames the brief for faults in the building of money campus of isolated and ill-conceived buildings bearing little or no I think he is dodging his responsibility - he should be trained to get re totally relation to each other. the information.” :rs can be What then is the current system: just who is getting all that work “The basic trouble is of course that you can’t design the perfect ir exposed done, and how? Is there any person or group clearly and competent­ university - even if we did someone w ould come along in five years ly in control of Auckland University’s development? and say ’’Whoever designed this?” de have to To all appearances there is not. Mr Bramwell, though all agree he is a very able administrator, :tween the Obviously all matters relating to the erection and maintenance does not pretend to be an architect. Yet he is the only person sessing the of academic buildings must come before the governing bodies of the permanently employed by this university to oversee our building is decided university, Council and Senate for a decision, and this certainly programme. happens. How do his views.compare w ith those of others perhaps more : really Likewise it is reasonable to expect these people to delegate the qualified to generalise about such things? Prof. Toy, until recently the library detailed discussion of such matters to a smaller group - in fact, the dean of Architecture, and thus our co-ordinating architect over the DON'T PLAY expense of Buildings Committee of Council. But very few of the people involved last few years, is far less happy with the situation. mmanding in any of these groups has any professional involvement with the “The present setup is not a satisfactory solution at all, ” he told business in hand; architecturally, the majority are purely laymen. Craccum. “The head of a department obviously hasn’t got time to THE WAR GAME tural light- The committee at present donsists of the Vice-Chancellor perform the task - a full professional job. “When planning first is. But the (currently chairman), the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor, Mr W.B. started 1 and others pleaded that there should be a full time Register as a Conscientious Objector! iueh extra Rudman (Students Rep.), Professors Toy, Woolard and Wild (all university architect appointed as is done overseas. Such a man would is good as architecture), Cumberland (geography), Mr J.R. Dart (Town be responsible both for the overall layout and the co-ordination of t. Thus the Planning), Professors Lewis (Medical School), Sampson (Psychology) buildings.” gimmick. and Hooton (Physics). “Surely that w'as the time, rather than now or not at all, to Only a few on this list are professional planners. According to make such an appointment. But we were told it was not.” Prof. For information write or phone; he bulk of Mr Dart, the latest member to join the committee, this makes them Toy did not feel he could discuss how he felt about his own ex­ ardly used. virtually the leaders in any discussion since the other members, the periences as co-ordinating architect: however, he emphasised that CHRISTIAN PACIFIST SOCIETY OR SOCIETY OF FRIENDS :imate plan laymen, are justifiably willing to bow to their greater experience - any criticisms or suggestions he had made in the past or made now while book if the professionals are satisfied with a plan then the laymen feel were no reflection on the university’s development officers. 695-541 606-834 ith current they need ask no questions. “It is simply too big a task not to employ a full time profession­ 12 Frost Road, 115 Mt* Eden Road> e a homog- But, says Mr Dart, there is seldom in fact any discussion at all al,” he said. “It’s just commonsense.” The committee, he felt, was Auckland 4. Auckland 3. on the committee - silence on the part of the professionals being ineffective for the same reason: it had no professional architect rganized at taken as tacit agreement. sitting in, solely concerned with the university’s problems and able ;vcn at the Or have they learnt the futility of much dissent? Further, is it to advise them. urea related reasonable to expect full-time professors to perform the equally Prof. Toy’s feelings are echoed by many of the department’s f the build- taxing task of vetting all building proposals for a fast-growing students and staff, all of whom agree o r the one basic lack - that of ngenial use university? a full-time university architect. Dart noted some other inadequacies mall decks, The Buildings Committee is inevitably forced to spend a large in the present systenu d was thus amount of its time discussing details of maintenance and so on - the “For instance landscaping: I was concerned about the develop­ cts, say the bane of most committees. ment of the grounds and wrote asking that a landscape architect be hen it was “My impression of the committee so far is that it is a perfect employed. This was rejected and Professor Millener (Botany) was l user-needs example of Parkinson”, says Mr Dar: “Only one or two know what put in charge. Surely this is both unfair on him and a poor way to plied to the is going on and the others are a little out of their depth”. ensure good landscaping. “Planting at present is just ridiculous. Nowhere is any thought crutiny but given to congregating areas - for people to eat lunch, for instance. But 1 understand eating lunch outside isn’t like officially.” tressed con- Mr Bramwell “Again, there is a possibility of a promenade area being devel­ m ust have Somme assistance is obviously needed to evaluate and coordinate the multitude of proposals and plans that must eventually come oped, with MOW help, all the way from Grafton cemetery to the tent as the before such a committee. We asked Mr N.F. Bramwell, Deputy - near end of Elam grounds. It seems to me such an area would be far more appropriate to build the squash courts and recreation areas erform this Registrar for Buildings, (and thus the executive most directly responsible to the committee) what arrangements existed for this. then the prime Symonds St site now being considered. That kind of creenint the policy decision isn’t being made, and it just can’t be by a commit- “When planning in earnest first started,” said Mr Bramw ill, “ the streets. But e e .” e not only government architect accepted the responsibility of co-ordinating The situation becomes clearer as more people voice their mis­ eavy slab in architect for the whole scheme. However, this arrangement lasted givings - there are simply too many people trying to build Auckland ;es a serious only a short time and since then the position has been held by the University. Dean of Architecture. In addition we have a firm of consultant Why is this so? Though that is a difficult question to answer planners to w'hom we can and do turn if any problems needing (and nobody seems to want to, the inevitable suggestion is that detailed evaluation arise.” politics is behind it all. Mr Bramwell did not think we are building a campus of isolated All plans have to be approved by the government architect; this DOl entities. almost invariably leads to order for drastic Financial cuts w'hich in “I think we have sufficient co-ordination in the present system, stoundingly turn mean long delays while buildings arc redesigned, or given with our consultants able to co-opt any person or firm. Surely this equally drastic-modifications (the usual course taken). A suggested le Symonds is better than giving all the work to one firm - this would be unfair ie Dean of way to overcome this is to design more frequently to a definite to others, and one firm might well be unable to handle all the work”. financial ceiling as was done with the urgently-needed first stage of destruction, An example of this system at work was the question of use of led. Surely a the medical school. the land behind studass on the corner of Alfred and Symonds There is certainly an unwillingness on the part of developers to n the event Streets. Earlier plans suggested there would be a tall block on this indefinitely keep informed those who perhaps ought to bc-for instance, site for the commerce department, but there had been more recent architectural school staff would like to be more closely involved in talk of using it for studass extensions. The consultants were asked to The only regret a man ever has about saving is that he i permanent planning, but seldom receive any information on current projects. make a study of the relative merits and in the process the advice of Like their Dean, they simply have no time to unearth it for them­ didn't start sooner! he ferocious the architects of both adjoining buildings - Studass and science - was ns poses the selves. Don't delay another pay day. Drop into that handy Wales sought. But however the blame may be apportioned the basic trouble branch you pass so often ana start making your earnings /ill be insur- Others who could be called in include the MOW district n of aircon- emerges all too clearly: Auckland University is so like the proverbial work for your future. architect and the School of Engineering, said Mr Bramwell. It all horse-designed-by-a-committee it just isn’t funny. In spite of a Ask us about the top interest rates and all the other depended on the nature of the problem. difficult site which should challenge us to produce a showplace lents’ report “Though it is impossible to design a complex place such as this benefits to which a Wales Savings Account entitles you. one factor - among universities we are being put to shame not only by overseas to a definitive overall plan from start to finish,” he said, ”we cer­ universities but by others in this country: Otago, for example, suiting in an tainly do not lack an overall concept.” fuch of the employs both a university architect and a development engineer. “Since 1960 a series of development plans have been produced - The creation of such a position at Auckland would go a long way ly developed another is in preparation even now’ - which can be described as plans t h e efore the act towards solving our problems-brief-writing, co-ordination of sites to work to. An attempt to group departments according to their and so on. The suggestion has been amde and disregarded too often. ily criticised affinities is constantly made, while conforming to the original con­ where people on the way upWALES The results so far speak for themselves. But sixteen departments get their start cept of the site including Symonds Street as an axis. At the same have yet to be housed; perhaps it is not yet too late to start putting time circulation patterns and so on are fully studied.” things right. BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES SAVINGS BANK (N.Z.) LTD. g s s l IA D E M E H T 6 IS R O A M E H T the polit-bureau. The budget, which almost by definition should have should definition by almost which budget, The polit-bureau. the Islands disasters, have each provoked editorial murmerings against against murmerings editorial provoked each have disasters, Islands request for more troops, the Publicity Division scandal, the Chatham Chatham the scandal, Division Publicity the troops, more for request by ex-U.S. Defence Secretary Clifford’s belated revelations on his his on revelations belated Clifford’s revealed gap Secretary credibility The Defence some. then ex-U.S. and by digits, twenty all require counted on the fingers^of one hand; those of the opposition would would opposition the of those hand; one fingers^of the on counted perpetual one-downmanship. perpetual as a gross, slightly dissipated dissipated slightly as a gross, cow cocky from next door. ‘Norman the Fat’ is inevitably pictured pictured inevitably is Fat’ the ‘Norman door. next from cocky cow favourable outrageously or slightly is 11), (Sept. year this exception aiu ise; scn i te om f n cngahc proto­ iconographic, an of form the in second a issues; various the extent of Minhinnick’s limited artistic ability) as a jolly good good jolly a as ability) artistic (to limited portrayed Minhinnick’s invariably is of Keith’ ‘Kiwi extent government. the National the to by so many people, is much more important than the print-editorial print-editorial the than read. seen is it as voters important and, marginal more no editorial; much isalmost man’s which people, poor the is many so by cartoon The people. the two kinds of eduo>lals: one in the form of classic print commonly commonly print classic of form the in one called eduo>lals: of kinds two is to be expected. Every Minhinnick cartoon published is subject to to subject is published cartoon Minhinnick Every expected. be to is television image - the cartoon - serving the undifferentiated mass of of mass undifferentiated the serving - cartoon the - image television ing of the Parliamentary debates has, I am sure, been reasonably again reasonably think been to have sure, will am bias I news-coverage has, about debates grizzlers and Parliamentary fair the of ing in later pages. However, I did notice that neither the opposition appeared. nor opposition Skinner) Freer) the (Tom (Warren F.O.L. trade neither on the Philpott or that of B.P. Tizard) notice president (Bob Professor did the I linance and on However, spokesman statistician, pages. in later government ministers in various chief and editor former the by purveyed news good expected in the is Certainly, this. while affairs for calibre, commended parliamentary highest be of must Coverage metros the events. and copious political of coverage second. Unfortunately, the Herald’s Saturday backgrounder by by backgrounder Saturday Herald’s the Unfortunately, second. the early pages undercut by the bad news brought by J.V.T. Baker, Baker, J.V.T. by brought news bad the by undercut pages early the picture a show to as far so picture to went even tendency This prominently) (Nelson). (more Whitehead ministers S.A. when by led where (headlined) p.3) members 20, recent Taxpayers’ Help (Aug. Tq worst Herald Action The the Urgent for in a call made pictures. was the tendency with this of juxtaposed example when especially Scherer, Peter xesv oeaet ntigciia fteeuain system. education the of critical anything to coverage extensive after the extensive coverage given to Labour Party policy and and July policy Star Party and Herald Labour the especially to (see given pages these coverage in extensive statements the after Report­ bland. unnecessarily kept been has Politics’ ‘Watching Scherer of Piggy Muldoon in a story with which, rather a typically, he was was he typically, a rather which, connected. with remotely story even a not in Muldoon Piggy opposition of logically, more was, it that reveals has report (pictured) the of Affairs, body the Internal of Minister Seath, Mr if as appears it urban centres. Here the Maori faces a considerable challenge to his his to challenge considerable a faces Maori the Here centres. urban fisherman keen well a is fairly is paper it the of policy; Islands editor government Chatham Hintz, of the O.S. Mr lack to that the Herald example the and known recent A by boom given content. coverage crayfish news the influencing been has directly is policy board politics among Maori electors, has been a feature of the post-war post-war the of feature a stimu­ been been has electors, comment Maori has among sharply, politics declined have rolls when now, the see to surprised pleasantly was writer this 13), (Aug. Review and conservationist. Board policy may also be influencing what what influencing be also may policy Board conservationist. and lated in the news media. Yet the decline of interest in national national in interest of decline the Yet media. period. news the in lated Maori ways and company because of the overbearing pressures of of to pressures attracted overbearing more the even of is because and to seek life. will patterns company He urban and practices. behaviour and ways values Maori Maori to traditional this relate to cost minimum 11 “Maoritanoa” (Maori-ness). Invariably, he will adapt to a city life at a at life city a to adapt will he Invariably, (Maori-ness). “Maoritanoa” processes, although in slight decline, is still relatively healthy by by healthy relatively political still the is in decline, Maoris by slight in - participation although Rural communities processes, into government. families rural central binds that institution one the of urban Maoris registered, and while 40% of rural Maoris abstained abstained Maoris rural of 40% while and registered, Maoris urban fellow, a combination of clean-shaven Santa Claus and urbanised ex­ urbanised and Claus Santa clean-shaven of combination a fellow, been and still is the link between the rural Maori and the organs of of organs the and standards. Maori urban rural the between link the is still and been from voting, about 70% of urban Maoris abstained. Maoris urban of 70% about voting, from appears to be The Auckland Star’s willingness to give prom inent and and inent prom give to willingness Star’s Auckland The be to appears by anthropologists that the Maori in the city relates even more more even relates city the in Maori the the to that regard with However, anthropologists regard­ voters, by ancestry. Maori European as of registering degree be their of therefore less must rolls Maori average urban Maori, this assumption flies in the face of findings findings of face the in flies assumption this Maori, urban average has a peculiarly Maori flavour, especially during election campaigns. campaigns. election during especially flavour, Maori peculiarly a has the authority structure headed by the elders. This institution has has institution This elders. the by headed structure authority the osiul t Moi om o bhvor ie sca behaviour, social i.e. - behaviour of norms Maori to consciously culture, being adapted toward essentially Maori ends - viz: the elec­ the -viz: ends Maori essentially toward adapted being culture, Although European in origin, voting itself became a facet of Maori Maori of facet a became itself voting origin, in European Although in f ar mmes h esr ta te ar vie s heard. is voice Maori the that ensure who members Maori of tion aoiy f ra Moi hv ol mnml dctoa qualifica­ educational minimal only have Maoris which urban of structure majority - city authority the in rural him for exists the with authority such No touch goals. Maori of articulates out is Maori, the approval of the board; every Minhinnick cartoon, with only one one only with cartoon, Minhinnick every board; the of approval the ication. This problem is aggravated by the fact that a large large a that fact the by aggravated problem commun­ big of is a So channels and relate. problem readily articulation can of This one he is Maori which ication. to urban the for authority no i.e. inspection. The Maori rolls indicate that a gradual post-war trend has has trend post-war gradual a that indicate rolls Maori The inspection. tions and are confined to semi- and unskilled occupations. unskilled and semi- to confined are and tions for this year, with 1966 figures in brackets, are: brackets, in figures 1966 with year, this for suddenly become accelerated - viz: declining registration. The figures figures The registration. declining -viz: accelerated become suddenly n 12). and • In the rural environment, participation in the political processes processes political the in participation environment, rural the In • The number of print-editorials critical of the government can be be can government the of critical print-editorials of number The In the editorials the influence of board policy is obvious and this this and obvious is policy board of influence the editorials the In balanced more a given have Auckland of dailies metropolitan The In this editorial a different pattern can be observed. There are are There observed. be can pattern different a editorial this In misleading often is headlining shortcoming: major one is There Only in a few obvious cases is it possible to determine whether whether determine to possible it is cases obvious few a in Only Even in the economic supplements such as the Herald’s Financial Financial Herald’s the as such supplements economic the in Even This decline has corresponded with the Maori migration to to migration Maori the with corresponded has decline This Only totals. roll supplementary the include not do figutes These However, having left the rural environment, he finds himself rid rid himself finds he environment, rural the left having However, Official opinion has it that Maori electors not accounted for on on for accounted not electors Maori that it has of 53% opinion only Official while registered Maoris adult rural of 76% 1966, In On the other hand, the urban Maori, especially the city-reared city-reared the especially Maori, urban the hand, other the On Western Maori Western for available now are and recently closed rolls electoral main The Eastern Maori Eastern Maori Northern Southern Maori Southern CRACCUM — September September — CRACCUM h Edi n\ l, \a n it d E The h Zeln erald H ealand Z w e N The serving predominantly opinion leaders on on leaders opinion predominantly serving 8139 - 10597 - 9541 - em in en ce grise, ce en in em ar’s r ta S 7654 Ian Templeton runs him a close close a him runs Templeton Ian , S 2 (13009) (11289) (10338) (13132) the of reporter political a has 1969 scowling at his purported purported his at scowling Ownership Act. Political actors, especially the Labour Party, Party, of critical Labour intelligently more the become should especially voters the actors, and medium; Political Act. Ownership Martin, about the government’s lack of realistic policies for for policies realistic of lack R. W. President government’s farming Farmers the the in Herald Federated agriculture. The about dissatisfaction Auckland infallible)? by substantial is Martin, led the Finance echo of community, to Minister failed no even (Surely, budget. political communications roles which they can fulfill better than the the than better fulfill can they which those communi­ roles in mass other themselves the develop communications the must Finally, political Radio and as channel. TV through such this media messages in cations their appear does getting what in Muldoon Mr emulate should of criticisms given by the Australian papers to the MacMahon MacMahon the to papers Australian the by given criticisms of rs, n tu poie oe xr siuu ad competition. and stimulus extra some provide thus and press, (other coverage news fair pretty point its our for support press our editorially to to them credit give expect not should we but, Stimulate Development’ (Star June 27). Compare this to the variety variety to the to ‘Budget this a as Compare 27). unanimously June seen (Star was criticize, Development’ to Stimulate it in something our press from reasonable competition under the present News Media Media News present protect to the under continue not competition should we reasonable but, from press our considered); factors technical of view because this role must remain their perogative. We should should We perogative. their remain must role this because view of payments, (mental) hospitals, and doctor shortages; legal, including including legal, shortages; doctor and hospitals, (mental) payments, election year: economic, including cost of living, exports, agriculture, agriculture, this in exports, Zealand living, of New cost including concerning issues economic, the year: are election these given, coverage staff/student ratios, teacher shortages; medical, including benefits benefits including medical, philosophy shortages; including teacher education, ratios, planning; and of staff/student amount relations, the from industrial judge to are we If functions? communications foreign policy, including the All Black Tour, developmental aids aids developmental Tour, Black marginally All only and the lastly and including options; policy, ent foreign punishm and rates crime people accept this even if sometimes against their better judgement. better their against sometimes if even this accept people a is This realistic. fact, in been, has news is what regarding papers eec policy. defence about it. Therefore, if it appears in the papers it is an issue. Most Most issue. an is it papers the communication is in there appears if is it issue if abstract knowing Therefore, of or communi­ has it. that broad, about community point the remote, William’s way a only of The Raymond reality. is itself prove cations to example classic polich. To what extent does the enormous amount of coverage coverage of editorials and amount incidents bashing enormous about the news Bashers’ to does The given ‘Birch has extent Truth’s Truth is issue what that an To create can polich. something, about purports to be substantial public opinion? The National government, government, National The opinion? public substantial be to purports community concern about rising violent-crime rates and penal penal Party and Labour other rates and Kirk genuine violent-crime Norman reflect are rising extent response social about what To appropriate concern policies? an be community should what on pksa aotn a oge ln toa line tougher a adopting spokesman Gault, told this writer in June; “We’ve decided to have more more have to decided “We’ve June; in writer this com- told political a useful Gault, performing incidentally, and, establishment the for the bureaucracy by defending the progressive policy package of of package policy progressive organisation the relations defending by public a as function bureaucracy to the for having is issue, this on munication/education function. Truth’s 27-year old editor, Russell Russell editor, old 27-year Truth’s against function. agitating it of role Voters’, old the its munication/education Con fulfilling was to Bid Truth Living Gov‘t our - though Cut ‘N.D.C. as to 13) ‘Plot looked (May Hoax’; and Target reat Standards’ ‘TheG 6) (May mendations h xsceay fJsie D .L Robson. L. J. Dr Justice, of ex-secretary the of the National Development Conference TargetsCommittee recom­ TargetsCommittee Conference Development National the of city traffic department and the Ministry of Works, this newspaper has has dailies newspaper this Wellington the promise. Works, the its of for fulfill Ministry something the to and except failed far, doing So “ We’re department attack. traffic year. city to here this We’re doing. aren’t material contentious the economic recession of 1967-1968. By March 1968, well over over well Gisborne 1968, and March By Rotorua, Hamilton, 1967-1968. Whangarei, in of unemployed recession the half economic the population of these centres. (This information is not officially officially not is total the information of (This fifth a than centres. less up these made of Maoris yet population and Maori were m ent has been’ penetrated to reveal that unemploym ent and the the and ent unemploym employ­ that full of then reveal covering to 40), the registration page time, in first penetrated drop been’ the 9/9/69 marked has the For Star, for rolls. ent m Maori the (Auckland explanation an on 1930’s have we the perhaps since reverse article in the N.Z. Listener 15/8/69 page 10 by Barry Mitcalfe, Mitcalfe, Barry by 10 page 15/8/69 Listener N.Z. the in article etrr n oyein tde a Wligo Tahr College). Teachers Wellington at Studies recent Polynesian the is in source My doubt. Lecturer no reasons good for and documented, in common in the event of economic recessions staged for the the for staged recessions economic lot a of have will event the qualifications in educational common limited in with Maori urban stands in the Pakeha’s system - he is dispensable. It is plain that that non­ plain their - is system It that from dispensable. is withdrawing he - by system responded Pakeha’s have the many in stands eei o Nw eln business. Zealand New of benefit enrolment for the coming election is symbolic. Perhaps they now now they Perhaps symbolic. is election coming the for enrolment think that Maori ends can never be achieved - so why be a party to to party a be why so - achieved be never can ends Maori that think probably be the articulate opinion-holding and opinion-leading opinion-leading and opinion-holding would articulate people these the However, safe. be are seats Maori probably own Their ment. h lcin farce? election the ars n wud hrfr b cmaaiey e i number. in few comparatively be therefore would and names Maoris their switching by achieved swiftly more be can ends Maori to European rolls where the seats are marginally held by the Govern­ the by held marginally are seats the where rolls European to seats can only be gauged by observing, on electiori day, the the day, electiori on observing, by gauged populations. be Maori only can seats a ol b coe b euain euain f h Moi n a in Maori the education and of problems, education peculiar - his of education account by takes that closed be manner only political can the to relating not are They away. far gone have Maoris personnel using European poll-booths in areas with relatively large large relatively with areas in poll-booths European using personnel f h Pkh ta icue a od esr o el ar Studies. Maori real of measure good a includes gap that the the Pakeha However, While meantime, the . the of them In manner. of sufferer. Maori heard major a as be will traditional conspicuous be little the again stable, in remains even economy not system, Maoris of future years are going to identify themselves as an under­ an as themselves identify to going are years future of Maoris should another recession set in, the semi- and unskilled Maori,will Maori,will unskilled and semi- the in, set recession another should later react to their situation. Whichever way they react, they will will they react, they way Whichever situation. their to react later unemployable and unemployed the then Pakeha, and Maori between prey to the latent prejudices of Pakeha society. Pakeha of prejudices latent the to upward prey and/or work denied If common. in colour skin a with class social mobility within the Pakeha context, they m ust sooner or or easy sooner be ust m therefore will and they group brown-skilled context, a as Pakeha conspicuous the be within mobility social We should expect more from our press because it is not perfect; perfect; not is it because press our from more expect should We hr i ams n wy fkoig fte hie o te news­ the of choices the if knowing of way no almost is There How successfully has the press been in. performing its political political its in. performing been press the has successfully How A good example of how a newspaper, through communicating communicating through newspaper, a how of example good A At one point this year, with Graham Billing’s slamming indictment indictment slamming Billing’s Graham with year, this point one At The full implications of this situation were clearly highlighted by by highlighted clearly were situation this of implications full The If as Mr Muldoon says, the recession recession the says, Muldoon Mr as If There is also the possibility that a number of Maoris are realising realising are Maoris of number a that possibility the also is There For the first time, the average urban Maori has seen where he he where seen has Maori urban average the time, first the For The degree to which Maori electors are ‘infiltrating’ European European ‘infiltrating’ are electors Maori which to degree The Where have all the Maoris gone? In political terms, most urban urban most terms, political In gone? Maoris the all have Where f dcto fis o et hs hleg ad o ls te gap the close to and challenge this meet to fails education If was the m ost serious serious ost m the A. J. McCracken McCracken J. A. oiia Studies Political backwoodsmen who have yet to be convinced, that among all among th ihunggovernm that convinced, be to yet have who backwoodsmen tef s unn ot f otoi mnes Rlh aa is deas , theyshould Hanan Ralph minders. portfolio of out running is itself osdrn ta euain s h peir rwhidcn nud nj Qj- an(jindusd growth-inducing premier the is education that Considering oiy triigohrcutystahr sbtaso-a. ina LaC)OUr- L sxop-gap. a but is teachers country’s other raiding ot policy oenetidcd eeso o 16 ad oe gis this pat cause against ne' the of vote and 1967 of recession government-induced wd/or policies. *be govern; effective of bankrupt almost be to seem they and left; ae atal svd h cuty rm h afcs f i sava| his of 0fcommu the affects the from country the saved partially have etr Hut ad irm apa t b sldy rw S. Alt* St. iiy. drawn solidly be to appear - Wigram and utt, H Western r-lcinnnsaeet y h iitr SQ ^ wj Minister. the by non-statements pre-election he eetos 16: 82; 93 1.5; 96 14.01%) 1966: 17.95%; the 1963: for high 18.2%; been have (1960: abstentions elections standards, three Zealand New By agrrsre rceisadln-emroinain fteeoo . • econom the of ./ reorientation long-term and credits or reserves larger priorities. With Ministers flying to the four quarters of the gloi of quarters four the to flying Ministers With priorities. and the government has done virtually nothing despite somerece jonai despite not wjp nothing overcrowdiiSieilplumb with ] virtually gross redibility a as league done the has st in undersaffing, the us for government chronic some4.Jicting puts is the spends which There and elections now Mali. and education on Government Leone The G.N.P. the of education, is management, by the archaic economic policies of this minister. Things are getti 0 Things minister. this of policies economic archaic the by governmi,rc emotional the none), had cabinet Labour first (the experience nNvme. balanceur ana gn the 5n’ Individual remember will people many that think November. in I but better, minisl Labour party competent seasoned any hardly are there accord: own its suuldet h oeigo h oigae .ectors; re-ordt Whe nd on. sot proportion greater a in memo be age. Kport-oriented voting will the into of enroll) recedes lowering pi 5Votec* the 1958 the to they edu of following due to (if Budget’ usual politis allmanufactur the as ‘Black supporters voters the Labour New turnout by against increased felt oganda toward back dissonance be to cognitive seems trend the ees To iitr; ig Mlon ascaeMnse of associate-Minister parliament! even! a as theP. e pretty long Muldoon, as while Piggy portfolios that of ministers; list a Two precarious with so recess. now is Ombudsminister situation The retiring. s Ntoa 2 aor3;Sce 1. Socred 37; Labour 42; National is: n saue oavs i. rbby late probably avc , , one no having of heartbeat a him. within advise is to stature any Governor-General the serious, could have been anticipated by the government (wi r, 0f the poi poi the 0f (wi r, government the 1966-7 jow w ,j by tjje ancj of crisis anticipated receipts been have exports 19j of most mment, The could wage-order 5% policies. serious, the and deflationary devaluation British-induced with Labour), are carefully avoiding an open clash over various poll various & new voters; over clash open an avoiding carefully are Labour), in such a way as to favour National. On crude calculation it appe it politics watcl. calculation crude On Manuki National. sit othing, favour the Waitemata, to - as way seats a nex such te the new Miram area in for 1966, Eden, four in as such The National safe Seats were marginal. which Labour. Tauranga definitely and favoured Rotorua, balance on have away from the vulnerable sectors of agriculture), and was made ’e wot was ^vVV1and mg agriculture), of sectors vulnerable the from away ministe;lc had 1SSUCS> have cabinet Labour especi putative a of two or one only a aa Jc Mrhl ws iitr f lot vrtig 11 La Everything, swing to Almost men is of econo nd past Minister Scott W.J. was illness, Marshall Jack through away retiring was is Kinsella Arthur for the Socreds or be lost back to National. The present stan® political brit brit stan® political present The i National. the Hobs rid to over National. back lost to Cracki go be ’artyby electoral or held could be seats Socreds could believe, the you Labour for rumours four which on of depending maximum a hsde o perlkl n 99 oe ad inc and oney trei cost inevitable tl - this money reverse can 1969. in opposition likely appear the not of does this that against or As the government get u ih iy ( ( lity k a e o r t ith st u g n a o t ai m out to a re the o m n e r io s t o e a m m n o c lie e d a b n a g t i in p s e e a e r r o c d m a n a lly ) ts t e a c g u a s r u e t t n is n e u e m r o n e c r h e t v n , o a s g c ie it n r e io h io it t r s p o p p s o A in . e c i f f o the Finance portfolio. The basic strength of the economy combini economy writer believes the cany» of disastrous fence- strength f Socred basic absolutely The been has in’, portfolio. it put Finance to the slot a even and cation’; and Tom Shand, National’s most proficient minister) ^ng allegianci allegianci minister) ^ng proficient most National’s Shand, Tom and cation’; seat. On the other hand, Taupo and Fendalton have been redrj -party policie seats policie redrj -party been National have fourteen of Fendalton and maximum a Taupo if as hand, other the On seat. crying out for realistic policies. The most im portant after econoiafter te to selections portant im most The policies. realistic for out crying in advanced societies, the situation is bad, getting worse, and R ,a? ,^ ° lc^ lc^ ° and ,^ worse, ,a? R getting bad, is situation the societies, advanced in h gvrmn de hv al h apaac o collapsing has sai of bravely appearance the all have does government The favi Labour’s in results electoral the affect should Turnout Several other issues of importance to the ordinary voter a ® ^ end be ir ir be end voter a ® ^ ordinary the to importance of issues other Several Ze; money for cw ^ 1 in head a ‘with man the minister, particular One agr rich parties Geiringer, both 1967, of changes electoral-boundary The Only important issues reflecting to the government’s era jvices, studie: era studie: jvices, government’s the to reflecting issues important Only ace, s al tendency tuin vot te o v t o tousion y c n e d n e t a s y a lw a is e r e m , e c la p t s r i f e m n i I f e v e r a g o v e r n m e n t lo o k e d r ip e t o f a ll - i t s h o u ld be ld u o h s t i - ll a f o t e ip r d e k o lo t n e m n r e v o g a r e v e f I ila Winchir Ra William P0LH t ih b wrh onig u t hhuh oe j toth more hough out pointing worth be might It grad polilsfudi A l la r t i c l e l b y p i ld u o c g oLbui o e S n So be. to Labouri to go Edt tin isperiod ele the mnent litutional role < litutional role ien the situal situal the ien lea; at nabut t including: nt .. revealed som som revealed j ■ .

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NON IS S U E S

In the current spate of attacks on the University from without, and on various departments from within, it hardly seems fair that the venerable Law School should be left out. Before the last general election a low key campaign was fought So, like Truth—or a Penguin paperback, depending on your around two issues - Vietnam and the economy. The economic state taste—we shall ask: What's wrong with the School of Law? of the nation was a traditional centre of electoral controversy, Is it because the place is busy less than $40 a week for their foreign affairs was not. For the first time since World War Two an turning out short-haired, Rugby­ trouble. issue of foreign policy played a prominent part in the statements of playing National voters that it Students not told press and politicians. doesn’t attract the more extreme critical comments of Mr Muldoon This should make first and Labour was clearly unhappy with the attention paid to Vietnam. second year students tremble in The campaign waged by the Labour party emphasized bread-and- the way Political Studies manages to? This question leads rapidly their undergraduate shoes. But butter issues and the “bank iptcy” of Steady-Does-It. But the towards a few problems of defini­ most of them don’t because they National party lauded the virtue of “fulfilling commitments”, and tion. One of these is whether the just haven’t been told precisely was dutifully reported and supported in the columns of the news­ School is in fact turning out nice, what their career prospects are. papers. safe, stable pillars of society. The In the good old days it was The diffuse Vietnam protest movement shared with Mr Holyoake answer is probably No; any left­ necessary to work for years on winger who has been through a £5 a week, but at least there the conviction that Vietnam was th e major issue. A series of teach- was the strong possibility of a ins, demonstrations, marches and petitions had preceded the decision Law degree tends to find his out­ look unchanged but his optimism partnership in the not too distant to send an artillery battery to the war zone. The reluctant move by blunted by a few nasty truths future. Labour away from bipartisan foreign policy invigorated their ranks. about how difficult society really But ask a downtowm lawyer The mobilization of critical opinion probably helped Mr Holy­ is to change. today about a partnership and the oake to resist the demands of certain rightist groups for further response is either a good belly- World Surplus laugh or slightly sick look. escalation. The critics were disappointed and enraged by New Zea­ But the most pressing problem Obviously there is something land policy. Yet they may have achieved far more breaking control seems to be what the hell to do wrong with the system when one over policy than they suspected. with people who do emerge. With of the most difficult degrees in National did not attempt to match the scenophobic frenzy the annual output of solicitors the University is worth this little. achieved by its counterpart in the Australian elections. It Was not moving up to around the hundred What is the LLB really supposed really necessary. Control of media content is more informal and less mark, jobs downtown are getting to teach? uniform than in many countries, but the extent of that control has fairly difficult to come by. There If the purpose is merely to been sufficient to create considerable uniformity concerning the seems to be a world surplus of inculcate the rules of the legal lawyers, and pumping more and mass image of China and Communism. system, the whole exercise has more students through than ever - become pointless. One of the ef­ Mr Holyoake felt confident of the existence of predominantly longer course with no guarantee of fects of the recent total concen­ hard-line foreign policy attitudes. Mr Kirk reads editorials and employment at the end of the tration on full time study was to Letters-to-the-Editor, and was equally convinced, and strove to tunnel looks ridiculous. A logical create a very short-lived shortage downgrade the Vietnam issue. and perhaps legitimate target for of law clerks. The combined efforts of Mr Holyoake and Vietnam critics the Minister of Finance. It was short-lived because law­ appeared to bear fruit. Vietnam was one of two highly complex The sad truth is that there is a yers found they could easily train issues in the 1966 election. Many voters drifted towards abstention vast surplus of lawyers. Not a sur­ unqualified people to do the con­ plus of good lawyers, admittedly. and Social Credit when faced with the cross-pressures. Though veyancing that was traditionally But there are definitely too many the work of the part-timers. Con­ detailed analysis is lacking, National voters may have felt more people wandering around with sequently we now see vast num­ confidence in Mr Holyoake’s statements on foreign affairs than on LLBs and nothing much to do bers of ex public servants and the economy. Labour supporters probably placed more confidence with them. The position is bound assorted smooth types glorying in in Mr Kirk’s statements on the economy. to get worse, a fact which should the title “legal executives” ! In the aftermath of election-time, the National party pointed in fairness be pointed out to those Where now for the newly- to the results as a vindication of its Vietnam position. Labour starting the degree. qualified solicitor? Pecuniary matters may be dis­ claimed that nq such interpretation could be made. The Vietnam tasteful in our academic world, Another role critics were disappointed but not discouraged. The protest move­ but they tend to get less so as There is, fortunately, another ment continued and found fresh outrage in the buildup of New you near the end of a five year potential role for the Law School. Zealand troops in Vietnam. full time slog. That is as a school of public The Peace Power and Politics Conference in early 1968 marked Although teaching has the rep­ administration and business ad­ utation of being just about the ministration. There is definitely the beginning of the end for Vietnam protest. The decision of a real need for far more formally L.B.J. not to run for President again, followed by steps toward dis­ most ludicrously underpaid “pro­ 9 fession” there are in fact a very trained administrators;people with engagement in Vietnam cooled the fervour of the critics. The end of large number of final year and a theoretical knowledge of the 7 yet another Kiwi military adventure was in sight. even qualified legal types working problems of running organisations Labour began to fell self-righteous about its 1966 election in the city and getting considerably and controlling groups of other a stand, but is new “nationalism” began to peter out. after a confer­ people. ence decision to leave SEATO. After the Paris Peace Talks began, The subjects involved range Mr Holyoake recovered some lost ground in a “tough” letter to from semi-philosophical issues like the construction of arguments to President Nixon which linked lamb imports and military commit­ (continued from Page 1) he more practical world of form­ Tnchtr Raves ments. If “Vietnam” had once seemed a key issue, the parties were ulating plans and instructions now content to let it slide to the level of ritualistic affirmations. which can serve as a pattern for In retrospect it is not at all certain that Vietnam was much of an the operations of just about any issue even three years ago. It seems more and more certain that Exclusion institution at all. To some extent it should be I Vietnam was not worth the rhetorical importance granted by press this overlaps with the more specia­ sndency toision ot votes from a government too- long in and politicians in 1966. Craccum thinks that there is a list schools of business adminis­ need to re-examine the whole tration so much in vogue over­ l more out ith reality ( a process which a refreshing spell Overseas studies show that foreign policy does not usually concept of a 10,000 ceiling if it seas, but by no means entirely. Dmes more arko the tautological m anifestations o f bureaucratic impinge on the electoral process. Research reveals that the public is going to mean forcibly restrict­ The recent trend in Auckland’s )n amongst til has little information on most issues of public policy and that most ing the natural growth of the Arts Law School seems to indicate that irnment’s creirvices, studies have shown that only old-age pensions people do not have consistent positions on most issues. On foreign Faculty by a possible 6%. (600 the staff are aware of this new inevitable ten cost money - the rest have a net external economic effect of policy in particular the impression is given that the public knows students). From evidence we have direction in legal education. If oney and increasing wealth creating capacity. According little and cares less. heard, it seems that the figure was progress so far has not been en­ >th parties agr rich Geiringer, the doctor shortage is so acute that even if Discussion of the last election must revolve around speculation decided completely arbitrarily. tirely successful it is by no means s Eden, Miram mment belatedly did all that it could, the situation would because of the sad lack of empirical data which public opinion Craccum has been told that only the staff who must take the in 1966, are di ite for the next six years; because this government is doing polling could provide. For a number of reasons however, the reputed the figure will be allowed to fluc­ blame. tuate as high as 11,000. At any Nevertheless, prospective and Omata, Manub othing, the situation will probably get worse for the rest of salience of Vietnam as an issue is in doubt. rate, it seems there will be no current students must be made to drawn St. Alls iry. The most obvious reason is that while foreign policy may be the second university at Auckland for realise what these objectives are. ave been redra ’party policies have not yet been formaly announced, most prominent of issues, its electoral effect is diluted by juxta­ ulation it appe politics watchers will have a pretty good idea of what they at least five years (optimistically), The School’s teaching must inev­ go to Laboun ! to be. So many aspects of New Zealand society have position with other problems and policies when voters make their and boarding allowances for one itably be distorted as long as they lational. Hob rid over the nine-year term of this government that any decision. Furthermore, most people continue to vote as they have or two odd thousand students are not told forcefully just what held by Cracki Party electoral promises must inevitably have the appearance voted in the past, whether or not the policies and programmes of can cost a hell of a lot. a law degree is intended to prepare them for. present stand 1 political bribes. The Labour Party platform may have this their preferred party have pleased them. The planning of buildings (see na but at least we can’t say ‘Well, why didn’t they do that It is also clear that foreign and domestic issues can be distinguish­ feature, page four) has in the past «■■■■■■■■■■I Labour’s favi ien the situation X first became serious?’ The Labour - ed from each other. Foreign policy deals with remote and obscure been so haphazard, and still con­ tinues to be in a state of flux, so high for the I revealed some of its plans for it and when it becomes the matters than seem too distant from the daily needs and wants of 6 6 ' 14 01%)I nt including: an export development corporation to ser- that money spent on architectural most New Zealanders to arouse concern. They are inclined to leave ut as the polit dl manufacturer; a doubling to L0% if the proportion of the superfluity could well be directed Student llowing the pi 5v°ted to education; increase in the medical benefits pay- foreign affairs to government officials, an inclination that is not into adding 500 or more on to the :s into~ memo ss overcrowdii redibility as a political scientist, albeit a foreigner, I predict inflated for the voters’ gaze. The 1969 general election will be >pite some rece jonaj no^ a^je to form a government by itself. They hippies so reminiscent of the ghetto people of our society.” fought on matters of domestic significance. The remaining voices of police who would offer a youth Few attempts had been made inducing indusl so Social Credit, although on financial the Vietnam dissent are meaningless in electoral terms. a flick knife and a bag of pot and by the Government or any plan­ in worse and re anc* P °^cy there Is a much closer affinity between the say ‘make your choice nigger, I’m ning body to develop a coherent o]f-gap,.rSe’ m(I Labour. Labour may possibly form the government by Barry Chisolm taking you in . . . ” plan for consistent education de­ iting out to th hough more probably with the help of Social Credit. We It all builds up tension and velopment, the report said. it among all th ihung government, in which case it will be interesting to see hatred. (itutional role of the Governor-General. l e i 8 CRACCUM — September 25, 1969

Eu g e n e 0 MY UPANISHAD s inspired ; and le s s to Helen, in Paradise (Surfers) ahler. The m o st which takes the form aland is h is of a letter icert piece which is not a letter 1d Mountaii but a ST MANKIND’ These w o i Sunday morning is s o GREAT nonstrate 1 distraction nands m a d over coffee c £ ® S DECREED cussion sec and cats a d m ira b ly ugh th e o sa ko v’s mi Helen Helen l. ’ sunk in Troy As th e jc Aunts m, but alw Uncles la tte r im Mums Dads re n d itio n . Sisters P e rh a p s r Brothers o « > v ban Berg’s Girl Friends en Wind Ins Babies id the Altenl (girl and boy) This is the gone New Z e a l; going hko G a w r i shit « 7 ider the dire hell ft, The w o rk s some nsaquently o paradise fore h is la te here composition Man The Britis isesses t h is i and grey grey irhaps th e b( was the colour of my lady's sview” . I c a r bum For m e th as she tried srsion o f th e to sit in the tide act from th when it was out ee artists. The little k absences can coin up funny to the stand whimsicals nsitive r e a d ii '■'oen they occur it is inti ■ oy lady's lergy tra n s fe je t theme finding th a n of running excema » As in th e beneath the arms oneered ster< flea farms eir transcript and saxophone examinations ercome th e long overdue recriminations leir e a r lie r N as to the colour All in a ll, of my dear one's ssed. bum as she sits alone like Mrs O'Reilly by the fire (too close) writing in illiterate Chinese a translation from some long dead Sapphic ode The A u c k k jwn a retros Dear Fate is, m arking and Aunt Susan ihough E n g l the muffler arrived just in time the finest Bi for Xmas is country. A snow for dinner breakfast J ;ue which si and tea mal c r it e r ia so fun like 'm o s t o yer couldn't guess I w fc jL eat or even the larks we 'ad * - „ Y *' r ,, % *. \ 11 There h a s the fire went out » ' ft: % s ft imer a n d the it didn't fit of course POETRY READING id the p e c u lit the nightingales I left discarded rod and Stan in English singing summer limp as an unpaid with th e e? swinging whore for unrecognized serfary E n g lis h to goodnight the Europea Jim this pit Her develop where the thighs genre seen of males nt qualities; jim jam move more and all the lady's lovers asure in so l; than Z e a la n d I in a queue a womans eyes went down the road ild offer h e r < is the last hole found in I in a great Jag line where and sings the nightingale vision. bodies lie Paintings of so sweet the fly-blown as here are pretty boys of both v is : beasts ipose, a p p a ri in Wellesley St beside a desert riding in horse trams d through th traffic jams trail anne on the for jims I only hope lggling to a s and poor obstreperous that anarchists need fo r a s COMPOSITION will not be queers ier su b je c t. hams trying to rescue us Loveday an from the legend department a rts festival murray jones it seems we went wrong e is the flar at the very start demands of I wish that god uliar to Fra so unsubtle had not exposed his a— ier p a in t o r but so sweet to blinded eyes s method all she stood on gently splaying and left us thus of pattern f feet iX in the lurch while here the nightingrowl is quick to see the whirly girly style dug jazz blown chick of oysters data on the rugged rocks for the organ grinder's i f urging on the fighting monkey cocks index says shit on TS Eliot 95m he was only a m'le off and the latest O) the brow of the hill poetry award if someone can he make it . . . and on this posing caught round in booze and the 5 o'clock boat Max and Mike bars bags packed have lived together my heart will cry and said if a nun offered me her in a tight little conundrum this tree and I of course . . . prayers I'd say (and filled with galactic are the only ones left we are the one thing mean it) listen lady repetitions alive You and I God would (and does) listen of near creation as the railway station to MY prayers before yours clock forever because what I desire theme been handled says five is not for long of thee requires no by Muses Graces Fates and cold grey dawning and in the schemes habits and Furies morning of things after the face pullings that never basically please learn to they both grind and grunt the admirations change sing and seek all wisdom have failed and faded inside the flea market to the get-aways we'll do the trip the used prayer department from shack and shock the black bordered (we clicked all right envelope there was I at Woolworths the sleeping pill dead on time) iXKi belly to belly but these back to back are not from something that says for the organ grinder's this tree and I monkey iveday and (and of course the railway clock) he has ne of the p are the only things (like Julius Caesar) alive got big eyes to sing no more CRACCUM — September 25, 1969 9

Eugene Ormandy’s return to the Philadelphia Orchestra inspired an extensive series of new recordings of stand- and lesser known works, ranging from Telemann to

The most recent of this series to be released in New Nina Simone and Piano aland is his reading of M oussorgsky’s m inor, but enjoyable, icert pieces Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on a ICA LSP 4102 1d M ountain. This album is a first for Nina Simone in that is comprises These works provide a fine opportunity for Ormandy to her talents alone. Already acknowledged as a singer of great nonstrate both his and the orchestra’s virtuosity. The skill and quality, many tend to forget her equally great iiands made on the orchestra’s comprehensive brass and accomplishments at the piano. cussion sections in Pictures by Ravel’s solid orchestration Sometimes her style is exceptionally unorthodox but admirably fulfilled under his rather flamboyant direction, somehow she manages to bring it off — testimony to her ugh the orchestra is equally accomplished in Rimsky- great skill. Her style is both persuasive and exciting. «akov’s more subdued setting of Night on a Bald Moun- Each song is different but each complements the next. She possesses boundless creative talents. As the jacket notes admit, the works are “crude in Nina’s vast background in life’s changes furthers her m, but always aglow with colour and vitality” , and it is individualism m each song she sings. She, like all of us, latter impression that we are left with by this excel- has experienced her share of lifes “ sorrows, disappointments, t rendition. happiness and bitterness” . Perhaps more impressive is another CBS release of Nina has tasted fife and this is what she sings about. ban Berg’s Chamber Concerto for Violin, Piano and Thir- Jonathan King’s great hit “Everyone’s gone to the Moon” n Wind Instruments, Three Pieces for Orchestra Opus 6, is perhaps one of the most exciting tracks on the album. id the Altenberg Lieder Opus 4. The variety on this album is excellent, featuring jazz, This is the only recorded version of these works available blues, and strong overtones of gospel. Two other fine tracks New Zealand and features Daniel Barenboim, piano, are “Who Am I” and “Another Spring” , the latter perhaps achko Gawriloff, violin, and Halina Lukomska, soprano, the best on the whole L.P. ider the direction of Pierre Boulez. The works were composed between 1907 and 1926, and nssquently offer an excellent cross section of Berg’s work American Folk Blues Festival fore his later exclusive concentration on his serial system Polydor 109012 composition. Names like Sonny Terry, John Lee Hooker, Memphis The British magazine Records and Recordings justly Slim, and T-Bone Walker are synonymous with traditional isesses t h is r e c o r d a s “ th e fin e s t s e t o f p e r fo r m a n c e s a n d American Folk Blues. All the above and others such as irhaps th e b e s t re c o r d in g th a t it h a s b e e n m y p r iv ile g e to Brownie McGhee, Jump Jackson and Shaky Jake were mem­ iview”. I can add little to this verdict. bers of the original American Folk Blues Festival which For me the highlight of the disc is undoubtedly Boule’s played to packed houses during a European tour in 1962. irsion of the Three Orchestra Pieces but this does uot de­ As a result of their fantastic reception in Europe a re­ ad from the accomplished performances of the other cording was made in Hamburg before the trouDe W t far ree artists. home in the United States. This record is now available in The little known soprano Halina Lukom ska certainly lives New Zealand on Polydor. Titled the Original Folk Blues to the standard set by her distinguished companions in her Festival, the album features some of the better received nsitive reading of Berg’s setting of Peter Altenberg’s lyrics, tunes such as Stewball, Crying at the Station and I W a n n a id it is interesting to hear Barenboim’s characteristic See my Baby. Ian Mune and Alma Woods in a scene from lergy transferred to work which is more technically de­ Although titled Folk Blues, many of the tracks are strong eding than he has previously recorded. digressions to almost pure Jazz and there are also some great "Semi-Detached", the current production at the As in the Moussorgsky record, CBS, who after all, rock sounds there too, for instance We’re Gonna Rock in Mercury. oneered stereophonic recording, attain near perfection in which Memphis Slim ’s piano and vocal prowess are well eir transcription technique, and seem to have successfully highlighted. rercome the tonally harsh quality which plagued some of It’s unfortunate these artists are never likely to visit our eir earlier New Zealand pressings. country. Were they to, interest in folk blues would multiply - All in all, these are two records which should not be Sewn i detach ed many times. But if we can’t see them in person, then we ssed. must take solace in records like this. W arm ly recommended. Perhaps the main reason this play has been served up at the Mercury is that Anthony Richardson, the theatre’s director, first produced it in 1961 in Coventry, fitter it had been commissioned from David Turner. Significantly, Turner had been a full-time writer for “The Archers” radio programme, who had turned to tele­ vision. This is noticeable in the construction of Semi­ FRANCES HODGKNS detached: the action takes place in the livingroom of the M idways’ semi-detached house in England, and relies very strongly on the dialogue and mannerisms of the characters. The Auckland city art gallery has organised and lately Folk, as well as Fauve art may have been the source It is virtually a BBC domestic comedy on stage. own a retrospective exhibition of works by Frances Hodg- of interest in pattern, and Coptu sculpture as well as cubism Semi-detached is a satire on the socially-mobile aspirant is, marking the centenary of her birth in New Zealand, precedent for the simple volumes of head and limbs in Two middle-class fam ily, with the rigid social conformity, double [hough English critics have acknowledged her as one Women (1922) and A Spanish Shrine (1933). Her capacity standards, and hipocrisy this requires. the finest British painters, her standing is still debated in to produce from the same sources an equivalent rather than Virtually every line is saturated with irony and in­ is country. A derogatory critical introduction to the cata- a version of those European movements which destroyed nuendo, and an amount of self-mockery, but it is only at ;ue which submits her painting piecemeal to irrelevant the object, and in doing so to bring a new significance to the the end of the play, when father Fred Midway begins to rmal criteria, ends with the outstanding conclusion that image, is a measure of her importance as a painter. have self-doubts, that any m oral implication sifts through like ‘most of her English contemporaries’ she is not a The rest of this article is limited to the period of m aturity and it is not too convincing. For those requiring a laugh reat or even major artist’. defined by Two Women (1922) and Spanish Shrine (1933) which from satire, this is the play; for those savouring the [ There has not ben a great painter in England since is to me more interesting and more accessible than her sting that satire produces, that exists also, but is over­ urner and the cultural independence of Britain before 1950 last years. played and eventually tends to become wearisome. DING d the peculiarly private vision of artists like Christopher The dominant theme within this period is two clasped The plot is complex, involving the neo-classical situation id ood and Stanly Spencer make any scale of value difficult: figures or a still life group with a landscape behind. Because tangle of divorce, maintenance of face, dispensable sexual paid t with the exception of Ben Nicholson I think, no contem- foreground and background do not make sense spatially, ethics, financial inheritance, all mixed in with a flavouring ecognizedser rary English painter comes so near to the achievement another non-naturalistic relationship is set up. One could of the generation gap and pop culture, and presided over by the European masters Brague and Matisse. call this peculiar association of subject and setting the ‘magic master strategist Fred Midway. Her development was slow. But the fragm entary portraits c a s e m e n t ’ m o tif. The situations are constructed so that self-contradiction j genre scenes from the thirty Dunedin years reveal con- For the conjunction of landscape and pottery give an and hipocrisy occur at every turn, as Fred meets each new nt qualities; her bold sure instinct as a colonist, her intimacy to distant woods, while woods, water and sky lend crisis and accordingly adjusts his moral standard. asure in solid form, a detachment from her model. The mystery to painted pottery. In Wings Over W ater (1952) two The only effective approach to the set roles of the play w Zealand tradition at best topographical or dilittante of her finest paintings, deep-sea shell and gaudy parrot be­ is to overplay them, and the cast do this admirably. Ian ild offer her only a sensitive eye. And after 1900 she sought come emblems of things at once homely and bizarre. Like Mune is ideally suited to the part of Fred Midway, and the 1 found in Europe a painterly convention appropriate to the bird in Braque’s studio they crystallise those aspects of rest of the cast fit their parts well. Peter Vere-Jones got the [vision. air and water expressive of the spirit. Similarly Frances most overt audience reaction for his portrayal of Nigel Paintings of the next 20 years show the laborious evolu- Hodgkins balances gypsy caravan colours against limpid Hadfield, the pansified mother-dependant son of Garnet Had­ d of both vision and style. Love of light and the ability to blues and greens; as a woman and painter as well as ex­ field (Lee Grant). «pose, apparent in Mother and Child (1906), are strength- patriate having a stake in two worlds. The play makes a slow start in the first act, but picks d through the agency of impressionism on the one hand James Baxter once wrote that men often found diffi­ up well in Acts 2 and 3, which feature some good farcical anne on the other. At the same time Frances Hodgkins is culty with women poets through not understanding the slant action. All told, a well-produced play. lggling to assim ilate desparate influences and to reconcile of their imagery. Still-life in Frances Hodgkins iconography J. S. Laird need for a structured image with the over-affecting nature has a peculiar twist: jugs and vases are not self contained jers ier su b je c t. but centres of association and fantasy. Through a kind of Loveday and Ann (1915) is the triumph of the period, self identification with bowl or flower her mind passes to the ent wrong re is the flamboyant realism at other times stifled by the landscape. (Interestingly the preoccupation with still life be­ PROFESSIONAL rt demands of genre. Here also emerges the characteristics longs to the middle years.) This interpretation might seem J uliar to Frances Hodgkin’s style; a free use of line in subjective if she had not called a late arrangement of pat­ id his a— ier paint or pencil with broad underlying areas of tone, terned cloth and flowers ‘Self Portrait: Still Life’. TYPING SERVICES s s method allowed both the full expression of volume and In many a still life, pattern on a jug or table cloth has is i of pattern to unify the picture plane. a higher degree of realisation than the jug or table. Thus (Margaret E. Trowland) she creates fantasy not through inventing images, like Chagall, but through a slight re-ordering of reality. Shorthand, Typing and Duplicating Hers is a more subtle, more entirely painterly vision alown than the romanticism of Piper, Nash and Sutherland. Her Temporary Office Help best work balances two oppositions in British thinking. On finder's the one hand there are the private mythologies: J. R. R. 1 and 3 Swanson Street Phones: 32-102 Tolkein and C. S. Lewis, David Jones, Alfred Wallis and Auckland, 1. OH-64-611 Stanly Spencer. On the other are the empiricists who lim it their world to table and chairs. Her values are perhaps those Confidential Work Assured n le off of Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant ! hill who directed her influence. But in her poetic translation of ordinary objects and situations, Frances Hodgkins is close to no painter so much as to the writer Virginia Woolf. Perhaps our generation has ther inherited to much their cast of eye to easily assess these two News Letter from the Intercontinental Pharmacy conundrum w o m e n . otic Joanna Paul Telephone 373-242 In the coming weeks we will be featuring: idled The Kinkyst Sun Glasses Ever. is Fates V.O.A. FORUM LECTURES Newest thing in Swim Caps. Fabulous Sun Stiks. and grunt AMERICAN POLITICS, GEOGRAPHY, Masumi Bath Toiletries and Masumi Perfume. sdom (This is really something!!) 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III Y c AUCKLAND WORKER’S EDUCATIONAL ASSN. Katherine de Nave has spent "SEX AND LIFE" A SEMINAR most of this year in Australia, on Saturday, November 8, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. here she writes about what in Maclaurin Hall, Princes Street lies beyond King’s Cross The seminar will examine and discuss new knowledge of human sexual relations. Lecturers! BLACK Dr. W. G. WHITTLESTONE, of Ruakura. (The physiology of sexual iv e rn m e n t behaviour— an assessment of recent research and traditional beliefs). reaso ns a Dr. G. VAUGHAN, of Psychology Department. (Psychological aspects of estion aga Masters and Johnston’s research). ople refui AUSTRALIA ing to be r Dr. ZOE DURING, of Hamilton. (Sociological aspects and new sexual i t has gre ethics). — im ? DISCUSSION GROUPS will consider questions submitted by those attending, and T h a t has The Aborigine was, until about By 1850 there had been at­ had his mail censored. But Victoria. 1 report back to the seminar. There will be the fullest possible opportunity ten years ago, in the classic posi­ tempts to help the now detribal- contravenes a basic civil right ; th ro u gh for questions and discussion. tion of the conquered-slaughtered, ized Aborigine. A ll attempts were must therefore be changed. ve m et w i dismal failures. B u t the his labour exploited and his wo­ (3) SOCIAL SITUATION. ic ia l to t Enrollment Fee: $1 (Student Concession 50c). men prostituted. Subtle argum­ Today the only “ Aboriginal” Victorian Government would 1 sitio n o f i ents, about ‘intelligence’ have been land left, is at Lake Tyers (a us believe that the situation is Pay on arrival. id rights. ' used against him, e.g. he is incap­ Government owned reserve). Other too bad and the only people fo r thei: able of using abstract thought. enclaves are unofficial e.g. outside suffer are hard core une =mp jjts w ill gi The holders of this belief seem country towns. Many Aborigines ables (e.g. 6 year olds.) But m S ta te Gc to see no contradiction of terms. see Lake Tyers as the only part of of the living conditions e. se is being 1 Finally, in 1968, the Australian Victoria that is theirs, in a sense Shepparton, are totally squi a of Yirrk conscience showed its uneasiness. a sort of marae without the poli­ Housing is urgently needed -hoi - ning comp A referendum was held; and the tical overtones. th a t the w h ite p o p u la tio n wi ning righl majority, an overwhelming maj­ not mind living in. Many fam (2) LEGAL POSITION. Each alth Govei ority, voted for increased aid from live in humpies made of tin state has a separate Act govern­ their taxes. This has manifested hesian. Children are often vici la state th ing their particular population. itself in the Budget, with twice of their father’s drunkeness,usi mal land, ; The Commonwealth Government the amount being alloted to wel­ brought by his impotence in /e no righ also has legislation. Most of the fa re . white man’s society. These peo; u t it w it legislation is not discriminatory in eld ers o f My experience centred mainly lives are further disrupted by a negative sense, but rather is F e d e ra l with Victorian Aborigines, most of seasonal nature of their work, paternalistic and over-protective, ice m en t o the contact being in Melbourne. I the Aboriginal family will ol and in some cases lead to dep­ ; Straits 1 also spent short periods in South prefer to live in these condi endence of individuals on the Wel­ d a n a tio n Australia and New South Wales. because it may mean that fare system. land rig] Victoria is thought to be one children can go to the white: Sell) n The Act (1958)' is quite a iia, to stc of the enlightened states, partly rather than an all-Aboriginal reasonable act, when one considers im exp ro p because the Aboriginal population ool. Also, because of the streni the type of politicians present in : by overse is insignificant - no exact figures of the extended family and Australia. The glaring faults in the ning co m p ; are available, but about 3500 out tendency to uxorilocal man Act most apply to Lake Tyers. alists. The of 2,750,000. A few families live they may prefer to live with S.6(3) “ there may be appointed the G o vi in Melbourne, but most live in relations, in this squalid ci l t . such officers and employees (Lake lse the e country areas, accepting seasonal Because of the often app 1 Tyers) as required for the ad­ icd, tribal 1 work, or on Lake Tyers, the Re­ conditions in these tent and ministration of this Act.” This the origin serve put aside for the exclusive villages, the children are means that there are no qualifi­ id and the use of Aborigines. need of medical treatment an cations laid down for the manager htful ownei VICTORIA desperate need of welfare as of the Reserve and the manager’s m by thei: (1) HISTORICAL. The inclus­ ance. The children’s health is powers are wide and arbitrary. ly cannot r ion of this material will give an erally much poorer than th os Many managers in all states have H o w e ve r, idea of how Australia came to be the rest o f the V ic to r ia n com suffered from an over-bearing pom­ ive bauxite the white man’s land. nity. Infant m ortality is very posity and bloated self-importance Batman the supposed founder (though no exact figures are N e w litig laced with liberal anti-Aboriginal of Victoria, began in 1835 to able from the Goverhment prii e d b y th e i feelings. Often they have done Educational facilities are cause of th acquire good grazing land in the almost nothing to rectify the pov­ vicinity of present-day Melbourne. discriminatory. But children in o f one < erty and debasement of the situa­ it hard to get any educatioi a bulldozt An estimated 7,000 Aborigines tion at Lake Tyers. cause o f la c k o f fu n d s, lac easily ide were living there. From them he Under Regs. 11-14 S .ll (1) parental interest, and becau ck face. Th purchased 600,000 acres for a few (d), Any Aborigine wanting to live the appalling home conditi j w ill stop small immediate gifts, and annual on the Reserve must get a permit. tribute consisting of knives, scis­ they often find it impossibl e dings ensi If the permit expires the person is study. Again, the seasonal n sors, axes and clothing. Batman ntly adjoui forced off. Also if he leaves with­ of the work plays havoc w was popular with the Aborigines in fo rm a out permission, his permit is can­ child’s education. t reopen f but as soon as he left the area, celled. Fortunately this law is not I f the settlers began to take the land stringently applied. But the Re­ Lake Tyers removal plan. rrkala are with no form of payment, except serve was set up as a special A s I stated ab ove, the resei deen t has 1 REPRODUCTION! that of murder, starvation and the spiritual home of many o Aboriginal area, yet there is still !a!ablish land disease. Three-quarters of the 7000 th is h a rsh la w d em an d in g th e y have Aborigines. They regard it ilia. T h is ir Our meaning of the above word is- were wiped out. This is an im­ permits to enter what amounts to only place left to them that is nes living, provement on the situation in their own land. own. Yet in spite of protests, rth , w ill no1 Tasmania where the total popula­ Under the present Act any Government is going to rei 11 decide wi COPYING or DUPLICATING tion was murdered due to the Aborigine may have his mail cen­ everybody away to a nearby t ich, of the ‘fox-hunting’ activities of young, sored by the Administration. As in to n e w h o u sin g . 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wernmentQuestion has not made clear is J. Cairns. He displayed a fairly SOUTH The issue of New Zealand’s sporting relations with South Africa reasons at all. The civil rights common reaction of politicians is a particularly relevant one at the present time, in view of the estion again arises of: if these and attempted to whitewash the coming A ll Black tour of that country next year. But what are the ople refuse to move are they motion, for the public. When a ing to be rejected from the place group of people decide to call in wider implications behind these contacts? Do those New Zealanders at has great spiritual value to the U.N. to arbitrate on a matter who support these ties between the two countries, and who do not AFRICA m ? like this, it indicates how slow know very much about the situation in South Africa, ever stop to That basically is the position the Government is moving and consider what such ties may imply?-what they mean to those :ensored. But Victoria. Local leaders are fore- how apathetic her people are. individuals and groups in South Africa who are fighting, and suffer­ asic civil right a through various projects and I have attempted to show what ing from , persecution and repression on political and racial grounds? be changed. ve met with a limited success. happens to Aborigines in one state, But the issue that is most Do they know what kind of people control South Africa - the SITUATION. and clarify what I think is the icial to the whole 2nd class people we play sport with - and what type of society they’ve created nment would h most important issue facing the sition of Aborigines, is that of the situ a tio n is Aborigines at the moment, al­ and are determined to uphold at all costs? Can they imagine the But t is quite clear to anyone who examines the situation in id rights. This is a federal mat- non-racist terms that it is the non-whties who carry the burden in e only people though it is almost impossible, I impact of white South African attitudes and policies on the non­ for their legislation and land i core unemp ^ want to give a brief summary that white population? I shall briefly discuss these points in the follow­ South Africa. They’ve carried in it the past and continue to do so ts w ill give a definate lead to ar olds.) But n applies to most Aborigines, in most today. It is the non-whites who face the crisis of survival and the State Governments. The test ing article, and sincerely hope that those who read it w ill reconsider c o n d itio n s e.g, of Australia. prospect of a bleak future with little hope of a decent life for them­ se is being fought over Gove, the their position on the issue of sporting relations between South e to ta lly squi (1) UNEMPLOYMENT selves or their children unless something drastic is done. And it is a of Yirrkala people. A certain Africa and New Zealand. itly needed - -ho Unemployment, in this boom the non-white leaders who call for a non-racist democracy in South ning company have been given Although I was born and raised in South Africa, it doesn’t population w time in Australia, is three times Africa with rights and opportunities for all. For their stand on these ning rights by the Common- automatically mean that I’m some kind of expert on the situation ; in. Many fam higher for the Aborigine than for and similar issues thousands are in prison today, including^ pitifully alth Government; but the Yirr- there, in spite of the claims by many that to have been there is to 5 made of tin the w h ite . small handful of whites. l are often vie la state that this is their V e ­ know. By the very nature of my position as a white, I, along with The apologists for the South African regime love to point out drunkeness, usi rnal land, and the Government (2) EDUCATION the vast majority of other whites, have no conception of what it is what the government there does for Africans; usually phrased in im p o te n ce in /e no right to make a decision The population is estimated at like to be on the receiving end of a harsh, repressive system; one derogatory terms, e.g. “ for their natives” or “ for the Bantu” . Yet ie ty . T h e se peo; ut it without first consulting between 140,000-150,000. 40% that discriminates at all levels on the basis of skin colour. But I do they fail, whether intentionally or not, to consider one vital factor r d isru p te d by elders of the tribe. At present of all Aborigines are illiterate. know about white attitudes. White South Africans go through a which reveals the nature of their position. This is the fact that non­ of their work, Federal Council for the Ad- The prospect of an Aboriginal fantastic process of racist conditioning to the extent that non-whites whites in South Africa have no say at all in their own future. family will c rcement of Aborigines and Tor- child getting a primary school are generally regarded as being less than human. One has only to Next year the All Blacks propose to play rugby with white n these conditii Straits Islanders have organ- education is 8x less than that of observe the attitudes towards non-whites that prevail there and the South Africans. There are some supporters of this tour who genuine­ ir mean that t a national campaign to estab- a white child. terms by which they are labelled to realise how ingrained racism is ly believe that some good w ill come of it. Something, I suppose, like to the w hite sell h iland rights throughout Aus- The prospect of an Aboriginal in white South African society. It is very rare for whites there to a miraculous crack will appear in the foundations of White Suprem­ all-Aboriginal iha, to stop the Governments child getting m atriculation, is 3 Ox have no racial prejudices* attitudes and practices that are neither acy. Do they honestly think that a few games of rugby will soften a use of the stren im expropriating the land for less than that of a white child. cruel, arrogant nor paternalistic; and to extinguish them, even if complex of racist attitudes that have become rockhard and increas­ ;d fa m ily and by overseas owners, by private The prospect of an Aboriginal only partially, takes a very long time. Ironically, this is only ingly inflexible over many years? Apparent capitulations on the part x o rilo c a l marri; ning companies, and private pas- child getting to University is prac­ possible, usually, through leaving that country. of the South African government, such as the tacit acceptance of r to live with alists. The crux of the issue is tically nil. To date there has been A brief example of these all-pervasive racist beliefs is all I have Maoris in the New Zealand team, are not signs that their racist his squalid ci lt the Governments do not rec- one University graduate, C. Per­ room for, but it is particularly revealing as it relates to the highest policies are weakening. These capitulations are significant for another ;e the equivalent of Maori the o fte n appa kins, now one of the strong Abori­ levels of white South African society. reason. They indicate the lengths to which white South Africans tribal land. The Aborigines these tent am id ginal leaders. In accordance with the government policy of “ separate develop­ are prepared to go to secure and maintain friendly links with the the original inhabitants of the ildren are ofte ment” , Africans in South Africa are regarded as semi-permanent outside world. This is very important to them. Yet even these and they feel they are the (3) POPULATION il treatment an residents only; and are issued with passes that brand them as aliens. accommodations are limited. Maoris may well go to South Africa titful owners. The land was given 55% of the population is under of welfare An African individual may have been born and may die in the next year if the tour takes place. But the All Blacks will be playing m by their spirit ancestors and the age of 21. Even though many Iren’s health is township of the Republic but his legal position is that of non- in conditions that are strictly in accordance with the colour bar and y cannot relinquish it. women have expressed interest in torer th a n tho! permanence, and his life is one long process of subjection to ever- the overall policy of the South African regime. So, they will play However, the $308 million and for contraceptives, no plan Victorian con increasing legislation that restricts his movements, denies him any all-white teams, before segregated audiences while all indications ve bauxite programme has gone has been put forward by the jrtality is very dignity or political rights and even discourages him from taking a suggest that the status of Maoris will be temporarily “ elevated” to New litigation has been laun- Governments, to help these wo­ ict figures are wife. The establishment of families in the African townships implies that of “ honourary whites” ; similar to the status of the Japanese o ve rftm e n t pri ed by the Aborigines (15/5/69), men. Infant mortality is higher permanence of some kind even though Africans may not own than in the white community. I since trade between the two countries became established. And, l fa c ilitie s are cause of the deliberate destruc- property in the Republic. In time, as the theory goes, they will have been unable to procure re­ most important of all, the condition of non-whites in South Africa But children >n of one of their sacred sites, return to their tribal homelands. Yet millions of Africans have liable figures. will not be altered in any way. They will not benefit from the tour. any educatioi a bulldozer. This sacred place never even seen these reserves and have long since lost their tribal Instead, they will see it as justification for a regime that imposes o f fu n d s, lac easily identifiable - a 200ft ( 4 ) H E A L T H links. Meanwhile, in the townships, (such as Alexandra, which is extraordinarily harsh conditions on them; as support for a social st, and becau k face. The injunction if gran- 300 cases of leprosy have been north of Johannesburg and where newly built hostels do not and policial system that disregards any principles of democracy or home condil will stop all work, while pro estimated, nobody knows or cares provide quarters for married c o u p le s ) family life is in effect human rights. prohibited. d it impossi b edings ensue. The case was re- how many. Often a family will It serves no purpose for supporters of the tour to talk of the seasonal ns ntly adjourned, and I have no have a patient with them. Jacobus Vorster, a minister of the Dutch Rteformed Church and “ double standards” when criticising those who oppose sporting days havoc wi ;>:re information as the case does Again, the problem of ill children. an elder brother of Prime Minister Balthazair Vorster, was once contacts with South Africa. Their cries of “What about Russia?” or >n. reopen for some little while Child-disease is very high, but the asked how he could reconcile his strict mon-secular Christian “What abot the separate Maori electoral roll?” arc merely rational­ t. If the land rights of the loval plan. Government does not seem to be principles with a government policy that disrupts and restricts isations that obscure the basic issue involved here. And this is the rrkala are recognised; the pre­ b o ve, the resei doing anything with the extra family life in the African townships. His reply was: The Bantu compliance by New Zealand with the policy of White Suremacy dent has been established to •me of many money from the budget. doesn’t believe in marriage. when we play sport on their terms and not according to principles tablish land rights all over Aus- ey regard it HOUSING Any half-baked anthropologist will tell you that marriage is a of equal opportunity and freedom. By all means oppose the infringe­ ill;ia. This means that the Abor- 0 them that is Although no accurate figures universal institution. But in South Africa, Africans are not con­ ment of these principles by any other individuals, groups or nations nesnr living, especially in the ite of protests, are available, I would estimate that sidered capable or even desirous of love, of providing security for wherever this may occur. But don’t invoke such infringements to rth, w ill not be told to shift, but going to rei at the very least, about 50% of the their children, of enjoying normal family life. So, in the townships, excuse the actions of New Zealand sporting bodies who seek to 11 decide when, where and how come to terms with South African racists. iftoa nearby Aboriginal population is inade­ illegitimacy is widespread, and provides further reinforcement for ch, of the particular business I might add that South Africa is the only nation in the world ng. A few wi quately housed. The whole atti­ white prejudices about Africans. erest. with the possible exception of Rhodesia, that practises racist sport. 1 Lake Tyers. tude of the Governments and As their apologists claim, white South Africans do face a prob­ On the 30 July, this year, the Clearly, it is as individuals, since we cannot rely on governments, people of Australia to the Abo­ lem; but one which they themselves have created. Yet they cannot torian branch of the Australian rigine is well-illustrated in a state­ that we must choose in any situation of this nature the side which see this. Instead, they see themselves either as God-sent saviours lour Party, took the unusual ment made by Wentworth, the comes nearest to the ideals of universal human rights and progress. with some kind of divine right of domination or as the last bastion (Australia) step of moving that Minister for Aboriginal affairs. He Few issues are as clear cut as that involving South Africa. Are each of Christianity and Western civilisation in a Communist-infested iland rights of the Gurindji said, “ Australia must get better of you as individuals going to choose to support the liberation world. In each case the belief is self-delusive, bigoted and racist. o>le, be taken to the U.N. for value for the $30 million the movements in Southern Africa, fighting against racist oppression and But on the basis of these and similar beliefs they have erected a liberation. About 100 of the Governments spent annually on neo-colonialism, or are you going to choose to side with the forces ruthless system of repression. They seek to justify any action, no [irindji are squatting at Wattie’s Aborigines . . . better value for of totalitarianism and reaction? You will be giving moral encourage­ matter how brutal, in terms of how it can serve to maintain white ;ek over a wage claim dispute, the Aborigines as well as for the ment to these latter elements by supporting the various contacts supremacy. This is the policy that whites in South Africa support ie most prominent member of Governments.” The Age 8/5/69. that continue to occur between New' Zealand and South African Victorian branch of the A.L.P. and operate under the pretext of “ self preservation” . white supremacists.

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For further particulars, enquire from your University Post Office. ^BITUARY NZUSA Congress James G. McGonagle CURIOUS COVE “Tribal feasts” is how one magazine has described re­ " 4-*t cent rock festival love-ins T r e v o r Richards is for the turned on generation. Regist rumoured to be making Since 1949 New Zealand stu­ plans for a new campus dents have had an annual movement: Clean Up “ tribal feast” known various­ Naughty Television. ly as University of Curious Cove or Student Congress. ★ ★ ★ The scene, Curious Cove is Certain thick-headed pro­ a six-mile boat-trip from Pic­ fessional students are going ton, where the isolated camp­ L to agitate for the de­ site seems submerged in the legalisation of the coffee spectacular scenery of the bar coffee. They claim Marlborough Sounds. large doses have produced BOLD CONCEPT IN The death has occured in his Grafton residence Only a limited number of psychosis in dogs, and when students (about 150) can take it was injected into a rab­ of Lieut.-Colonel ( Ret'd), James G. McGonagle BO, part, because the Cove is bit, the rabbit died. ABC (and two bars) VD, LBJ. STUDENT HOUSING fairly small; but the number has proved just about right for t tt He is pictured with his comrade-at-arms, Sgt.-Major There is a good prospect of success in late-stage The South African Nation­ people to m ix and get to know at a Theodore (Thick) Fogg U E, BA (failed), Victoria 1923, negotiations for the financing of a student village on F each other, especially in in­ al Party is believed to be Dip. Cop. (3rd class), shortly before his hour of glory. the Ham campus, according to a report by Canterbury formal groups discussing any sponsoring a candidate for Student Welfare Officer, Janet Gough. and everything—a real feature 1 the Pakuranga electorate in Lieut.-Colonel McGonagle (“Jam ie” ) to his many de­ of Congress; held between . I the general election. voted friends played an active part in two world wars being Despite opposition to the plan from the University of unwounded at such memorable battles as Gallipoli and Canterbury Council, the 50-bed first stage of the village could January 23 and February 1. 1SI Dunkirk and being unmentioned in despatches in every be open by 1971 and is expected to cost $150,000: equal to ‘Do your thing’ is the basic e! How about the effect of victorious British campaign this century. This illustrious $3000 a bed or about half the cost of a hostel. feeling of Congress, but to give ipi youth in politics? warrior was compulsorily retired from passive service during the whole scene some rele- 111 Prof. Chapman has told the evacuation of Aden. However his sterling advice was L a n d vance and coherence, it is honours students that the unstintingly given during his retirement and he played a Land has been the only problem so far. The university organised around a lecture jr: new 20-year-old vote will major role as tactical adviser during the glorious Anguilla council has turned down a proposal to use some of the series. Inform al lectures, held “ have a net effect of 10 c a m p a ig n . spare Ilam land (known to be intended for student flats)' twice daily, act as kick-offs to votes, for Labour, calculat­ No mere war-dog, Lieut.-Colonel McGonagle was a man because of ill-founded fears that a Government loan for the uninhibited discussion. ing on the basis of last of wit and erudition and displayed as surprisingly eclectic village would jeopardise support for a new hostel. A panel of speakers repre- % years’ votes. grasp of the arts (not to mention the sciences). In the Plans for the project were presented to the Students’ Asso­ senting a variety of back-JSU! visual arts, he professed an admiration for the “mystical grounds and opinions: Trade in ★ ★ ★ ciation several years ago by an enterprising young Christ­ qualities” of M cIntyres oeuvres. His monograph: “Allegori­ church architect, Peter Beaven. At that stage they were unionists and academ ics; poli-eop Wonder which. former cal Components in M rksich’s Art” (available at the Barry submitted to council but were shelved until last year when ticians and artists; and gener- byF Studass president made a Lett Galleries) is highly esteemed in artistical circles. His a group of students took up the issue. ally anyone of interest or with ^ nocturnal raid on a lec­ tastes in music inclined towards towards the romantic; he Approaches to the government yielded a plan requiring interesting ideas have been 0f turer’s private booze cup­ often relaxed to “The 1812 Overture” or Sousa’s ballet suites. the students to raise one third of the money and prove that brought in for previous Con- iitK board in the Zoo Dept re­ Philosophically a dedicated dogmatist, he was uninfluenced the scheme would be economic over the 38 weeks of the gresses. With the theme this th c e n t ly ? by Nietsche and later Aryan humanists. university year. The Government would then pay the rest. summer of “The New Society” cho ★ ★ ★ His experiments with non-lethal nerve-gases for which and following Congress’ tradi- a s Unanimous approval tion, this variety w ill be con- enj News Item of the Week he earned the right to include a mace in the McGonagle tin u e d . d ! (both Star and Herald): fam ily crest, made him a life-long disciple of the Russian Both conditions were easily met and the scheme received If the intellectual scene gets rni The Real Estate Institute, geneticist Lysenko, although the latter’s political beliefs were strong support — in the form of both a unanimous vote of too hot, you can cool it w ith, a at its national conference in anathema to him. approval by a students’ SGM and a plea from Mr Muldoon swimming, volleyball, water- cai Gisborne, has elected Ralph Upon his retirement from the army, McG. publicly to the council to reconsider. skiing, rowing, bush-hikes, or )aj Hanan, a posthumous life lamented NZ’s lack of self-sufficiency in arm s manufacture, The students are now preparing for discussions with the just sleeping in the sun. The 1(j m e m b e r. but, not a man to stand idle, took a seat on the Board of University Grants Committee, the Treasury and university the “Get M’ Young” War Toys Co. Ltd, which gave him a council, and are hopeful of success. afternoons are sacred for re- er ★ ★ ★ laxation and in the evenings, tn p la tfo r m . The initial stage of the village consists of 10 five-bedroom there are all sdrts of ways to as Please write in the word A gifted polemicist, McG. coined such phrases as “All flats each with a livingroom/kitchen and bathroom. Com­ unwind and get to know people s “a—” in the space provided the Way with LB J”, “Yellow Peril”, “Domino theory”, “the munal washing facilities (a laundromat) and parking will be even better. There are facili- n on page eight. downward thrust of China” , “Iron Curtain”, “Bamboo Cur­ p ro v id e d . ties for dances, film shows, mi tain”, with which his speeches were always liberally Special attention has been paid to ventilation and sound­ ★ ★ ★ , barbecues on the beach, and 'I Quote, attributed to MP- s p r in k le d . proofing — both m ajor inadequacies in the new Christchurch generally, there’s something av to-be for Grey Lynn: “Mr He died a fumbling wreck soon after the publication of College residential hall at Ilam . going on somewhere around ini Muldoon has got a good a vicious letter in the Star by a notorious left-wing sub- The completed village will have beds for between 650 th e C o v e . head for money — he’s even^ versary, which questions his very existence — with this and 1000 students, depending on finance ultim ately available Tune in to Congress ’70. For got a slot for you to put it mumbling cri de coeur (cree-duh-cur) on his lips: “Beware — a bold concept which could begin to take shape sooner the yellow peril, Lest ye become jaundiced!” than many expect. further information watch n Studass noticeboards.

Studass fees Man; Indira Gandhi; Piggy; at Breath again! Mike Law as­ McKeffrey; Prince Charles; sures Craccum that there will Henry V III; Ted Kennedy and be no change in Studass fees EXEC ELECTIONS n e x t y e a r . Jesus F. Christ. The write-ins ‘Things looked pretty bad at for Sports Representative were one stage but recent improve­ more fun: King Farouk; Bat­ ments in our financial position Alas, Craccum has become the victim of its own will, of the total vote cast, mean that the possibility of Cross received 54.92%; Lyon man; Donna Awatere; Harpo Support Our A i success. Since we introduced to these pages the mind Seven I raising fees won’t be con­ of Professor R. McChumpman, he has been that much 29.07%, and 17.01% were in­ M arx; Gitarzan; Pussey Cat sidered until June next year at Auckland formal. In the Sports Rep W illiam; Turk Steel; Kropot­ least,” he said. in demand that when he was approached to do an kin; Lin Piao, and 15 for Chris Intermedi “We’ve been able to cover analysis of the recent portfolio elections for Craccum, Fight, ahh, Breen gained Bouzaid. And although Keith Council a rising prices in past years by he politely informed us that he was too busy. 44.94% of the total vote; Advertisers the annual increases in asso­ Abrahart 30.70%, and the in­ beat Norm three votes to two, Student ciation membership — when K irk received an overwhelming form al figure here was 24.36%. Rudman the university reaches the vote of confidence from the per­ Council th; 10,000 ceiling we’ll really have Not to be outdone, however, most significant about the elec­ Notwithstanding a known split \ son who nominated Norm for p ro b le m s .” Craccum has secured the ser­ tio n s ? in the establishment, the far about as p both positions with the cryptic clainp-dow: Anyone caught thinking vices of brilliant Oxford Don, Struth: Put it anyway you better known Cross was able that the $10 building levy comment: he’s big enough for enrolment Dr Struth Buttieswit. Here, in like the answer is still “noth­ to handsomely defeat his little might soon be gone can think both positions . members o a g a in ! her unerring style, she talks ing really”. I mean, do you known opponent. In the other because thi Craccum: Do you see any Present indications are that about “Apathy (or why really want me to go trespass­ election, this time between a Council r it will be 20 years at least point in having student elec­ Vaughn Preece did so well)”. ing on Professor McChump- two candidates who very few —They been said t before all buildings in the Craccum : Dr Buttieswit, what people knew, the nod was tio n s ? Student Union complex are. m an’s territory. would not Struth: W ell, it gives Political built and paid for. struck you most about the re­ Craccum : Please do. given to the more respon­ who passe Scientists something worth­ There is $120,00 still to be cent elections? sible looking and sounding exams. T1 paid on this buiding and an­ Struth: O .K. give me the poll­ while to analyse. Support You that the Struth: Nothing really. person. The reason for the other $125,000 for the exten­ ing booth figures. Seriously Craccum: Well, put it an­ Craccum: Doc. Buttieswit, sions. The theatre will cost higher informal and non-vote though, there was really noth­ th a n k y o u . $200,000, the gym $250,000 and other way: what did you find in this contest can be found, I ing in these portfolio elections Struth: Any time. the squash courts $40,000. think, in the fact that neither that is surprising or uncom­ of them was well known. As mon. The candidates were not for why the informal vote was well known, they were not STUDENTS' DISCOUNT so high overall, I think the enormously inspiring, and they same reasons apply here that Prestige Places of Entertainment were not standing for presti- apply to the reason for a sm all gous or glamour positions. I EARN MORE! DURING MONTH OF OCTOBER ’69 poll — the candidates were not mean really, in what other well known, not overly inspir­ group in the world — the Ame­ ing, and not standing for “ 'THE SOUL S C f t ? A ricans excluded of course — Earn more during your vacation by becoming a ’ ALWAYS HAPPJNIN6 glamour positions. would you find the position of Craccum: Was there any­ Leighton-trained Heavy Trade driver. laundryman an elected posi­ thing significant in who receiv­ tion. The mind boggles. And ed write-in votes? the result of all this, when Struth: Oh yes. For instance, it joined forces with proverbial Leighton’s can provide dual-controlled Trucks or an I feel sure that the eleven QUEEN ST, OPP. TOWN HALL student apathy, was a predict­ SYMONDS ST, CITY people who voted for Vaughn Articulated Vehicle for instruction and licence test. PH. 373-645 • EASY PARKING PH.364-034 • TILL DAWN ably small poll — 10.88% I Preece for House Committee W ed. norm al 50c; you-30c think I remember McChump­ They can teach you to drive a car too, of course! W ed. norm al 60c; you 40c Chairman were trying to tell Thurs. norm al 60c; you 40c Thurs. norm al 60c; you 40c man saying it was; 15.38% less him something, and it wasn’t than the Vice-Presidential poll. AUCKLAND’S SUPERIOR k AUCKLAND’S ADULT DANCE that his suit needed dry-clean­ Craccum: This may well be SUPPER CLUB - AN INSTITUTION ing either. The list of write-in so, but it doesn’t account for Call in and talk it over. votes for both positions is end­ the large number of write-in less. For exam ple, in the House and informal votes. Committee Contest, write-ins Struth: Ahh well, lets have a were received by such notables look at the figures first, and mummscm m as Snoopy (6) and the Red LORNE ST, BEHIND ST JAMES MT EDEN RD.CATCH NO.9 BUS then we will know what we’re Baron (3); Charlie Brown (2); | PH. 375-317 «OPEN REAL LATE AMPLE PARKING • LOUNGE talking about. In the House L B J; Robbie; Shadbolt; Hitler; 5 Myers Street Phone 30-709 F ri. norm al $1; you 80c Thurs. norm al 60c; you 30c Committee, Laundryman, Head Franz Kafka; The Sanitone Prefect fight, call it what you ID CARDS MUST BE PRESENTED (Beside Wellesley St. P.O.) After hours: 458-483

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