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CRACCUM 24th April,1974 Vol.48 No.9 '

thoroughness was demonstrated. In the few months since he's been FRIENDS OF in New Zealand, Graham has travel­ led and learned more about the issue than anyone else. When his report Last year the comes out I'm sure the Forest Service jp its Vulcan L THE EARTH and more importantly, the New Zea­ ■Iked. Now G land environmental movement will 3t the seats c; The founder of "Friends of the searching and fighting issues, and liv­ get an enormous shake up. The seats wer Earth" in Britain, Graham Searle, is in ing on a paltry income. "Friends of As the evening wore on the discus-1 fear at the reqi New Zealand studying the West Coast the Earth" is elitist. sion fragmented as booze was L A K E S have their own mystical /ulcan Lane Bi Beech Forest Utilisation scheme. I "The membership are there", downed. quality. Lake Manapori in Maori ;iation. The it heard from a friend that he was talk­ Graham seemed less plausible, his is the Lake of the Sorrowing Graham unashamedly states, "to sup­ }y some of the ing to a branch of the Values Party so self-avowed egotism and pragmatism, Heart and there was Lake lanthe ply funds for the twelve to fight and id although tl I went along to listen. his thirst to win at all costs, reminded where according to legend the win issues, and if they don't then the limity on the There were a dozen assorted peo­ membership can rightly complain." one of a punch-drunk boxer who had sword Excalibur was plucked out ;rs went alon^ ple in the room listening to Graham "You must win, and to do so you forgotten why he took up fighting. I by Lancelot. Christ walked on ieiight of wha give an outline of the history of must know more than anyone else felt strongly that the "Friends of the Lake Gallillee, WordswG.«fi ana De detrimental eff "Friends of the Earth". He and a about the issue you're fighting." Earth" approach to environmental Quincy wrote on the Lakes Dis­ ibitually occu friend founded the organisation by "Friends of the Earth" does win politics, while being effective, over­ trict and Hemingway’s young The Lane start* publishing two books on the Envi­ making it a successful issue-centred simplified the problems of Human lovers find solace at Lake Geneva. something o1 ronment and then, using the funds environmental pressure group. Ecology and contributed little to their These however were all full lakes. tough the pre: gained there, launched into a public After mentioning campaigns against positive solution. No one ever wrote a sonnet to a lent store and attack on the packaging industry. Rio Tinto Zinc mining copper in MALCOLM PATTERSON lake where the waters are disap­ have pretty wel It soon became apparent that Snowdonia National Park and the sale pearing. Like Lake Taupo, for 10b value. Th( Graham Searle was involved in a very of products from endangered species, example. iere seen as de effective environmental activist group. particularly the whale, Graham started 17 Horoeka Avenue, ma many shop Everywhere last week it rained Today twelve people work fulltime for to discuss the West Coast Beech Mount Edenl but not in Taupo. There's no [falling turnovei "Friends of the Earth" in London, re­ Forest Scheme. Here his expertise and 22nd March, 1974. romanticism in dried up lakes. Specific own^ Would Scott have ever written "The exam timetable will be indicated ted to our parent organisation, the [them blocking the Lake Isle of Innestree to by letters A to Z or AA to ZZ attached to British Medical Aid Committee for language, dealii a parched wilderness where only each paper: you won't be able to take Vietnam (36 Wellington St,London (ion of it) and e a little water dribbled over pebbles. two papers with the same letter (or let­ W .C.2.) which will purchase medical manageress of I The Mayor of Taupo was very ters) because the exams will clash. This supplies in Europe, and supply ac­ is adjacent to t annoyed and annouced calamities 'comes about because the large number cording to the needs of the Liberation mentioned urir to those who dared interfere with of possible combinations of papers Red Cross agencies in Indo-China. All her stairs after his lake. But like a powerless makes it difficult to come up with a medical materials are supplied in re­ also the contin Canute the ravings just went on Dear Sir, timetable after students have enrolled." sponse to specific requests from the playing facilitii and the lake stayed dry. A "few" words with reference to Precisely! Vietnam Red Cross (D.R.V.) and the purchases. This [risk she runs. the purges of Onehunga High. And what was all that you were say­ National Liberation Red Cross (P.F.G.I In talking to CRACCUM is on the top floor of the Stu­ Firstly, I wonder what the honoura­ ing at the beginning of term about leaks of South Vietnam. dent Union Building. Our phone number and secret Deans decisions? Kidding I also sensed fro ble judge's ruling would have been The purchased medical supplies are is 30-789 (Ext. 67 for editorial, or Ext. 66 the advertisers along by confusing air-freighted to Hanoi free of charge I the old work e if another "herr" McCarthy came fjn working ,w for advertising). We welcom e help and readership with circulation figures is all by British Airways, Aeroplot Soviet along and said that the uniform was |sort of thing. F visitors... com e up and see us som etim e very fine and accepted commercial Airlines, KLM Royal Netherlands Air­ to be longhair or short hair with a practice; but the story gets to look a users as I say, < (except Thursdays). ways, Polish L.O.T. Airlines, and In­ beard (under present regulations little threadbare when it transpires that terplug Airlines of the German Demo­ To be fair busi Craccum this week was the result of this is legally permissible). even the editor doesn't read his own cratic Republic. far from unifoi chance, more than design, but anyway, Secondly, the situation used to be product. Let us into the secret — what We feel that raising money for med­ further up fror it was amicably edited by Brent Lewis, that the aristocrats had long hair do you use Craccum for? ical supplies for Indo-China is an ex­ peoples right t terribly laid out by Chris Brookes and and the peasants short hair (so Ruth Butterworth cellent way of making amends for I ported little tn Gordon Clifton, awfully photographed perhaps McCarthy considers New Zealand's shameful military in­ Be all this as by Garth Kennedy, and horribly reported everyone, including himself, as volvement in the Vietnam war. Ipeams were ev< by Mike Rann and Bill Ralston. peasants). In conjunction with this, from the conci Among the list of those who contributed girls with long hair, (and all girls Yours fraternally] the colourful a JOHN WATKINS or otherwise to our pride of place must go have longer hair than Philip Ed­ Dear Friend, |Jolyon Firth f< Lyall Duffus. Others who were nice to us On Saturday 27th April 1974, the ORGANISING SECRETARY! wards) do not seem to suffer from New Zealand Medical Aid Committee N.Z.M.A.C.I and to whom credit must be given are gross misconduct or incorrigible for Indo-China will be holding a notably our veritable advertising manager disobedience that may be consi­ and publications officer Graeme D Easte, door-to-door appeal in the Milford- dered an injurious or dangerous ex­ East Coast Bays area of the North PART TIME but also George Packard, Murray Cammick, ample to other pupils (and neither Shore. Malcom Walker, Roger Debreceny, Linda WORK do teachers with long hair either Collectors are urgently wanted for Tizard, Mary Nacey„Jeremy Templer, Bob male or female). "Herr" the appeal, as past experience has Campbell Motors offer Lack and his team, John W oodroffe, M cCarthy's situation seems to me shown that the majority of people students work cleaning and Thelma Gribbiehurst, Paul Halloran, and to be both hypocritical and hyper­ canvassed do contribute, there are de-waxing new TOYOTAS. Mick and Ian Sinclair. few refusals. Our problem in the past critical. Flexible hours to suit Lest we forget, Wendy Morris typed and Yours sickeserely, has been a shortage of collectors, and I would like to appeal through your your lecture timetable. added her comments. "Aristocrats had long hair" paper "Craccum" for students who Protective clothing supplied. D SAUN DERS Items may be freely reprinted from live in the Milford-Takapuna area, Easy distance from varsity. and qhom would be willing to turn Craccum except where otherwise stated, out for a few hours on Saturday morn­ Contact provided that suitable acknowledgement ing, 27th April. The collectors head­ Micttelle Lousich s ■"* ~Auckland peace between 1 & 3. Auckland University Students' Association Among some papers which I was activist, and campaigner for the re­ (Inc.), typeset by City Typesetters of sorting out the other day I came across lease of political prisoners in South CAMPBELL Craccum: September 13th 1973. On 501 Parnell Road, Auckland, and printed Vietnam (Thieu areas). Dr Laird's ad­ MOTORS LTD, page 5 there is an article by one Chris by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews dress is 7 Oceanview Road, Milford L.M.V.D. Lane, an Arts Faculty Student Rep. The Ave., Wanganui. 9. Charlotte Street, Eden penultimate paragraph reads, in part: Any money collected will be remit­ Tee. _____ The General Manager, co/npany is completely indifferent to moved by Christian or humanitarian receive copies of this letter will soon South British Group, the needs of those human beings in ideals (except that 'Christianity' which follow my example and cancel any P O Box 27, Auckland. South Africa which happen to have a predominates in South Afirca, which business dealings with you; urge any different complexion from the port- says that the black man is a lesser churches, societies and businesses in Dear Sir, wine-red of your directors; and con­ creature and that only the pale- which they have influence to cancel Your Insurance Company persists in tinues to take advantage of the pigmented races have God's blessing), their business dealings with you; and sending me notices of account for an policies of the South African govern­ I can only appeal to your financial in­ thus perhaps, let you see that it is bad insurance policy on my house and ment to enhance its profits from its of­ terests; and accordingly I trust that business to support the oppression on chattels which I cancelled last year. fices in that country. many other people, who hold that all any peoples by proud whites who As I stated at that time, I cannot do I am too pragmatic to believe that people regardless of pigmentation have inherited the countries grabbed business with a company which has South British Group is concerned with have an inalienable and God-given by their forebears from the native repeatedly and publicly refused to anything other than the profit motive; right to share equally in opportunities peoples of South Africa. withdraw its support from the apar­ and that its conscience is kept sec­ for full living, will follow my exam­ Yours truly, theid policies of the South African urely near its hip pocket. As your di­ ple. Michel Tyne-Corbold. Government. It is quite clear that your rectors will apparently never be I trstthat the many people who will n st rated. element’’. A Vulcan Lane Reseat­ ;e he's been ing Show was organised, but n has travel- EO T O P in keeping with the decline of tout the issue populist action in the 70’.s it fizzled. his report Last year the City Council took Now tor a year the Youth Indol­ :orest Service up its Vulcan Lane seating and ent of our fair metropolis, far from ie New Zea- walked. Now Council has decided removing to their dens and ement will hat■ the seats can go ^ack. A dwellings have sprawled unconcerned jp. The seats were removed last on the concrete base, the plant >n the discus- /ear at the request of the e was i/ulcan Lane Businessmen’$ Ass- jciation. The move was initiated mm mm tlausible, his jysome of the older members P R O B U m pragmatism, ind although there was not un­ bowls or the ground. The police its, remindec animity on the issue most mem- have intensified activity down there. >xer who hac bers went along with the move in Urine-spouting proletatians have 5 fighting. I helight of what many saw as the continued to issue from the host- ends of the detrimental effect of those youths elries. The Krishnas departed up onmental iabitually occupying the seats. the road to be replaced by clean- ctive, over- [he Lane started out seeing itself cut Christians shining with Godly )f Human as something of a prestige area al­ grace and scrubbed flesh. Raucous little to their though the presence of a depart­ interjections to the word have ment store and two workers puos oeen liable to be led away by grim PATTERSON have pretty well roobea it of any faced Dirty Harry type detectives snob value. The idle young however tp be tersely informed of the provisions of the Police Offenses oeka Avenue, were seen as degrading the area and many shop owners ascribed Act 1927 Section 3C. arm-rests to prevent sprawling. is surprisingly favourable. The Mount Eden Although some businesses claim Heavy ceiment bases will prevent, Manager of McKenzies says he March, 1974, falling turnover to them. Specific owners objected to a rise in turnover in this time, it as Mr W puts it “ some yob pick- * prefers to act on specific instances would seem that a combination ing up a seat and putting it thr­ as they arise, rather that) attempt sation, the them blocking doorways, bad anguage, dealing (or the intimat­ of no appreciable change in the ough a shop window.” The pres­ blanket restrictions. While others imittee for Lane, prospects of more intensive ent concrete base at the bottom note increased policing of the St, London ion of it) and exhibitionism. The manageress of Music City which policing in the Inner City and the of the Lane will be further enfol- area. hase medical is adjacent to the old steps site noises from a number of liberal iated with potted shrubs. What’s happening in Vulcan supply ac- mentioned urine running down councillors (Mike Bassett and so The report is with Sir Dove- Lane then? Basically Council’s the Liberation her stairs after a Friday night, on) meant that opinion swung back Meyer Robinson and his cohorts trying belately to rectify its bun­ ido-China. All to support for seating, and last at the moment. Mr Wainscott ex­ dle pplied in re­ also the continued use of recora month the Council’s Policy and pects its confirmation “ in a couple gle. That it can commission a plan sts from the playing facilities without any Finance Committee approved the of days” . Mr Poland of the Works which takes several months, have .V.) and the purchases. This of course is the replacing of seats. Now we come Dept who would normally though the pain referred to it and then Cross (P.F.G.i risk she runs. In talking to shopkeepers I to the guts of the matter. not always handle such a matter reject it, only to commission an­ It was almost a month since has asyet not been informed of other plan is a tribute to their own il supplies are also sensed from time to time the reseating was agreed to and reseating (as have shopkeepers incompetance.. re of charge the old work ethic niggling away- fpi working ,why aren’t they? nothing has been done about it. I spoke tc). Beaureaucratic cogs alot Soviet may be grinding as you read this Never fear, while this Concil’s nerlands Air­ sort of thing. Further the seat It is the delay that has sparked- if not we can reasonably ask why.. around Parkinsons Law will be its ies, and In- users as I say, don't ouy anything. this article. What is the situation? Response to the reinstallment leading instrument of action. irman Demo- To be fair business attitudes were Since the seats are to be new far from uniform. Some, especially ones, Mr Wainscott of the Town ley formed- further up from the seats recognised Planning Division was asked to An open letter from Senator Pouvanna a ina is an ex- peoples right to sit down, and re­ prepare a report for the Mayor Oopa and Deputy Francis Sandford, nends for ported little trouble. and Deputy Mayor which he duly elected member for French Polynesia in military in- Be all this as it may, the wooden presented to them two weeks ago. the National Assembly in Paris — to Ad­ i war. Speaking to Mr Wainscott I learn­ miral Marc de Joybert, Chief of State of the beams were eventually removed Navy Department. from the concrete foundations to ed that the seats are to be placed irs fraternally, the colourful abuse of Councillor further up the Lane. They will IN WATKINS Jolyon Firth for the city’s “ rowdy have no backs, and by request ] SECRETARY N.Z.M.A.CI,

MĒT ADMIRAL < s offer aning and IYOTAS. Sir, :o suit letable. supplied, varsity. It is as defenders of Polynesia, And does it suit you to adapt your­ elected by Polynesians, that we write self, according to your brutal logic, to to you. the poisonous mushrooms which you iich You come here to a conquered cultivate so openly. So will you have, t. 70 country, to inspect your troops and at least, the courage and the honesty 3. your weapons of death, with the ob­ of your arrogance. Indeed, do not put ject of the pursuit, on our territory, of into practice in the law of brute force. experiments too dangerous, in the perverting the thoughts and the TD, opinion of the government to which teachings of Christ to impose silence we are submissive, to be carried out in of the protestations of priests and courageous ministers, you are virtually , Eden your own country. saying — Yesterday, the Sahara, Algeria; today the Pacific, the Polynesian Is­ "Render unto Caesar that which is r will soon lands and the peoples of the Southern Caesar's and unto God that which is mcel any Hemisphere are seen to be and see God's" i; urge any themselves subjected to the imposition si nesses in Then, we(we are sure of our duty of physical and genetic sacrifices to cancel arid our right in this land which is our^ which in no way devolve on France complete your quotation and give it to h you; and and her people. hat it is bad you by saying in its true sense— oress ion on Since it is so> do you pretend hat it is "and render to the Polynesians that which is Polynesian — Polynesia." es who for their own good that you explode 5 is grabbed your poisonous bombs? Dare you native reply to us that it is 'your onions' and * * * not ours? Anyone willing to help in this year's If it is so, Admiral, go elsewhere to campaign against nuclear testing should ne-Corbold. contact the Campaign for Nuclear Disar­ peel your onions, for they make us mament, 10 de Luen St, Point Chevalier weep! room beginning to feel the effects The Auckland Hospital Board has never had a particu­ of the injury (hardly severe but larly good record in the handling of its staff; take the nevertheless worrying). Not that I lacked for entertainment, also in case of Student Nurses' Association president David the waiting room were about 30 Wills, or Cancer specialist Dr Brych. But the ill treat­ of the Grim Reapers bike gang ment of these two men palls in comparison with that holding an impromptu party while THE I meted out to the unfortunate many who are forced to one of their mates had his head precaution to ensure that codeine put back together again. But they In 1938 M r Fr; seek assistance at the Accident and Emergency depart­ was enough. left by midnight apparently to re­ Government's ot ment. This is not an isolated case, one turn to the party they had been pressed is th a t e\ forced to leave and "do the his level of acadi Being a person that is by nature After a two hour wait she was girl I know spent half an hour in a eventually ushered into the pres­ hospital corridor before they dis­ cunts" according to the one be­ he be ric h o r po< accident prone, I have had the town or country, ence of a harassed young doctor covered she had a collapsed lung. side me. dubious pleasure of being treated zen, to free'educ who asked her symptoms, pre­ The facilities at Auckland's A & Other amusements included by several Casualty departments which he is b e st scribed codeine and advised her E Department are stretched to watching the elderly alcoholic around Auckland, and come to with the head injury urinate in his lest extent o f h is the conclusion some time ago to have a good night's sleep. The their limit. One doctor is expected Commission poir pants while snoring in a drunken that its far better to die in the doctor neglected to examine her to treat most of the city's night any statement of slumber, or speculating on the in­ sanctuary of your own home than in any way, showed no interest casualties. In the weekends the ity has b e c o m e c jury of the attractive young girl in commit yourself to the tender whatsoever in the diabetes or its situation at the Department be­ |democratic ideas the crushed velvet suit crying on mercies of A. & E. This is not re­ likely complications and was more comes little short of chaotic. society. M u c h at her mother's shoulder. I found out Iso,is b e in g g iv e i ally overstating the case at all. concerned at the fact that he had Some months ago while work­ later she had been forced to wait | Jensuring e q u a lity Take the example of a close forgotten to bring with him his ing as a kitchen hand in a city three hours before being treated portunity fo r Ma< friend of mine who I accompanied sample of some new American night club I cut my hand, requir­ anti-diarrohea miracle drug. ing several stitches. The artery had for a severe eye infection. I sur­ like to d is c u s s th to Auckland Hospital's A & E De­ tional o p p o rtu n it Perhaps you could have said been severed, (in front of some vived, by the way, was effectively partment last Tuesday night. She ity group, the dis hundred startled guests) and I had sewn up and sent home some four was at the time suffering from that the doctor knew best, except The C o m m is s i hours later. some form of virus, she had been for the fact that the girl concerned great pleasure in watching a Zealand c o u ld b I cannot really blame the staff; vomitting, and had a high fever, had been a nurse for some time stream of blood spurt some dis­ sions m a d e th e \ the nurses especially have a dif- back pains, swollen glands and before leaving to go teaching and tance across the room over the Certainly, s p e c ia diarrohea. Not all that worrying tablished. B u t t h perhaps, but because of her his­ that we, the ham tory as a diabetic there were com­ main children fo that only 2-3 sec plications — the inability to with­ Auckland are su; hold any nourishment meant her m v s m m a s s abled students? ( blood sugar level was unstable wheelchair in ar and several of her friends worried knew the dangers involved in horrified chef. N-one touched the ficult job handling the huge influx or University? I I that she might lapse into insulin being left untreated. The doctor tomato puree that night for some of injured during the weekends versityoftheWai shock or coma. We rang a doctor failed to check her swollen glands, reason. and perform extremely well .con­ tations (ra m p s) f( who was unable to come and at­ give a urine test to see if her Anyway, I was taken to Auck­ sidering the load. It is the man­ dent. But can w( tend to her but advised us to take blood sugar level was affected or land Hospital for some hasty re­ agement that must bear the most Auckland boast < her to Auckland HQspital. otherwise take any reasonable pairs at about 9.30 p.m. By 1.30 blame. One doctor cannot be in the w a y g f e a a.m. I was still in the waiting reasonably expected to perform courage m o re d i with anyjeal competence under share our univer telligent d is a b le c such conditions. his basic educat How many people must suffer 11 tive he h a s is to needlessly because of the gross extramural ly. inefficiency in management before Yes, I d o h a v e it w ill be changed? 1 \4erI (so fa r, I h a v BILL RALSTON. hasn't). I c la im t BOB t 'l: allow a n y o n e w ligence a c e s s to bar a person w it KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS FOR FUN AND riers is w r o n g . T HALDANE PROFIT (abled p e rso n c a i (where is a ls o w r The Rag of dependen of liability in cas MOTOR New York (ZNS) — the largest incense manufacturer in tore the obvious the United States is making a pretty hefty profit these days adopt th e N Z S 4 ' — mainly because it doesn't pay any of its employees. III I V for Design For A This is happening, the Wall Street Journal reports, be­ ped Persons: Pu cause America's largest incense maker is the Spiritual Sky f i Facilities". G rea Scented Products Company — owned by the International r \ egislation to co Society for Krishna Consciousness. Sick & D is a b le d . ; The Journal reports that the founder of the religious section 8 ). W h y society, a guru named A .C . Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhu- far behind? pada, decided that the movement would need some income. Apart fro m leg So 35 fulltime employees, including eight whose sole job it the students ther is to dip incense sticks and cones all day, churn out various only by becom ir scented products. After five years in business, the company 'em, but also by is now grossing $6,000,000 a year and is thr prime support the comm unTiV, of the 50 or so Hare Krishna Temples in North America. are made availal The company is large enough to use a computer to keep abled students. ( track of inventories. Whenever the computer is not busy made repeated r calculating, it continuously prints out the Hare Krishna cess, both to the chant. Students' A s s n . \ Full range of NEW YAMAHAS ence block w as APARTHEID AND CHESS the validity o f sti and KAWASAKIS. Best after sales v f equality in vario service. Tyres purchased from us SECHABA Vo/8 No. 2 ignorant a b o u t c “Relax, will you. You're developing a complex.’ Why are stu d e n t fitted free _of charge A big banquet was held in Durban recently to mark the ingthat only the end of the South African chess championships. But when further th e ir o w r the time came to present the prizes, the guests were surprised so apathetic in F STUDENT to learn that the champion, Gerald Holmes, was not there. the same? O ften The reason for his absence was the colour of his skin. The intelligence is hi DISCOUNT BENEFIT DANCE FOR PEOPLES UNION banquet was held in one of the restaurants reserved for whites can.he'hope to < FRIDAY 26th University Cafeteria 8pm only, and Holmes who is a Coloured, was simply told to keep can he-eg fo r tra 157 Manukau Rd. $1 Admission out. met very’ few fel Bands: "CHAPEAUX" and "DRAGON" The prize was later presented to him in the coloured en­ at university. I ai EPSOM Ph. 601-369 closure of the local racecourse. there are m a n y r Two other Coloured contestants were also debarred from their true potenti the closing ceremony. inadeairate facili DISABLED THE PROBLEM OUR SOLUTION I am a disabled student, completing Granted that we are all disabled in ln 1938 Mr Fraser wrote that: "The my degrees. As a person I do not re­ some way(!), yet I am hoping that Government's objective, broadly ex­ ally think of myself as disabled, until there are some disabled students pressed is that every person, whatever difficult access (and sometimes at­ (physically disabled, blind, deaf, heart his level of academic ability, whether titudes) makes this obvious. To earn a defect etc) who would like to contact e be- ie be rich or poor, whether he live in living I work full-time, I am not al­ me, maybe we could have a get-to­ town or country, has a right as a citi­ CHARITY lowed time off to attend lectures as gether, I would be so thrilled. My zen, to free'education of the kind for my degree is not applicable to my phone number is 82-724 (evenings which he is best fitted and to the ful­ Music Festival job. I pay my university course fees. only). lest extent of his powers." The Currie Therefore, not only do I pay for my I suppose I am campaigning for Commission pointed out that today, own university education, but also, Disabled Liberation... will anyone join any statement of equality of opportun­ all proceeds go through taxation, contribute to the me? ity has become one of the dominant full-time study of a non-disabled stu­ democratic ideas of New Zealand dent! These payments do not ensure Miss Honor J. Morton to student trust society. Much attention, and rightly easy access. Each year I must choose 13 Harbutt Ave., so, is being given to the problem of my course subject according to Mount Albert, ensuring equality of educational op- ' for handicapped whether, firstly, can I get to the Auckland 3 portunity for Maori children. I should , lecture-room? secondly, are lectures New Zealand. like to discuss the equality of educa­ outside of working-hours? So far I p erso n s tional opportunity for another minor­ have been lucky in finding something ity group, the disabled. but I have not been able to choose The Commission said that New the subjects I wanted to take. Addi­ Sunday May 5th 10am—8pm Zealand could be proud of the provi­ tional expenses includes the necessity staff; sions made the handicapped children. i dif- of buying all the books I need be­ 10 hours of music for $1:00 Certainly, special classes etc. were es­ cause ...a) the library turn-style & I do tablished. But the Commission forgot not agree (although the staff are won­ tickets from we, the handicapped, do not re­ derful in unlocking the double-gates), main children for long. Did you know b) once in the library, so often I find that only 2-3 secondary schools in that the required books are in the Cornishes &StudAss Auckland are suitably built for dis­ Undergra duate Reading Room, the abled students? Can you imagine a other end of Campus. So far, I have wheelchair in any Technical Institute not placed one step in the wonderful One of the major events in Capping this year is the MuSic or University? I belive that the Uni­ Students' Union Building I hear so Festival which is to be held at Western Springs. There are five top versity of the Waikato has made adap­ much about... I'm not sure how I can N.Z. bands featured in the line-up; tations (ramps) for a paraplegic stu­ get in (or up). Then, because I have to dent. But can we of the University of tape all my lectures (with prior per­ Auckland boast of equal opportunity mission from lecturers), I must strug­ in the way pf easy access, and so en­ gle down to the front of the lecture- * AUCKLAND NEOPHONIC * courage more disabled students to theatres so that the machine doesn't share our university life? Once an in­ pick up sound-wave distortions. We telligent disabled pupil has completed won't discuss parking problems. his basic education, the only alterna­ These are just a few examples to * DRAGON * tive he has is to continue his studies show that equality of opportunity extramural ly. doesn't exist in the university. Yes, I do have a chip on my shoul­ I agree that all this is my own fault * HENRY JACKSON * der (so far, I haven't met anyone who for wanting a university degree. Cer­ TON. hasn't). I claim the democratic right to tainly the university is overcrowded. allow anyone with the required intel­ But this should not prevent us being * MAMMAL * ligence acess to tertiary education. To more democratic and ensuring equal bar a person with architectural bar­ \ND opportunity to all, including the dis­ riers is wrong. To assume that a dis­ abled. I'm only on crutches, what of abled person can be cafried every­ the others? If it had not been for the * UNCLE ALBERTS ORGASMIC ORCHESTRA * where is also wrong besides the feel­ kind help of individual staff members, ing of dependency there's a question I know I would have flaked out long of liability in cases of accident. There­ ago. Now I think it's over to the stu­ These are all top rate N.Z. musicians and they are featured in :turer in fore the obvious alternative is to one big concert. The idea is a throw-back to the Woodstock for­ hese days dents themselves. Hopefully, the stu­ adopt the NZS4121 Code of Practice dents of today are tomorrow's mat where people can come and go as they please. For the initial ees. for Design For Access By Handicap­ ts, be- specialists. For example, I pray that outlay for the ticket, this is a concert that will be well worth going ped Persons: Public Buildings & each student of architecture will, in ~ jal Sky Facilities". Great Britain already has to and promises to be a memorable one. national his professional life, design every legislation to cover this (Chronically building with easy access. Similarly, I So the format is there for a really enjoyable Sunday, all we need Sick & Disabled Persons Act 1970, now is the people to enjoy it. gious ask each student in his future life to section 8). Why is New Zealand so remember the needs of the disabled. Prabhu- far behind? e income. Apart from legislation, I believe that 3le job it ie students themselves can help, not t various nly by becoming aware of this prob- company m, but also by setting an example to support the community, ensuring that facilities ieriea. are made available to encourage dis­ r to keep abled students. Over the years I have t busy [made repeated requests for easy ac­ ishna cess, both to the authorities and to the Students' Assn. When the new sci­ ence block was built! Now I question the validity of students fighting for equality in various fields, yet are so ignorant about conditions on campus. Why are students so selfish in believ­ ark the ing that only they have a right to t w hen further their own education, and are ! surprised so apathetic in helping others to do t there, the same? Often a disabled person's sk in . The intelligence is his only asset, how else for whites Id to keep jred en- must surely be easily open to abuse. The Magistrate convicted and fined all 80 $50. Incredibly however, on appeal before Mr Justice McArthur the conviction was quashed; the judge stating “ that I am forced to the conclusion that it was not established that each and every one of these 80 people were on the premises at the relevant time”. Thus the concerted efforts of over 50 police to mass convict a gang has failed. - Section 86 has an interesting history. The last time it had any significant use was to stop the Maori chief Te Kooti and his followers back in 1890. At the same time jn England the same section w: s used to charge mem­ bers of the Salvation Arm y who apparently caused such a reaction with their “ holy parades’" they were deemed to be ‘unlawful’. For eighty years s86 has had as much relevance as the statutes of the Roman Empire. .Suddenly like a long lost Anastasia it has reappeared - the result of a vig­ orous Labour Government policy to get tough on law and order. This policy which seemingly con­ tradicts Dr Finlay’s law reforms has been vigorously carried out by the Minister of Police Mr Connelly. The sectioh is a very wide and dangerous power that seems to .have been in recent months specifically aimed at the bikie gangs. Indeed In the test iays of 73 a ^roup of clared the gathering an unlawful uously or (b) will by that assemb one defence counsel at this trial motorcyclists zoomed through the assembly and used tear gas to assembly needlessly and without stated “ A change of government smali hamlets of North Canterbury. drive them out of the house into reasonable cause provoke other saw a change in policy, suddenly All the way they were tailed by the clutches of the waiting police. persons to disturb the peace tum­ B IK IE S then seemed to have police cars and traffic bikies who 80 people were arrested and ultuously.” come into existence”! were there to ensure an orderly charged under Section 86 of the The police went to incredible Crimes Act 1961. The case came before Christ­ journey. church Magistrate E.S. ends to carry out this policy, in­ At one point after stopping at The Crimes Act like its Siam­ Crutcheley sitting not in his us­ cluding canvassing neighbours to a number of hotels wnere they ese twin the Police Offences Act ual courtroom but in of all places sign complaints. In fact on e sipped sarsparilla - a deadly drink is a pot-pourri of offences rang­ police witness in this case failed ing from treason to Bail misdem­ the local Horticultural Hall, the -they were rounded up and given only available building large en­ to turn up at court while another breathalyser tests - which didn't eanours. refused to complain but did so S86 is very wide ranging and ough to take 80 defendants and show up soft drinks. their counsel. after being told by the police it Finally they arrived at Christ­ states that; The defendants through their was “ his moral duty to do so” . church where a dramatic encoun­ “ An unlawful assemoly The section itself is being a- is an assembly of three or more lawyers claimed that the ter occurred. “ common purpose” referred to mended to bring its language up presons who with intent to carry to modern idiom. It will be inter­ out any common purpose, assemble in the act must be in itself un­ The Police stated that the esting to see if the government in such a manner, or so conduct lawful. The Magistrate disagreed group created a large amount of stating that any common purpose will further change it to get noise, fought amongst themselves themselves when assembled, as to is sufficient and was supported around the loopholes. urinated over walls and engaged in cause persons in the neighbour­ on this point by Mr Justice It is hoped however that the beer fights with one another, all hood of the assembly to fear, on McArthur when the case went recognition of civil rights for all of which they claimed gravely dis­ reasonable grounds that the persons on appeal. Thus the section people will diminish apparent turbed the local residents. As a so assembled — gives the courts and the police vendettas for a small group in result they closed the road, de­ (a) will disturb the peace tumult- extremely wide powers which society. ROB GREENFIELD LABOUR DAY and MILITARISM

A pro-fascist female relative says she Another question. Why are so many thinks Labour Day should be wiped be­ N.Z. women militaristic unless they be­ cause it has no meaning for us. Would long to leftist groups? An Englishwoman I you please explain its origin and signifi­ know says this might explain why N.Z. cance to her and other know-nothings? MEN ENLIST IN SUCH VAST NUMBERS I note that between .1891 and 1894 the IN WARTIME AND DIE IN HORDES IN Ballance-Seddon regime adopted laws . FOREIGN FIELDS. (“ On Monday I went which abolished sweated labour condi­ out with a soldier, On Tuesday I went out tions and established the 48-hour week, ls with a tar.'') No wonder we have become that how Labour Day originated? And why known as the “ Prussians of the Pacific." is it observed on some Monday in O c­ We also have the marching girl tober? phenomenon. Our psychology profs, Our schools should teach us things like could research all this. . . (or the Society this and people should be examined in for Research on Women). civics before they are allowed to vote. the same token preserve some of what doesn't mind, not really. In fact he is left. It was Les of course who took rather relishes the sport to be had in out an injunction to stay the destruc­ such clashes. "You know", he pouts tion of Osborne House in Ponsonby. with glee, "I've got more enemies in LES HARVEY Les has the kind of optimism that is this town than I've got friends. But I You d never guess that Les Harvey owns some of the choicest catching. Casual observors alight from like it that way. It makes life excit­ real estate in Auckland. the gleaming minis and Triumphs and ing." begin poking around the dainty little The Parnell Road project is Les He's a roly-poly little man with bouncing features and sparkling shops that he is creating just below Harvey's most outstanding contribu­ eyes. True, he has a spreading midriff, thinning hair and bulging the apex of Parnell Rise. He wel­ tion to Auckland's cityscape. But this varicose of your steak-chomping tycoon, but these are signposts comes them without ceremony. is only a beginning. Ideas issue out of that tell us little about the man himself. "Everything's marked," he explains. Les's brain like lava out of a vent and He is no fat-arsed, dollar-hungry those buildings might no t be here "If there's something you want just one does not doubt for a moment that scrooge slobbing it behind an office and much of Parnell's olde world leave your money on the counter." his intentions will find their realisa­ desk: Les would rather be out there charm would have vanished into The new arrivals flush with pleasure tion. in the open, working with his shirt twentieth century sterility. Just cast at this unexpected latitude. Who • Items planned include a village off and toting only a pair of "dun- your eyes over that hollow desolation would have the heart to steal from green in Summer St, Ponsonby, the gas" to shield him from the elements. of concrete that blotches the opposite this guy? construction of "noddy" houses on The man's vitality is truly amazing. side of the street. You realise with Whatever his other faults one can­ several sections he owns in Gibraltar He just never stops. "No time for a alarm what Parnell might have had in not readily accuse Les of being a Crescent and most ambitious of all, tea-break", he snorts, driving his store for it if Les hadn't come along. If materialist. Money is simply a means an arts centre that will serve Auckland chisel along the flaking surface of the that isn't enough to convince you, do to an end. He has a casual, almost in a wholly novel and imaginative verandah post he is operating on. Not bear in mind that buildings mature careless attitude toward possessions. way. even doctor's orders can check him. with age and Les's shops, stiff and His car he describes in the most de­ The philosophy behind this latter "Nothing's serious", he remarks sickly sweet as they are at present, meaning terms as "that cracky yellow scheme is to create an ethos where with diabolic humour. One can only will mellow. stationwaggon." He has a large mod­ people (bikies included) can come agree. His zeal and enthusiasm are Another criticism that can be level­ ern home by the sea in Campbells along and express themselves in any positively infectious. led at Les is that he charges exces­ Bay, sure. But that's little more than a way they choose. It's envisaged that Les was a pretty sick man when he sively high rentals on his shop pre­ retreat to come home to. Conse­ facilities will be available to cater for disembarked from the navy at the end mises and fiats. This is the feature of quently in spite of his millions he is such varied activities as metal casting’ of the last war. Temporarily crippled Les's activities that is perhaps most free of the kind of affectedness and and screen printing. The scheme will from a mine blast and sporting a col­ disturbing. One can't but help feeling ostentation that's often associated be financed by setting aside half the lapsed lung he was poorly equipped a certain repugnance toward the ac­ with men of similar means. area for shops and offices. to compete in the rat-race of modern cumulation of large rent-derived pro­ For Les, life has the qualities of a Les Harvey exemplifies the paradox living. fits, even with the understanding that game. He has a splendid time baiting of the capitalist torn between the Not to be daunted he tried his hand no capitalist has ever managed to re­ the nasty little men from the city (who amorality of his methods on the one at flower farming. Securing a lease on tain his virginity intact. take things so seriously after all). Few, hand and his desire to foster the a property south of Auckland he flung The capitalist logic for Les goes to take one example, are better community interest on the other. The himself into his work like a galley something-like this: in order to fi­ equipped to frustrate the designs of constant constant pull between the slave. Eventually he scraped together nance new schemes and projects, you vested interests than Leslie Harvey. man's altruism and his natural busi­ enough finance to put a deposit on must by necessity get a good return The attempts of one insurance com­ ness sense must at times produce a the place. Needless to say, this from current investments and this im­ pany to expand its offices into a space double standard that is difficult to re­ proved to be the springboard from plies high rents which, of course, are currently occupied by Barry Lett Gal­ concile. One can cite evidence to which later successes were to irresist- passed on to the consumer in the lery in Victoria Street, was doomed support this. His intention (now de­ ably flow. He sold the farm for a form of higher prices. Not a happy because of Les's stubborn refusal to funct) to build a car-park in Gibraltar phenomenal profit and then pro­ situation, but perhaps the only feasi­ sell, despite a tempting offer that Crescent would have meant the de­ ceeded to buy up chunks of real es­ ble one, if one concedes the desirabil­ would have added $200,()()() in profit struction of one of Auckland's more tate in the Queen City itself. Since ity of his activities. to the price he had originally paid. picturesque streets. Secondly, the kind then he has never looked back. Les has a very rich and sympathetic He refused to sell because the new of rents he charges may strike some Eleven years ago he started opera­ understanding of human nature. He building would have blocked out all as being exploitative. tions in Parnell Road. He upgraded has the kind of common touch that is the sunlight to Mill Lane (of Brown's Yet we must qualify our criticisms. the shops preserving the street's rarely associated with men of his sta­ Mill fame). Certainly, one can only applaud the quaint colonial character. In recent years boutiques and arts and crafts shops have proliferated along the pavement and names like "Martha's Closet", "Gaslight", and "The Cherry ENTREPRENEUR Orchard" have endowed the street with a kind of picture book imagery. Of course Les Harvey's methods have come in for criticism. His shops have been written off as being too EXTRAORDINAIRE chic twee trendy or whatever and cer­ tion in life. To watch him at work is a When the same insurance company man's drive and enthusiasm. In this tainly his creations do at times seem a real treat. There are no airs, no pre­ sought permission to install some respect he is a living example to those bit chocolate boxy for comfort. Some tensions. He has a very direct and sheeting on his property, Les refused students and drop-outs who rail of his embellishments are undoub­ straightforward personality that en­ because his buildings might be dam­ against the system, yet conduct their tedly vulgar distractions that detract gages the listener's attention and aged. The company was forced to set personal lives with the most appalling from the simplicity of the original de­ commands his respect. Working bus­ the new building eight feet back from futility, moreover Les cannot be sign. Further, by making Parnell fash­ ily on his latest task he chats away the boundary, an alteration which blithely written off as a profit-minded ionable Remuera-style, he has helped with unmasked freedom about his cost them a cool $80,()()(). shark taking all and giving nothing in to destroy much of the community hopes, his dreams, his attitudes to­ The company has reacted pretty return. feeling that existed there previously. wards life. His overriding ambition is typically by refusing to ratify any Viggo Monrad If it hadn't been for Les Harvey, to bring beauty into the world and by further mortgages to Les. But Les GOING, GOING... BEFORE YOU BUY A NEW BIKE Yes, publications grant applications COUNT close this week, that is, on Friday 26th April at 5.00 pm. Club THE FORBES AND DAVIES STICKERS ON THE BIKES OUTSIDE secretary’s were given ample notice COUNT in February of their eligibility for THE NEW HONDAS THAT GO PAST these grants, but only a few clubs COUNT have in fact applied. 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MULTINATIONALS Our society w isd o m , o r si I have been asked at very short trade union movement. tates in Sri Lanka, and expressing members interests in every way." The thinking-for-y notice to do a few paragraphs for The multinationals get so much of a support for the Ceylon Workers' Con­ statement names the Trade Disputes ity in su p e ro r Craccum so more or less doing this hold in most countries that they have Act and the Sugar Ordinance of Fiji as gress and the Plantation Workers In­ off the top of my head there could influenced governments to introduce society is at a examples of anti-union legislation. In ternational (IFPAAW) in their conflict thing can sur be a few errors. anti-trade union laws which has given with the company on this issue. Other a statement on Multinational corpora­ our society tc The subject I think that should be these economic giants the free right to companies discussed in the confer­ tions, the conference noted that these changes to cc bothering the workers of New Zea­ exploit labour. To name a few of the "have taken advantage of the desper­ ence and the threerday seminar which men. It h a s b< land at the moment and one that has countries, Fiji, Philippines, Malaysia, ate need of the less industrialised proceded it, were Kfartoo, Colonial man u n d e rsta been very close to us during the last Sri Lanka. countries for capital investments and Sugar Refining, Westion, Unilever, is doing. It is few weeks is that of multinational In several statements adopted by jobs to impose their own terms on Ajinamoto, Nabisco, Nestle, British- to be told w h takeovers in New Zealand. At the the conference and the regional countries which are not in a position American Tobacco and R j Reynolds. running out o moment the latest bid by Kraft Foods Committee, delegations expressed to bargain with them, that govern­ In my remarks to the conference I The averag on the takeover of N.Z. Cheese Ltd., concern about a growing tendency by ments have been under-bidding each pointed out that as far as our Union "What is the has been temporarily averted, this to various Asian Governments to impose was concerned it was time that the other, offering low wages, weak trade work, our w a my mind only because the people of restrictions on trade union rights, re­ two main trade union groups namely unions and low taxes as incentives to am I d o in g , \a New Zealand were concerned flecting "an effort to make the work­ attract multinational corporations." the I.C.T.F.U. and W .F.T.U. sand their is very unlike enough to protest through their or­ ers bear the brunt of the difficulties differences and combined to fight the Conference demanded that unions by his m ates, ganisations e.g. Federated Farmers, common enemy of the world trade encountered in economic growth and be "consulted and informed of any not norm al, n various dairy companies and last but the effects of inflation. This was par­ agreement made between respective union movement, mainly to develop But the institc not least the Trade Union Movement. ticularly apparent, the statement said, governments and any multinational the world working class movement as tionally m ean Last December I attended an Inter­ in legislation imposing guidelines re­ company affecting the political, a united group regardless of politics such q u e stio n national Union of Foodworkers Con­ stricting the ability of unions to en­ economic and social rights of the and that we must remember that any idols o f G o d , ference and the main topic was the gage in free collective bargaining, re­ trade unions." divided group is a "road to no­ and Law are i growth of multinationals and their at­ stricting the right to strike and the Delegates singled out the Brook where." thorities they C.K. Glendening. titude to the trade union movement, right of unions to select their own Bond Liebig Company in a strong coming senile in many cases throughout the world leadership, to determine their policies statement denouncing wages and National Secretary able to a n s w e they have refused to recognise the and to effectively represent their conditions on the company's tea es­ Brewery Workers Union modern weste Th e rationa back in to v o g MIGRANTS MAY GO SOUTH WHO WILL HELP THE WORKING GIRL? enough to say Pleased I am to read in Feb. 22nd put this request on their agenda? I hope job," or "Tha In my recent report on the United was concentrated in Auckland. "Craccum" that 40 trade umonists met so; we waited very patiently for over a "I'm norm al" Nations Association Conference I asked Immigration Minister to form an industrial relation: society. decade for the Equal Pay Act supported evitable. Eithe in Wellington, I mentioned that Fraser Colman about this during jfrom where I'm looking this new by regular and annual resolutions from or bust. an Auckland delegate had sug­ his visit here, April 4-6. He said group will or could be a great help to our brother trade unionists but ladylike It is m y opi gested that Government might his Government would encourage the working women and girls of Auck­ behaviour gets us nowhere. single fo rc e ui encourage or oblige migrants to immigrants to go south by promot­ land in getting some attention paid to Forty trade unionists sounds like a settle in the South Island. (Crac­ ing industry there. Freight rate the many problems associated with great band of brothers (and sisters?) REVIEW ( cum, April 9). subsidies would be an immediate women trying to fit into working pat­ Will they take up this cause? CONNIE PURDUE DLE EART New Zealand, he claim ed, had help. He did not think New Zea­ terns made by men for men. We tried to get discussions on our MENTS O a population problem, because of land could direct people to settle problems, you know, maternity and Paul H Ko the drift from the south to the anywhere, as the Russians had paternity leave, equal promotion and son 1973. north and the concentration done in opening up Siberia. Even PUBLIC MEETING training, more part-time and flexible This rev around Auckland. For example, 70 so, the climate in the South Island hours, etc, but so far the Education april 24th (wed)' to that shi per cent of all British immigrants was better than in Coronation Sub-Committee of the Auckland Trades flits amon; to New Zealand settle in Auckland Street. Council which includes such busy Naomi Petersen docile, doi and now make up 10 per cent of (Some days previously, how­ people as Bill Andersen, Harold Cal- of the Free the population here, compared to ever, a taxi driver in Nelson had lagher, Jack Taylor and Brian Brooks, (Fri Crewmember) course to three per cent in Christchurch or told me, "You keep 'em up etc, just can't get around to setting up Central Methodist Conspiracy Invercargill. Moreover, 60 per cent north"). the seminar we asked for in April 1972. john Tol of all New Zealand manufacturing PHILIP SOLJAK. 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Human rational­ iety means to be a person who will can accept reality — until we teach do as he is told, who will not think for the approval of the teacher, of the ity in superorganised modern western them, by inculcating our myths, to for himself. It is my opinion that system, of the law, of the public . . . society is at an all-time low. If any­ fear it. If you stop and think for a schooling — the ten-year process to but everybody else is anxiously wait­ thing can survive the rapid.chance in moment you will realise that your ing too. our society today, and the drastic . child has the capacity to become a I believe that our society would changes to come, it is only rational caveman, a Roman, a Hindu, or a make an evolutionary leap forward in men. It has become urgent that each man of the year 3000 — until we one generation if we abolished school man understand for himself what he socialise him our way. Do we adults and allowed our children safe con­ is doing. It is not enough that we wait have such powers, and does "our" duct throughout our society for twenty to be told what to do, for we are fast way work anymore? ls our way of life years, to see what we are doing: in running out of legitimate authorities. going to be liveable, worth living, our offices, factories, army camps, The average person wants to ask, worth imposing on these new people? bedrooms .... Furthermore I believe "What is the point of our life, our And just as your child could become, that this is the only way of restoring work, our war, our schools. . . what with different socialisation, a Roman rationality or responsibility-for-self as am I doing, what are we doing?" He soldier or whatever, he could become a way of life; to release our children is very unlikely to be taken seriously whatever it takes to cope with west­ from our schools and let them be by his mates. Asking such questions is ern society tomorrow: .ocialised by which all children in our society are educated by reality itself. not normal, not socially acceptable. judging for himself a wo'Id that he is subjected — causes this apathy, this We in adult society have been so But the institutions which are tradi­ free to perceive, allowed to be the rationality, this inhibition against long divorced from the very positive tionally meant to provide answers to rational animal that he naturally is. thinking for yourself. To suggest, in self motivating way of life of the un­ such questions are crumbling. The Let everybody be responsible for trying to legitimise schooling, that the schooled child, that we don't know idols of God, King, Country, Family the world our children will inherit. enlightened schools of today are tel­ our children. Some adults are so and Law are not respected as the au­ Let the children out. ling their inmates to think for them­ alienated that they believe that chil­ thorities they used to be. They are be­ Let everybody be responsible to the selves is just a sick joke. dren are by nature inactive and would coming senile, and incompetent, un­ children. Society today is so super-organised not do anything unless to. We able to answer the questions which forced Let the children in. modern western man is faced with. that a real change in any part entails see them as trouble, they are too em­ a change in the whole (one example: The rational individual must come barrassing to have around in "adult" PHIL O'CARROLL back into vogue. It is no longer to change from the grading system in affairs. Why are we so scared of the enough to say, "I am only doing my education we must change the whole children? They cannot assault us. job," or "That was our orders" or system by which money is distributed Physically. But they are honest — I'm normal". Drastic change is in­ throughout society). So while we until we teach them by example to lie know that change is necessary, we evitable. Either we change rationally — and confident — until we teach or bust. are terrified of it. We can't handle it. them by example to disbelieve in It is my opinion that the biggest We are terrified because we do not themselves, to deny their own minds. single force under human control for dare to think for ourselves, to answer So we must swallow our stupid

REVIEW OF: MASTER OF MID­ gods while individuals, acting in "White Knight" non-character, a DLE EARTH: THE ACHIEVE­ this framework, retain free will to chapter looks at Sauron and the MENTS OF j.R.R. TOLKEIN. By be good or evil, active or passive; Nature of Evil, the Free Peoples Paul H Kocher. Thames and Hud­ they are responsible for their ac­ of Middle Earth, and finally re­ son 1973. $6.25. tions. Evil in Middle Earth re­ views of Tolkein's minor works. This review is addressed really volves largely round the Dark The chapter of the Free Peoples to that shady brotherhood that Lord Sauron, struggle is directed raises another interesting notion: flits among the ranks of decent, to domination of that Earth and the opposed fates of men and docile, dormant suburban citizens ownership of the Ring of Power. elves, men to death, elves to live of the Free World — I refer, of A rather rigid dichotomy between on and on, while all around them course to the International Hobbit good and evil is maintained grows and dies over and over, Conspiracy. throughout the work. unable to live more than a fleet­ John Tolkein wrote "Lord of The guts of Tolkein's ideas re­ ing momentary existence in the the Rings". He's like oysters and garding fantasy creation are co­ ancient weary elven eyes. cunnilingus — you either love 'im vered in chapters one and seven. I don't agree entirely with or you loathe 'im. For those who He argued basically that fantasy, Kocher's book — he nearly gets like some crunch in their Tolkein far from being remots or away trapped in the supremely point­ or who are trying to excuse their from reality springs from it and less game of trying to 'place' obsession with LOTR, Paul Kocher relies on it, for our acceptance of Middle Earth in history, also I like of Stanford University has written it. The Ring role has great and the dwarves rather more than he an excellent investigation and small, mundane and fantastic does, but he does get beyond a critique of Tolkein's whole equally in it, keeping us carefully mere literary review into a more philosophy and method, the very stimulated, yet able to relate to fundamental discussion on Tol­ basics of which appear in Ch. e. the situation and characters. kein. "Cosmic Order". Kocher con­ Also covered are Aragon, the God (i.e. Brent Lewis) willing, I tends convincingly that this order King Who Returns — an excellent might have a few more raves on is from a Catholic viewpoint in rationale and sketching in of a Middle Earth matters anon. that, on the one hand, the outline «figure often dismissed as unreal, a GANDOLF DRAGON of events is laid down by a god or XllIIIIIIIIIIIIXXXXXXXXXX H UNIVERSITY RUGBY LEAGUE LOST One black wallet near the Bookshop H FOOTBALL CLUB H on Thursday night at about 6pm. Con­ TRAINING AT CORNWALL PARK taining I.D. card, drivers licence, keys H MONDAY and WEDNESDAY etc — everything important. If you find THE it, you're welcome to the money, but at 5.30 p.m. please either hand it in to the Studass H UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP Office or post it to Gerard Laan, 76 H Vacancies for players in: WISHES TO ANNOUNCE Gladstone Rd, Parnell. H SENIOR “B” NEW PRICES ON Thank you. H THIRD GRADE — open age, max 12st 7lb HEWLETT- RACKARD H EIGHTH GRADE — 18 yrs max 11st. 7lb CALCULATORS M NEW PLAYERS WELCOMED LOST M H P35 $ 2 0 5 One white handbag and con­ H FORMER PLAYERS REMINDED Enquiries to Graeme Monteith ph 677-789 tents from Top Common Room on H Friday night of Easter Tournament. HP45 $ 2 9 5 If anyone saw it or knows any­ H ENJOY RUGBY LEAGE . . . COME AND SEE US thing about it please ring Lynette H THE MODERN GAME OF RUGBY OR PHONE 656-787, or leave in Studass office. H KERRY NEALE (53)45-647 I hadn't followed Barry McGuire teachers, parents with children, teena­ since the early sixties, when he wrote gers, and other frighteningly normal the "Green Back Dollar" and "Green well-adjusted and healthy looking Green". Since then it appears that he people. has become sickened with the reality of Add what's more, these people actu­ the money-spinning commercial music ally let themselves go! Instead of trying scene. At that time he had been in the to show how well they could hold New Christy Minstrels, whom he down their stone, they actually stood parted with six months before teaming up and clapped and sang with the up with 19-year-old P.F. Sloan, to re­ music. lease what is not a by-word in folk-rock The backing group consisted or or­ protest singing: "Eve of Destruction". gans, drums, bass, lead guitar, and a "Don't you understand semi-acoustic rythm guitar. I felt that what I'm tryin' to say? although the songs were gfood, they Can't you feel the fear had some trouble in getting the group that I'm feelin' today? together properly, but this is probably If the button is pushed, because it was only their second per­ there's no running away formance. There'll be no-one to save Barry McGuire himself has rollicking with the world in a grave. and rocking approach to his music, his Take a look around you boy, long blond hair bouncing up and down ah, don't you believe we're on as he hits out the rythmn, and his con­ The Eve of Destruction.' tinuity between songs is relaxed but The song was banned from New Zea­ thoroughly professional. His format is land broadcasting until January this basically similar to that of Joan Baez — year. that of music with a message^ So con­ Immediately Middle America de­ sequently the continuity is of great im­ cided that the Eve of Destruction was portance. for Barry McGuire they clamoured for But the act which left the greatest its suppression, branding it as "Com­ impression on me was the Second munist Propaganda". Chapter of Acts — his backing group of So what's happened to Mr McGuire vocalists. Apparently McGuire disco­ in the past nine years? vered them himself, and musically feel Well, I found at his concert on March that they out-classed everything else on 23, that he has got into Jesus Rock, the show. Their voices are the best I which isn't really my proverbial pint of ever heard live. They consisted of two bitter. However, musically the evening sisters and a brother, and most concen­ had a lot to offer, and culturally it was trated on their own compositions, the quite an experience. oldest one — I don't know her name — Accustomed to the usual normalities was a show in herself. of freaks and weirdos, gay libbers, She was a highly proficient pianist women's libbers and general bums at and had a completely unrestrained your average common-garden rock voice — the sky was the limit with the concert, I had to reel back from th cul­ pitch — which had a kind of spine- ture shock of sitting under a visual chilling eergy. I could have listened to bombardment of Sunday school her for hours. IAN SINCLAIR

Last time, due to excessive verbos­ Pinot Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from fairly neutral somewhat acid T.M.V. Sparkling Pinot: Light yellow, ity, I had no space left to talk about grapes grown in a strictly delimited white wines by the Charmat process almost a brownish tinge. Fairly coarse Nobilo's Heritage as I had intended. area around Reims in the French pro­ in which the secondary fermentation aged Pinot nose and flavour but with This is a special sparkling wine which vince of Champagne by a lengthy and is carried out in a large tank and the a definite character marking it as New Nobilo's recently released to their rigidly controlled process. The grapes wine is filtered and bottled fairly im­ Zealand made. Dry. Quite good even subscribers — any left over was to be are pressed as soon as possible after mediately. The cheapest sparkling though the bottle had only been filled put on general sale. It was vintaged picking. (Special care must be taken wines forgo even this and obtain their up to the shoulder. sparkle by carbonation just like soft in 1972 from Baco 22A, Macabeo with the black Pinot Noir grapes that Cooks Black Label Cre'anza: Pale yel­ drinks. Neither of these processes and Pinot Chardonnay grapes and the pigment in the skin does not stain low. Medium bead. Pleasant sweet takes nearly as much time as the was intended to be a crackling i.e. the clear juice). The juice is then fer­ grapey nose and flavour. Slightly champagne process and while these slightly sparkling wine but the wine mented until the winter cold stops the sweet. Carbonated. wines can be very pleasant they do was of such superlative quality that it fermentation and helps to clarify the Sutton Baron Chatelain: Very pale not have the character of champagne was decided to make it fully sparkl­ wine and precipitate excess acid. In yellow-green, almost water white. ing. In appearance the wine is Medium bead. Rather nasty hybrid yellow-gold with a medium bead (the nose. Pleasant fairly full hybrid size of the bubbles). The nose is flavour. Fairly sweet. Rather fizzy. pleasantly light and fruity with a Carbonated. trace of the "appley" character you Villa Maria Sparkling Cuvee Dry: find in aged champagnes. It has a Very pale yellow. Turbid. Large bead. pleasant full flavour, again with a Slight grapey nose. Somewhat sour slight "appley" character, a pleasant grapey flavour. Seemed to have un­ acidity and is completely dry (i.e. not dergone an unscheduled secondary sweet). A very good wine; if you see fermentation in bottle. somejatch on to it even though it the spring the new wines are blended Lincoln Sparkling Vintello Cuvee costs $2.50 per bottle. with older wines to produce the style which obtains a lot of its quality from Medium: Very pale yellow, almost What's this about subscribers? Well, of wine that the shipper desires, a the long aging on the yeast from the water white. Large bead. Synthetic a year and a half ago Nobilo's insti­ calculated amount of sugar is added secondary fermentation. The desire of hybrid nose and flavour. Rather tuted a scheme whereby on the pay­ and the wines bottled and left to un­ the French to reserve the name sweet. A bit sulphurous. Carbonated. ment of $50 for hybrid vines and $75 dergo a secondary fermentation. In champagne for the wines produced Cooks Asti-Style Sparkling Cre'anza: for vinifera vines you obtain a dozen certain well-flavoured years a vintage by this involved method in a small Pale yellow. Large bead. Sweet fruity bottles of wine each year for five champagne is produced from wine of part of France is thus understandable. Muscat nose and flavour. Long Mus­ years. Furthermore, each bottle bears only that year. Incidentally, in a treaty signed about cat aftertaste. Fairly sweet. Carbo­ your name and there is a vine in their After about two years the sediment eighty years ago New Zealand con­ nated. Good and in the style of Asti vineyard tagged with your name. from the secondary fermentation is tracted that the word champagne Spumante. Great if you like good wine or are shaken down and the bottle turned would be used only for such wines. Penfold's Medallion Medium: Very impressed by the rigmarole that has upright until the sediment is resting Herewith notes on some New Zea­ pale yellow. Fairly large bead. Pleas­ come to be associated with wine. (I on the cork. The neck of the bottle is land sparkling wines that I tasted re­ ant light winy nose and flavour. Fairly am not sure whether these are mutu­ then frozen, the cork removed to­ cently. sweet. Somewhat acid. Charmat pro­ ally exclusive). Anyway, this offer was gether with the sediment-filled plug of Montana Champagne Premium Re­ cess. McWilliam's Marque Vue: Very very good value and remains so even ice, the wine topped up with the de­ serve Brut 1973: Very pale yellow. pale yellow. Medium bead. Fruity though the price has now increased. sired amount of sweetening and the Medium bead. Nasty "metallic" nose. metallic nose. Pleasant light fruity And the wines are good too — the bottle rapidly recorked so as not to Fairly full hybrid-like flavour. Charmat flavour with a slight Muscat character. subscribers' 1973 Private Bin Dry lose the bubbles. After labelling the process. Dry. Rather sweet. Charmat process. White is made from different grapes bottle is given a short rest before Corban's Premiere Cuvee Brut 1973: Mention should also be made of and is rather better than the commer­ being sold. Thus a great deal of work Very pale yellow-green. Medium bead the only New Zealand bubblies made cially released wine. goes into making a bottle of cham­ Pleasant light rather neutral nose. by the champagne process — Mission Now let's talk about bubblies start­ pagne and it takes about three years Pleasant light neutral "soda-like" Fontanella and Selak'5 Champelle, ing with the archetypal bubbly, at least. flavour. Pleasant acidity. Dry. Char­ both of which are expensive and dif­ champagne. This wine is made from Lesser sparkling wines are made mat process. ficult to obtain. Sorry about last week. I was on holiday. snarls and the excitement is electrifying. Only When I Laugh possesses the rare No kidding. You might have spotted the Nutbush City? Tina's hometown. The quality of the good Ip record; that of blue in the last Bananarama. Billy cover, you see, is very appropriate. being able to totally captivate the listener Preston's first big hit was That's the Way Like TinaTurner herself, Nutbush City — to whisk the listener away on a jour­ God Planned It not Jesus ls A Soul Man. Limits kicks with energy, excitement and ney. It's "a mixture of humour, pathos, in­ Nor even Jesus Was A Soul Man. That was gutz. sanity and love" according to the info Laurence Reynold's trip. sheet. That'd be right. It's the pathos that's These Foolish Things overpowering. It has much the same effect BRYAN FERRY Space Ritual on me as Joni Mitchell's Blue. Sure, that's (Recorded live in Liverpool and London) placing it against formidable opposition Legend has it that it took Bryan Ferry HAWKWIND but Only When I Laugh is worthy of the 96 takes before he could control his comparison. laughter and achieve the final cut of The No it's not a bird. Nor a plane. It's Glen Cardier commands a powerful Tracks of My Tears. "So take a good look Superhype in the guise of Hawkwind, spell. And when the album finishes with at my face/You see my smile looks out of space rock musicians to the world. the last words of Journey's End still echo­ place/lf you look closer it's easy to Hawkwind's stage act is an engineer's ing in your mind — "and after all is said trace/The tracks of my tears". So you take delight. Fronted by a dancer cum stripper and done,/i was not the only one to Journey's End a good look at the face on thfe front cover. called Stacia. go/drifting far away, you know" — it's MATTHEW FISHER Brian Ferry in a serious mood. Looks like But is it Art? The truth is, Hawkwind ike awaking from a dream. A beautiful he's gonna burst out laughing. That's the spells hype. dream but also a sad one. Well, how's Matthew Fisher these days? clue. To start with, I would hope the average And I'm left to reflect that that was The Just fine it would seem. On the material Bryan Ferry you'll remember as the record buyer (if such an animal exists) Great Australasian Enigma Part Two. side, if you're gonna believe the words of front man for Roxy Music — vocals and would go no further than the inner cover. Three bananas for an Australian artist? Going For A Song, he's got his own golf keyboards, a white suit, bowtie and Okay, so the Hawkwind glam girl's there What on earth will my editor say? course, swimming pool and a Lambor­ swishback hair. but facing her is a compilation of such ghini. And on the other side of Lhings Bryan Ferry singing thirteen golden old­ literary gems a "There can be no centre in Silverbird there's this here Ip. A very fine album ies. David Bowie did much the same thing infinity. The Theory of Relativity demon­ LEO SAYER right from the assurance and self- with Pin-Ups but whereas Bowie's was a strates essentially that the laws of nature confidence of Suzanne to the haunting subtle humour, this is hilarious. Not at all are the same Everywhere in the Universe Leo Sayer you'll remember as the guy Separation, the questioning Hard To Be subtle. and that no phenomena can be measured who attracted the support of no less a per­ Sure and the brilliant Journey's End. It's My Party (which Ferry has camped by itsalf but only in relation to other sonage than Roger Daltrey. He wrote the When Matthew Fisher sings "I don't up a little), The Tracks of My Tears, Baby I phenomena." And there's plenty more lyrics for the Daltrey solo album. Dave mind you asking for my autograph/But Don't Care, I love How You Love Me, and where that came from. Far out, huh? Courtney, who used to be a drummer with please don't ask what happened to my Don't Worry Baby I find the most amus­ No, they aren't the lyrics but you're get­ Adam Faith, wrote the music. And Adam friends/Please don't show me any more ing. Plus of course These Foolish Things ting perilously close. And the music's bad. Faith produced the album. old photographs/And please don't make itself which has my vote for the best track There's taped electronic effects — flashing The Sayer/Courtney/Faith partnership me sing that song again" you can be sure on the record. Complete with whistling and whirring noises and the sound of a continues on Silverbird, Sayer's debut he's talking about A Whiter Shade of Pale waiters, tinkling pianner and a cabaret flying saucer taking off. To this Hawkwind album. and his earlier days as organise for Procol backdrop. The Stones' Sympathy For the add some meandering rhythm (so spaced, Innocent Bystander provides a strong Harum. Devil casts Ferry as the ol' archetypal ya know). Sci-fi lyrics. And it's all taking opening track and right through to Why ls Procol today is a different band from meanie himself. Delightfully wicked. weakness to the extreme. Boring. Everybody Going Home there's surprises Fisher's days. Only the Brooker/Reid part­ Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Conna Fall i But Hawkwind sell. Their second album and some very good stuff indeed. My nership remains. The rest have moved on included here too. When that was issued In Search Of Space was in the top five of favourite, if I must choose a favourite, is leaving a new model Procol to sweat out as a single a lot of otherwise normal peo­ the British charts for nearly six months. The Show Must Go On and it's also as innumerable variations on A Whiter Shade ple condemned it as sacrilege. The And since then all the Hawkwind albums good an introduction to Leo Sayer at his in Gary Brooker's, attempts to regain the Melody Maker's letters page was full of have been in the British top twenty. Sales best as you'll find. heights of their first big success. irate complainants who thought Ferry had not merit. A silver publicity machine. Slow Motion showcases Sayer's depth If Matthew Fisher's lyrics are sometimes spoiled what was otherwise a great song. Superhype lives. of feeling and it leads into Oh Wot A Life cynical and always introspective, they're Foolish things — this is even funnier than They have an impressive following in which is Sayer as the entertainer and per­ balanced by romantic orchestration and a Leon Russell album (though for different England. The fans? Well, you've gotta feel former. "Some ca^ out there split his baroque organ embellishments. reasons). An album for those who burst sorry for the mental retards. Their minds head right open/The doctor died of fright" Comparisons with Procol are ill-fitting out laughing at music's more tender mo­ totally eaten away by foul and nasty Charming. and unwanted. Matthew Fisher is back ments. You know, the Old Fashioned Love drugs. His lyrics are often clever, piercing and with a vengeance. Songs. There is, of course, no substitute for the sensitive. His voice is sharp, biting and real thing. Spendyour money replacing incisive in Drop Back and hoarse and T B Sheets Nutbush City Limits your worn-out copy of Ummagumma or squawking in The Show Must Go On. And VAN MORRISON IKE AND TINA TURNER get a King Crimson record (give at times his voice can be warm and melt- Earthbound a miss though). And that ing. Oooweeowwoooh a newie from Van Mor­ Tina Turner is the chick who did the cun- should tie you over with a bit of the ol' As much as The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy rison. Well, none of the stuff is new actu­ nilingus bit on Gimme Shelter, thereby cosmic jive. Stardust assured future success so too does ally. EMI have been down into the vaults making even Mick the Jagger look a little Silverbird. This vyeek'sjip for stardom. and come up with this one. It's previously tame. She's black, wild and a very sexy Only When I Laugh unreleased material from the years of '67, lady. GLENN CARDIER SYLVESTER AND THE HOT BAND '68 and '70. Ike keeps very much in the background. Don't expect another Astral Weeks. He plays some mighty fine guitar while He's a poet and it's the words that count. What makes Sylvester different from any­ Maybe this is a little rough and raw in Tina struts, shakes, sweats and all the So the vocals are pushed to the fore and one else in the business, black or white, is comparison but what the heck. It's got while throws her truly cosmic ass around. the backing is tight, clear and simple. The his voice. A freakish falsetto that squeaks Brown Eyed Girl on it so there's no ex­ Their version of River Deep, Mountain opening lines of the first track make a and screeches. cuse for any Van Morrison fan to give this High shows you what they're all about in good introduction to the album. The track What Sylvester is about is showbiz and one a miss. no uncertain terms. You*can forget all the is Journey and the lines are "hold me glam. Entertainment. The guy even designs And if you're not a fan of the lad? To other versions of this song you ever heard now, and i will tell how my journey/made his own clothes, surrounds himself with totally rip-off a Rod Stewart line — "Oi — this is the real thing. Tina screams and me see the world so well". wolf hounds and mongooses, and has really dunno where ya bin". Everything You Ever Wanted To Know A bout Shoplifting...

If you haven't ever shoplifted, you're probably abnormal. weeks produced an alarmingly high in­ what should you do? It's a usual stage in the lives of most children these days. The child crease in shoplifting offences in the The first thing to remember is that discovers that shoplifting is easy, and where no guilt feelings occur, city. A check on the offenders' occupa­ until you are actually outside the shop the child may develop the shoplifting habit. This habit is often only tions came up with the fact that many on the footpath, there is no proof that broken by being caught in the act, and the child is forced to accept the shop-assistants had been caught rip­ you have intended to steal that thing fact that his parents also know his terrible secret. ping off other stores in their spare time! you put in your pocket. If you realize There is one anti-shoplifting measure you have been noticed lifting some­ For these people shoplifting is just so out of hand that I'm told it will take employed by Queen Street businesses thing, calmly put it back, or if you like, part of a stage they go through, and until after May to clear the backlog that I find rather unsavoury. They have wander around the shop for a few they grow up to be good, honest, up­ from the “ Christmas rush", when one a comprehensive intershop system of hours and just before you leave, give it right, citizens who don't even cheat on shop alone had 43 cases in one week. filing the names, addresses and other to the nearest shop assistant, which will their taxes. Many stores having a dazzling array personal information of all shoplifters really annoy the store detective as he But what of the rest, the habitual of anti-shoplifter paraphernalia: closed caught in the shops that subscribe to probably has had to keep a close eye shoplifters, well, they come in all circuit television, one way mirrors, ■ this filing system. It was suggested that on you for hours. shapes, sizes and ages. One dear old shelf mirrors, warning signs, and even this be kept quiet as it could “ create If you do steal something success­ lady of 86 was caught and it was later specially bright price tags. In general, trouble". And trouble it caused. fully, make sure you resist the tempta­ found that she had 39 previous convic­ these act more as a psychological de­ What right have they to hoard infor­ tion to look at it as soon as you get out tions. The youngest I've ever heard terrent than as a foolproof catching de­ mation concerning particular incidents of the store. A store detective told me about were two three-year-old twins vice. Many of the television cameras in people's lives that many of these that practically everyone he sees shop­ who were trained by a fagin' like you will see eyeing you in shops are people would rather forget? What lifting, will have a look at whatever he's step-mother to steal from big depart­ really no more than cardboard and old safeguards have we that this mine of pinched within twenty yards of leaving ment stores. lenses done up to look like the real highly loaded information will not be the store. This is all the evidence the In New York, one in every two peo­ thing. misused? security man wilTneed and he is enti­ ple is a potential shoplifter. Potential in A real closed circuit T.V. system Kleptomania is a psychological dis­ tled to put you under citizen's arrest. the sense that if given a chance, they'll costs thousands of dollars, and have lit­ order common amongst women whose But it rarely comes to this as most peo­ take it. In New York, every large de­ tle practical use. In one shop I visited husbands have started at the bottom of ple are at such a disadvantage partment store has one or more only one channel out of four gave a the business ladder and worked their psychologically that they come back policemen permanently there to deal good picture as the other cameras were way up to the top. It can be seen as part into the shop like lambs. This is usually with shoplifters. all pointed towards bright lights and of the “ keeping up with the Jones" fatal! They say things would be easier Auckland is heading the same way. nothing could be seen on the screen. syndrome, and as one head of security for you, but what the hell, you'll most One in twelve is a potential shoplifter, Nobody watched the screen except told me with a chuckle as he lovingly probably be prosecuted anyway. The and the ratio increases every year. An those customers who like to watch patted his special filing box, “ if the best thing is to run. To the security average size department store told me themselves on T.V. However the names of Auckland Kleptos got out manager its j ust not worth the bother to they estimate that about Vi% of tur­ psychological effect of installing such there would be one hell of a scandal". run after you, as he'll just make a fool nover goes into the pockets of shoplif­ devices is tremendous. In one place Admittedly, it might be fun to know of himself, get puffed, and probably ters. where there is closed circuit T.V. shop­ who these people were, but it would lose you anyway. Shopowners regard shoplifting as a lifting is now a thing of the past, even not be right to expose them to the kind Above all, remember only mugs get meal to business profitability. Most take though no-one has been actually of degrading scandalmongering that caught. So don't be a mug if you're a hard line. “ They run us out of busi­ caught by being seen to shoplift on the goes on in the Sunday papers. going to shoplift. Try to look com­ ness, we try to run them out of busi­ screen. pletely natural. Security officers are ness,'' one manager said. Practically all trained to watch for the unusual, (e.g. people who got caught are referred to unfastened umbrella — most people the Police. Discretion and sympathy close umbrellas completely). The im­ are shown only in a very small minority portance of being natural can be illus­ of cases. Shopkeepers are uniformly trated by a delightful example of the evasive on the question of what sym­ man who donned a white coat, took a pathy is shown. kind of fork-lift into a large city shop, Most imply that they hand on shoplif­ and walked out, with a fridge. t ters to the police who then “ weigh up Shoplifting techniques are a bit like the evidence and circumstances", and magicians tricks in that nobody likes to decide whether or not to prosecute. But give them away. The best idea is to this is just not the case. The best weapon against shoplifters Anyway, enough moralizing, back to make up your own. But remember, be When a shopkeeper has proof that a is an attentive staff. Realising this, the shoplifting! Let's say that owing to natural, be creative. Only mugs get person has stolen something from their Karangahape Road business men or­ some low level of intelligence, extreme caught. store, that is all the police are interested ganized a shoplifting awareness course bad luck, or sheer nervousness, you are ALEX CALDER in. A complaint has been made, they at the Building Centre some years ago noticed slipping some article into your MT EDEN JAIL must prosecute if there has been a and the shop-assistants were told vari­ pocket, bag, hat, false singlet, or what­ breech in the law. The situation has got ous shop-lifting tricks, what to watch for and so on. Surprisingly, the next ever device you normally use; just ...but were afraid to ask

EDUCATION: WHAT ROLE P resid en t reappraisal of our Educational System hairs but this is not too unfortunate, , Admin Vice President at a tertiary level SHOULD A.U.S.A. PLAY? and we can turn the situation to bene­ Welfare Vice President I will judge from the response to this re­ fit ourselves. T reasu rer quest how seriously students regard an M uch justifiable criticism has been This then is the chance for many of President Medical Students Assn important A.U.S.A. undertaking. levelled at the content of the Education­ you who have so bitterl y complained President Elam Students Assn I have arranged a meeting for FRIDAY al Development Conference, but never­ of the extent of A.U.S.A.’s relevance President Architectural Students theless its structure ensures that com p­ 26 APRIL AT 1P.M. in the EXECUTIVE to the community to come forward to President Engineering Students rehensive involvement by a wide variety LOUNGE which is situated on the first help A.U.S.A. achieve something con­ A.U.S.A. Council Representive of individuals and organisations is floor of the S.U.B. opposite the Cafe. I structive as well as doing something A.A.S.A. Sent p o ssib le . would like to see a strong representative for the Association which represents A.U.S.A. Senate representatives A.U.S.A. has registered, as a body in­ turnout and would be pleased to see even you. The task is to draw up an Educat­ Faculty reps from Arts volved in education but finds that a those who turn up out of idle curiosity. ion policy and programme using mater­ C o m m e r c e lack of personnel may prohibit any of If you cannot come to this first meeting ial already compiled by N.Z.U.S.A. S c ie n c e our opinions being voiced, either but would like still to take part, please and others as a base. This is not purely M u sic written or verbal. We have been given phone me at 30-789, ext 86. an exercise for the E.D.C. (it, however, Town Planning a chance to take part: to withdraw or E.R. HAYSOM provides the opportunity) but a long A.U.S.A. rep on Library Cmte of disparage those participating or organ­ PRESIDENT term project which has implications S e n a te ising would seriously weaken any in the future of our Association and Others as co-opted criticisms we may have after the! our role at this University. results of the conference have been Last year an ad-hoc Education Commit­ This comm ittee did do some work on the p u b lish e d . tee was formed by the Executive and Studass Calendar, but this docum ent is Thus we are being held by the short- consisted of the really only the beginning of a complete