Unprecedented queues as Cafê slashes sweetcorn fritters to 25c to fritters slashes sweetcorn as Cafê queues Unprecedented m |Associations' Presidents or the National ICo-ordinator at the above address. I US MILITARY STRATEGIST Candidates A leading authority on nuclear weaponry in the John Palmer NOTICE BOARD Pacific, James Albertini, shall be speaking in B28 Standing for Senate Representative at 1.00 and in B15 at 7.30 on Mon. 28 April. NOMINATIONS ARE AGAIN OPENED for Societies Grants Sub-Committee (two positions) Currently studying MSc/PhD in Chemistry, Topic: the effect of peace activities on the mil­ the position of Treasurer of the Association. Sports Grants Sub-Committee (two positions) and has been a Student and Faculty Representa­ itary machine. Nominations close at 5.00 pm on Tuesday Nominations close and appointments will tive for many years, as well as Senate Represent­ FILM EVENING 22 April 1980 and an appointment will be made be made at the meeting of the S.R.C. to be held ative and member of the Safety, Academic and at the S.R.C. meeting to be held in the S.R.C. in the S.R.C. Lounge on Wednesday 23 April. Music Society is holding a film evening on Discipline Committees. Lounge on Wednesday 23 April 1980. Candidates Candidates should attend this meeting from Friday, May 2nd at 7.00 pm in Room 20, It is my plan if re-elected to continue with should attend this meeting from 1.00 pm and 1.00 pm. Music Department (opposite Old Arts Building my representation of students on Senate and its are also invited to submit with their nomination Details of the responsibilities involved in in Princess St.) There will be live music and committees with the same dedication and a policy statement for circulation at this meet­ these positions may be obtained from the wine and cheese with an admission charge of support for students' rights I have shown over ing. President or the Secretary of the A.U.S.A. $1.00 for non-members. Everyone welcome. my previous terms. It is only after experience Candidates are required to have passed the Office. STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT that it is possible to fully use and understand Thirsday papers which make up Accounting I. NEW ZEALAND STUDENTS ARTS COUNCIL the mechanisms of University Government, and Thursday 24 April, 1.00, rm 143. Contact The position of Treasurer attracts an honor­ is now calling for applications for the position Peter Shearer, ph 542-617 the ways in which the student body can best be arium equivalent to the tertiary study grant with of TREASURER for the remainder of 1980. served by existing procedures, and only with full hardship supplement. This is currently $40 The position of Treasurer entails the writing- MARANGA MAI such thorough understanding do the short A play about Maori Land. Little Theatre, per week nett during the academic year. up of the Council's books, the monitoring of comings of the system become truly apparent. 22 & 24 April, 1.00. $1.50. Sponsored by the Details of the duties and responsibilities the Council's finances, the preparation of Maori Club. In addition to my position on Senate my associated with this position may be obtained budgets, and the presentation of financial positions on Safety committee. Academic from the President or the Secretary in the reports. EXHIBITION 2 committee and Discipline committee depend on Creative Works of Artists and Craftspeople Association Office. The Treasurer is expected to attend all the my re-election to Senate. at University. May 4-9 in the Gallery, Counselling NOMINATIONS ARE INVITED for the follow­ Council's Executive Board meetings (held in Service Building. Painting, pottery, batik, jewellery ing positions as Association Representatives on Wellington every six weeks) and the Council's ery and more. Sunday May 4, 11am-3pm, 5-9 University and Joint Committees: two General Meetings per year. May, 9am-5pm. On Sunday an informal BYOF&W 2 Positions on the Student Union Management The successful candidate will be required to lunch with the artisans. If you wish to show, ph Committee reside in Wellington during his/her term of Marilyn ext 595/596. Meeting Tues 22 April, 1.00 Counselling Centre. 2 positions on the Theatre Management office. This office carries an honorarium of Committee $1500 p.a. RAFT RACE MAY 6 The term of office in each case is from 1 May Applications, including curriculum vitae, At 10.30am on Tuesday from Devonport to 1980 to 30 April 1981. should be addressed to : Okahu Bay. Your raft will be subsidised with $25 or 50%. Neat, eh? Need lotsa people with Nominations for the positions on S.U.M.C. The Returning Officer, fizz-boats, sail boats, canoes to save the drowning and T.M.C. close with the Secreary at 5.00 pm NZ Students Arts Council, P.O. Box 9266, people of self-destructed rafts. Prizes! (various on Wednesday 23 April and appointments will bown fizzy liquids). 2 classes- person-type pow­ WELLINGTON. be made at the meeting of the Executive to be er and other-type power (to 10HP). held on Thursday 24 April 1980 in the Council by 5 p.m. Wednesday May 14. This is an elected First over in each class wins, BUT if you don't Room. Candidates should attend this meeting position, and elections will be held at the land before the bike-ride gets there you're out from 7.00 pm and are invited to submit with Council's AGM in Auckland on May 24. (less brown fizzy liquid). their nomination a policy statement of other MOTORCYCLE RIDE MAY 6 NOS AC At 9.30 on Tuesday. Bigger, longer and bett­ supporting papers. Nominations are now open for the er than last year (gotta spread the boys in black Details of the duties involved in each of following portfolios with the National uniforms out). Starts from Alfred St to Symonds these positions may be obtained from the Overseas Students Action Committee St to Customs to Queens and eventually to start President or the Secretary in the Association (NOSAC) in 1980/81 Raft Race (qv) at Devonport (more routing de­ Office. tails later). Then around to Okahu Bay. All lect­ NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for two 1. National Co-ordinator ures cancelled due to lack of interests. All quest­ positions on the Association's Executive 2. Secretary-Treasurer ions Studass., Motorcycle Club pigeonhole, or Tony Reynolds in Engineering School somewhere Committee, these being National Affairs Officer The National Cordinator is a part-time or ring David Benson (?) 4 Susie Collier and Student Representative Council Chairperson. position in NZUSA which carries an or ring 498-323 (but only if I'm home, ring Standing for position of Senate Representative Nominations for these positions close and honorarium of approximately $1,000 pa. first to find out. Love and kisses too). I am 27 years old, educated at Tokoroa High appointments will be made at the S.R.C. Meet­ Nominations should be sent to : ENVIRONMENT GROUP ACTIVITIES School, and then at Hamilton Teachers' Coljege ing to be held on Wednesday 23 April in the National Co-ordinator, Thurs 24 April, 1.00, Exec Lounge, Denys am currently studying Masters English. I was S.R.C. Lounge. Candidates should attend this P.O. Box 8375, Trussel of Freinds of the Earth speaks on the involved with Education Fightback last year and meeting from 1.00 pm. future for exotic forestry in NZ this is still an area of great concern. I am Class NOM INATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for positions Riccarton, Christchurch. Tues 29 April, 1.00, Lib B10, films 'All We Need' rep. in the English and Classics Departments and as appointees of the Students' Representative For further information contact your and 'Perspective' on NZ and worldwide energy Faculty Rep. for the English Dept. Council on the following committees: campus NOSAC Co-ordinators or Students requirements. Weds 30 April, 7.30, Lib B10, Forum on LPG I feel that the position of Senate Rep is a storage and distribution. Speakers and film. vital liaison between students and the University SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY Administration. I believe that my motives in Every Thurs. and Frid. at 1.00, rm 202. standing for the position are altruistic ones. I Studass. Games Evening Thurs. 1 May, 7.00, am especially concerned at the difficulties CATERING COL OGB". encountered by overseas students, but this does INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM STUDENTS not mean that I am unaware of the struggle ASSOCIATION many New Zealand students have to enter and AGM' Sunday 27 April, Womens Common remain at University. I will strongly resist any Room, 1.00., efforts to restrict student intake to those whose MANTRA MEDITATION parents can afford a university education for Every Tuesday, 6.30pm, Exec Lounge. their children. PLANNING A CAPPING STUNT?? I am also interested in the area of internal K fllu c ta u Then register it! Unregistered students will assessment and would like to see all departments not be backed up by AUSA, ie we won't bail operating a 50/50 plussage system or, for lang­ you out. Students must be registered at least a uage and science courses, a three way division week ahead. Register at AUSA offices with Darryl Carey, Stunt Controlfer. Leave a note! which will give credit for laboratory work. I will endeavour to competently report GRADUATION SERVICE Ih fwA rvtcec cu decisions of S.R.C. to senate, and to represent MacLaurin Chapel, Princes St, Weds 7 May, individual students to the best of my ability. 1.10 pm. The preacher will be Professor George Finally, I can faithfully promise to treat the Seben, Head of Department of Mathematics. position conscientiously if I am elected. 'flu* WfieJc,/ * DEAN’S LECTURE Weds 16 April, 12.00, Robb Lecture Theatre, School of Medicine. 'Health Care for the People - (/ini* faiw flu* dsOfujt Cuban Style', speaker Ms Ruth Bonita BA, M.P.H. MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION MAY CAMP u c ir f a t (w y * Tira Hou Marae, Panmure, 9 -1 1 May, cost $8.00 per person. 'An opportunity to know more about Maori culture - a new experience that you will always remember.' For further information, contact Ng B. L. if w r * # X p t t i i i k i Phone: 769-905. SRC MEETING CdOi Weds 23 April, 1.00, SRC Lounge. Sex, drugs & rock-n-roll, & other promotional gimmickry. FRENCH CLUB reduttd fa*. 3Se Cafe' - Television bus les jeudis, Rm 022 OAB. Venez poir boire du cafe, bavarde ef voir de vrais Franzais. A jeudi alors. 564-819 UojdjUj iL&jr ■^SOc URGENT Wayne McIntosh Standing for Senate Representative A large group of students is needed to A fifth year law student, and our current Kahjl*} bjta) (UUsrtAuu)help run the underprivileged childrens Sports Officer on Exec. Wayne aims to ensure party (500 strong) on Sat 3rd of May — that AUSA's interests are known to Senate members, and to maintain a free flow of inform­ reading, driving, transport, food product­ ation between ourselves and Senate. ion, playing games in Rec Centre, helping fk> t SjLMKAAj disabled children, general organising. Help will also be needed on the days before with decorations etc. ruUctA fa*. 6Sc Anyone or group who can help with entertainment would also be welcome. Please contact Bob Lack or David Rose I.A. COMMITTEE MEETING Weds, 23 April, 5.30, Council Room, Studass. ■ ft ( p O c Ph 30-789 (work) or 53-48512 (home) as Any queries to I .A. O, rm 111. soon as possible. Page 2, CRACCUM, April 21. The recent involvement of the Security this surrounded much of the SIS evidence Intelligence Service in the expulsion of and plagued the prosecution's case during the Sutch trial. Soviet ambassador Sofinsky and the nam­ ing of (suspected) members of the Social­ SIS incompetence was also apparent in ist Unity Party has once again brought the I WANNA BE A the Muldoon revelation about members of SIS into the focus of public attention. the Socialist Unity Party in the trade This article attempts to explain the ration­ union movement. The list released by ale behind the existence of the SIS and Muldoon, a list which Muldoon himself the powers which are given to the SIS in stated was compiled by the SIS, contained order for it to perform its function. It SECRET AGENT so many inaccuracies that it was facetious­ also attempts to comment on whether the ly rumoured in some quarters that it had SIS is functioning within the requirements been prepared by the weekly newspaper Truth. There were errors as to the positions of the Security Intelligence Service Act officials held in unions and the unions and whether its existence is in the interests they were involved in. Several of the of democracy in New Zealand. named union officials denied membership Section 4(1) (a) of the Security Intelli­ of the SUP and one was even dead. This is gence Service Act defines the principle the sort of efficiency that the New Zealand function of the Service: 'to obtain, correl­ taxpayer gets from the money that is ate and evaluate intelligence relevant to poured into the Security Intelligence security, and to communicate such intelli­ Service. gence to such persons, and in such manner, The 'Muldoon naming names' caper as the Director (of the SIS) considers to also brought home stronger than ever that be in the interests of security'. The inter­ the activities of the SIS are very much pretation of the word 'security' given by subject to the whims of the Minister in the Act extends the interests of the SIS charge of it and of the government of the to 'the protection of New Zealand from day. This is extremely dangerous when, as acts of espionage, sabotage, terrorism and is the case at present, the Minister in subversion' and investigating' any new charge of the SIS and the government area of potential espionage, sabotage, appear to be somewhat synonymous with terrorism and subversion'. each other. While espionage, terrorism and sabot­ There is considerable potential for a age are defined as crimes by either the government to use the SIS to spy on its Crimes Act or the Official Secrets Act, own political rivals. The recent suspicious subversion is not. Nowhere in the New break-ins to the residences of several Zealand Statutes is subversion defined as prominent Labour Party personnel may a crime. Indeed, the only appearance of even be cases of this already happening. this term in any New Zealand legislation Muldoon has openly admitted that the is in ihe Security Intelligence Service Act SIS has been investigating the Socialist where its definition is one which makes it Unity Party, a legitimate political party not necessarily a crime. For instance, it is also although notan immediate political' not criminal, although it is subversive, to advocate the undermining by unlawful threat to his National Party. This sort of activity is on the absolute perifery of that means of the authority of the state. When which is permitted of the SIS by the it is taken into account that the SIS have the power to investigate areas of 'potential Security Intelligence Service Act. Of all the activities which the SIS can legitimate­ subversion' the vast extent of its interest ly investigate, the only one which the becomes evident. Any person or organisat­ Socialist Unity Party can be suspected of ion which is seen as a threat or a nuisance is 'potential subversion'. The Labour by the government of the day can be con­ Party could hardly be reasonably suspected sidered an area of potential advocacy of the undermining by unlawful means of the of even this. Yet this seems to be the area in which the SIS have recently been authority of the state, and can thus be the subject of surveillance by the Security active - spying on political party activities. Intelligence Service. Surely if it has nothing better to do than The entire concept of a counter-espion­ operate on the absolute perifery of its age agency in a democratic society produc­ field of interest the SIS's existence is es aspects of conflict. An increase in difficult to justify. 'national security' can be achieved only The events surrounding the expulsion at the expense of some invasion of the of the Soviet ambassador Sofinsky height­ privacy and rights of the citizen. In order ened awareness of just how little the pub­ fully undermine its authority. Any such ing devices. No-one has the right to know for it to perform the duties delegated to lic gets to know about the activities of the action in New Zealand would be rapidly whether they are under surveillance, and it a security service must take a stance of SIS. The Minister in charge of the SIS suppressed without the involvement of a the only indication which the public gets distrust of all members of the society. (Muldoon) chose not to reveal to the security service. Furthermore, New Zea­ of the activities of the SIS is a brief and Such a stance is basically anti-democratic public any of the information upon which land is not a country in which great m ili­ uninformative report tabled annually in and as such is incompatible with the the decision to expel Sofinsky was made. tary or technological advances are taking Parliament by the Minister in charge of the values of a freely governed society. If such It is possible that much of this information or have taken place. There is little potent­ SIS. The weak arguments used to justify a security service is to function adequately could have been a total fabrication, either ial for espionage since there is little for the existence of a security service in New as an organisation which shows an interest by Muldoon himself or by a senior official foreign powers to spy on. Zealand do not face up well to these anti­ in any activity which may be a threat to in the SIS, in order to embarrass the Soviet There has been a notable lack of pro­ democratic consequences of its existence. the security of the society its interests Union. But the public will never know. It secutions in New Zealand for the offences Further to these arguments, the SIS has must be wide-ranging - probably as wide- is not only the SIS that has too much which it is the duty of the SIS to investi­ demonstrated that it is not capable of ranging as those granted to the Security power - the Minister in charge of it does. gate: espionage, sabotage, terrorism, effectively performing the task which it Intelligence Service by its Act. It is there­ He is not required to be answerable to the treason and sedition. Indeed, the only exists for. On the two occasions in recent fore not the extent of the powers given to public for the activities of the SIS since court action brought as a result of SIS years when the SIS has been forced to 'go a security service which must be called the public knows only that which he wish­ investigations (Regina v W B Sutch) proved public', the trial of Bill Sutch and Mul- into question, for if the security service is es to reveal about these activities. It is .to be a gross embarrassment to the SIS and doon's naming of Socialist Unity Party to perform its stated function these powers frightening to recall that Muldoon acted resulted in the acquittal of the defendent. members in the trade union movement, it are necessary. This was evident at the as judge, jury and executioner in the Such an absence of convictions for these has assumed an aura of bumbling incom­ time of the 1977 amendments to the SIS Sofinsky expulsion. Sofinsky had no right offences would indicate that either the Act which gave the SIS the power to petence. During the Sutch trial it became of appeal against the Muldoon decision. SIS are not needed in New Zealand be­ investigate 'potential' threats to security clear that the SIS could not get its own Events such as this have no place in a cause these offences do not occur or that and to undertake mail-opening and tele­ evidence together into any coherent and democratic society. the SIS are so incompetent that they do phone tapping. Muldoon, in 1977, con­ credible form. Agent Kit Bennetts gave This article has demonstrated that there not discover such offences. Neither of vincingly argued that these extensions of evidence at the depositions hearing that all is little justification for the existence of a these possibilities does much to justify the power of the SIS were necessary if it were that he had in his possession during a security service in New Zealand and that existence of the SIS. to perform its task. surveillance exercise was a walkie talkie the SIS is not in the interests of individual This must be weighed against the poss­ It is therefore the entire concept of a radio. Later in the Supreme Court one of rights and privacy. It has shown up some ibility of any New Zealander engaging in security service which must be brought his colleagues testified that Bennetts also of the incompetencies of the SIS and some legitimate political activities being placed into question. A society must decide had in his possession a camera, and after of the dangers to democracy that it pre- c under surveillance by the SIS. Such surveill­ if the increase in its security brought considerable cross-examination by defence sents. Recent events, especially the nam­ ance can include gross intrusions upon about by a security service justifies the counsel Michael Bungay, Bennetts himself ing of suspected SUP members by personal privacy such as tapping telephon­ invasion of privacy and individual rights was forced to admit that he was also carry­ Muldoon, have illustrated to New Zealand­ es, opening mail and installation of listen­ which necessarily accompanies the exist­ ing a pair of binoculars. Confusion such as ers that the SIS has no place in our demo­ ence of such an organisation. It is the cracy and that they must unite in opposit­ opinion of the writer that in the case of ion to this anti-democratic organisation New Zealand it does not. and force Government to do away with it. New Zealand is a country with a strong tradition of democratic freedom. At no Ivan So wry stage in the history of this country has References: there been any totalitarian regime rise to Joe V.L. Chappie: Around the World By power or even threaten to rise to power Clockwork Ferret by way of force. We are not a country of Isaac Strikers: The Broadbean Sandwich extremist political factions battling for Through History. power. Any extremist groups in New Wynstan Dunnow: Word-Wanking—A Zealand are small, lack public support and Zen Perspective. have little chance of increasing their Anne L. Gesic: Uses and Misuses o f the strength to a level which would enable Timebomb Parrot. them to attempt to overthrow a demo­ Bevan Vague: The Phallic Symbol as a cratically elected government or unlaw­ Democratic Member.

Page 3, CRACCUM, April 21. TROLLEYS— W H Y NO T?

The 'Trolleys' item in CRACCUM of The overhead wiring may add $100,000 vehicles and overhead wiring. This is much That there is no benefit whatsoever for March 31 contained a number of errors, to the cost of each trolleybus, but further less than the amount required to purchase passengers in the extra money required omissions and distortions. trolleybus purchases will spread this cost twenty diesel/methanol buses now and for trolleybuses is not a valid claim. Pass­ The Auckland Regional Authority met over a larger fleet of trolleybuses, narrow­ replace them 15 years hence at a total engers get the benefit of a silent, smooth, on St Patrick's Day, Monday March 17, ing further the cost comparison between purchase price of $3,750,000 in 1980 swift, pollution-free bus service, as oppos­ which turned out to be a great day for the diesel and trolleybuses. Inevitable rises in dollars. ed to a noisy, jolting, air-polluting diesel Irish, especially those living in Auckland. the price of oil will also tend to compress The CRACCUM article claims that the bus service. In the early hours of Tuesday March 18, the overall purchase and operating cost additional initial cost of trolleybuses pro­ The statement that Herne Bay residents the ARA reversed the 8-2 recommendation differential between diesel and trolleybuses, vides no benefit whatsoever for passengers will have no bus service while the overhead of the transport committee, and decided until a point is reached where an enlarged when it could be used in providing an lines are being installed is completely w ith­ by 19-12 to order twenty new Volvo B58 trolleybus fleet will realise net savings additional 17 methanol powered buses. out foundation. Under the terms and trolleybuses instead of twenty MAN over diesel bus operation in the short-term, $2,500,000 would buy 26 extra methanol conditions of the relevant passenger ser­ 5L200 diesel/methanol buses. The ARA rather than over 15 years as is now the buses, not 17, giving a total of 46 diesel/ vice licence the ARA is obliged to run its transport controller envisages that the new case. methanol buses for the price of 20 trolley­ timetabled services except in circumstanc­ trolleybuses will operate on a figure-of- Your contributor, Mark Kerly, stated buses plus their overhead wiring, which es beyond its control. eight route covering Parnell, Newmarket, that the ARA will have to find an extra options are roughly equivalent in terms of The dependence on overhead wiring is Ponsonby and Herne Bay, and will not be $500,000 above the costs of the methanol the respective bus type lifetimes. The hardly a major disadvantage for trolley­ confined to the Herne Bay route as your buses each year for at least another 15 ARA would be hard-pressed to staff such buses as is contended in CRACCUM. contributor states. Twenty buses would be years. This amounts to $7,500,000. The extra buses at peak times and would have Trolleybuses can fully utilise a three-lane sufficient for a 2minute headway on the additional amount of $500,000 for twenty difficulty filling them in off-peak times. carriageway where the wires are suspended Herne Bay route. trolleybuses is a once-only cost, not a Certainly peak-time overcrowding would over the middle lane; the fixed nature of The $2,000,000 cited as the cost for continuing one, and both vehicle and re­ be eased while off-peak empty running the overhead wire is not a drawback, as overhead wiring has been reduced to ticulation costs will be spread over a life­ would increase. The problem of uneven bus users expect buses to conform to the $1,750,000 on the advice of a $wiss time of at least 25 years. Ignoring interest demand for bus services is a separate issue, advertised route. The so-called tendency consultant, although firm tenders have charges, these additional costs amount to however. for trolleybuses to come adrift from the yet to be received for the overhead reticu­ $2,500,000 or $100,000 per year for overhead wires has as much significance lation. as the propensity for diesel/methanol The trolley bus type finalI'' chosen will buses to run out of fuel (an isolated event be made up of a New Zealand Hawke in this restricted sense but an increasingly body on a $wedish Volvo chassis with probably occurrence in the wider outlook). Italian Ansaldo electrical equipment, each The contention that trolleybus desirements unit costing $138,000, not the $155,000 can only add to congestion in the Herne quoted in CRACCUM, which was for a Bay region is patently absurd. The new, trolleybus fitted with $wiss Brown-Boveri low-maintenance, synthetic cable overhead equipment including an auxiliary diesel wire suspension system allows higher generator. trolleybus speeds through overhead special- The cost of the MAN 5L200 diesel/ work, as the lightweight components do methanol buses, of which sixty were order­ not exert as much downward deflection ed last November, is $93,722 each, not force on the trolleybooms as the present $155,000 as stated in CRACCUM, whose system, thereby reducing the likelihood contributor may have been confused by of dewirements. the cost of the MAN 5G220 diesel Among the advantages claimed for articulated bus, which costs $153,711. methanol powered buses over trolleybuses The ARA also ordered 20 of them in is that methanol buses will use natural re­ November. sources, namely the Maui gas condensate. There was no Government decision to Methanol is obtained commercially from assist the ARA by paying 78% of the cost the conversion of the methane component of diesel buses and 61% of the cost of of natural gas with some considerable trolleybuses. Rather the ARA took advant­ energy input. (Gas condensate is not a age of the existing bus replacement grant ready source of methanol). Electricity is scheme, which provides a flat subsidy of equally a natural resource (what would be $73,300 per bus for purchase of diesel an unnatural resource ?) and, furthermore, buses of whatever type, and $95,000 for hydroelectricity in particular is a renew­ each new trolleybus bought. The percent­ able energy resource, which is directly age of subsidy for this trolleybus purchase used by the trolleybus in a highly efficient, thus becomes 69% of the cost price. 70% conversion of electrical energy into With a price differential of $22,500 per mechanical work, whereas the direct bus, taking the Government subsidy into efficiency of internal combustion engines account, the initial extra cost to the ARA is about 15%. is $450,000 for the purchase of twenty The article claims that methanol does trolleybuses, excluding provision for over­ not release any harmful pollutants into head wiring, and not $600,000 as appear­ the atmosphere. This may be true if the ed in CRACCUM. An extra $4 million will various oxides of nitrogen produced in be required over the next 13 years to any internal combustion engine are dis­ cover the costs of reticulation, interest counted. However, methanol is a highly charges and the higher initial purchase toxic and inflammable substance in itself, price of the trolleybus option. requiring a special degree of care in handl­ A net saving in trolleybus purchase and ing and usage. In any case, the methanol operating costs will be realised by 1995, buses would start their careers as diesel by which time diesel/methanol buses buses with their offensive odour and bought now would need replacement. The exhaust emissions containing oxides of net saving will be realised progressively nitrogen and sulphur, as well as harmful earlier than 1995 with each successive rise particulates. in the price of petroleum fuels. The trolley­ There is no obvious advantage for pre­ buses will have double the lifetime of ferring methanol buses On the grounds diesel/methanol buses and w ill not require that they are cheaper to run. New Zealand replacement until 2005 at the earliest. On methanol production will be primarily the basis of the lifetime of the vehicle export-oriented and local supplies, if alone, the trolleybus is the favoured available, w ill be priced o ff the world choice over diesel/methanol buses. market level as happens with meat and butter. In other words, OPEC will effect­ ively set the price of Maui products, and methanol bus option will cost the rate­ payer dearly in the two or three decades it might be available. GRADUATION PHOTOGRAPHS The Auckland Regional Authority is to be congratulated for acting with such far­ sightedness In the long-term interests of Aucklanders, in deciding to continue with electric traction for public transport. The fictitious sum of $9,500,000 extra for twenty trolleybuses that the CRACCUM article quotes could well be spent in re­ BEDE PHOTOGRAPHY placing more diesel buses with trolleybuses, and realise yet further savings over petrol­ For appointments eum fuelled buses, giving Auckland's bus services a sustainable future. Phone 370-341 Phone 34-404 Brett Cunningham Queen Street Symonds Street Convener, Transport Action, P.O. Box 39-065, Auckland West.

Page 4, CRACCUM, April 21. A Reply To Brett Cunningham ment subsidy i.e. $70,000 per diesel/ transport will give a truly smooth ride. The sum of $9,500,000 is not at all methanol bus and $95,000 per trolley bus. Herne Bay residents will not have a fictitious. It was obtained from the figure The first thing that I should point out The figure of $600,000 I quoted should in bus service while installation of new of $7,500,000 quoted earlier as being the is that in both my original article and in fact be $700,000. power-lines is going on. Mr B.K. Berg, excess running costs of trolley-buses and this reply that all of my figures are round­ The figure of $500,000 p.a. above the Chairman of the A.R.A. passenger trans­ adding the $2,000,000 overhead wiring ed o ff to the nearest $5,000. costs of the methanol buses refers to oper­ port committee, was quoted as stating costs. Even if the possibility of a reduct­ I cannot confirm Mr Cunningham's ating costs and not to re-payment of the that while the installation work was being ion in this cost is allowed, the extra that figure of $138,000 as the price for one buses themselves. $pread over fifteen done, the existing Herne Bay service Auckland Ratepayers will have to spend trolley-bus. The price of $155,000 I years these costs of re-payment would be would be dropped. is still $9,200,000 whereas by choosing quoted was also confirmed in the New very low but the operating costs work out The dependence on overhead wires the MAN $L 200 buses this figure would Zealand Herald of March 18. at $7,500,000 which is also quoted in the means that the trolleys do not have the not need to be spent. The price for the diesel/methanol buses 8 o'clock of March 22 (in the Mayor's same degree of manoeuvrability as their Finally, whatever either of us says, the is indeed about $95,000. This figure column, too). diesel/methanol counterparts. My main A.R.A. will probably not change their appeared in my rough copy but for some The amount quoted as the price of objection here is that without further mind now that it has ordered the trolleys. reason appeared as $135,000 in the copy I purchasing 20 methanol buses and replac­ expense the bus-route cannot be extended My main criticism was intended to be on submitted for typesetting (not the ing them in fifteen years time does not or changed and thus takes no account of the A.R.A. for overturning a supposedly . $155,000 quoted in Mr Cunningham's take into account the government subsidy. future population trends. expert opinion made by the transport article) I apologise; an error on my p a rt! This price falls to $1,000,000 if one does Trolley-buses do come o ff their over­ committee and putting a $9,500,000 When taking advantage of the Govern­ so. head wires quite regularly but this point burden on the ratepayer that they other­ ment's bus replacement scheme the The figure for the additional number was only used to illustrate delays that can wise would not have had. Government does have to approve each of buses able to be purchased was based and do occur with trolley-buses. submission made to it, usually in the form on the $500,000 excess costs that trolley­ There is no guarantee that methanol Mark Kerly of 'rubber-stamping'. The subsidy percent­ buses would require. Taking the govern­ will be priced at OPEC rates. Even if it is age of 61% for trolley-buses has been con­ ment subsidy into account this gives a priced at these rates, surely the A.R.A. firmed by both the Herald and 8 o'clock figure of 20 buses (the previous figure of would have the sense to apply to the of March 22. seventeen was erroneously calculated). Government to get methanol at a lower The price differential per bus works out I very much doubt whether the trolley­ cost. There is of course a precedent for at $35,000 taking the purchase price of buses 'added com fort' is worth $500,000 this with Comalco's cut-price power. Be­ $155,000 for each trolley bus and the per year. While the inner-city roads are as sides, has not electricity been subject to figures that I was given for the Govern­ badly surfaced as they are no system of enormous price rises within the last six years ? WORD FROM WELLINGTON Simon Wilson, President of NZUSA, we're saying with regard to the T$G: Uni­ judging their elected representatives on spoke to Katherine White about education, versities last year opposed the introduction the basis of what they do. I don't think the state of the nation, and his life and of the T$G and have continued to do so its had any significant effect at all. One hard times. this year. thing it does show up is the obvious in- On the other hand you don't hear competancy of the SIS: when they Simon, NZUSA seems to be facing a to t o f much press comment on this. Do you announced the list of 32 $UP members difficulties at the moment, not just flak think perhaps they are looking to NZUSA there were a lot of mistakes in that, and from the Government, but within its ranks. for a lead ? the organisation I'm supposed to belong Would you agree ? Well you've got to realise that Universit­ to hasn't existed for over two months I don't know how true that is. We've ies aren't going to operate in the same way now. got a very strong Education Fightback as a 3tudents Association. It's very import­ Has the Minister reconsidered his posit­ campaign going at the moment; it has a ant that we do operate in the way we're ion at all - is he on speaking terms with lot of support from other education doing, to lobby, and to provide the public you again ? groups and various interests w ithin the with information. The very nature of the No, the Minister won't speak with community. That campaign seems to be Universities means that they're going to NZU5A. It's not clear why; we are quite getting a lot of support from students be more reticent in making their grudges happy to speak with him whenever he'd who realise all too well that cuts to the publicly known. like to. He's taken it into his head that university system and the TSG are not in Do you feel that the amount o f time our actions so far this year have been in­ their interests or anybody's interests. that NZUSA is having to spend on internal appropriate, especially with regard to the Given all that, I think actually we're in monetary matters at Universities is detract­ Cabinet document, and I presume he sees quite a healthy position. ing from our other activities, particularly it as an insult. I would argue that it's There's been mention in the past o f political ? quite irresponsible of him to do so - the some o f the campuses considering pulling Yes, we spend just about all our time information that we released should not out o f NZUSA. Do you see this happening on educational issues at the moment - the have been secret in the first place. That now ? TSG and the quinquennial grant funding. I argument has been backed up by a variety No talk of it at the moment. I think think that's unfortunate, because there of opinion* and I would also argue that he people realise that a strong national are a number of other areas that NZUSA has the responsibility to discuss matters association is vital if we're going to act in could be more involved in. In terms of with the representatives of 42,000 stud­ the students interests. what is happening generally in the country, ents. He doesn't understand consultation From individual students / have heard in South East Asia, the South Pacific, and at all well, it would seem; that has been the comment that they don't personally the world overall - and I think it's quite the experience of a lot of education feel they need any more money, every­ proper that we should be involved in those groups. one's having to tighten their belts at the areas. However, because of the attacks on We're now getting dose to the stage o f moment and students should too. students and Universities, it would be speculating on the 1981 elections. Do you That's not a comment I hear very often. wrong of us not to spend the time we are think students could expect anything I've been to all the campuses now and spending on education, and we're really better from a Labour government ? spoken extensively to students, not only quite clear about where our priorities are. It's d ifficult to speculate on that sort of at forums, also in the hostels; I've met a / tend to feel that as you get a more thing. The Labour Party has now com m itt­ wide variety of students and the feeling right-wing feeling coming through the That's right. He says more than that, in ed itself to repealing the discriminatory very definitely is that the T$G system Universities - the radical days o f the 60s fact, he says that while he does admit $1500 fee on overseas students, and we with all its faults and administrative now being well and truly gone - that stu­ that bursaries are a legitimate area for our hope that if they win the election they hassles is a ridiculous way to administer dents are going to be a lo t more apathetic, concern he will not accept that the uni­ will maintain that promise. You've got to bursaries, and is not providing adequate more concerned simply with matters that versity funding is a legitimate area - in remember that the last Labour government finance to most students. affect them personally. Do you think the spite of the very obvious effect it will have promised a decent bursary system and it Do you think our Education Fightback current economic difficulties and the fin­ on students. It's ridiculous. wasn't until election year in 1975 that campaign could possibly be concentrating ancial squeeze on Universities could be How about public response to the they brought it in. And its worth noting too much on student bursaries and not accentuating that trend ? Education Fightback campaign ? that students marched three times that enough on what is happening to You could very probably argue that I should explain that the campaign year to get that bursary system; the sort Universities as a whole ? students are less idealistic; I don't think it we're running is a two phase campaign; in of pressure that was put on through up­ This term with the campaign we're follows that students are less concerned the first term we're looking at what's front campaigns was effective. I think it looking at the T$G, and we have to do about what is happening. The argument is happening to students and universities. In would be naive of people to expect that that. It's a matter that directly affects often advanced that the heady days of the second term we want to broaden that the Labour party is going to be the stu­ students, the first year that it's been intro­ student demonstrations in the time of the to look at what's happening to education dents' best friend simply through anything duced, and it's very much in the limelight. Vietnam War and the anti-apartheid move­ right across the board and get a much innate in the Labour party. What we have But we're also looking at universities, with ment are now gone. I don't think that's greater degree of public involvement and to realise is that the pressure has to go on the inadequate levels of funding announc­ true; last year on Education Fightback the support. The first term has been planned whatever party is the Government to try ed in the quinquennial grant, and we're marches out on the streets were the largest specifically to involve students - in the and get them to face up to their responsib­ trying to keep these two areas in parallel. student marches ever seen in four of the organisation of the campaign as well as ilities to the Universities. Are you getting much support in this university cities. And that's very significant marching - so that in the second term we Do you find that you have to be from the Universities; Colin Maiden, our I think next year with the proposed will hopefully have a large body of stud­ constantly aware o f what are your own Vice-Chancellor, has been particularly Springbok tour you are going to see a ents who can go out to the public and political biases ? tight-lipped on the subject. resurgence of an enormous anti-apartheid explain the issues. Yes, I would feel that any student It varies from University to University. campaign; I would hope so at least. I just How have you found public reaction politician who doesn't act on the basis of The feeling in all the Universities is that don't think it's true that people are becom­ to the Prime Ministers denouncement o f student policy or ignores it should be run the funding is not adequate; on some of ing less concerned or less prepared to do you as an 'avowed Marxist' ? Do you think out of town, and I would hope that if I the $outh Island campuses they can see something. What is happening is that those this has been damaging to NZUSA ? deviate from the policy of NZU5A that they will be facing very serious con­ who argue that we shouldn't be involved I personally find it amusing; I don't would happen to me - and I do sequences, with the quality of teaching in anything controversial are getting more think that it has a damaging effect at all. I do - but it means that its alw: and research and the options open to organised. think people are quite capable of seeing a there would be areas of NZUL students being severely curtailed towards Right - when the Minister o f Education red herring - I'll rephrase that - quite cap­ that I would disagree with, b the end of the 5 year period. We do have can come out and say that students able of seeing a diversionary tactic When carry them out. So far there do support from the Universities in what shouldn't be involved in politics.... it appears, and are also quite capable of to be any complaints.

z.\ SPRAY h a w a y 2,4,5-T & 2,4-D 'I'll be around fo r... ninety-nine years'. iii He is in all respects a fit and proper In 1972 the Agricultural Chemicals The conclusion of the report was that 'Agent Orange' Red Mole. person to be entrusted to apply or Board (ACB) released a report on there was insufficient evidence to suggest 150 years is the present average for the otherwise use safely every such con­ 2.4.5- T. They followed the EPA recomm­ 2,4,5-T as a causal factor in birth defects. large tracks of land cleared by American trolled pesticide.' endations and reduced the dioxin content This result is not at all surprising when forces in Vietnam with the defoliant The A.C.B. is the Agricultural Chemicals from 1.0 to 0.1 ppm. But the-only restrict­ one considers the way in which data was 'Agent Orange'. Agent Orange is a 50/50 Board. ions placed on its use was to prevent it obtained, what data was obtained, and the mixture of 2, 4, 5-T & 2,4-D and derives There are no such regulations for from being used as an anti-drop spray on way in which the conclusions were reached. its name from the orange stripe on the ground operators. apricots and that labels should carry warn­ drums it came in. Both 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D Why The Controversy ings against home use and the contaminat­ Of the 17 couples (cases), in only four are phenoxy herbicides and are synthetic­ In the very late 1950's and 1960's the ion of water supplies. Earlier in 1971 the cases were the husbands farmers; these, as ally produced; that is they do not occur 'wonder drug' thalidomide was brought on board went to great pains to say that there well as one man who occasionally helped naturally, and both are contaminated with to the market before its full effects were could be little 'risk of causing foetal unload pesticides at his store, were the the highly poisonous toxin TCDD or known. The ensuing cases of birth deform- abnormalities from does levels which far only ones in a position to come in direct dioxin. It is this drug and its effects that aties caused one of the longest court exceed expected exposure'.... thereby contact with 2,4,5-T and/or 2,4-D. Thus are the centre of deep controversy. actions of its type; it should have set a admitting that there is a link between we can immediately remove 70.5% of the precedent for all other drugs to be tested 2.4.5- T and its dioxin content in particular sample. Of these five cases three were The Background thoroughly before being released. Unfort­ and birth deformaties. examples of spina bifida, three of hydro- After their discovery in the 1940's the unately the interests of the large chemical The 1972 report was brought about by cephalis, and two of anencephaley, that is phenoxy herbicides were in general use by corps are purely commercial. two Te Awamutu doctors who wrote to more than one deform ity was present in 1950. In the US they have been used since The major manufacturer of 2,4,5-T and the New Zealand Medical Journal suggest­ some births. their introduction for weed control on 2,4-D is the Dow Chemical Company of ing that there was a connection between rangeland, pastures, and right-of-ways, also The data was obtained in such a way America whose N.Z. reps are Ivon Watkins 2.4.5- T and two cases of Spina Bifida in in forestry to culi unwanted shrubs. In that it ruled out any other possible con­ Dow. In 1969 the Bionetics Research the birth of two babies on a local farm. New Zealand 2,4,5-T is used to control clusion, that is it was obtained in such a Laboratory produced evidence that The committee could not come up with gorse and blackberry on hill country and way as to suggest that dioxin does not be­ 2,4,5-T contaminated with 30ppm (parts anything conclusive. 2,4-D is used on pasture land. Both are per million) TCDD had caused foetal de­ come cumulative in the food chain, a question which has many troubling . used by local councils to control weeds in fects in mice exposed during early preg­ In 1977 a group of Whangarei women, answers. parks, road sides, reserves, and along nancy. This report plus reports from who had given birth to children with ditches. In Vietnam it is estimated that a The conclusions were based on the South Vietnam of increased numbers of nueral tube defects, prompted the Depart­ total of five million acres were sprayed whole sample, when it is proven that 70.5% birth defects, prompted the use of 2,4,5-T ment of Health into making a report on with Agent Orange and are now waste land, of the sample never came in to contact in waterways, recreational areas, and on three 'clusters' of such deformaties. The such was the magnitude of the operation. with 2,4,5-T or 2,4-D at all. But taking the food crops for human consumption to be report itself assumed from the outset that 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D are sold mainly in farmers and the store owner as the sample suspected in 1970. The U.S. Department the criteria for any link with 2,4,5-T had liquid concentrate form over the counter. we find that 60% of the cases developed of Defense announced that the use of to be through direct exposure. That is, the Although they are generally applied by spina bifida. This result in itself is mislead­ 'Agent Orange', in Vietnam had been sus­ possibility of contaminaticn o f the mains helicopter, both can be applied by hand ing since it takes only a very small sample pended. By late 1970 the use of 2,4,5-T in water supply by the accidental spraying of held equipment. For aerial spraying a pilot and does not compare the results with the defoliation programme had also ceased. water catchment lands. Dicxin is able to must, in accordance with the Pesticides those, say, of a group of farmers who have Court action by two major manufactur­ survive in the food chain because studies Act of 1979:- not been exposed in any way to 2,4,5-T ers brought the formation of a board of of fish which populated rivers draining or 2,4-D. (a) Attain the age of 18 years; and scientists called the ACS to review its land sprayed with 'Agent Orange' in Viet­ (b) Satisfy the A.C.B. * that - safety. In 1971 the ACS submitted its nam have shown high concentrations of The Health Department report thus i. He has completed such course of report to the newly formed Environmental dioxin in body tissue. This is particularly was in itself non-representational of the studies and passed such examinations Protection Agency (EPA), which recomm­ frightening as the defoliation programme facts. It was compiled in such a way as to (whether written or oral) as may be ended 2,4,5-T only be used in forestry, ruined 10% of the total land area of Viet­ lead to only one possible conclusion. Also prescribed by or under regulations rangeland and rights-of-way provided the nam and this included 500,000 acres of it was from the very outset compiled in made under this Part of this Act; and dioxin content did not exceed 0.1 ppm. cultivatable land, thus the people have such a manner as to disprove any connect­ ii. He has had sufficient practical in­ The EPA ignored recommendations that found it necessary to increase inland fish­ ion between phenoxy herbicides and struction to apply or otherwise use the spraying of food crops be resumed, as ing. A t the same time Ivan Watkins Dow foetal mutation. The report was a com­ satetiy every controlled pesticide for this had conflicted with the views of sev­ was spending $600,000 a year in advertis­ plete waste of effort as it does not consid­ which the licence is sought; and eral prominent scientists. ing to keep its product on the market. er all possible factors.

Page « ' » A''CUM, April 21. Why is it so dangerous ? veniently forgotten about in the search for The phenoxy herbicides present four greater profits. The majority of experi­ different potential health hazards:- ments have been done on mice, with daily 1. Toxicity - the poisonous nature of a doses of 2,4,5-T administered during early chemical. pregnancy. Doses 1 mg/kg or one micro­ 2. Teratogenicity - the tendency of the gram for every kilogram of body weight chemical to cause malformations in devel­ was sufficient to cause severe deformities: oping foetuses. in foetuses. Thus it would take only 60 3. Carcinogenicity - the tendency of a billionths of a kilogram of dioxin to cause chemical to cause cancer. deformaties in the foetus of a 914 stone 4. Mutagenicity - the tendency of a chem­ animal (say for instance ... man?) The use ical to cause mutations in the genetic of agent orange constitutes the largest material of an organism. 'test' of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. The AAAS 1. TCDD is probably the most lethal (the American Association for the Advance­ poison known to man. It is ten times as ment of Science) appointed a study team poisonous as sodium cyanide. When dilut­ to study medical records available for the ed 2,4,5-T is as lethal as many other agri­ period of spraying. The main findings cultural chemicals. But it is not in its were: — lethality that 2,4,5-T stands out, it is in (1) Birth records from the Tay Ninh the form of a severe skin disease called province, a heavily defoliated area, showed Chloracne, which is caused by TCDD. an increase in the number of stillbirths Chloracne is a disease involving the over other areas. The average fo r Tay follicular glands (glands at the base of the Ninh was 68 per 1000 compared with TU hair shaft) and sebaceous (oil) glands. The Du, an unsprayed part of Saigon, which skin comes out in what looks like a severe was 27.5 per 1000. case of acne, with skin lesions, large seb­ (2) There was a considerable increase new drugs. This should have been plainly aceous cysts and pustules. Associated in the number of cases of spina bifida and "(i) the chemical and physical proper­ obvious after the thalidomide episode. I possible symptoms are the skin going d e ft palate in 1967-1968. ties of the pesticide, including its toxicity am not trying to compare in any way 2,4, and efficacy; and brown and horny, cystitis (infection and It is not true that any chemical if given 5-T and thalidomide, I am trying to show (ii) any residues likely to be deposited inflamation of the bladder, occuring in in large enough doses will cause cancer — the comparison between the control the in animal tissue by the use of the pesticide; women), pyelonephritis (a kidney disease), this is a specific property of certain types depression, hirsutism (excessive hairiness), large multinational drug firms have in both and of chemicals. However carcinogens do cases. fatigue, neurological disturbances, raised (iii) its effect on the environment gen­ vary in the amount needed to produce a TCDD is acknowledged as the most cholesterol levels, liver damage, and erally, including its effect on wildlife." noticeable effect. 2,4,5-T, especially in toxic chemical known to modern man, it psycological disturbances. The disease is I call on the Agricultural Chemicals Agent Orange is implicated with toximea is probably able to survive in the lower often very difficult to cure, treatment in Board to deregister 2,4,5-T; 2,4-D; and all of the liver. part of the food chain, it is known to some cases continuing for years. 2,4,5-T phenoxy herbicides. Also that any future The best example of mutagenicity is the is also known to affect the thymus gland, produce birth defects in mice even from attempt to register 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D follow Seveso accident in Italy, where a cloud of incredibly small doses, it is the cause of which may adversely affect the immune the above rules to the letter. dioxin was released into the atmosphere the skin disease Chloracne upon contact system, thus reducing resistance to many 2,4,5-T represents more than just a over the town of Seveso. A preliminary with the skin, it is therefore the most other diseases. health threat, it is a threat against man­ study on the chromosomal analysis of hos­ dangerous chemical to the health of the kind, it is a threat to the safety of the Tests on the teretogenicity of 2,4,5-T pital patients exposed to TCDD showed an human race. Given such facts it is quest­ average person who has no choice other did not begin till 1967, 17 years after they increased number of chromosomal gaps, ionable whether 2,4,5-T should be sold than to trust the likes of the Dow Corpor­ were released onto the general market, and breaks, and rearrangements in the somatic over the counter at all. ation who are more into making money nearly 25 years after the phenoxy herbic­ cells of males and females aged from 2 to It should never be necessary to have the than a better world. ides were discovered. Once again we have 28. contents of any chemical investigated as a case of a major drug being released before All the available data on 2,4,5-T points the result of public outcry. The Pesticides Philip Bishop it has been thoroughly tested. The thalid­ to the conclusion that we are in dire need Act of 1979 clearly states that to register a With thanks to Friends of the Earth for omide example was, and still has been con­ of some form of restraint in the testing of iPesticide the manufacturers must state:- their co-operation. Corso on Campus In 1970 the people of Chile elected a has it been without long consideration ittee, he is not talking sense. After all, the So we are yet to see whether actions new President - Salvadore Allende. Some and discussion. Corso's statement of UGC is a government department and it will come out of the Prime Minister's words. of those who suffered from his subsequent Principles, adopted in 1978, illustrate our takes instructions from the Government. With only two weeks for information to economic policies were the American- belief in the goals and nature of develop­ Besides Latos there are lots of other be formulated and sent to the High Comm­ based multi-national corporations that ment; ways to avoid our aid committment to the issions one is sceptical that concrete and .made huge profits from Chile's copper. The presen t world order does no t Pacific. Latos was just an indirect way of constructive innovations will ensue. In 1974 the Chilean m ilitary overthrew allow the fu ll development o f people in doing this. The Government is perfectly Allende's government and installed a mili­ either high or low income countries - in capable of setting quotas on the number Catherine McGeorge tary junta. This was after a concentrated fact it is a barrier to the growth o f people of students we will allow here from over­ policy of 'destablisation' operated by the everywhere because it is based on unequal seas. The other two alternatives would be CIA with the support of the Nixon admin­ distribution o f wealth and power. to cut aid money or to lim it the number istration and affected multi-nationals. - A pre-conditiocLof development is to of places available to foreign students in Jamaica provides more than half of the transform the present world order and popular faculties such as commerce. aluminium ore consumed by American in­ not merely promote a transition from dustry. Hundreds of acres of Jamaica are economic poverty to the equally inhuman It is not difficult to distrust the Prime now owned by multi-nationals for eventual state o f over-consumption. Minister's statements on issues such as; excavation - land that is not being utilised - Human development is inseparable Latos. While cutting down expenses on ARC YOU in any way for the benefit of Jamaicans. from justice and encompasses equal access everything else, his department is the only A new Prime Minister and Government to economic opportunity, production for government department which is increasing in Jamaica was instrumental in forming people's needs, participation in all levels in numbers. There are now eighty people TH€OM£ the International Bauxite Association that o f decision-making, respect for cultural working in the Prime Minister's department produced enough pressure to increase the diversity, and respect for the human rights as his 'think tank'. They are employed bauxite levy by 700%. Now Jamaica is o f all. solely to keep the Government and the able to run an active Jamaican Adult - Corso's task is to promote total develop­ Prime Minister looking good. Muldoon's WHO IS Literacy Programme. Will they be the next ment, by supporting people in both New statement re Latos is probably another of target for the CIA and multi-national's Zealand and overseas, to work together in their stratagems intended to mask reality 'destabilisation' ? • • »rr i < 11 transforming the conditions and structures and cook the books so the public via the LNIMG Multi-national corporations operate o f injustice and the attitudes that reinforce press will be taken in. with an equal disregard for human factors them. We know the Government is not actually in their countries of origin. Peabody Coal, You are invited to join with us, critic­ shelving Latos. What now? On July 1st YOU once a subsidary of Kenndcott -'America's ' ally or not, in exploring these questions applications are sent to OSEC' The Pacific largest copper company - is busy turning which are related to New Zealand and will be among those nations with applicat­ Appalachian countryside into desert by New Zealanders. Ph Paula King (Sec) strip-mining. TGN 3723. ions to sit Latos. The test is not to be un- MOW? till September. So it is now that officials in These are issues examined in 'Sharing Take this moment and consider your life You are struggling Global Resources: Towards a New Econo­ Government will be sorting out what is to for survival, knowledge, immortality, pleasure and happiness be done to change Latos, if indeed a change But -— Are you the subject of your own existence? Are you the mic Order', a slide-tape presentation from one breathing your breath, thinking your thoughts, digesting the American Friends Service Committee. is intended at all. By May, High Comm­ your food'? Consider your heartbeat Are you the thumper or LATOS Update issions will have to have the information the ' thumpee'9 Did you create yourself? If you consider these It is being shown in B10 at 1 pm on Thurs­ questions profoundly, you will realize instantly and clearly that day 24 April by Corso on Campus. as to what instructions are for the potent­ you are not the one who lives you now Some One. some Being, ial students in the coming year. some Power is living you and the entire world in this moment Corso is involved in investigating such As a follow-up to the Latos article of Another question If you are. not the One Who is living and questions as the need for a New Inter­ breathing you. what is your relationship to that One9 The only Issue 4, it was intended that we interview What critics of Latos hoped for was that appropriate relationship with What is living and being us is national Economic Order and the role of someone who is in favour of the scheme. Latos be abandoned for students in the surrender Therefore, the true Way of Life is utter surrender or multi-nationals as an extension of the heartfelt inherence in the Force Person. God. or revealed No one with such qualifications could be iPacific for students who have had an NZ Reality that lives every thing and every one This Way is taught developed world into the Third World. found. We asked Brian Lythe what he education, and substantially altered for by Da (Bubba) Free John and is lived in his Company 'Sharing Global Resources' is one of the thought of the latest developments on the applicants from other areas. They hoped AN INVITA TIO N TO many resources being used by Corso on Latos issue. This is what followed. A SPIRITUAL CELEBRATION that the Latos test as we now know it WITH DEVOTEES OF Campus to bring these issues to students; It would be easy to believe that we have would be scrapped and replaced by a new DA FREE JOHN to stimulate discussion and question-ask­ on Sunday April 27th a victory on our hands on the subject of test. This test would be a diagnostic test We invite you to participate with us! ing; to increase New Zealanders' awareness Latos. That victory, however, would only which would pinpoint the areas of weak­ For further information, write to: Richard Raeside of the factors that are part of true develop­ apply to the Pacific. But it is not as simple ness in the student's proficiency in English. C.P.O. Box 3185, ment. as that. Muldoon has sidestepped the issue. Auckland, 1 The possibility of English remedial courses or phone 549-035 Corso's evolution from old clothes to By saying that he will put the matter into held prior to the university year was hoped developmental aid has not been easy. Nor the hands of the University Grants Comm­ for.

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The State apartments in Buckingham Palace are opened at 9.30 p.m., and the Court begins at 10. Ladies carry their train, folded, over the arm until they reach the door of the picture gallery, where it is removed from its wearer's arm by an attendant in waiting, and the lady passes across the gallery with it flowing at full length to the door of the Throne Room, where her card is taken by an official and handed to the Lord Chamberlain, who announces the name. On being presented, the lady curtseys to the King and Queen, both of whom bow in return. The former custom of kiss­ ing the hand is no longer observed. As she Tippling at TTN's AGM: Robert Blance, Christine Bennington, Christine Overton, Alan Blance, Cathy Foe Barke (bottom) and leaves the Presence Chamber the lady steps Mike Perkinson- inset. backwards, facing the Royal group. When she reaches the door of the Throne Room an official replaces her train on her arm. CRHCCUM Omile t m«I? iiw close Tridfrj June 6 Firs) p«3« $50 donoksd by BWz ilH p B I SHORT STQRV Winning entries mil* be punted CDHPETTIQN inCraccum. We're not far out... for a special display of books on running, bicycling and other cheap and healthy pursuits at the

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STATEMENT OF THE 1980 UNIVERSITY asked the people concerned to do so. let alone administrative regulations. Typist” OF AUCKLAND DIPLOMA IN DRAMA The Diploma group, having notified the When he arrived at the Theatre on * Rates negotiable STUDENTS Theatre Manager and the Theatre Technic­ Monday, the Theatre Manager said that he ^Dictaphone typing ian, decided to clean the place up as soon had given permission only for a 'quiet *IBM Typrewriter used A further call has been made for re­ as possible and get on with the rehearsal drink' and that this group would not be vision of Maidment Theatre management work. ^Stationery Supplied allowed to use Maidment facilities again. policy. An attempt was made to photograph *Normal Office Hours This follows a recent incident at the Later he apologised for the inconveneince Five days a week the mess, but the only camera available caused and announced that in recognition Little Theatre, involving the Diploma of was unsuited for the low level of the house of the work done to clean the Theatre up, We'll travel anywhere with our Drama students. lights. Mervyn Thompson threw some of A t 10.30 on Easter Monday morning, the Diploma Course would not be charged typewriter for on the spot the crates of beer out into the quadrangle for hiring the Theatre on that day. all 14 Diploma in Drama students, togeth­ so that other people around the University typing at your convenience The Diploma students find this in­ er with the lecturer in charge of the course, notably the Theatre Management, could anytime, sufficient. It was noted that there was a Mervyn Thompson, arrived at the Maid- see what the Diploma Course had had to large sign on the Theatre wall displaying phone 410-9506 ment's Little Theatre to continue rehears­ put up with. 'bar prices'. This would incidate that from als for the Diploma Course production It took fifteen people two hours to the beginning something larger than a 'Scenes of Parting' - which was to open on mop the floors, clean backstage, refocus 'quiet drink' was planned. In addition, the FEMALES REQUIRED FOR the Wednesday. the lights, reassemble the props and Theatre Technician - Stuart Berthelson- Many hours work in the week before arrange the set again. In all, twenty crates Smith, commented that the same group Easter had seen the theatre set established, of beer bottles were removed. A morning's had left a mess last year. If this is true, it curtains hung, props collected, and the rehearsal work had been lost. must be irresponsible of the Theatre lights positioned and focussed. Members of the Diploma in Drama Management to give permission for use of When the doors were opened on the Course are very angry about the incident. the facilities to this outside group. Monday morning, the stage area was al­ If the N.Z. Federation of Body- PRECISION HAIR CUTTING most bare, the props and curtains were Builders had wanted to stereo-type thern- The issue of the quietness of the drink nowhere in sight, the floor was sticky UNDER EXPERT SUPERVISION with spilled beer, cigarette butts and pea­ IN TOP CITY SALON. nuts had been ground into the floor, there were crates of beer bottles and single PHONE BRUCE 796-705 bottles littered all around the theatre, as were plastic wine glasses. The place stank of stale beer. The metal handles on the UNFIT? main Little Theatre doors were bent and one of the floor locks was jammed. The OVERWEIGHT? House lights had been left on overnight. HIRE AN EXERCYCLE Someone had had a booze-up, and had made no effort to clean up afterwards. NO DEPOSIT The initial reaction of the Diploma FREE DELIVERY group was alarm. Some of the props were valuable items .on loan. One student had $4.00 PER WEEK lent a Persian rug, a present from a close friend. Two other students had lent a MINIMUM 4 WEEKS family heirloom - an embroidered table­ PHONE TGN 5805 cloth. A bound copy of early 1900's news­ papers had also been borrowed. None of these were anywhere in sight. It was further discovered that several of the accessible lights had been refocussed, thus THEATRE upsetting a lot of painstaking work done on the previous week. The toilet was a Galat os St Nowton Ph774307 mess of paper towels, with urine on the MON & TUES AT 6.1 5 pm; floor. selves as a group of beer-swilling heavies still leaves untouched the other question WED-SAT AT 8.15 pm Some clues as to who the party-goers with scant respect for other people's that at no time did the Theatre Administ­ Harold Plntor't had been, now emerged. Bottles of John­ property or work, they couldn't have ration consult the Diploma Course about son's Baby Oil were found, then a couple done a better job. That is certainly the a decision which anyone could have fore­ BETRAYAL of empty jock-strap packets, and finally impression that remains with the Diploma seen would have affected their property “Adultery in middle-class literary circles." and their work. a programme for the 1980 New Zealand students. CONCURRENTLY MON & TUES AT Federation of Body-Builders Champion­ But the main grievance must rest with It should be pointed out that the 6.15 pm; WED - SAT AT 8.15 pm. Diploma in Drama is a fulltim e University ships held in the adjoining Maidment the Theatre Management. It seems in­ AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL. PARNELL course. It is unique in the country in giv­ Theatre two nights earlier. A phone call comprehensible that a competent admini­ T.S. Eliot s to the Theatre Manager, Mr Frank Hobson, stration would give permission to a large ing a post-graduate qualification embrac­ confirmed that he had given permission to group of people to hold what amounted ing the whole gamut of basic theatre train­ MURDER IN the Federation to have a 'quiet drink' in to a party actually on the set of a theatre ing. It equips students to work in the THE CATHEDRAL the Little Theatre after the Championships. production. Alan Fenner's action shows community or in schools. Part of the The martyrdom of Thomae Btckett Eventually the props were discovered in that no instructions were given to take training is mounting full-scale theatre a back cupboard. The Federation had care of the property involved. It seems productions. For this, access to the Maid­ made some attempt to safeguard the likewise incomprehensible that the dec­ ment Centre's facilities is a basic necessity. Diploma Production's property. Unfort­ ision should be made w ithout any consult­ If the decision of the Theatre Manager SAVE $ 4 unately it was not entirely successful: a ation with the people most likely to be in this case is in any way symptomatic of bell had been broken (it was later repaired) affected, namely the Diploma Course. current Management policy - and the EARLY BIRD (OR GUY) and the heirloom tablecloth had been Insult is added to injury in that Diploma Craccum article of March 31 would indi­ smudged with black ink from the open students have done their best to fu lfil cate that it is, then it is clear that not only GRAD PORTRAIT OFFER inkstand. Later it was discovered that the what seems at times to be very restrictive are student needs being treated as second­ props were stored away only because Alan requirements of the Theatre Management, ary to those of 'outside' users, but that Highest awarded Fenner, a Maidment Theatre assistant, had only to see an outside group seemingly occasionally the teaching role of the realised what was happening, and had walking roughshod over basic decencies. University is itself being disrupted. (Easter Show '80) Portrait Photographer offers a $44 sitting After sweetcorn and sausage rolls, what Eugenie, John, Biddy, Selwyn and Victoria CRACCUM is registered with the Post more can I say? I think the gin helped to polishing the silver, Brian and Daedalus Office as a newspaper. It is published by (incl. eight 5 x 4 colour prints) wash it down though, not to mention the even if they are slimming, Adam who filled the Craccum Administration Board for marlin steaks and Dorn Perignon '53, and up all those last little empty spaces, the Auckland University Students' Assoc­ Mon — Wed 5th — 7th May the black roe and asparagus entrees. The Anthony and Britt who delivered all the iation, Private Bag, Auckland; typeset on flaming crepes suzettes brought to our goods from Wanganui, and Paul and Kat­ the Association's IBM machine; and print­ Otherwise $48 on Thurs, Fri, Sat. table was such a considerate touch too. rina who invited all the guests to the party. ed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Where would we be without our bursary Lets's do it again next Thursday! Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Opinions cheques? Where would we be too, without expressed are not necessarily those of the anthony E d ito r...... Katherine White Mark, who presided at high table all through Editorial staff, and in no way represent Technical E d ito r...... Paul Barton Thursday's festivities, Mandy serving the the official policy of the Students' Assoc­ lienrys Advertising Manager.... Anthony Wright after dinner coffee, Mike who wandered iation. Assistant Editors...... John Carrigan N E W STUDIO in from nowhere and proved such a dab CRACCUM Volume 54 Issue 7 ...... Daryl Wilson hand with the choux pastry, John who 477 Parnell Rd fricasseed the stop press delightfully, the Legal A dvisor...... Don Mathias (near Domain Lights) Paspiropoulosityness/Hardy Bros specialite Photography...... Elizabeth Leyland du jour, Daryl's works of art with the Distribution Manager.. Brian Gray Phone 774-554 chicken, Dermot who wrote the menu. Typesetter...... Barbara Amos CRACCUM

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his year New Zealanders are going n its 1978 manifesto the Government jazz musicians, or the manner in which has to go gold (sell 7,500 copies) to break to spend on average slightly over acknowledged the need for New Zea­ classical music is played. To tax records even. With the tight budgets they are T $11 per person for records or tapes. land to develop its own cultural iden­ at what the Minister of Customs, Mr Tem­ working under, most Record companies This is more per capita than any other I tity if it is to become a fully independentpleton has described as being at a rate cannot afford to invest in local acts, country except Sweden. But as in the past nation. The QEII report sums it up very "pretty close to being punitive" is to working at a loss until a band grows to five years our performers, composers, well as; "the existance of a vigourous cul­ adversely affect every person in the coun­ sufficient stature to start making money, producers, retailers, manufacturers and tural life in any country enhances the try. if they last as long as that. $o New everyone else involved in the industry will quality of individual existance; produces The government already recognises that Zealand recording has been virtually left be making very little, if anything, out of greater self confidence and morale as a recordings, along with books and films, are in the hands of dedicated independents. it all. As a guaranteed return on no invest­ nation; confirms the ability of our artists cultural products in terms of the Florence For the majors it makes more sense to ment or work whatsoever the Government to interpret New Zealand to New Zealand­ Agreement 1950; the Copyright Act 1962; import the master tapes of overseas will be taking any money in the industry ers; and reduces our dependance on the and the Sales Tax Exemption Order 1979. releases for about $200, paying fees to the out as sales tax. cultural products of other nations." This But unless they accept that the cultural composer, 5% of the retail price, and Since the tax was raised from 20% to applies to recording artists as to any other well being of the nation is more important royalties to the original owner of the 40% in 1975 the recording industry in New discipline. But while the commercial dis­ than a short term tax grab, to an extent recording, the artist, and anyone else who Zealand has been going downhill. The tax semination of a cultural produce, ie. rec­ only practiced here and in the Malagasi has got in on the property: The total in has created an artificial price spiral, with ordings, is taxed, and at an excessive rate, Republic, then things can only get worse. copyright fees and royalties is about 22% the retail price rising from $6.50 to $8.99, the government is undermining or ignoring brief overview of the industry would to 24% of the retail price, all of which an increase of 38.3%. During the same its own policy. Our composers, performers help to highlight the issues, disappears overseas. In contrast, royalty period (1975 - 1979 inclusive) the Consu­ and producers are being deprived of one of k There are a number of recording payments to New Zealand artists average mer Price Index rose 73.2%. Even the the major and creative outlets for their art A studios in New Zealand, at least three of out to about 6%. by the government. Sponsored decline of latest increase to $9.99 is not enough to which are of international standard, with a At the moment the price of a record cover costs and inflation, and increasing the indigenous recording industry. capital value of over $3 million. The main breaks down into this; consumer resistance to the higher prices A book or magazine is not taxed, but a ones are EMI, Mascot, Harlequin Stebbing, Vinyl .65 is making the situation worse. With the cassette or 'talking book' is. A film is not Zodiac, Marmalade and Mandrill. The release of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts taxed, while the soundtrack of the film Cover (average) .30 hourly rate is about $60, significantly Royalties/copyright 2.10 Council report on the New Zealand sold separately is. A concert ticket is non- cheaper than the Australian equivalent of recording industry the Record Retailers taxable, but a recording of the same con­ $90, and the U$ average of $150. However, Cost price into ware­ Federation has stepped up their campaign cert is: Citizen Bands' posthumous live many of our best producers have left the house $3.05 to have the sale tax dropped, with sub­ album is costing more than it ever cost to country. The usual production costs to Wholesalers margin 1.95 missions to the Minister of Customs, a see the band in person. Almost all contem­ make an album in New Zealand range from Wholesale price $5.00 promotional package sent to every mem­ porary music, of whatever form, has come $30,000 to $15,000 compared with prod­ 40% sales tax 2.00 ber of parliament, and the placing of about directly or indirectly through recor­ uction costs frequently over $100,000 for Newspaper ads on the issue. The record dings, whether it be the Rolling Stones overseas albums. However, 4c in sales Cost price into shop $7.00 companies, under the Recording Industry listening to Chuck Berry records, Hello must come in for every 1c in production Retailers Mark-up 2.99 Association, have also presented submis­ Sailor listening to Rolling Stones records, costs for the record to break even. This sions. the existence of world class New Zealand means that a New Zealand record virtually Retail price $9.99

Page 10, CRACCUM, April 21. While this is fairly rough it does show record companies around the world are charts for eight weeks, would have saved country. It is even more unjust that they that there isn't much left to promote and getting highly neurotic about, there has the country something like $1500 a week should bear the brunt of taxation for the distribute the records, to pay wages, rent been a significant increase in the sale of for the first, although the figure for the cultural field. The precedent for lifting and power etc, and very little to develop cassette players and blank tapes since second single would have been less, as it sales tax o ff kulture ("Put your gun back, new artists. In fact, from 1974 - 78, for the introduction of the sales tax, but was a cover. An album would save about Herman!") has been set with the potters which international figures are available. minimal growth in the sales of records $10,000 to $15,000 a week at the top. A having the tax on crafts removed. The New Zealand production of albums decli­ and prerecorded cassettes. And I'm sure very facetious argument, sure, but if we Minister of Customs, Mr Templeton, has ned by -2.9%, USA rose by 23% and the not all that many people actually prefer have to get down to 'tightening our belts' said that he was seeking to "...clarify and UK by 22%. For the manufacturers there horrible little dinky cassettes. to halt $600 million deficits, every little rationalise the system we are using (re doesn't seem much point hanging on. bit helps. sales tax). Our aim must be to establish n the long term the Government is The growth of an indigenous recording rates which can be applied more generally losing too. The record industry has rtists and public bear the brunt of industry would also bring overseas acts in, to classes of goods." The Government huge export potential. In one year their efforts to stay alive. The range I to take advantage of New Zealand's cheap Bales Tax Amendment Order 1979 was a Abba earned more overseas exchange for of recordings has narrowed, with studio rates. This would reduce time step towards this, rationalising the sales A Sweden than the Volvo auto-giant. In companies relying on local MOR artists when studios are not being used, and as tax base for all art and craftware at 10%, to their name up the home front. While Australia recently the Little River Band promotional and tourism spinoffs. and establishing the important precedent the success of Sharon O'Neill and Jon secured an $8 million dollar advance from Even with a small initial market. New for the recording industry of recognising Stevens is pleasing, the rest of the broad their American company. Dragon, who Zealand recording could get itself to the that if certain cultural products are to be spectrum of music is just not being covered. left Auckland a couple of years ago for level of Jamaica, where at least 15 singles subject to sales tax, then they should be One company which five years ago had 15 lack of opportunity here, sold 500,000 are released every week, many of them subject to the same and low rate of tax. artists on contract and two producers now copies of their latest album in Australia. from small two- or four-track machines. t the moment the three interested has four artists and no full time local All earnings from that success stay in As the whole scene opens up there parties, the companies, the retail­ product manager. Australia, a loss which needn't have would be even more room for the small ers and the Arts Council, are hoping Wholesalers are trimming their back happened if the local recording indus­ independent labels, which are the back­ A for some change in the budget, although catalogues, not re-pressing records when try had been in a healthy state. The bone of indigenous recorded music. You the measures necessary can be done they run out of stock. You can't get speed of modern communications could be New Zealand's answer to Lee through an Order in Council. The RIA copies of 'The Harder They Come' at the means that a well-developed New Zeal­ Perry. and RIF are merely asking for the Govern­ moment. Specialist records are becoming and industry could grab a stake in the ment to recognise sound-recording as a harder and more expensive to obtain. megabuck international market. The part from the sound long-term ■cultural product, and thus have the same Some are imported from Australia, and talent to exploit that market is here, financial sense in dropping the sales protection, rights and advantages as other thus are duty free under the Nafta agree­ but the local industry lacks the stability tax, the most important aspect is and profitability to invest adequately in A cultural products, and to exempt them ments, but are liable for sales tax. Others still its effect on the livelihood and devel­ from sales tax. Or alternately, just to must come from Europe. For these, 271/2% the development of New Zealand talent. opment of New Zealand artists. It is subject all cultural products, including duty is levied on the cost price from the On the home market, local sales sub­ iniquitous that New Zealanders should sound-recordings, to the same low rate country of origin. To this the Customs stitute for overseas sales and the sub­ be forced overseas to develop their chosen of sales tax. Department add a standard 25% for the sequent loss of foreign funds. Jon Stevens field, especially as it is a field which has wholesalers mark up, and sales tax is cal­ who had two songs at the top of the become an accepted part of any developed The retailers are also asking for sales culated from this total, with the retail tax credits on tax-paid stock held at the markup bringing the price for an import time of any adjustment. The precedent up to $13.99. This takes many jazz, blues, for this is in the transport industry, as folk and classical music out of the price when the sales tax on heavy motor range of most people, and much specialist vehicles was dropped from 20% to 10%. music is unobtainable here. A ridiculous A t that time retailers holding stock they collectors' market exists for records which had already paid tax on got sales tax credit should be part of our western cultural from their suppliers. In other words, the heritage, while our indigenous heritage is Government has to pay back some of what languishing unrecorded. it has taken. If this provision isn't worked into the deal, most retailers would be bank­ or the retailers times are hard. The rupted overnight. McNair survey found that in the The Arts Council meanwhile had been F 1 0 -2 5 age group, 357,000 people sent off in 1978 to come back with recomm­ bought at least one LP or cassette last year. endations which would be treated 'sympath The 25 - 65 age group had total purchasers etically' (as in feeling sorry for a sick of 511,000. Both groups, totalling 868,000 puppy?). They asked fro the sales tax to were made up of 50% males and females. be abolished or significantly reduced, for In 1978 the record industry pro­ reasons of cultural merit and export pot­ duced 1500 new titles, and had 8000 ential. They also asked for yet another other records listed as remaining on commision to be set up to administer a release. Therefore a retailer must carry $300,000 a year investment fund for 5 up to 9500 titles, catering for customers years, and then wind themselves down. from 10-65+. Somehow he must find The R.I.A. and R.I.F. see this as being the money to pay 40% pre-pa id sales on a ridiculous step designed to guarantee the lot. A typical retailer would have to senior Arts Council staff a job if they lose stock $40,000 worth, of which $16,000 their present political appointments. The is pre-paid tax. Over the country there industry is quite capable of developing at are about 800 retail.outlets, represent­ some speed if the hindrance of the sales tax ing about $8 million in pre-paid tax. were removed. The record industry is a fashion indus­ aving got to this stage of the article try, and records scrapped as outdated are still taxed, representing a total loss to I suddenly have.a stop press conclus­ the retailer. The fashion clothing indus­ H ion (stop the presses!). The response of the Government to the R.R.F.'s inform try, of a similarly volatile nature, has a ation package of a Paddington Bear record minimum 60% retail mark-up. But with only a 25% to 40% mark-up the record with a 40% chunk taken out of it, the sub­ retailers have no way to recoup losses. missions and tax-free Penthouse and Play boy magazines is as predictable as it it rid­ The already considerable consumer iculous. With the fervour of a dedicated resistance to the price of records means pornographer the Prime Minister has set that they must endeavour to keep prices his Customs Minister, Mr Templeton, to down, while spending as much as possible the task of wriggling out of international on promotion. Retailers are much more conventions which we are signatory to and cautious in stocking records, and it be­ taxing girlie magazines. And jsut so that comes increasingly harder to replace nobody can accuse him of waddling aside older records. The number of records frorri the main issue he has found a new available in the country has probably persona as music lover and arbiter of taste. declined considerably from the 1978 For him, while Kiri Te Kanawa can be cal­ figure of 9500, as you find out when you led culture, records which are understand­ are told from the warehouse,“ out of able by, and a part of the lives of the vast stock." majority of New Zealanders are merely Increasingly smaller stores are being luxury items. Therefore they should be bought out by larger concerns with taxed sufficient turnover to tide them through For him obviously the words popular the lean years. Many are closing down. and culture are words that definitely do If smaller towns like Raetahi or Waipuk- Takes a shot at record taxing* not belong together. Culture is for the arau lose their record shop, this loss of a elite, wealthy paid-up National Party cultural asset can be likened to the clos­ members all. Us proles down here exist to ure of a public library. But with increased work all day, and anything extra in our inventory costs and falling margins, some­ lives is mere luxury. He's having a good one has to lose. And in this case it's week. Not only as the supposed arbiter everyone. of what appears in the country's papers; The high prices for records have also ^/f -'-Y\ ' *V< ^v V ~ he is, under the powers conferred by dem­ lead to an increase in the sale of blank ocratic process, sole judge of what constit­ tapes and home taping of albums. This utes culture. Yet again he has taken simple is a real worry for everyone in the indus­ policy and decision making out of the hands try, as in many cases it means direct i-- 'S/ ■, , loss of sales, and deprives the composers, of his Ministers or Caucus. After all, some performers and producers of their rightful of them may even listen to 'popular' music income. While this is something that Swine prefer pearls.

Page 11, CRACCUM, April 21. Cooperative presents 'The Green Lion' at the same venue. In the main theatre, the French Dept, is presenting 'Edgar et ON THE Sa Bonne' Apr.'18-21. Auckland City Art Gallery (Kitchener Com ing U p TOWN St) Paintings and Sculpture 1880s - 1950s. Works of the Modern School from the permanent collection until 27/7.. COME - all grunt, peak performance for 2) whose morals ? If Patricia has any­ —25/4 Outreach. Paintings by Chris 'Natural and Contemporary Photo­ 5 secs., and a hell of a mess to clean up thing to do with it, it'll be prohibitive, ie Bmith. graphy' by Kerry Hill. 453 Mt. Eden Rd. after - that is the Committee for the Roman Catholic; Bob Lowe, if he works —25/4. Dimensions Gallery(Anzac Ave) Mon-Thu: 9am-5pm; Fri: 9am-9pm. Organization of Moral Education. Recently with it will make the morals Anglican, etc. 'Road Bigns' Silk screen prints by Bernard New Independent Theatre, Simon Gray's they were donated $20,000 fo r films and Even by saying that you will be taught Salmon. 'Molly', nightly Weds-Sat, 8.15 pm. teaching aids. But how does this affect us? the common basic Christian ethic, the —25/4 Moller's Gallery (Queen St) 4/5. St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell. The Simple - the Government's treachery is questions of the children will still lead to 'Asian Christian Art' University Choral Society, University twofold here : some sort of favouritism. When I was at —26/4 Mercury Theatre (France St) Chamber Orchestra and University Singers 1) the $20,000 was donated by the Intermediate School we had compulsory Anton Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' directed in a concert of Parry, Vivaldi and other Department of Education, and would religion (and naturally most kids hated it by Ian Mullins.with George Henare. Tue- items. 2.00 pm, admission $3. Senior otherwise have been spent by the National and were turned right off) by a Presbyter­ Sat, at 8.15pm, except Thurs. 6.30pm. Film Unit to import films and study aids citizens $2, Students $1. ian, Anglican, Baptist and Methodist —26/4 Mercury 2. Auckland Youth for Health and Social Education/Human minister on a roster. The confusion that Theatre presents 'The Prime of Miss 10/5. The Auckland Youth Orch­ ■Relations. The Minister placed an embargo reigned ! But where will it stop. When Jean Brodie' directed by Mary Amoore. estra gives a concert of Borodin, Lalo, on the films contrary to the wishes of confronting my headmaster at the age of Tues,Wed,Fri,Sat. 6pm. Elgar and Beethoven at Manukau City qualified senior staff in the Department of eight and asking when the nonsense would —26/4 St. Mary's Cathedra I,Parnell Centre. Education. Off his own back he gave the finish, he said that when I got to Inter­ Theatre Corporate presents Raymond 24/4. North Shore Teachers College. money instead to a fanatical group who mediate I could make a personal decision - Hawthorne's production of T.S.Eliot's are trying to reinstate the corrupt practice Midday Proms series. Strings, pipes, and no such luck ! Even at College we had , 'Murder In The Cathedral.' of icompulsory religious education in whistles. Renaissance and Baroque music prayers every morning AND THIS WAS A — 26/4 New Independent Theatre schools. Only a few weeks ago the Minister, for recorders, flutes, harpsichord and cello. STATE SCHOOL ! Luckily in the 5th (Upper Queen St) 'O f Opium and Gold' Merv Wellington (who else?) gave his 'no' Form, all religion was dropped from our Directed and devised by Peter Reich Led by Roger Buxton. 12.00. Admission to an increase in sex-education in schools, view, and the kids loved it ! Wed-Fri. 1.10pm adult $2.50, student $1.00. claiming that it had to be taught in the So this leaves a very big puzzle. We —26/4 Davis Cohn Gallery 'NZ Land­ 25/5. Auckland City A rt Gallery. 'New home (according to submissions made by know that Merv is not interested in the scapes 1979' by Jan Jacobson.Concur­ Zealand Painting of the 1970's' and New several NZ clinics to the Dept, of Health welfare of students in New Zealand, he rently, 'Neil Dawson—recent Series' Zealand Portraits: 1887-1978. only a few years ago, the majority of NZ has made that obvious. But if he is trying —26/4 His Majesty's Theatre.The 29/4-2/5. Auckland Society of Arts. An parents knew so little about sex them­ to infect young children by being a Light Opera Club presents Sigmund selves that no only could they not teach exhibition of paintings by A. K. Lawrence. puppet to such groups as COME and Romberg's 'the Student Prince' Nightly properly, but that what they did inform 24/4. Unity Theatrette. Film Society, SPCS and the very small Concerned at 8pm,matinees on 19th & 26th at 2pm. their children would possibly be so in­ 5.30 and 8.00pm. Alain Resnais' incomp­ Parents, at what age will this propaganda —25/4.SNAPS Gallery (Federal St) correct or misleading as to make that form rehensible 'Last Year at Marienbad'. and mind-manipulation stop; and to what Photographs by Alan McOnie. of education dangerous), and yet here he 24/4 University Film Soc. HSB II. 'The areas will it carry. In a few years our —28/4 McGregor-Wright Gallery is claiming that religion, which is infinitely i/Vorld of Apu' and 'Two Daughetrs' by children may be taught that masturbation (Customs St) Paintings by Garrick Tremain. more a hairy and dangerous subject than is evil (PB: 'I have never masturbated, and Satyajit Ray. 7.00pm. sex, should be taught in schools, and is —30/4.Makers Gallery. Paintings by do not see why anyone else should have Wayne Belcher. 25/4 Real Pictures Gallery. 'Race Meet­ actually financially promoting it. When to ."), they may have compulsory con­ —10/5 Theatre Corporate (Galatos St) ings in NZ'- photographs by Glenn Jowitt. will people learn that New Zealand is not fessions and fasting, a short back and Harold Pinter's latest play 'Betrayal' 28/4 - 9/5. Outreach. Abstract/ mystic a religious country, and that by teaching it sides, no questions; in short the sort of de- Directed by Paul Minifie,with Raymond in schools more children will in fact be painting by Adrian Reading and Pat Grant. intellectualising that got Kampuchea into Hawthorne. turned away from it. A simple look at the so much trouble. Your child may be thick 26/4. Alicat Gallery. '50 Raku Forms' Fingers (Lome St.) 'Precious Little' last two generations of children will show but he's a good boy. by Rick Rudd. an exhibition of jewellery by six artists. you bow much children dislike religion. 2/5, Barry Lett Galleries. 'Paintings and Maidment Arts Centre. Lunchtime Daryl Wilson Sketches' by Kevin Williamson. Also 'Per- event at the Little Theatre (Apr. 16) Fect Moments', an exhibition of paintings 'Stages' From 16-26/4,the Green Lion by Paul Radford. Aussiepass. All the Australia you can see... at your own pace-from only $(A)140 *An Aussiepass gives you unlimited mileage, travelling by Ansett-Pioneer Express, for the number of days you choose: 14 days for $(A)140 21 days for $(A)190 35 days for $(A)265 (Aussiepass holidays can only be purchased in N.Z.) *Your Aussiepass gets you all the Australia you want to see — north, south east or west. Aussiepass now features complimentary sightseeing on all Ansett Pioneer day and Opera House to Ayers Rock, Fully adjustable. With half day tours. Canberra to the North individual reading lights and * Aussiepass gets you 10% Queensland coastline, Perth to footrests. 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Why did it take so little time before you ions at a material level. They find they charge, be it a course or public lectures. started teaching other people ? can understand people and their situation, The students consider themselves to be R aja Yoga The main thing is that it's very easy to and they can advise them and help them in members of this family, and they support learn, especially the theory part. It's not that situation. this family because they feel that it is part Dr Nirmala is already seated when I an elaborate scripture that needs to be Did you have to leave your family behind of their life and activity. Otherwise they arrive, so that I tower over this tiny Indian studied hard. We have a preliminary study in India ? would waste their time on drink, or drugs woman in the white sari, her silver hair in seven hours and after that a person has Yes, especially when I started to have or material things; the savings that they betmd in a long plat down her back. This practical experience in meditation for a goal, I started to stay at the Raja Yoga have made are used to help other people if is her fifth visit to New Zealand, she has while. You find that you get a certain centre in the evenings. I still have a very they wish. Their main motive is to help charge of the eleven Australasian branches peace and happiness from it. The emphasis good relationship with my parents and others with the time, money, and anything of Raja Yoga, and divides her time between is on the students sharing the peace with brothers-and sisters; when I go to India I else they have. They are serving their NZ and Australia. She has been associated others. Naturally, once you get right into visit them and they visit me. society spiritually. People do offer don­ with Raja Yoga for 18 years now, at first it you feel more like helping other people. How does Raja Yoga survive financially ? ations, but we don't accept them. as a student in India, then as a teacher, Do you still practise medicine ? We don't accept any donations or fees and from 1971 as a teacher in various No, because \ travel so much and for so we rely mainly on the students time Katherine White branches overseas - first in London, then medicine you need to be in one place and and help. All of our activities are free of Africa, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Australia have a steady practice, or it becomes and New Zealand. For a jet-setting world difficult. So I had to give up in 1971. traveller, she looks as if she could have Do you feei disoriented travelling so much? stepped straight off the bus from New No; there is always a Raja Yoga centre Delhi. I began by asking her to tell me where I go, and I feel at home there. I something about Raja Yoga. usually stay at least five or six months in one country. It doesn't make much differ­ Raja Yoga started in 1937, when the ence providing you feel at home. I always philosophy, which is itself quite ancient, stay with people who are interested in was revived in Karachi, in India. From Raja Yoga so that although they may have G enius 1950 we have had branches all over India, a completely different culture and lang­ and at present we have more than 600 uage, because they are interested in the branches in India. same studies they also appreciate a bit of Wide, open, eyes and smooth round Why was Raja Yoga started up ? my culture and my feelings; I never feel face, Paul Hunting explains the theories The main thing is that although we that I am staying with people who are behind his pet baby. Genius. Which is, have many philosophers, philosopies, complete strangers. that everyone of us has the potential to be scriptures, and temples in the world, yet Were many people in Africa receptive ? just that - a genius. we find that people are becoming more The local Africans - not really. In Africa 'I'm teaching people about personal irreligious, unlawful and unrighteous; we have centres in Kenya, Zambia and growth, self-development, call it what you everywhere people are turning away from Rhodesia, so that the people who come will. All of us are sitting on an enormous religion. Everybody would like to have regularly are Indians who have settled over potential which we don't know how to peace and happiness, but man doesn't go there. There are some Africans that do tap into because of our conditioning. I'm to the root cause of unhappiness; we try come and understand meditation and pract­ showing people how to get past those to get superficial and temporary benefits ise it, but I didn't meet that many. I feel blocks and belief systems.' from here and there. In order to gain real that Raja Yoga needs a more intelligent It's something that he's been working peace and happiness in life we have to and cultural society to accept it and make on these past few months, feeling his way change ourselves - many times it is our it part of their lives. The Africans are not towards an approach. He uses 'straight' outlook and attitude towards a situation as disciplined, and for meditation you psychological techniques, and 'mystical' that is making us miserable. Through Raja need this a lot; if you already have such meditative techniques, starting from the Paul Hunting graduated with a B Sc in Yoga we get powers to help us cope with habits you find it easier to adapt to some­ premise that the rational logical side of Psychology from Bristol University 10 a situation, it brings about an understand­ thing which is on a higher conscious plane. the brain which contains our accumulated years ago, and went to work as a copy­ ing of the self, and gives us permanent Does Raja Yoga have any special disci­ conditioning and social experience blocks writer. He came out to New Zealand two peace and happiness, which is what every plines on the way people live their lives ? and represses the subconscious potential years ago, 'mainly because I was in a bit individual would like to have but doesn't Yes; most of the Raja Yogis get up at of the right hand side of the brain. of a rut in London, and I had quite a few know how to get. four in the morning and meditate, and 'A child is a universal vaccum cleaner, friends out here', under contract to an When did you first become a member ? most of them try to attend Raja Yoga and if he's knocked back and told that advertising firm. That lasted about 9 Eighteen years ago. In 1962 I first classes at the Centre in the morning or he's no good at something, then he believ­ months, and he has worked freelance since became associated with the organisation, evening. They try to have that constant es it. Everyone can draw - but most people then. Here he heard Michael Colgan give as a student, and within a few months I attention so that they are in meditation are prevented by the belief that they can't, a series of lectures 'on this right-side, left­ started teaching others as well. all the time, and with that they have a because they were put down in their earl­ side of the brain stuff'. Then back in What made you decide to join ? vegetarian diet to discipline the mind and iest attempts. If you can turn the left side London he went 'very cynically and My desire to help mankind; I am also a control emotions. of your brain off - the side that's concern­ sceptically' on an awareness training doctor of medicine in order to help people. People can still continue in an ordinary ed with logic, language and symbolic inter­ course called Insight. Then I saw that through my medical pract­ working life ? pretation - you can see the genuine visual 'I walked out of it feeling as if I'd ice I could help a few people for a while, Yes. Most of the Raja Yoga students image as its presented to your mind.' been covered in concrete all my life and but that for most people their problems have their own job, own business, family He shows me a series of pencil sketches, (had had it all washed off. It was the most were social, economic or psychic, and that and so on. They spare one and a half the result of an evening's experimentation liberating experience of my life.' Excited medicine can only relieve the disease hours each day for study and they pay with this concentration technique. They by this, he came back to NZ, but the superficially. I saw that with meditation, attention to their mental consciousness so are dated - hours apart from each other - Psychology Department here wasn't inter­ psychic and social problems are solved, so that they are in higher consciousness rath­ and the advances in skill are remarkable. ested, and neither was Michael Colgan. He I started practicing both meditation and er than at a mundane level. 'You can turn it off - the stuff that went to a number of training courses, in­ medication. Raja Yoga doesn't believe in a Do you find that when people are in a causes all the turmoil and blockage in your cluding an American one. Silver Mind student giving up his usual activities; a higher consciousness plane they find it head. It's like another person drawing.' Control, before deciding to conduct his business man continues his business and a harder to get along with people in their He talks of meditation techniques, for workshops here in Auckland. Which is professional man continues his profession­ everyday working world ? going into 'that still, small, quiet voice' where Genius was born. al job. If we practice meditation we feel Their relationships with their family, within us, and listening. The only difference between a genius that it helps us to do our job in the best or their colleagues at work are improved 'I go into my dreams a lot, using alter­ and a layman is that a genius uses a special possible way. So I used to have my medi­ in that they are more spiritual, more lively ed states of consciensness.' part of his mind spontaneously and nat­ cal practice in Bombay, and practice and - peaceful, happier. They may not be part­ If you go into an Alpha state, you can urally. You have to get the ego out of the teach meditation in my spare time. icipating as much in discussions, conversat­ talk to your subconscious. With smoking - way.' and he indicates my cigarette - you can Am I making a living from it ? Going find out what creates the need to smoke, broke from it rather. It's taking off slowly; and programme yourself to stop; the same people are very sceptical and suspicious. with any negative habit. And all this is Unfortunately I'm going to have to whack controlled by the individual himself, as a the price up to make it realistic. I started technique, not by anybody else. out by hiring rooms at the South Pacific, 'You find that memory itself has no keeping the price down to absolute rock limits. It makes exams a breeze.' bottom, and charging people $100 for Which leads on to the whole aspect of what cost me up to $350 in the States. ESP and clairvoyance. He maintains that Now I know why those people have to our minds are all universally connected, charge so much. You can undervalue and that the thoughts which pass through yourself by underpricing yourself, us aren't uniquely our own. The mind can definitely.' be seen as an amplifier, receiving things in, But do we want a society of geniuses, and it can also act as a transmitter out. where everyone is continually tapping into 'And you can take that to any level you altered states of consciousness, and pro­ want'. ducing great works ? Apply this to exams: 'If you come to 'Well, yes, wouldn't it be nice ? - If a question you can't answer at all, then everybody was living to their true potent­ you go into an alpha state and ask the pro­ ial. Most of us only use 1% of this potent­ fessor or lecturer on a psychic level, and ial. There is no such thing as an energy you'll get the answer to the question you crisis; the human energy is there in don't know. The other person must be abundance. Life's really very easy, and we receptive for this to work, but you usually make it just so difficult.' find they are. I would say this works 90% of the time.' Katherine White

Page 13, CRACCUM, April 21. The Equal Skies Superwoman in Action Norman MacCaig Shirley Conran Phoenix Living Poets Penguin Books - $4.95 BOOKS If we are to believe the blurb on the Superwoman, Shirley Conran's first back of this book Norman MacCaig is the book was published in 1978 - the book Beyond Reasonable Doubt? current stock which would be immediately best thing in Scottish poetry today. I hope about housework and how to avoid it, has suspect. That one was left, and found by David Yallop it's not true. It's not that I don't admire sold to date a total of 30,000 copies in Keith, could have been oversight on Penguin $5.95 many of the poems in here - there are just NZ and this book. Superwoman in Action, Thomas's part, given that it was found so many others that are trite. 'The K irk' is is its sequel. To quote the blurb. Super- in a jar of oods and ends, its owner 'The book that led to the pardon' it a polemical rage against God and irritates woman in Action is a book about 'How to unaware of its existence. Thus what says on the cover. Well, that may be a me for the same reason that seeing the keep everyone happy, especially yourself; Yallop sees as supportive of his contention little presumptuous but there is no Old Testament psalms passed o ff as How to make the most of what you've got; is not necessarily so. denying that Yallop's book has, since its poetry would, How to Enjoy your family/Friends/Home/ Yallop can also wax on the pompous and publication in 1978, been a highly 'When he's not feeling too good, the Lord Job and how to get away from them some­ self-righteous side. A t times you can controversial document. Available lounging by his infinite swimming pool, times.' And quite simply this is what it almost see him, fancying himself as defence now in paperback, through Penguin, thinks does. counsel. But these lapses are understand­ at a price we are supposed to be able 'The sins o f the fathers w ill be visited The Superwoman of today 'doesn't able. His excitement and enthusiasm, are to afford, Yallop gets a chance to upon the children' waste anything, especially not her life' - justified, for BRD marshals an impressive explain his theories and parade the and thanks God this being the essence of superwoman intellectual and actual assault on the forces evidence of his own investigations that he is his own ancestor.' thinking, the book proceeds to set out, in and reasoning of the Crown. Whatever its before the lower income brackets. However genuinely the author feels the steps 1, 2 and 3, everything you wanted to shortcomings in logic and style may be, Following three hundred odd pages of emotion, this is snide poetry which effect­ know about success, self satisfaction and they do not critically impair the force often convoluted reasoning is a ively alienates the reader by implication. those associated issues. It is what it appears trial at the best of times,; it is evidence or validity of Yallop's arguments. And this He who is not with me is against me. to be, a practical guide for the bored of the author's narrative skill and organised book does establish, to my mind anyway, My other complaint against MacCaig is married housewife of NZ on how to mind, as well as the depth to which the that beyond any reasonable shadow of a his prediliction for aphorisms. Usually successfully entertain herself and more issue is buried in the nation's collective doubt, Arthur Allan Thomas is not guilty they are snuggled away among images of than that, make herself useful and enjoy consciousness, that 'Beyond Reasonable of the murders of Harvey and Jeanette varying quality, for instance 'Ends and doing so. Doubt?' makes such consistently fine Crewe. His pardon following the public­ Means'. A quick squint at the chapter headings sense and continually gripping reading. ation of the book supports that belief 'The club of Hercules/wept all the time will explain further. Book one includes English by nationality, Yallop's — just as this book in the final analysis - /it didn't want/to hurt anything/ 'How to get out of the house profitably', involvement with the Thomas affair supports the cause of true justice. Cuchulain's spear/cursed the magic/that 'How to be an Expert', 'What to do with 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt?' is an began with a visit to the country forced it to be/infallible./The brain of the children', 'Getting ready for a better of his wife's birth in 1978, at which time excellent piece of documentation, a Nero/couldn't sleep for thinking/of the job'. It goes one further than with a he was asked to write the book. Spurning thoughtful, persuasive examination of a ideas that Ego/formed from it./And what section about 'Starting your business', the assistance of Pat Booth, because of shameful episode in our nation's history. about/the men in armies,/the so many including 'Budget and balance sheets', that man's obviously partisan views on It should be required reading for all, not men/in so many armies ?' 'Your long term aims' and 'Your business the subject, he commenced his investig­ least those who find cause for pride or I give the whole poem because I want brains'. ations with a completely open mind on complacency in the extant institutions of to illustrate that everything is spoiled by Book Two (the three books are all the legal structure in this country. the question of Thomas's guilt or innoc­ the final stanza, (beginning 'And what under the same Penguin cover), has a guide about....') The first three are fine, effective to helpful fun domesticity, explaining in ence (or so he says). But by the close of John Carrigan his investigations (as he writes), [I had] imagery. We can see that the weapons are easy lessons 'Setting up a Home', 'Twelve a view and an opinion, formulated not by sorry to have no control over the fact that things no home should be without' and others, but by facts that / discovered by they must destroy. So why does he go and 'Twenty ways to make your living room myself, about the strange and horrific throw in that last horrible stanza ? The look more expensive' etc - I'm sure you nightmare that Arthur Thomas has been implication is a) that the reader is too have the jist of this In Action book. living for nearly eight years. His conclu­ dumb to make the connection or b) that Book Three, entitled Superwoman sion is clear and expressed in no uncertain the first three stanzas are too weak to Takes Off, the book for those 'Happy ■terms: if the evidence — all the evidence stand on their own. Family Outings (whether its an afternoon — is considered, the objective conclusion If a) he is denying us an important off or a fortnight away)'. 'Days Out’ gives all must reach is that Thomas is innocent. privilege (the making of a discovery) and a guide to local tourist spots and includes And this is the crux of 'Beyond b) is simply not true. 'Packaged Picnics' and 'Travel Games', (it Reasonable Doubt?' Thomas suffered MacCaig does avoid this fault often could hardly be without them). Of course, imprisonment for nine years, not enough. The collection opens with a series as is the essence of this book - this is a because the evidence convicted him, of poems dedicated to a dead friend. 'In 'How to cut costs', 'travel cheapest' - not but because only part of the evidence Memoriam' is very good and I give it in to mention - where to go for the longer was considered in the first place. Thus full. period and 'How to go about it' BRD is not just the story of an innocent 'On that stormy night Well, what else can you say about such man, unjustly and unjustifiably convicted, a top branch broke o ff a book ? Its written with a certain aim and it is also the story of deception — police on the biggest tree in my garden. audience in mind (those 30,000 NZ Super- deception, harassment — police harassment, woman who strive towards success and use­ the suppression of evidence and the It's still up there. Though its leaves fulness, in the home and on the job) and deliberate obstruction by the combined are withered black among the green it does I believe succeed in its appeal for forces of the Crown, of defence efforts and living branches such an audience. It is practical, easy to obtain evidence and information as won't let it fall.' reading, reasonably well researched and well as access to witnesses. How could The intent of this poem is obvious and even reliable. Thomas be with any cause, convicted, by leaving the story of the branch alone, If this is the sort of book you're after, if his trial were not in the first place fair? 'Islands' by allowing us to make the connections whatever your situation, maybe you're in Its most important conclusion, then, if March 1980 for ourselves, he gives the poem its life need of a second income in the family, or not its most immediate, is to be found in $3.50 instead of squashing it. simply feeling bored and useless (the last the author's substantiated assertion that So these are the extremes of Norman of the kids is o ff to school) - it covers the legal system of this country and the I particularly enjoyed reading Rachel MacCaig. His mid-range has its moments most questions and circumstances admir­ premises and procedures on which it is McAlpine's fifteen 'House Poems'. How also. Did you know that the first ape to ably. It's written at a snappy jolly pace ie based and operated, are inherently do you get pn with your house, are you see Darwin told his brothers to 'Run' from 'self confidence can fall suddenly like a unsound, susceptible to distortion and friends ? Do you talk ? A t times it is this visitor from the past!' souffle' for minor reasons, major reasons, stacked against the defence. Yallop shows difficult to distinguish the identity of the I think a lot of people will enjoy .a lot or none at all that you can see'. But as a why and how Arthur Alan Thomas remained house from that of the authoress - of the poems in this collection, my own disinterested party, the writer not being in prison as long as he did despite two 'little by little the earthquakes reservations notwithstanding. Perhaps the middleaged, middleclass or married, con­ trials, two appeals, two referrals and an loosen my nuts and bolts.' biggest drawback w ill be the price. Steep ! sequently found it a predictable bore. ndependent consideration of the evidence Her speech is natural, some would say tv a retired Supreme Court judge. And it childish. But it is a clever child who can Ken Grace Sarah Dugdale from this position, as a warning of draw the reader so closely into and nherent danger, that BRD derives its through her own web of experience. greatest significance. In this issue also are some very short Not that the book is a masterpiece of childhood anecdotes by Bill Glass which I unimpeachable reason or impeccable style. admire for the simple way he tells them. On a number of occasions, Yallop writes By way of contrast take a look at Sam CONCERTS of the evidence as if a conclusion he arrives Pillsbury's 'The Airplane Fantasies of a at is given, as if no alternative exists. For Tyre Salesman' which is reasonably clever, example, in one passage he writes, ‘Before overly contrived and quite boring. Bruckner Mass in F Minor one can accept that Thomas killed Harvey The most annoying thing about this Brahms German Requiem Sanctus et Benedictus. The Symphonia, and Jeanette, one must accept that he took edition, however, is the gratuitous inclus­ Auckland Choral Society under Brecon Carter, gave of their best. two such bullets [gauge .22 pattern 8 — ion of an autobiographical piece from Town Hall April 12 The German Requiem was especially a variety out of circulation for a consider­ Kevin Ireland called 'Beginnings.' In a memorable for Wendy Dixon's warm and able while] disdaining the box he was publication which should be allowing There have been few concerts of such poised 'Ihr, habt nun Traurigkeit' though currently using, to commit the murders, space to people who have got something impressive scope and quality as the Auck­ there was perhaps a hint of strain in her leaving the third in his garage to be found to say, Ireland's story is an indulgence. land Choral Society's formidable first voice. The chorus, 'How Lovely Is Thy by Detective Keith. It should be noted Self-indulgence, maybe? Ireland seems subscription concert of 1980. I had doubt­ Dwelling Place' was rather disappointing. that Thomas had some ballistic knowledge intent on making himself the New Zealand ed whether the Choral Society or I could Both chorus and orchestra failed to evoke ....he was aware that bullets have identify­ Kerouac sustain a double bill of Bruckner's and the graceful architecture of this movement. ing marks.' Any normal murderer, Yallop There's really not much else of real Brahms' choral magna opera, and the even­ The combination of the two works was is saying, would use their usual ammunit­ interest except perhaps Jeff Cheyne's ing was quite a draining experience. not very productive for comparison. The ion. series of Gateway Poems and one from Georg Tintner, whose interpretations of soaring ambition and emotion of both Surely, though, if Thomas was the Cilia McQueen. Also a nicely written Bruckner and Wagner are authoritative, these works make it difficult to sympath­ murderer, it stands to reason that he would, article by Dennis McEldowney on typo­ conducted an inspired performance of ise with the Brahms vs Bruckner battle in an attempt to avoid subsequent detect­ graphy, of all things. Read it - it's good. Bruckner's 'Great' Mass. He removed any that raged in Vienna last century. None­ ion, use some old bullets from around the hint of longeur from the Credo and beaut­ theless, the result was definitely impressive. farm, bullets with no connection to his Ken Grace ifully balanced the forte and piano in the Tony Busser

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Betrayal have to say anything about these people - Harold Pinter they condemn themselves out of their own Theatre Corporate till May 10 mouths. He doesn't have to write in 'funny' lines — these people are hilarious Betrayal is not Pinter's best play. It is (if only they knew it). But the lessons not his best but certainly not his worst. are sobering, for if we are to take Pinter Indeed is it possible to talk of it in the seriously we must eventually see them same breath as The Homecoming' when it in relation to our own lives. No amusing represents such a departure from what he prospect, that. has done before ? And anyway, Minifie's Director Paul Minifie's subdued pro­ production serves it well. In his hands it duction and Judith Crozier's customarily must surely be one of the treats of the excellent set design contribute measur­ dramatic season. ably to the success and effect of this The charge has been laid against the fascinating play. It was truly disappoint­ Pinter of 'Berayal', that he has deserted ing to see almost half the theatre empty his earlier nitty-gritty realism for twee, on second night. Even more disappoint­ middle class soap opera. Not so, I say, ing in the light of the production itself; leaping to his defence. as usual with the company, this play can What Pinter has done is employ a be almost unreversedly recommended. different theatrical conceit in exploring themes that run throughout his plays. This John Carrigan. time around an adulterous relationship is depicted and dissected in a series of brief vignettes. Emma (Val Lamond) has an FUCKS affair with her husbands (Raymond Hawthorne) best friend (John Watson). The trick, as Pinter plays it, is in reversing The Europeans 'Manhattan' the chronological order of the affair, the James Ivory Woody Allen play begins at the end and ends at the New Berkeley Theatre Cinema 1 beginning. It's an interesting but rather pointless James Ivory's film of Henry James' 'Manhattan' is quite simply the best device - a literary affectation almost. short novel, 'The Europeans,' hasn't film by Woody Allen that I have seen, and Much more effective is the playwright's been taken too kindly by local critics, a superb film in its own right. I've never study of this very unusual, and definitely who have given the impression that it is been able to share the outright enthusiasm mortal, triangle. His view is characteristi­ an over-faithful, over-wordy adaptation; shown for films like 'Annie Hall' or the cally pessimistic if obliquely so. rather like one of those lifeless BBC cult 'Play It Again Sam'; they've always In all of his plays Pinter has construct­ series, where the actors sit around in seemed to me to be films containing very ed his work around the dynamics of relat­ rooms, and reel o ff every word of the good isolated gags joined up by almost ionships. People for him don't exist but in original. dull longueurs. I've no such reservations relationships; by themselves they stand In actual fact, this is not true at all of about 'Manhattan' - here the humour is isolated and stripped from any individual­ this rather enjoyable film. James' novel perfectly a part of the narrative. ity. We define ourselves, he says, by the tells of the dramatic effect of the visit by The characterisation and story are what way we stand in relation to others. The two European cousins, amateur painter, we've come by now to expect from Allen. relentless and frightening conclusion of Felix Young, and his married sister, The Woody Allen character is once again this is to be seen in the inability of charact­ Eugenia, on their New England relatives, a jittery, anti-intellectual New York Jew: ers to stand up as characters, by them­ the puritan Mr. Wentworth and his child­ Uncle Vanya Isaac Davis, a comedy writer for a nauseat­ selves - quite simply they don't. We are no ren, Clifford, Gertrude and Charlotte. Anton Chekhov ing TV programme called 'Human Beings more than the sum o f what others conceive Also included in the family circle are a Wow!' His wife (Meryl Streep) has recently us to be. Mercury Theatre rich neighbour, Robert Acton, and the left him for her lesbian lover and is now Pinter also reveals in Betrayal, his old The opening night of the Mercury local Protestant cleric, Mr. Brand. writing a book which will 'tell all' about inability to come successfully to grips Theatre's latest presentation, 'Uncle This visit particularly brings to the their life together (including Isaac's with a female character. Though he has Vanya' by Anton Chekhov, left me with foreground Gertrude's latent feelings attempt to run down her lover with a car); written fairly large parts for women be­ mixed feelings. The play itself, like of rebellion against her Puritan back­ and Isaac, hitting 40, is now having an fore (notably Ruth in 'The Homecoming'), much Russian Literature of the period, ground, and leads her to reject the suit affair with 17 year old Tracy (Mariel none is quite as extensive as the role of is a moody, melodramatic piece. As of Mr. Brand in favour of Felix. Script­ Hemingway, who proves herself a much Emma in this play. But though he seems an exploration of the prevailing social writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who has better actress than her sister Margaux). to exhibit a real sympathy for her in the and emotional climate it is certainly worked on many films with Ivory, and Diane Keaton (she has to come in some­ first scenes, she fails to develop as a person w ithout compare. One cannot lose sight producer Ismail Merchant) provides a where) is Mary, a WASP journalist from of any depth. This reflects no discredit on of the fact that it was an age of melodrama real lesson in adapting a classic to film ; Philadelphia ('we still believe in God') the performance of Val Lamond in this and over-emotionalism and as such, 'Uncle while remaining true to the original, she who is having an affair with Isaac's married difficult role; she is altogether more con­ Vanya' certainly presents a believable has cut down the novel to the essentials friend Yale (Michael Murphy). vincing, more involved than she was in picture of the upper class of the period. (eg. right from the start, she jettisons the From this set-up, the film follows the 'Tartuffe' (odious comparison there!). But The action of the play takes place at first, introductory chapter), giving full permutations in Isaac's relationships with Pinter seems to view women not as con­ the family home on the Serebryakov est­ rein to Ivory and his cameraman, Larry the other characters, and in particular his tributors to his dramas merely as catalysts, ate, a setting given a very sensitive treat­ Pizer. The film , to its advantage, takes fragile affair with Mary (which, as we a necessarily limited conception. ment by Chris Booth's set design. Although place in autumn (as opposed to Spring would expect, eventually falls apart). It is between Raymond Hawthorne as the play takes place in four acts the in the novel), which gives it a very beau­ Allen himself, as script-writer with the wronged husband and John Watson as curtains remain drawn throughout and a tiful visual quality, with the small, clean, Marshall Brickman, uses the film to fire the lover-and-best-friend-in-one that pro­ sense of continuity is evoked by the white New England houses set against the off some very effective pot-shots at his vide the sparks here. Both are excellent, presence of actors on stage at all times browns, yellows, oranges and greens of personal pet-hates, in particular intellect­ though Hawthorne might even rank a and through the use of incidental extras the autumn leaves. ual snobbery. The film 's camera style is 'superb'. Pinter's bleak view o f our in­ as labourers to perform the necessary I felt the film faltered somewhat after assured and effective, with lovely static ability to communicate with our fellows is set changes. The lighting is also well done, the resolution of the Felix-Gertrude rom­ long and medium shots, and some wonder­ nowhere more graphically expressed than although a couple of cues were a little ance (for that is what the film centres on) ful tracking shots in the outdoor scenes in the scene in a restaurant where slow and a little out of position. but fo r the most part it flows very nicely (a consequence of this is that the dialogue Hawthorne, visibly upset by the recently With plays of this type, the greatest indeed under Ivory's clean direction. It has an Altmanesque quality at times: a acquired knowledge of the affair (know­ difficulty is to maintain a balance between most successfully brings out the comedy couple o f conversations taking place at ledge, that his friend is unaware he poss­ melodrama and cold realism. This is in the situation (particularly the scene the same time, with humorous results; as esses), teeters on the edge of an emotional the tightrope which must be walked, and where Felix asks Wentworth for Gertru­ such it is a subtle reworking of the split­ outburst and veiled innuendos only to fall I sensed the actors here striving to des' hand, and other characters start turn­ screen device of 'Annie Hall'). Special back on a safe business topic when the maintain a balance between the two. ing up ; or when Charlotte and Mr. Erand credit must be given to Gordon Willis' other begins to give him strange looks. Especially believable were George cross a ford, both reading aloud from a beautiful black-and-white photography Honesty is fine for those who don't know, Henare as Doctor Astrov, and John Atha religious work);and the films conclusion (strictly speaking, it was shot in Techni­ or don't have to live with each other. as Professor Serebryakov. April Kelland, satisfyingly avoids the explicit nature of color and printed in black-and-white); I Again in another scene when Watson a capable actress turned in a consistent the novel's. remember being particularly struck by the departs and husband and wife are left performance as Yeliena, the youthful lovely visual quality of the scene in the alone - they pause and then embrace wife of the aging professor. Ian Johnston planetarium; but there are many others passionately, he standing, she sitting. For Delivering slightly less consistent just as striking. The Gershwin music seems all our verbal and intellectual sophisticat­ performances were Jenny Ludlam as to be the perfect final adding-touch. A ion we are sorely limited by our language, Sonya and George Pensotti as Uncle very funny, very beautiful film: an certainly by the way we use it, for it acts Vanya. I felt that they were slightly absolute must. as a barrier to communication, not an aid, less able to maintain such a fine balance and the only moment of close contact, rn rather demanding roles. Ian Johnston when it comes, is a physical one: it is truly The play however reflects the main searing for it sums in an instant what characteristics of Russian literature, other writers might spend a lifetime trying namely turgid and over-emotional prose to express. This is Pinters' genius. styel. All in all, a difficult play to perform On this communcation theme, 'Betrayal' and certainly a challenge to director again treats us (though in somewhat small­ Ian Mullins. A tough challenge, er doses from might be expected or wished successfully met. for) to some of the verbal fireworks that made this playwright famous. He doesn't David Ulrich

Page 15, CRACCUM, April 21. The Taken as an Art- Political Statement Text by John Carrigan — using Nine Questions on A rt New-Zealand 1980

Billy Apple is not only the subject of the was these grandiose ideas about size and artist to come and have one man shows C: How do see yourself in relation to latest issue of Art New Zealand, he was distribution and how many people would in all these galleries within this very short other magazines? Like say PHOTO- largely responsible for its design, as well. buy it that got the magazine into some­ space o f time is really quite amazing. FORUM and ACT. Are you comple­ Whatever the secret of its success, though, thing of a financial scrape in its first few It's an area o f art which mentary, or is New Zealnd so small that it must be said that the latest issue of years of publication. is still probably fairly controversial, and it can't afford to have more than one this pioneering magazine is one of the RF: We worked on a shoe string to a lot of people will wonder what he's on magazine dealing with more than one best of its kind ever done, a triumph of begin with, Peter and me. / was respons­ about. There is also an article by John area at a time? layout and design, that must surely qual­ ible for editing and production. Our main Case!burg, who's an art historian, entitled SK: We can't even afford one! PHOTO­ ify it to be of international standard. aim was, as / said, to provide a good cover­ "A rt Havens", which is about historical FORUM we have a good rapport with. Just before this issue was released, John age o f contemporary N.Z. art - not just art in Nelson and Dunedin.. They deal strictly with photography, and Carrigan of 'Craccum' spoke to Ross what's happening in Auckland but what's There are also reviews o f current shows, we overlap a bit, because we also do a Fraser, Paul Little and Sheri Keith on throughout the country. We also want­ general discussions o f what's going on in section on photography, in fact some (editor, assistant editor, and advertising ed to look at artists o f the past, those who the arts. There's a review o f the work o f people who write for PHOTO-FORUM manager, respectively) of Art New Zea­ contributed to the beginnings and develop­ photographer Paul Gilbert, who had a write for A rt New Zealand. There's no land, to find out a bit more about the ment o f movements in this country. We show recently at Real Pictures Gallery. conflict, though. They advertise with us, magazine, and what goes into making it. look at the history o f art using new There's a discussion on the opening o f and we advertise with them. research. Real Pictures Gallery, which is a new one in Auckland. C: When was A rt New Zealand establish­ C: What about your selection of sub­ It's like the lady says, then. A commit­ ed? What were your aims in setting it up ject and your writers ? C: Could you tell me a bit more about ment to the artistic future of this country and how far do you think it has gone in RF: We tried to publish what writers the article on Billy Apple and what he's does not mean sometime attendance, in living up to its aims ? there were - are - around. There are a been doing in New Zealand? fox-fur-and-pearls at a Symphonia con­ RF: Well we, that is Peter Webb and number of regular contributors, experts in RF: As Sheri said, he's done a tour o f cert or the occasional gallery opening, myself, had wanted to publish something their fields. Tony Green, John Caselberg, the major galleries — his work has a sort though that may be part of it. More in this area for quite a while. We both had Wystan Cur now among others. o f alteration theme. He takes space and importantly, it means supporting fringe out backgrounds in the arts, having work­ We've tried to steer away from those alters it in some way. Now he's done A rt events of seemingly marginal import or ed at the City A rt Gallery together. We artists who haven't had any publicity at all Zealand; he's done away with the cover interest. It means extending your in­ felt that there was a lo t o f ta/en around, and also those who've had too much. Paul by starting the article on it. He challenges volvement in artistic activities, extend­ talent that wasn't receiving the recognition Hartigan, Gordon Crook, Tony fomison,, our assumptions about art by changing or ing yourself and the horizons of your it deserved because there was this kind o f Dick Frizzell - none o f them were widely altering the foundation on which these critical appreciation. But it also means, communication gap. There was no publicat­ known but by reviewing them and giving are based. What people expect art to be, on a more concrete level, supporting ion or periodical that dealt in any depth their works critical consideration we help­ he takes as his starting point and replaces publications like Art New Zealand, with what was happening in the visual arts ed them. or alters some aspect o f it. It can cause Climate, Photo-Forum, because they scene in New Zealand. / wouldn't give a long article to any­ quite an effect. It's the politics o f aesth­ make as considerable a contribution as etics, almost. SK: Yes, part o f the reason for its body's first show unless it was really any, to the arts scene in this country. existence, was the fact that there was exceptional. This reflects editorial bias / But A rt New Zealand does not deal Considering the quality of the produc­ very little coverage o f this area - as far as suppose but some judgement comes into exclusively with paintings and painters. tion, and the standard of the articles the press goes, the daily press do reviews it. After all, there's always a surplus o f Indeed, at one stage it was decided to therein. Art New Zealand is good value o f art shows, but they don't often repro­ material and we have to miss a lo t o f expand into, and devote more space to at the price. It's not just that you're duce paintings, and if they do, they're in people. An artist who is good but still other areas — specifically drama — not supporting the arts and all that in buy­ black and white, anyway. developing w ill be passed over. strictly within the confines of the visual ing it — you're doing yourself a favour, RF: We wanted to show what was PL: Besides i f they're still developing, art label. However, the Arts Council as well. happening. But we also wanted a magazine they'll come to the fore, anyway. You've (which supports A rt New Zealand with a that enjoyed a very high standard o f pro­ got to see that they persist and, / guess, small grant), reasoning that this diluted that they're really genuine about what the content of the magazine, and diverted A R T NEW ZEALAND 15., duction so that it would provide a perm­ ,n WUMB mtt* <*»»>' Wooltoton at «wguWK An Eapwrttwnt fct Art Eductthon anent record o f what was happening in they're doing. it from its expressed emphasis on the the visual arts. Colour reproductions and RF: Sometimes we get criticized bec­ visual arts, made its objections known, in-depth articles were something that had ause we generally run favourable reviews, and subsequently the magazine reverted not been readily available before. and om it bad ones. But then, i f a show's to a more conservative format. SK: We've been tempted from time to bad, why waste space reviewing it, when "Also we found that it didn't help us EPORT time to cut down on the quality o f the our space is so lim ited and there's so financially. We didn't get lots of new sub­ magazine as far as paper and printing goes, much else going on. We'd love to be twice scribers, and we didn't find that we got The Given as an Art but this is something we've always resis­ as big and perhaps more often, too. any more advertising. So we cut back in ted, because we thought that there was no that area." However, performance Political Statemer C: Could you tell us something about ("because that really cuts across from point at all in having an arts magazine if Text by Wystan Curnow on Nine it wasn't o f a very high standard as far as what's in the new issue? drama to the visual arts — it's a bit of its production went. The maintenance o f SK: Well, there's a large article in it both") and film are still dealt with. Works by BHiy Apple,19791980 about B illy Apple, written by Wystan visible, a «oral, part i quality is necessary i f the magazine is to C: How do you approach each issue? Nktahon and lett Iw . New tour. the lotion mg report ti piav in the art lontest like a' /<• aland s most remarkableliv tu n s forth something ul ttv getters d too has its big spa» vs retain any credibility or validity. And / Curnow. Billy is a New Zealander who Do you have a different theme along in* artisi. In mid-September ot art-poblK jl web spun by thou and its small spates its front Uy year hf arrived here from and ba< k pages. And its « t.-broary Ztt. this nrd to the wall, statements t here-' Ae • -s' ••• from one end o f the country to the other ••■ ar thi-ie Wi-ie (hree m Aik k - had made about them the imattvdn • • special Frances Hodgkins issue, and that L>««i that, in itself. is temaika- works were intended to give A rt New Zealand now has a print in different art galleries, including the w ill involve new material, new research — wine to the iindex! in whkh run of 3,000 copies, quite a comedown National Gallery in Wellington, the Auck­ hitherto unpublished stuff. Yes, you know • mg art Also, rt headed hm>. n-'lion Sud simply, the poll text and an instant emitter o»- lamed hv rb.t: . from the numbers printed when the maga­ land A rt Gallery, and various dealer S suggested nr prompted bV text having it* sav- we've planned the year already, largely •- work he did here m !•*?'. Art New /eatwtf. i nme to that. zine was first published in 1976. Indeed it galleries in the city. Anyway, fo r an what's going to be in each issue.

Page 16, CRACCUM, April 21. GOOD CLEAN FUN NUF NAELC DOOG GOOD CLEAN FUN NUF NAELC DOOG GOOD CLEAN FUN NUF NAELC DOOG PROFILE RECORDS The Swingers are a trio of young men who play fast pop music in pubs and FRISBEE Mick Taylor schools in the Auckland area. The mem­ THE CROCODILES ‘LINCOLN’ CBS bers are Phil Judd (ex Split Enz), Buster Under license thru Lincoln Stiggs and Bones (both Suburban Reptiles) Formerly a Wellington based band, the and their music is very derivative of their Crocodiles have recently relocated them­ Personally I could have done without After leaving the Rolling Stones in former bands, ie. the high pitched singing selves in Auckland where their destiny the gimmicry. Red vinyl is cute, and leav­ 1974 to pursue his own musical prefer­ is very similar to Enz and they do several has been placed in the hands of Mike ing out the hole in the middle was novel ences Mick Taylor spent the next five songs straight from the S.R. repertoire. Chunn, former Enz and CB bass man, yet hardly necessary. ‘ Frisbee’ has already years recording this album. Nevertheless the numbers are tight and now turned manager and recording outsold Saturday Night Fever, Rumours O f the several styles of guitar music he lack nothing in quality due to having only entrepeneur. With this move to and all the other industry heavyweights, has included, the most successful are those three instruments — probably because Auckland has come a degree of success. enjoying as it does almost universal appeal. backed by his distinguished history - they have an excellent sound system which The band have just released a new album, Punk, disco, MOR, classical, fo lk - there’s firstly with John Mayalls Bluebreakers gives good reproduction at high volume. entitled 'Tears', the mandatory single something o f ail o f these in this winner and the Stones. Its these types o f tracks They don't draw huge crowds but can (a track going by the same name) and from Lincoln. Lincoln have been around which make up the first side. ‘Broken always expect a healthy enough attend­ they have recorded some new video some years and seem to have finally got Hands’ is a good example, clearly showing ance because they always turn out a com­ material which is apparently going down their act off the ground with this latest the influence o f Keith Richards. It is petent standard of well practiced perfor­ a storm, southwards. The album has OUtDUt. blessed with a driving, dirty, two chord mance - as slick as their haircuts and ten tracks, all penned by members of Production is superb, although as riff that powers the song along, only to cutesiepie matching shirts the band (worthy of special mention - usual, the producer-like the band members be let down slightly by Taylor’s need for They have everything going for them — 'Tears', 'New Wave Goodbye' and themselves - is unnamed. There has been a stronger singing voice. they are straight toothed, square jawed 'Young Lady in Hot Cars') and was the usual ‘K LAA TU ’ bullshit about ‘Alabama’ however finds Taylor’s vocal white males and that is basically all they produced by Glyn Tucker Jnr. Lincoln being a secretly reformed Beatles, well matched for the ‘on the road song’ are about (plus the ensueing privileges of So who are the Crocodiles? The based primarily of the fact that each of that owes a great deal to Little Feat. being rock stars). This is a valid - if female contingent consists of Jenny the Beatles has at one time or another Subtle acoustic picking is used as a base shallow. — point of view and has produced Morris(vocals) and Tina Matthews(bass), driven a Lincoln Continental, and ‘support­ for a striding electric slide, to make this some good dancing music; but at the same both from 'The Wide Mouthed Frogs'. ed’ by the fact that John Lennon’s mother into a light but funky southern boogie and time their lyrics exhibit some incredibly Similarly experienced are Fane Flaws knew someone called Abraham at school. the strongest all round song on the album. sexist and damaging elements which serve and Tony Blackhouse, who tend to Forget it. One spin o f this disc and you’ll Things unfortunately go astray on the no purpose but to inflate their own dis­ guitars and Peter Dasent, Croc's realize that Lincoln are as far removed con­ second side where the all too familiar jazz- proportionate egos and very effectively answer to Eddie Raynor. Former 'Blerta' ceptually from the Beatles as the Captain rock recipes are wheeled out, dusted o ff put a knife in the back of the already stalwart, Bruno Laurence rounds o ff the and Tenille are from music (Little in-group and let loose - going on and on, for far too oppressed majority of women, an incred­ band with some strong drumming. humour, there). long - ending up nowhere. Three-quarters ibly intrepid feat. The band are now touring New Zealand Basically ‘Frisbee’ is minimalism: of this side is rendered lifeless by banal Phil Judd is responsible for the bulk of but hope to be back in Auckland by May. Made under licence. instrumentals which feature Taylor play­ the lyrics which include lines like "she They are also involved in a secondary Play catch - invent games ing nothing Jeff Beck hasn’t done before can't say n o " (continually repeated), and school lunchtime concerts promotion To fly flip away backhanded and better. in the same song, '7 come to her face and (engineered by Mike Chunn who pioneer­ Flat flip flies straight The other drawback is a pair of inane there's an empty space" — well wank ed the concept with C.B.), in an attempt Tilted flip curves-experiment love songs in the mode Clapton now seems wank, smart boy Phil can get fucked every to reach the lucrative teenage market. Pat. Pend. to prefer. Suffering from simpering lyrics night and laugh about it; well so can At this stage in their development it is These lyrics are embossed on the album. like ‘ Baby I want you and I love you more plenty of hookers and be paid for it. live work the Croc's need to concentrate The album is the lyric is the album. And if each day’, whined repeatedly, it is pure Even so they exploit the groupie aspect of on most. Up until now they've exhibited a the rough-and-ready appeals, forget S tiff slush that reminds me of Frampton’s the rock'n'roll business and apply it any­ certain inconsistency in performance, but Little Fingers - Frisbee is where its all worst. where that women are concerned, eg. they have the collective experience and happening, but don’t look for this one at That aside, ‘Mick Taylor’ is a pleasant lines like "cootchie cootchie coo, / love personality to achieve greater things. your record shop - Lincoln insisted on enough album marred only by the extreme you" don't really show a very high regard In the long run they plan to leave New ‘ Frisbee’ being distributed through toy­ blandness o f the second side. for women's mentalities. Zealand in July, heading for Europe, shops and department stores (Chic M. Holdsworth They seem harmless enough and it where they are planning to meet up with consumerism). And where else can you get could be argued that other local bands are producer Kim Fowley. They are a pop a 3-D picture-disc for less than three far more sexist eg. the Spelling Mistakes band with a nice Kiwi style which will dollars ? sing a song called 'Rena's Piss Flaps' and hopefully not stop them cracking the Lip Service do nothing but very cumber­ overseas market. D. Cooke some cock rock; but groups like this are very blatant about it and therefore straight­ Brett Mason Just Like You forwardly ridiculous, whereas because of Bill Quateman the Swingers' Donny Osmond good looks P.S. If you're an up-and-coming band and RCA and musical skill they are acceptable. This you want some free publicity or you want If you’re having a quiet dinner party opens a channel for being as self indulgent to see a band covered in this column, any­ soon and you want some laid-back music as they please — so they sing the odd bitter thing, then come up to Craccum and give by an artist your friends have never heard piece about their past affairs when they us a contact number. of, then Bill Quateman’s the answer. haven't come out on top, eg. 'Louisa', and Quateman hails from the American expose themselves as fitting very neatly mainstream soft-rock tradition, currently into the term 'men babies'. populated by bands like the Doobie It all goes down very well with the Brothers, Toto and Chicago. In the States, promoters and the record companies as it especially the Mid-west, he has built up a fits into the mould of what will sell in the sizeable following, and played support for already sexist saturated market and rein­ GIGS people like Frank Zappa and Styx forces the rather narrow availability of local music. So its all good clean fun, no (currently America’s No. 1 band, they Spelling Mistakes risk and it makes money. say). .... And I Mean It! Gluepot Equally ‘impressive,’ (Let’s be positive Genya Ravan Elizabeth Leyland /> Tues 15 April for a change) is the support Quateman RCA « d has on the album: Neil Larsen (keyboards), The Spelling Mistakes have changed Steve Pocaro (Synthesizer/member of Genya Ravan is a 'dish' that is made by since the good old days when they Toto), David Hungate (bass/member of taking Linda Ronstadt crossed with Suzi played at the Occidental. With a good Toto), Michael McDonald (support vocals/ Quatro, spiced with a taste of Patti Smith year of regular playing behind them, Doobie Brothers) and Jeff Baxter (Rhythm and even Donny Osmond! This is heated the Mistakes have developed into a tight guitar/Steely Dan and the Doobie Broth­ for 40 minutes on black vinyl with a tried band that delivers the goods cleanly ers). Indeed this line-up accurately reflects and true rock formula garnished with 3 and efficiently. Fresh from success at the foundations o f the music, which varies decades of blues and rock and roll. the recent 'Battle of the Bands', Mistakes from the softer, lyrical songs, to more The cover is exciting and gives the played with confidence, and the vocalist rocker numbers in which the vocals are impression that it is the cover of some new injected that much needed element of dropped back to try and achieve a strong­ Rachel Sweet or 'Virgin' record. Yet as we humour - an asset that has gained the er rock sound. But Quateman seems to were all taught by our perceptive primary up many fans. reach uncomfortable boundaries here, and school mistresses, you can't judge a record or a Gluepot gathering of mainly happily falls back into the easy melodious by its cover. The insides of this sleeve are media personages, the Mistakes paraded tunes such as (notably), ‘I t ’s A lright’ and oblivious to the new wave of music and their colours with a mixture of covers ‘Judging by the Light’. are entirely early rock in conception. and originals. As a lyricist Quateman won’t win any The music is technically tight and well Now for the bad news.SM need an prizes for incredible intellectual depth, but produced but lacks variation and experi­ act. Watching the lead singer bouncing instead his lyrics are simple and natural, mentation. Linda Ronstadt got away with around like a demented parrot, between without becoming insipid. He has a dis­ it by calling it country rock yet Genya the two guitarists who refused to do so tinctive voice, somewhat like a smooth Ravan has somewhat misfired and though much as bend a knee, can get tiring, the Joe Cocker, and uses it well to give his the music is neat and with power it does pedestrian light show didn't help much. songs that edge o f memorability. unfortunately become boring over two 12 Dropping the weary covers in favour of ‘Just Like You’, his fourth album, but sides of a 33 1/3 r.p.m. disc. a set of completely original material, the first to be released in New Zealand, is It is easily digestible but the taste does would do more to prove their worth. good, pleasantly infectious pop-rock, not remain for long and you've tried it So, all the Spelling Mistakes need is it’s not made for the Top 40, or for before somewhere, possibly MacDonalds. someone with a few pictures o f an early demonstrating how many decibels your As an entree its OK but after a full meal Enz concert, and to realize that a stereo can push through the walls, but you will probably feel slightly ill. gigging band doesn't only play music but when you’re feeling mellow, it ’s the next presents a show as well. best thing to classical. Michael Lamb Paul Grinder Michael Lamb

Page 17, CRACCUM, April 21. It's about time all you letter writers out there realised that your letters must be submitted TYPED and DOUBLE­ SPACED b y the Monday o f the week before publication. Must must MUST! Prankly we're sick and tired of Dear Craccum, Dear Katrina, Dear World, deciphering letters from the original An ancient Sioux Indian prayer goes: "O Whoopee! If I didn't see it with my Despite the justified complaints about the Greek. Any letters not conforming to Great Spirit, help me never to judge another own eyes I would not have believed it; you used state of the coffee dispensed in the machines in these standards wil NOT be published until I have walked in his moccasins for two c o I o u r. I was beginning to wonder where all the Cafe and Coffee shop, not a thing has been weeks.' (It seems that those 'heathens’ were the character and charm had gone to from the done to improve it from its insipid, gritty and MA Y be used for ro ll papers. That pages of our beloved student bible, Craccum. actually praying before Christianity came along) is all. Continue reading... Messrs Clean and Smither-Jones have raised condition. At 25c for a cup of the crud, it's no These words are for the benefit of the arrogant, a good few points regarding the editorial pract­ wonder a body's got to whip 2 cups out for the Dear Craccum, non-gay homosexuality 'expert' Graham Upton, ices of the paper Craccum. Without stooping to price of one when the attendant's not looking - Recently I have been pondering a question who has chanced upon the only 'real' Bible and the depths of bad language they used, I would and the buggars are lucky to get anything for it on my mind and wondering whether I should from this has so self-righteously expounded the like to go a little further. at all. Come on, drongos, how about complain­ bring this to the attention of the student body only 'real' truth on homosexuality. (Craccum The splash of colour in the March 31 issue ing and bitching to the attendants every time at large. - March 31). We must remember that there are showed that you are not totally lacking in imag­ you buy a coffee, about its cruddiosity - we During the last few weeks there have been many, many 'faiths' and sects in the world, each ination which you have, for some curious reason, might get some results if we wear them down several approaches to me around and on the with its own infallible 'Bible' - and each profess­ seem fit to keep from our gaze this year. I'm sure that if recruitment of Girl Guides was dependent enough. campus, by women wishing to supplement their ing to be the only 'real' truth ! How easy to on your 'advertising' skills, the Boy Scouts would It has recently come to my notice that there incomes through physical means, that is have all your thinking done for you by a single become the largest uni-sex knot-tying organis­ is a small group of subversive individuals on prostitution dare I say. The first time it happen­ book of words - and that most conveniently ation in Auckland. campus who didn't vote Labour at the last ed I was standing outside the university book written and translated (umpteen times) by C'mon Kate, pure black and white may app­ election. These people know who they are, and shop during orientation week. A well endowed fellow-heterosexuals, obviously I I cannot eal to zebras and road-marking employees but if they don’t want trouble, they should write a lady came up, and after a brief, fairly super­ accept that any considerate 'God' (and I defy not to me (a view held by many others too). I full apology to CRACCUM post-haste, declaring fluous introduction and conversation, blatantly anyone to prove or define accurately just what welcome your change in attitude, just keep it all contact they've had with other self-confessed propositioned me. What was I to say ? I mean it's up till Christmas! G.O.D. is - a word so glibly tossed about by Blueys, Fascists, National Socialists and fence the first time I have been to Auckland, having Signed in hope, these so:called 'believers') would destroy the sitters. If not, myself and my many Brothers recently arrived from Taranaki. A t first I was Samson & Dulux human mind by making it so rigid and unadapt­ P.S. I bought four packets of Girl Guide biscuits will cease to tolerate their irresponsible and quite taken aback by such a forward approach, able as to depend upon one book for all the last Saturday- yummy! potentially threatening opinions. of course I did not succumb to her advances. answers. And I do not wear a Christian or any This Campus lacks many things — a clock in However, I dismissed this as a rare occurrence other such restrictive label as I believe that Dear Craccum, the quad, a Men's Common Room, a clock and gave the matter no further concern. every religion, philosophy and culture offers Why should we picket McDonalds when the in LIB G12, a fountain in the area between the Last week this ugly situation once again much beauty of thought with which we can all Cafe sells food which is, nutritionally speaking, Rec Centre and the Maths/Physics Bldg., radio arose. Another lady (who I have seen many be enriched. on a par with the Big Mac, fillet-o-fish and dare in the coffee shop, etc., more lecturers like Neil times around the Law department) proposition­ But presumably then, if his Bible had told l say it - the quarter pounder. Francis, a pet goat, colour. Fat Freddy's Cat ed me in much the same way as her colleague. him that the only non-sinful (physical) relation­ cartoons, and last of all. Social Psychology While I have no concrete proof, I am certain ships were those between men, G.U. would Tutorials on Wednesday 2-3 fortnightly without there is a group working within the campus. blindly comply and repress his own 'natural' courtesy of Liz (don't look for me, I don’t exist) The whole purpose of this letter is to warn attraction to women (presuming that he is not a Also on the list of gripes is El Fresco Orange Harding. The people concerned know what I am fellow students against these outrageous act­ latent homosexual). Juice being sold from the Milk Bar on April 11th, talking about - the Management Studies Dept ivities. Whilst I was offended, my principal aim Ridiculous, you may think, but hopefully, in bottles stating clearly 'Must be sold before couldn't manage a pea-sized crap. Buck your is to provide a notice of caution to other young, this analogy will help him and other hetero­ April 1st' or somesuch. As for what that ideas up Harding - our tutorials count for 10% vulnerable and indeed unaware students. Finally, sexual 'Christian' non-thinkers to appreciate the sediment ('goo' to Art Students) was at the of finals - it's been 4 weeks since we first obed­ if you are on the receiving end of such a deal absurdity and invalidity of their one-eyed, bottom of the b o ttle..... iently and expectantly gathered in the Orange (their prices are outrageous) there is no body to judgemental standpoint on homosexuality - Finally could you please tell us what the Room and twiddled our thumbs in anticipation, whom you can appeal if the services received are which is equivalent to a celibate Pope dogmatiz­ next week Cafe/Coffee bar specials are as well concern, wonder, boredom, and eventual disgust unsatisfactory. What is this establishment com­ ing on marriage, sex, abortion, etc when his as this week's ones. When Craccum is delayed - when you failed to materialise. After ing to ? knowledge of these subjects has no empirical by rail fuck ups until Thursday, it's a bit point­ repetitions of the same, we're all a bit pissed off. basis whatsoever. less telling us what we could have had cheaper Otherwise, you've all done very well I Yours faithfully, And I would maintain that it is these people, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. P.G. McDonald and not we homosexuals, who have to make a Italian Stallion Dear Editor of Craccum, wilful choice — that between being either true Yours with botulism, I wish to draw the public's attention to the Christians, which, by definition, surely means Ronald McDonald simply following the (love-based) teachings of vicious smear campaign which is at present Jesus Christ (who incidentally never ever con­ underway against a reputable member of the demned homosexuality), or Old Testament-ians civil engineering department. This campaign is (the saga of violence, lust, intimidation, cruelty, having serious effects on his work. It is being threatened vengeance, curses, fear, etc contained waged by a group of jealous immature students in that anachronistic tome could not be more who as yet remain anonymous. The subject of un-Christlike). their campaign is the degradation of a beautiful Yours sincerely, relationship between a budding engineer and a Robert Hart sweet innocent young girl called Wendy. I appeal to the persecutors’ sense of moral Dear Craccum, decency and request that this senseless humiliat­ Over the Easter break I had the disturbing ion cease forthwith. experience of watching three birds - one pigeon and two sparrows - dying from poisoning out­ Signed side the room in which I study near Rex Court Concerned Friend on Symonds Street. I noticed a man from a 'pest' killing firm placing poisoned grain around Dear Katrina, Rex Court where many pigeons and sparrows Even though you're a woman, I still hope live. I presume that the University has employed you'll publish this letter, being as it is a com­ these people to kill birds because their droppings plaint against the rampant sexism perpetrated make a mess on Rex Court and the adjacent new against the male student population. I don't Human Sciences building. mind a female Craccum editor - after all we've I strongly object to this line of action for had them the past three years - I don't even various reasons: mind having to walk further to the men's base­ 1. In these times of steam and vaccuum cleaning ment loos than the women - the end positions equipment, I fail to see why birds' excrement being occupied by the ladies loos. I suppose it's cannot be regularly cleaned away. just an indication of men's superior control of 2. There is little enough animal life in the city, their - ahem - bodily functions. My gripe is without killing off the few birds that in­ about the Studass buildings:- why is there a habit the area. The pigeons and sparrows Womens Common Room and not a Men's have bought me and others a lot of pleasure Common Room ? This strikes me as blatantly as they are attractive and friendly. discriminatory and I call upon the executive or 3. Killing the birds won’t solve the problem - somebody to either remove the WCR from the more will come to inhabit Rex Court, (will clutches of Lesbian feminists or to designate that mean they will be killed off regularly ?) and set aside an area, not smaller in size or 4. Using poison to kill birds adds to the accessability, for the men of this university. pollution of the area. 5. Rex Court is being neglected to the extent Yours anytime, that I suspect it is going to be demolished, Dermot Cooke so why kill the birds that live on it ? Dear Sir or Madam, 6. The policy of poisoning birds is cruel and We have witnessed on the shortsighted. Too many problems are South Island train and the Inter-Island ferry the 'solved' by the 'bash it on the head' method. disgisting spectacle of 100 (approx) students I hope that this poisoning will not continue. acting like drunken pigs, committing vandalism etc and generally acting like uneducated street Yours sincerely, louts and similar scum. Any convicted re the Alison Jones above should be automatically barred from continuing at University. Dear Katrina, The same student s and others then have the It's about time you published a fan-letter, nerve to ask for larger cash handouts and special for yourself. I'm sure you must have thousands consideration etc from teh Government and the (dozens) by now. Here's another one anyway. I public! think you're by far the Cuddliest Editor that Re Auckland University, we see week after Craccum has had, at least since the Craccum week in Letters to Craccum more examples of the low level of many students' education etc. Editor for 1959 (now known as Jonathan Hunt The consistent use of four letter words; re MP for New Lynn, Senior Opposition Whip). sex and the human body etc appears to be the Also you are far more intelligent, coherent, only way they can express themselves when seductive, lucid and salubrious than anyone else disagreeing with other letters and views. so there. And my Gran says you’re dead nice. They seem to think its so clever to write You really should publish more of your fan these words. Sucj a big deal! Reminds one of letters, why hid your iight under a bushel ? You 5 yr olds trying to impress by using four letter rascal you. Why I could just take you and hug words. A childish way of gaining attention, and you and whisper anectodes about my childhood a legitimate way for very small children. It becomes very boring when obsessions into your delicious ear. It becomes very boring and rather sad when coming from big children. Yours lovingly, Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis Wir (Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not Clint Eastwood Yours sincerely, werden nicht alle entschlafen. all sleep: Brahm's German Requiem, 6th (Mr) L'Bevin. Movement) Page 18, CRACCUM, April 21. CLASSIFIED For Sale: HAGUE’S RAVE Double bed, base and mattress (innersprung) SCRUM $30. Please ph Marilyn 696-187. REPORT ON THE EASTER TOURNAMENT Hello everyone. As I write this I am House Wanted to Rent: IN MASSEY FROM THE UNIVERSITY chairing an Executive meeting-this busy life. 4 bedrooms, near central city. Ph 687-262. VOLLEYBALL CLUB Indeed, if Katrina hadn't sent down threat­ Flatmates Wanted For $14.00 you get; two gorgeous lion The Volleyball group of 20 students ening messages via the Int. Affairs Officer, tamers, freshly refurbished half-house and a loo consisted of one men's and one women's I wouldn't be writing this at all. with light-switch on a 'leather-string' as well as team, plus coaches and manager. Earlier this week we held a highly succ­ being one zoned. What we want, need and would Unfortunately, our preparation for essful Education Fightback march. Tomorr­ love to have are 2 female flat mates for a tournament was inadequate - virtually non­ ow is the Library Study-In. I hope we can Mt Eden house. Ring 689-785 before, during existent - due to the lack of gymnasium count on a continued support for the cam­ and after hours. P.S. we’re not into boredom. space over the first two weeks of term. paign. Some of the ideas which we must Hence, we did not approach the competit­ get into are lots of letters to newspapers, ion expecting to do very well. and to the big-shots in Wellington. Suggest­ The women's team played particularly ions which lam keen to follow are letters PUNTING well throughout the tournament with some to Merv informing him that you.refuse to very close games against stronger opposit­ speak with him because he is not a vege­ Trots this week at Cambridge on Tues­ ion, such as Otago (who finished first). tarian, he is married, he has a wart on his day night and on Friday afternoon in Auckland. Gallops at Avondale on Satur­ The whole team played well, and two of nose etc. Remember that letters to Minist­ them - Coral Knightbridge and Betty ers do not cost you any stamps. day means that punters have a busy week. Galloping picks are Judena, Silver Dee, Morris - were selected for the squad to train for the 1981 World Student Games Theother one is something that is break­ Phallic symbol? What's a phallic symbol? Myownie, Williedee down South, and in Brazil. In addition. Coral was chosen ing the law, ansd consequently I w ill not Gold Hope. Hartin our track watch from for the 1980 New Zealand University incite you to do this. The suggestion is that (did YOU know that was going on?) the Te Awamutu district mentions Impre­ team. The women finished 4th. a corner be cut off every $1 note that Any other ideas would be most welcome. ssive and Merman as two worth following The men's team also played very well passes through your hands. (The corner That's about all there is for now, since my while Royal Fencer, Prior's Luck and considering the lack of preparation, finish­ with the 1 on it). This will emphasise to meeting is drawing to a close, and after the Bayshore look close to winning form. On ing 2nd to Victoria after a very close five the public the large number o f students tea and biccies I have to go and write my the trotting scene follow Game Captain, set game. I feel that this loss reflected the there really are, the falling value of the next week's column specially early, to make Del Again, No Regrets, Flora Dor, Scottich lack of training as we were unable to sus­ dollar, because of inflation, and will also sure I get it in on time. See you in my Loch and Wejover Rose. Three specials at tain the necessary pressure in the last set, accelerate the change from notes to coins office sometime, baby. Cambridge are Commander Brydon, Sheer Nandina and High Smoke. even though leading 12-4. I hope that such The current balance of the account is a situation will not reoccur I Three of the in surplus of $1.25 with one bet outstand­ men's team were selected to both the ing. This week its $5 win on Game Captain N.Z.U. team and the squad to train for anJ $2 win - $3 place on Doctor Dee. One the 1981 World Student Games in Brazil. for the upset this week goes to the galloper They were Alan Knightbridge, Bill Barker, Shahwon who will probably run at Awa- Gary Anderson. puni on Friday. In Summary, we were very happy with the tournament and the excellent organisat­ B. Gamble ion by the Massey people, the A.U.S.A., and our Sport's Officer, in providing such an enjoyable and cheap trip.

SOLUTION TO MUCCRAC: Across: 1. Merv Wellington; 7. Rowling 8.Mint; 9. Scare; 10. Clever; 11. A lot; 12. operate; 14. Go; 15. S.C.; 17. No; 19. U.E.; 20.opulent; STOP 22. boor; 23. Mentor; 24. Maths; 26. Crap; 27. Cabinet; 28. Student Bursary. Down: 1. Miracles; 2. Raw deal; 3. Write to your MP; 4. logs; 5. Incarnate; 6. Notation; 1 3 : 1 = ^ 8. Meanest member; 13. Education; 16. Cut­ back; 18. Overstay; 21. Get an M A ; 25. Scab. • Last week the Executive voted them­ selves taxi fares home at the conclusion of SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S XWORD: Across: 1. Gold nugget 6. to 8. Turn 10. Acne each meeting. Seems not unreasonable since 11.Ironic 13 Masticate 14.Enjoy 15.Egence the meetings go on very late at night due 16. Dear 18. Ash 20. Poe 21. Tsarina 25. Run to the huge number of matters to be dis­ 26.Lie 27.GEC28.Descant 30.Sic 31 .Hot cussed. If you don't have your own trans­ 32. East 34. Talcum 37. Venerable 40. Thesis 42. Bias 43. Hers 44. Em 45. Seedy cages. port and you've ever tried to get home Down: 1. Graveyard 2. Long John Silver 3. Ursa from University after the buses have 4. Gentle 5. Twicers 6. T ri 7. On cue 8. Tote stopped you'll know how they all feel. 9. Unenlightening 12.Rag 13.Myopia 16.Delta 17. A test 19.Sue 22.Accuse 23. Neo 24.Actres­ The major aspect of the executive ses 29. Nemesis 33. Stable 34. Tithe 35. Cess meeting held on 17th April was the 36. Uni 39. Lady 41. Hem discussion on who should be sent as AUSA delegates to May Council down at Victoria. CLUES: David Benson wanted to be a Women's Across:- 1. BOAC on strict organised flight, the snake! (3, 11) delegate but after being the recipient of 10. Cor! It's a big bird! (3) threatening gestures from the Women's 11. He was the first who ’ad ’em. (4) Rights Officer he withdrew his nomination. 13. Revelation written in 1066? (8 .4) CROSSWORD Two executive members offered themselves 15. The shortest denial (2) 16. Reverse french nude (2) as Finance and Administration delegates 17. Cut the tide (4) but the President didn't want them and 19. A nation of jerks (5) suggested that the Resource Officer and 20. Rock notes? (5) the Treasurer be sent. They were duly 21. Poe, etc. in abnormal place. (6) 23. Pony went for an old worthless coin (8) selected. The rest of the selections were 25. Only (3, 2) (7) very tedious but in the end the Executive 28. Sounds like a dirty old man to allow a dear frenchmao chose twelve people to represent Auckland. 30. Huddle up to a coffee (6) At this stage I got bored and went out 33. Half a look, behold! (2) to the Quad for a breath of fresh air. In 34. Trape a candle (5) 35. He’d gesture to the bushes (6) the process I came across a group of people 37. Advises deers (5) tearing down Education Fightback posters. 39. Wrote of a rook (5) Shame on you. No wonder the Auckland 40. Hid each bright spark (4) campus is so d ifficult to motivate even 41. Short Public Relations (1,1 ) 42. Gold alternative (2) though there are large numbers of people 43. Swap sore hips for tars' disease (5, 7) available. 45. Onto urgent business, like a trip (4) The Executive later put a sales tax of 47. Obtain (3) two cents on each can of beer purchased 48. Worry before your time? (14) Down through the Association. However at the 1. Naughty herb upon a ballgame (9) same time they removed the 10% surcharge 2, Soon a mixed up mousy is nameless (9) that is currently being levied. So all the 3. Either child fine Einsteinium actor with swollen sore beer you buy should now cost less. Neat 4. Attempt a football carry (3) (5,6) eh ! 5. Public transport in decay has energy (6) 6. Coin statue (4) This year Capping Day is being spread 7. What god said to the jews about his free commandments over two days (sounds funny doesn't it ?) 8. Undo short overdose (1 ,1 ) (4, 3) and as a consequence there will be two 9. No train, so met a friend (3,4) Capping Balls so that people can have a 12. Bit of dust in a motel (4) 14. Able Body transmitted what wasn't there (6) ball on the day they are capped. The 18. Opposite of 8. (2) Thursday ball will be at the Mandalay and 20. Ideal opponent for a sportsman (11) the Friday ball at Trillo's. Five hundred 22. Getting around one or on two (5) tickets will be available for each one at a 24. Born editor in want (4) 26. Gate purex to clean up (9) price of $17.50c each. (i.e. $35 double). 27. Blow-off around to waste time (4, 5) They will probably be on sale for two 29. He lost the boarding house (6) 36. Grande floral arrangement? (6) 41. Half an Island capital? (4) weeks prior to capping. 31. Doe-prey to get rid of ocular infection (7) 37. End of a patriot, has a revel (4) 44. Epsom Teachers’ College, and so on (3) 32. Her teat for an act (7) 38. Ed back to take away (2) 46. Sounds like you are an ancient city (2) J.G.B.

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