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Windy W ellington Who is Merv Wellington ? That is the question on /erybody’s lips. Seeking an answer to this, and related uestions such as what, how and why is Merv Wellington, embarked upon an audacious journey o f discovery, ravelling even unto the uttermost limits of the Library’s m w lessanine floor, I at last reached after desperate perils ie New Zealand and Pacific room where, poring over 1979. ose dust laden volumes o f esoteric lore known as ansard, I uncovered the following astounding fice for trans- relations. t is published Merv Wellington has been in existence for at least r the Auckland ree years ! This must now be regarded as uncontrovers- Bag, Auckland, despite speculation in some quarters that the on’s very own liberative faculties of the Prime Minister were so ^ cr',n^ ^ ^jeverely taxed by the task o f appointing a Cabinet that lers Ltd., 20 ey sought refuge in mental aberration and therefore gard Mr Wellington as the product of our leader’s ose of the eat oppressed brain. He made his first documented

ThePgrfecbl^tician Me Lay was a real surprise to me. Somehow it was very Would you say hard to see the person sitting on one o f the old Craccum wing o f the Nat chairs in shirt-sleeves, his shoes on the floor and so and the Minoug relaxed, fending o ff my questions with the ease that normally only comes after many years in the House. No. I don’t thir The Young Nats told me he was a'liberal’, a term which those labels. I tl he rejected. And in some ways he was no liberal either. not like the gen It seemed that Cabinet rank had made him garner his ive. For exampl wits around him like a coat of chain mail. He was some issues. Bu elusive, hedged answers quite often and amazed me ; smoking he’s ar by being able to quote whole passages frorrl Muldoons so. book as if it was a Biblical tract. Sometimes I sensed that he would have dearly loved to give an answer quite opposite from the official one, especially in relation to the New Zealand system of justice. He was as honest as you would expect a Minister of the Crown to be to any potential hippie who had cornered him in an old, spartan office in a Student Union. My mother likes him too. This interview is in two parts. Next week hear about what the new Minister of Justice thinks about the dreaded weed and other such greenery.

Your relationship with the National Party.

Joined Nat party 1963. Never involved in young nat­ ■*3 ionals in any sense of the word. I was one of those who joined the University ‘National’ club in 1965, in its year of foundation. In 1966 we moved into something of a vacuum in the Auckland central electorate and worked there pretty actively for some time, that year was prob­ .N ably the most enjoyable election campaign we were S3 involved in because in the four weeks after our finals we organised and ran an election campaign, I don’t think things were ever as much fun again.

Why the National Party? a much closer and harder look at proposals to pass legis­ in our interview with Keith Ovenden last week he des­ Differences bet\ I think philosophically I was drawn to it. My family, I lation or regulation, to ensure that they meet pretty basic cribed the elections as a win for National but a defeat National Party - think you could probably say, was orientated towards criteria — basically if we want and need them or not. for Muidoon. Do you agree? the National party. Nothing was particularly taken for I think that thei ls parliament passing too many laws nowadays? Well.... the Ovenden remark quite frankly is something granted and a questioning attitude arose and I think it which is meant to sound smart rather than be a useful more o f approa* was out of that that I moved towards the National Party. That is a criticism which has been made in the past and I observation on the election situation. In our Parliam­ portant as a dee think it’s had some validity. But again I’d rather look to fairly strong soc What do you see the philosophy o f the National Party entary system you cannot separate the leader from the the future than to the past. We have got to. get away at its Conferenc as? party and therefore the result overall is as much achieved from the idea that we can solve a social issue simply by by the leader as by the individual candidates. Muidoon theme. Some of I am a strong believer in a private enterprise system and throwing legislation at it. lead the party to victory in 1975 with a very similar party saw the di believe the state has a role to play but that it is more of style campaign. People forget that. Rowling on the New Zealand is Do you think that there is a case for homosexual law setting the perimeters within which society can operate, other hand ran in 1978, a very different style o f cam­ a country that e reform? as establishing a floor level below which people can’t fall paign from 1975. Yet they only got 1 % extra o f the much and you g in times of adversity,of ensuring that an adequate educ­ I would have voted for Venn Young’s Bill in '74-75. I’ve vote. I have not analysed the claims that National Party delights ir ation, health and social welfare system, but I’m not keen got no proposals to present a bill of my own on this issue. lost ground because o f Rob Muidoon. One could as you do from to see the state involved in every walk of life. I believe Its not really appropriate at a ministerial level. equally say that it was because o f what appeared to be whose individu; there is an active role that the private sector can play. a weakish stand on industrial relations and a number of be fairly left-wir And abortion? other issues could be brought into play. cerned, there an You ’re against govt intervention? the type that mi I sought the opinion o f my electorate which supported I recognise there is a need for it in certain areas and I’m abortion on a number o f grounds. It didn’t go the full How do you think the new cabinet tines up? What sort made the first L not a ‘doctrinaire’ private enterpriser in that sense but I extreme to abortion on demand, but as for the proceed- o f approach was adopted by the Prime Minister when attitudes are not firmly believe that if there is a choice between the state ures for an abortion, they appeared to favour an arrange­ he chose his new cabinet? of personal obse and the private sector doing something, that the private ment between a woman and her medical advisor or It’s no secret that he canvassed the opinions of his col­ One senses this c sector should do it. advisors. leagues, our views as to how we thought the cabinet in the sort of thi How do you view govt interference in the last three years? Do you know about the problems o f law students and should be structured. I think he was looking for a approach to pro Significant increase...... employment? balance between the people with experience:.. Brian you have a Mini? Talboys, Duncan MacIntyre, men like that and those to the local pub In the economic field? Yes. he felt had a reasonably long time in politics. breweries are mi other side I belu Not just the economic field, there’s been more than that. What action do you plan about it? of a liberal-consi in other words — the ' Young Turks’? Well, what one might call ‘intervention’ in union affairs Well, there is not much that I as Minister of Justice can osophy. This re is really an attempt to lay down a set o f rules within do to make more jobs available to law graduates. That is which came tog( No. I hesitate to use the words ‘Young Turks’. I don’t * which unions can conduct their affairs. A union in this ultimately a matter for the profession. I think that there believes basicalh think it particulary applicable to the group that he’s respect is no different from any other group, organisat­ competition and is a need for law graduates to think in much broader brought in. We are not that close-knit, a coalition in ion or individual in society, and should be bound to the state interventio terms than simply the possibility o f just going and work­ the way that Muidoon, Gordon and MacIntyre were in rule of law. the same time it ing in a law office, and we’ve seen a change in that the early 1960’s. I think that our relationship is more[ attitude in the last ten years. The idea that you went the welfare state And the freezing workers deal? How did you feet about one o f being philisophically very close. I say that dismantle them, through Law School and became a lawyer has gone, it’s particularly o f Bill Birch, Derek Quigley, Warren Cooper it at the time? areas such as nal no longer universal. and myself and also probably Merv Wellington and Ben Urn. them. The elections..... were you surprised at the final result? Couch, but in a slightly different way. Were you surprised at your appointment to Cabinet as Do you think National could have done better? How do you vie i Minister o f Justice? How would you view yourself as a member o f the you think we ’re Not surprised in the sense that over the last few weeks National Party? A rrhh h ...... The media said I was in the running for the (of the campaign) a lot of people who were out canvassing republic, or that Zealand society position but I quite frankly didn’t. felt what was happening. If you want an idea how an How do you mean? election is going, you don’t want to go and talk to news­ Why was that? paper people, you go and listen to your constituents. So I believe that thi Well..... there are obviously camps...... It has the poten! Its a relatively senior portfolio and I didn’t think it far as the individual results go I think the party which inevitably must be the most disappointed with the result as a ‘prosperous would go to one so young and with only three years In the real parliamentry party itself, the Caucus, there « standard of livin would be Labour, because in all the movements of votes parliamentary experience. Having been given it, I are not those ‘camps’ in such an obvious sense. You can of the world one that took place, Labour only increased it ’s share by 1%. must confess that I’m delighted and I’m hopefully taking perhaps to some degree predict the likely attitude a situation, or evei That must be regarded for them as a disaster. up the challenges inherent in the portfolio. I don’t think particular person will adopt on a particular issue. But : aggressive policy age is a particularly lim iting factor in itself. And Social Credit — were you surprised at the amount of there are no visible groupings o f people who are always producing econc votes that they got? hammering a particular issue. is NZ over-regulated, so that we have too many laws? Behind that you: After the Rangitikei by-election, no. For a time they transport, comm (Pause) It’s an easy statement to say ‘yes’ but very much appeared to slip down. I felt that they would get bet­ Not even the ‘Hamilton three’? in turn you’ve gc harder to go through the laws and say which ones you ween 14% and 16% of the vote; perhaps suspecting sector - health, e should take out. For the future I think we have to take closer to 14% than the actual figure they achieved. No. efficient. We mu: PAGE 4 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 Would you say that the Hamilton three were the liberal money we’re putting to our social services, into wing o f the National Party - the Warings, the Shearers and education, health services .... otherwise it ’s being wasted. and the Minougues? Going into the 1980s ...... we have a lot of things No. I don’t think you can classify people according to going for us. Although geographically isolated this AMSSA those labels. I think they’re dangerous. I myself do creates certain advantages; a relatively small and stable AMSSA ORIENTATION 1979. not like the general label of being liberal or conservat­ population, the facilities to produce well at a primary ive. For example, Ian Shearer is obviously a liberal on produce level, and-we’re getting in to some rather .GAMES AND SPORTS EVENING : some issues. But on others, for example, drinking and interesting secondary manufacturing markets. We University Gym, 7.30 r 10.30 pm FRIDAY 2nd March. smoking he’s an arch-conservative and publicly so have a very good energy potential..... we’re still so. in a pretty good environmental situation and I ORIENTATION EVENING : think that will improve...... because we’re much more University Cafe Extension, 8 pm SATURDAY 10th. environmentally conscious than we were ten years ago. Economically things look reasonable, but the Programmes include slides show on past AMSSA activities right decisions have to be made, and the difference activities, introducing New Zealand culture, instrumentals, between the decision-making abilities of the two instrumentals,'songs, poems and other musical items by parties I see as being the difference as much if not the Maori Club and overseas students. more so than the difference in philosophy. ORIENTATION PICNIC : Parliamentry ratification o f the Gleneagles Agreement. Along the Whangaparoa Penninsular. 8 am SATURDAY Would you vote for it? March 24th. This will be an opportunity for new students students to meet older students and share a day of Yes. outdoor activities exploring the beaches and senic beauty. How do you feel about Ben Couch going to South Africa? FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, Well, i n fact he hasn’t actually said he’s going to S. Africa. He was only asked would he be prepared to go to South Africa to see what the place was like, what Games and Sports...... Low Chow Keah 766 - 314 progress had been made. And he said he would be Orientation Evening...... Toong Ah Tea 764-835 prepared to go. That’s a long way from saying that he’s going. Government secrecy - the Qankes Committee •—&r~ ~ . I don’t know when it will be published. I’ve got no real idea what legislation might result from the Committee’s report. week he des- Differences between the Labour Party and the but a defeat i National Party - are there any at all?

' is something I think that there are a number. Some of them perhaps l be a useful ; more of approach than anything else. But this is so aur Parliam- 1 portant as a deep philosophy. The Labour Party has a DOCK der from the j fairly strong socialist element within and endeavoured much achieved i at its Conference two years ago to take up that as a tes. Muldoon theme. Some o f the more pragmatic members of the ;ry similar party saw the danger o f that in political terms because ing on the New Zealand is not a socialist country. It’s certainly not ;yle o f cam- a country that enjoys the intervention of the state too xtra o f the much and you get that as much from what the Labour National Party delights in refering to as the ‘working-class’ man < What would you personally favour ? e could ‘ as you do from anybody else. I think that it's a party peared to be ; whose individuals’ philosophies in many cases would I have my own opinion but I really would prefer to I a number of be fairly left-wing. So far as the individuals are con­ await the committees report. I’m not trying to dodge the cerned, there are very few working men and women of question but I’ve only had 2 months as a minister to the type that made the Labour Party and in particular see the whole picture of government information and I p? What sort made the first Labour Government. Most o f their think I’m too green at this stage to be able to give a nister when attitudes are not born of personal experience or even definitive answer to the question. of personal observation of great oppression. is o f his col- One senses this on select committees, in the House itself ie cabinet in the sort of things they espouse. They lack a practical ng for a approach to problems. One begins to wonder, when ;e... Brian you have a Minister of the Crown going across the road and those to the local pub and then coming back and saying the cs. breweries are making too much money. On the other side I believe that National is a party basically of a liberal-conservative or conservative-liberal phil­ osophy. This reflects the streams of the two parties which came together to make the party in 1936. It rks’. I don’t ' believes basically in private enterprise and free 3 that he’s competition and less state involvement and less oalition in ityre were in I state intervention where that’s appropriate, but at the same time it ’s picked up the best elements of hip is more[ the welfare state, has never even suggested it would ly that dismantle them. And some would say that in some Varren Cooper areas such as national superannuation it has enhanced gton and Ben' them. tt^cdLfrwdZidkil Xsoloo can curric,, d/oe How do you view New Zealand entering the 1980s? Do u o r s o t * • o f the you think we 're heading the way o f the banana republic, or that barriers are being put up in New Zealand society? Ccih'ch jLjjchcoooo, S i t f 6 e .fa a ftr d t'f& r some.'fkwa.. I believe that this country has enormous potential. It has the potential to become what has been described you ejevtf- Tfe> a g © as a ‘prosperous mini-state’. If one compared our ucus, there standard of living to most other countries in the rest s g a . ertfwrfuaun nse. You can of the world one would say it already was in that j Gneoor Pine(hco-ijBfi& ttitude a situation, or even more so. That depends on an o r issue. But aggressive policy of selling our produce overseas and ihrfrqeyr*ty6n ihLSecandnasr d are always producing economically and viably in New Zealand. o r our Zs&e&nad budcbro/cCfxj^ Behind that you’ve got to have a viable private sector S 7 b ). OieJX PuUe., I'ue. transport, communications and the like and behind that in turn you’ve got to have a viable and efficient public Who is this man ? cobc&do ( do raej hajua.?...bom . sector - health, education and welfare all have got to be What aims does he serve ? efficient. We must be seen to be getting value for the . .-.&AU6/...... C>t\ AtOirla ohbfb ...... I CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 5 S em esters If you, as a student, ever enrol for papers in Art In 1978, the Faculty of Engineering set up a Semestral depending on which system the subject lends itself to, F i History, Biochemistry, Biology, Botany, Cell Biology, Review Committee to look into possible changes in their with a break in lectures half-way through the year to Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Law, semestral system. allow for examination o f 1st half-year papers and mid­ Last week w< Geology, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, The report of this committee is an excellent one. I course assessment for full-year papers. the nuclear p Pol. Studs, Russian, Sociology or Zoology then you may will certainly have one copy on a “ desk copy” system This system retains some o f the advantages of both have courses which are only taught for part of the year. at Studass reception which you may Xerox if you wish, of the other systems, for both staff and students. It In some o f these Departments, the examinations take and hopefully we can get some others around the place offers wide flexibility for course organization, and does Well, space is place at the end o f the course, which is obvious, logical for those that wish to look at one. not impose on one Department a scheme more suitable you that thei and best for you, but in most cases the examinations Essentially the report lays out the advantages of the to another. This is the system which AUSA will aim the offing so are held over until the end of the year. THe justification various systems, including considerations o f the effects for in its submissions. Craccum for most often given for this absurdity is that the material in on staff. While these merit only a passing glance here, Besides the in-depth study to be presented to Dean’s the course needs time to “ soak in” . Psychologically, this they will be discussed fully in the report to be presented Committee, which I’ve already mentioned, we are also is nonsense. If somebody is taught something, forced to to the Deans’ Committee, an authority powerful beyond going to have a petition which will be available to some This week, w do something else for four months and then tested, the comprehension o f most students, and enough to people in enrolment week, and to everybody in orienta­ members of 1 their performance will be significantly worse than if make even experienced student politicians shudder tion fortnight. There will be copies in the Quad, at ones around tested on conclusion of the course. (with fear/laughter/disgust). Studass reception, at Engineering School, Med School, In 1972 the Engineering School moved from the The committee surveyed student opinion within the Fine Arts, Architecture and anywhere else that we can 3-term system to a two semester system, with Faculty and the result was that 89% of the replies get them, like next week’s Craccum If just 30 me examinations at the end of each semester. The main wanted a semestral system. A further 5% wanted half- then we wou advantages of the semestral system are that students are year packaging of courses with exams at the end of the To implement these proposals, we have to change it, eh ? The r working for fewer masters at any time. An essentially year, and 6% wanted full-year courses. These figures are “ the system". The system at Auckland University semestral system permits greater flexibility in course particularly important because they come from a group stands like a pillar of granite, and unless there is intense structure, and if you should fail a course, then under a of students that have experienced full-year courses, half- pressure for change it will remain intact, regardless of semestral system you only have to repeat half a year. year courses with end-of-year exams, and the fully the rights and wrongs of the proposed change. The key But, of course, there are disadvantages of any system. semestral system, which few others o f us have. word in the new system is “ fle xib ility” , and any change The semestral system does mean that you may have to Before the introduction o f the semestral system in in education schemes must aim for this. It can only be work more consistently throughout the year. Certain Engineering School the failure rate was relatively high, to your advantage to sign the petition, and w ithout members of the Arts Faculty will assert quite but under the semestral system, it has dropped dramati­ your help the many hours o f work which AUSA has put categorically that it is impossible to condense Arts papers cally, while a very high level o f achievement is into this project FOR YOUR BENEFIT will have been into one half-year and that it is also impossible to split maintained. Probably even first-year students are aware wasted. Even if you are totally happy with the system them up into two halves, quite regardless of the fact that of the active social life offered by Engineering Society applying to your own courses it is important that you many Universities around the world have already done and while some people may not approve o f the various sign, for the purpose of helping other people who are one of the two. Another point worth noting here is that activities offered by A.U.E.S. it cannot be denied that labouring under a ridiculous system, which exists for lecturers from various Departments within Arts faculty they are the most active social group on campus, which administrative convenience rather than educational have approached me to say that their courses could serves to illustrate that while you do have to work value. The bursaries petition presented last year, was easily be compressed into one semester and that they harder under a semestral system, there’s still plenty of signed by more than half the student body. We must would, in fact, prefer this. Without exception they time to do whatever you want to do. aim at least that high for this petition, and we must also N Most of the staff complaints about the semestral would want examinations at the end o f the courses have as many staff members’ signatures as possible; the TO TF rather than at the end of the year. It is strange that when system, arose out of the fact that the Engineering School more pressure we can bring to bear, the less unlikely it using the soak-time argument, the powers-that-be do not calendar did not coincide with the teaching calendar is that we will receive justice. Remember, if you don’t ASSEP insist on holding finals halfway through the following of the rest of the University. sign, you are merely hindering your own right to a year, for full-year or second half-year courses, and at the The committee recommends that the- Faculty adopt reasonable education. very least, allow supplementary exams in January for a composite system based on the 3-term University The pe those that just missed in November. calendar, offering both half-year and full-year courses, K.G. Hague attach*

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PAGE 6 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 nds itself to, M Fund-raising the year to )ers and mid­ Last week we promised more on fund-raising efforts for the nuclear protest ship FRI. ages of both udents. It tion, and does Well, space is a bit prohibitive this week but I can tell more suitable you that there is both a dance and a film showing in F R I APPEAL A will aim the offing sometime in the very near future. Watch Craccum for further details o f this. NAME : ...... ited to Dean’s , we are also FA C U LT Y : ...... ilable to some This week, we have put in a coupon, aimed mainly at >dy in orienta- members o f the academic staff who are about the only I WISH TO DONATE $ ...... Quad, at ones around this place who ever have any money. Med School, I WOULD/WOULD NOT LIKE MY NAME APPEARING : that we can IN CRACCUM. If just 30 members o f staff would donate $10 each SEND TO ‘ FRI APPEAL’ C/O CRACCUM, AUCKLAND then we would be almost half way there. So what about UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION, PRIVATE to change it, eh ? The nuclear arms race affects us all. BAG, AUCKLAND. liversity iere is intense sgardless of nge. The key id any change can only be I w ithout MJSA has put ill have been i the system nt that you )le who are i exists for jcational : year, was We must we must also u .icn possible; the TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW ZEALAND IN PARLIAMENT is unlikely it if you don’t ASSEMBLED ight to a

The petition of the campaign for nuclear disarmament of New Zealand and the undersigned asketh that the New Zealand Government present the attached proposed Treaty for a nuclear free Pacific zone to the South Pacific Forum 1979.

PROPOSED TREATY FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONE IN THE PACIFIC We, being inhabitants of the Pacific BELIEVING that nuclear tests in the Pacific and the resultant radiation constitute a threat to the health, livelihood and security of the inhabitants. BELIEVING that nuclear tests and missile tests are the major means by which the armament race maintains its momentum. BELIEVING that the presence of nuclear weapons in the Pacific endangers the lives of the inhabitants, but in no way benefits the inhabitants. RECOGNISING the urgent need for ending the use and manufacture of nuclear weapons. DESIRING to contribute towards ending the armament race. NOTING that a nuclear weapons free zone is not an end in itself but only a step toward a total, worldwide nuclear disarmament.

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: I Body of the Treaty: The text of the treaty is to be of the following form: 1. That a Pacific nuclear weapons free zone be declared including all that area of the South Pacific bounded by the Tlatelolco (Latin America), Antarctic, Indian Ocean and Asian Zones, and extending to 10oN and also including all of Micronesia and Australia. 2. The peoples and governments within this zone will not permit any of the following activities or installations within this zone: a) all tests of explosive devices including those described as peaceful. b) all nuclear weapon test facilities. c) all tests of nuclear weapon delivery vehicle and systems. d) all storage, transit, deployment or any other form of presence of nuclear weapons on land or aboard ships, submarines and aircraft within bank the zone. e) all bases carrying out command, control, communication, surveillance, navigation and any other functions which aid the performance of a nuclear weapon delivery system. 3. Peoples and governments within the zone will withdraw from all mutual-defence alliances with nuclear powers. 4. Peoples and governments signatory to the Treaty will meet at intervals of not more than three years to explore ways of extending the geographic extent of the zone and the comprehensiveness of the bans enforced within it. SIGNATURE NAME (print) ADDRESS (print)

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CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 7 aBlank Cheque? MethodM afU /\rl rvfof distributionrlirtn U i ita/\n .'The largest kn flown, an extir. In New Zealand as overseas there is legislation to control And the pressure to accept the card didn’t stop there... they get their money, the buyer gets no credit. Flowever wingspan o f fii the practice o f “ inertia selling” ... that o f sending people The Visa card is in fact double sided, with a replacement with an ordinary cheque the situation is almost the same discovered by \ goods through the mail that they have not requested, and for the customer’s Nationwide card on the flip side, thus for both parties, some banks offer guarantee cards to The creature hi then trying to persuade the recipient into accepting them. some people may have been fooled into believing that if their customers (the National Bank’s Mastercard). the biggest pre\ This however is exactly what the BNZ has been accused they refused the Visa card they would also loose their - The Times of in some quarters with its tactics of distributing the Nationwide advantages. The number of rubber cheques passed in New Zealand is Visa card to customers. In October of 1978 the bank very low ... .01% in the country that uses the greatest FROM A HOL mailed 250,000 Visa cards to its customers w ithout ask­ The right way for the bank to introduce Visa would have volume of cheques per annum of any. what was to be ing them whether they wanted the card. The cards were been to circularise their customers asking those who Britannicus slo The bank could have simply extended guarantee to accompanied by a letter that could be interpreted as vir­ wanted to avail themselves of the Visa scheme to apply morning. A sin to the bank. cheques; Visa is not necessary for the providing of such a tually forcing the recipient to accept the card. For ex­ and settled on facility. * ample, one clause begins ....The cardholder will sign the What is Visa? i dissolved amon card immediately upon receiving it from the bank. Then If price controls are lifted in the near future, the costs He watched it ( There are two kinds of bank cards: follows the threat... and if the card is not so signed the that Visa places on the retailer will no doubt be extended forehead wrink cardholder shall be under no liability to the bank here­ 1. True credit cards, used in many countries, where the to the consumer in the form of price rises. How do A second lai under if the cardholder shall return the card unsigned bank gives the consumer (say) one month o f grace before those of you without Visa cards feel about subsidising He squinted at and unused to the bank within three days of receipt... billing him for purchases he has made. those who use them in the near future? and until that c ‘What’s it I if Who benefits from Visa? I from the dark r The bank? The retailer? The international traveller? Britannicus shi' The business executive? The wealthy? The vast number ‘Bloody free of ordinary consumers? ...... promise you wi I coming down ii If Diners Club and American Express are in the credit His wife scu I card business to make money then it seems reasonable to knuckles skimn presume that banks go into it for the same reason. While ‘What?’ she: Visa International has been described as a non-profit ‘Look,’ he si organisation there must be financial benefits accruing to She looked 1 banks that subscribe to the scheme. Certainly the bank at the leaden sk now gets a larger rake o ff for the performing the simple task ‘That’ll be tl of transferring money from one account to another. The she said. BNZ expects Visa to generate business and that business ‘Here,’ said I must provide extra bank revenue. that grey comir ‘It’s coming The international traveller, the business exec, the wealthy, snapped. ‘How this small group stand to benefit even if not financially. never been in ai VISA Convenience in not carrying cash, security. However this H. Britannic: advantage could be fulfilled by the uses of travellers Tiny Pleistocen cheques. The average customer does not benefit, some thatch, and hitt convenience, but with the extra charges made for the use I iately became e of Visa, not cheap. ‘What’s it all (Retainers are dealt with elsewhere in this screed.) annicus. ‘Where a kid, the sumrr What’s wrong with cash? ‘I blame,’ sai these bone neec New Zealanders are well known to be good at paying it’s not natural. their bills; they may be late but they tend to pay. To ‘Progress,’ sa quote the Retailers Federation, “ We are not a nation of to have progress I credit-orientated consumers.” If because of systems He tried to s such as Visa, prices do rise, then all consumers will be worse off, and paying to provide a convenience available j wasn’t easy. to only about 20% of the population. When you pay ‘I’m off for a cash the retailer gets his money without waiting for ‘I’ll catch me de bank processing, and you the customer know exactly where you stand. In fact with Visa operating it becomes It was just 01 feasible to ask a retailer subscribing to Visa to give you a sub-soil o f Cant 2. Debit cards which do the same job as a paper cheque, annicus glanced you are not given any credit and your account is debited discount for cash. For instance you could offer to split the bank’s rake o ff between you, thus each is happy. eyebrows and n within three days with the price o f the goods you pur­ towards him. It chased. Some forms of cashless shopping are obviously of benefit to consumers and retailers, ie. layby, hire purchase; in arm. Visa is not a credit card, it is simply a plastic cheque or that they allow people to purchase goods that they could ‘Morning,’ sa debit card, even though it guarantees payment to the only afford over a long period. But no matter how you taking a firmer j retailer (up to certain authorised limits) and has over­ buy, you pay the price in the long run. case. draft facilities (with interest required). Visa’s interest ‘Bonjour,’ sai H. Britannia rate stands at 1 / 2% per month for overdraft, this amounts Sue Cairney ‘What?’ he sa to a very high 18 per cent per year. Thus instead of the Kind thanks to Consumers’ Institute in the preparation ‘Mah nem,’ s; W normal, say 11% interest on overdrafts, the bank can o f this article. Gallicus. ‘Ow'ee make rather more profit on overdrafts when credit cards ‘Mustn’t grur are used. cus. ‘Where are ' Therefore bank cards such as Visa give banks a slice of Homo Gallici the retailer’s profits as well as making it possible for them with his free har to lend money at bumped up interest rates. The card­ ‘Ah ’ave walk holder does not benefit financially from Visa. If you Gallicus, ‘wiz a [ join you get some convenience, for which you pay ‘It looks like through the nose, both now and possibly in the future if pterodactyl to n retail prices are forced up by the extra cost now facing ‘And what’s thai the retailers. ‘Wi call zem o The effect on retailers Gallicus. Homo Britanr The New Zealand Retailers Federation was one of the one, cautiously. bodies most prominent in opposing the introduction of ‘You’ll never I the Visa card. Their argument is based around the fact son,’ he said. ‘To that the use o f the cards will erode retailers’ pro fit mar­ ‘Wi eat zem,’ : gins in a time of recession. A retailer who decides to join Homo Britanr the Visa scheme pays to the bank a commission on every ‘It takes all so sale that is made in his shop using a Visa card. This com­ pterodactyl for?’ VISA mission ranges from 2%% to 5%%. When you pay a ret­ ‘Where can wi ailer using an ordinary cheque the clearance fee amounts Gallicus. to 3 cents. The exact commission rate charged by the They found a bank varies on the volume of custom and the average size inside, and sat dc of transactions in the shop. Kfoi- blew on his finge V-'' ■ ‘I wish we hac One advantage to the retailers is that they get the amount said. of the sale, a guaranteed payment, within three days of ‘What for ?’ presenting the Visa vouchers to the bank. Thus retailers Homo Britanr are in this respect somewhat better o ff than the shopper; ‘I’m not sure,’ PAGE 8 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 Alan Coren appears in Craccum courtesy of Punch Magazine, Copyright.

Ctai^:CtaaWingaMaPi?scyer ‘The largest known creature ever to have nodded towards the pterodactyl. ‘What ‘Ah well,’ said Homo Gallicus, ‘back to was consuming a field a day, and its flown, an extinct reptile with an estimated about him, then ?’ zer cave-wall!’ insistent ‘ERK ! ERK !’ had reached a sdit. However wingspan o f fifty-one feet, has been ‘In mah country,’ began Homo Gallicus, Which was all very well, except that pitch and volume that would start ava­ most the same discovered by fossil hunters in West Texas. ‘wi ‘ave no dinosaurs. Zer dinosaur eez - the family of Homo Britannicus was lanches rolling a dozen leagues away, 3e cards to The creature had twice the wingspan o f ’ow you say ?’ finding it more and more difficult to they trundled the Gallo-Britannic ptero­ ;rcard). the biggest previously known pterodactyl. ' ‘Extinct.’ make ends meet: it was not merely that saur out of its enormous cave, and - The Times 'Exactement! ’ Owevaire, wi ’ave zer most of their breadwinner’s time was announced that it was ready. ew Zealand is pterodactyl. You, on zer uzzer 'and, ’ave spent in husbanding the animals involved, ‘Wi weel head West,’ cried Homo ie greatest FROM A HOLE IN A ROCK just outside no pterodactyl, but you ’ave zer dinosaur, but also that those animals were consum­ Gallicus, ‘to zer sun and zer fleshpots!’ what was to become Sevenoaks, Homo n’est-ce pas?’ ing a vast amount of food. They were Homo Britannicus clubbed his wife for Britannicus slowly emerged into the grey ‘Just a few,’ said Homo Britannicus. being saved from natural extinction only the last time, tenderly. antee to morning. A single snowflake floated down ‘They’re a bit bloody ropey, mind. Past at the expense of the unfortunate ‘Back in two shakes,’ he said, and ding o f such a and settled on his forearm, paused, and their best, know what I mean? We’ve let hominids who had been forced to cast gathering the mangy ratskins about his dissolved among the thick, matted hair. ’em run down, werl, there’s no call for their lot with them. jutting bones, he and his colleague ?, the costs He watched it disappear, his thin rim of ’em these days, is there ?’ ‘You never told us it would cost this climbed aboard. »t be extended forehead wrinkling. ‘Ah beg to diffaire,’ said Homo much,’ was how Homo Britannicus’s wife The great wings flapped, and the How do A second landed on his broad flat nose. Gallicus. He bent forward, and his black put it, over and over again. pterosaur lumbered down the runway in a subsidising He squinted at it until it became a droplet, eyes glittered. ‘May plan eez to mate zer Whereupon her husband would flatten trail of webby pot-holes, and took off. and until that droplet vanished. Gallic pterodactyl wiz zer Britannic her with his club, a gesture which over The last thing they saw, before the ‘What’s it like out?’ called his wife, dinosaur! Wi will produce zer Gallo- the years was becoming less and less freezing snow-clouds enfolded them, was from the dark recess o f the cave. H. Britannic pterosaur, mon vieux ! Eet weel affectionate. the pitiful little knot of rags beneath, star­ ing upwards. traveller? Britannicus shivered. be zer biggest flying objeck evaire seen !’ But towards the end of the fifth year They seemed to be praying. vast number ‘Bloody freezing,’ he said. ‘Also, ‘So what ?’ (by which time the temperature had promise you won’t laugh, the rain is ‘Zer Ice Age is coming, hein?’ said dropped to a constant ten below zero, coming down in bits.’ Homo Gallicus. ‘In an eon or two, eet and the emaciated families o f the luckless It was warm in the place that was sub­ the credit His wife scuttled out, her lovely weel be ‘ere. Wi weel ‘ave to find inventors reduced to gnawing for nourish­ sequently Dallas. reasonable to knuckles skimming the ground. warmaire climate, o r . . . ’ he drew a ment upon the misshapen bones of past A group of fat, balding hominids were eason. While ‘What?’ she said. thick finger across his imperceptible failed experiments), a small pterosaur was sitting around a tricc-ratops-shapcd pool, on-profit ‘Look,’ he said.‘Bits.’ neck. ‘Wi cannot walk, eet eez too far; produced o f rather pleasing proportions. examining a roughly circular rock that s accruing to She looked at the snow, and she looked so wi weel climb aboard zer giant Even more encouraging was the fact that Homo Texus was rolling up and down. ily the bank at the leaden sky. pterosaur - an ’wi weel fly there!’ when it flapped its large leathery wings, ‘I agree,’ said Homo Oklahomus, who g the simple task ‘That’ll be the Ice Age coming, then,’ ‘Gerroff!’ cried Homo Brittannicus. it actually took off, flew for a few yards, had made the trip especially to sec it, ‘it another. The she said. ‘Also,’ continued Homo Gallicus, and landed again without breaking any­ could be very big. It could be, like, very :hat business ‘Here,’ said H. Britannicus, ‘what’s unruffled, ‘wi weel rule zer w orl’! Every­ thing. big indeed.’ that grey coming out of your mouth?’ one weel want one. Wi weel clean up zer ‘It works!’ shrieked the two Homos, ‘With the right packaging,’ said Homo ‘It’s coming out of yours as well,’ she hugging one another and dancing great the wealthy, pterosaur market.’ Arkansus. snapped. ‘How do I know what it is, I’ve whorls in the encircling show. ‘A new financially. Homo Britannicus, to be fair, did all ‘With the right packaging,’ said Homo, dawn is breaking !’ However this never been in an Ice Age before, have I?’ he could to fathom this momentous Oklahomus, nodding. H. Britannicus shook his head slowly. ‘Erk,’ went the baby pterosaur. It ravellers idea: he furrowed his m illimetric brow, It was at that point that the sun was opened its mouth wide. ‘Erk.’ nefit, some Tiny Pleistocene items flew out o f his he scratched his craggy head, he sucked blotted out. thatch, and hitting the chilly air, immed­ ‘Eet wants,’ said Homo Gallicus, ‘to ie for the use his great green teeth. But it was not until ‘What the — !’ cried Homo Texus, be fed.’ iately became extinct. Homo Gallicus began to draw upon the letting the wheel roll from his fingers. ‘What’s it all coming to ?’ said H. Brit­ cavewall with his easy, flowing line, They leapt up, as the pterosaur came ;reed.) annicus. ‘Where will it all end? When I was that his partner-to-be was really For five more years they fed it, while in to a perfect two-point landing, and ran a kid, the summers we had !’ convinced. it grew bigger and bigger. The cold wind across. Homos Gallicus and Britannicus ‘I blame,’ said his wife, ‘the tool. All It looked wonderful, in the picture. that continued to blow through Europe jumped down. having taken its constant toll, the it paying these bone needles, all these flin t hammers, ‘This is private property, buddy !’ vegetation was now so sparse that the 3 pay. To it’s not natural.’ Over the next five years, the shouted Homo Texus. family of Homo Birtannicus spent its a nation of ‘Progress,’ said her husband. ‘You got innumerable, unforeseeable technological ‘And this,’ cried Homo Britannicus, ‘is every waking hour in scouring the white r systems to have progress.’ problems came forth and multiplied. the Gallo-Britannic pterosaur! It will He tried to stand a little more erect. It For two years alone, the dinosaur and landscape for pterosaur fodder, they ts will be revolutionise travel, it will open up whole themselves subsisting on grubs and bits of ice available wasn’t easy. the pterodactyl could not be persuaded to new experiences, it will . . . ’ bark and anything else the pterosaur you pay ‘I’m off for a bit of a stroll,’ he said. mate at all, and the wretched co-partners ‘The hell it will !’ shrieked Homo could not use. :ing for ‘I’ll catch me death standing here.’ were forced to stand by while the two Texus. ‘When will it be big enough?’ they / exactly halves of the project shrieked and bit one ‘Did you hear the goddam noise?’ would plead of the manufacturers, ‘when l it becomes It was just outside what is now the another. But in the third year, by a screamed Homo Oklahomus. will it be ready? When will it all end ? o give you a sub-soil of Canterbury that Homo Brit­ process of strategic starving, feeding, and ‘My God! yelled Homo Arkansus, ffer to split annicus glanced up through his rime-hung cajoling, the message got gradually When will the miracle begin?’ pointing a trembling finger, ’look at its s happy, eyebrows and noticed a figure shambling through, and the dinosaur fell pregnant. And the manufacturers, by now mere damn droppings!’ ly of benefit towards him. It had a pterodactyl on its Ultimately giving birth to an enormous hirsute skeletons themselves, would say: <* ‘The environment!’ howled the rchase; in arm. saurian cylinder with six legs and two ‘Woon, soon.’ Americans, ‘The environment!’ it they could ‘Morning,’ said Homo Britannicus, very small wings. It flapped these latter And then, in the bleak autumn of the Whereupon, brushing aside the enfeebl­ ir how you taking a firmer grip on his club, just in for a few impotent beats, fell over, and tenth year, when its wingspan had reached ed European bonebags, they fell upon the j case. expired. fifty-one feet, and its sleek giant body hapless pterosaur, and beat it to death. ‘Bonjour,’ said the figure. H. Britannicus raised his club slightly. reparation ‘What?’ he said. ‘Mah nem,’ said the figure, ‘eez Omo Gallicus. ‘Ow'eez eet going ?’ A ‘Mustn’t grumble,’ said Homo Britanni­ cus. ‘Where are you from ?’ Homo Gallicus pointed behind him with his free hand, towards France. ‘Ah ’ave walk many days,’ said Homo Gallicus, ‘wiz a proposition.’ ‘It looks like an ordinary bloody pterodactyl to me,’ said Homo Britanicus. ‘And what’s that round your neck?’ ‘Wi call zem onions,’ said Homo Gallicus. ✓ - Homo Britannicus reached out and felt one, cautiously. 7/7 fulfilment o f my promise the time has now come for me to hand over to civilian rule ‘You’ll never kill nothing with that, son,’ he said. ‘Too soft.’ ‘Wi eat zem,’ said Homo Gallicus. Homo Britannicus looked at him. ‘It takes all sorts,’ he said. ‘What’s the pterodactyl for?’ 'Where can wi talk?’ replied Homo Gallicus. They found a small cave, and crept inside, and sat down. Homo Britannicus blew on his fingers. - ‘I wish we had a couple of sticks,’ he said. ‘What for ?’ Homo Britannicus thought for a while. 'I’m not sure,’ he said, at last. He CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 9 WHAT IS ROC EecordEeviewsGUITAR MONSTERS COMES A TIME been categoris< CHET ATKINS & LES PAUL NEIL YOUNG unaccented qu REPRISE THRU W.E.A. ABC RECORDS THRU RCA and roll, pop, I A t last we’ve got it. The name changes this album has goes on. The v Chester and Lester are supreme guitar technicians. been through still leave traces in the final package: the embracing as ii Les Paul is largely responsible for the design o f the army of backing musicians has been dubbed the Gone enigmatic silen electric guitar as we know it and Chet Atkins simply With the Wind Orchestra, thus retaining in the credits of Abba -all tf plays smoother than anyone else. Chet and Les deserve one o f the earliest names mooted; the label titles it suffering from better backing than they receive on this album: the bass ‘Give to the Wind’ ; and the jacket gives us the final piece of music and drums sound like the auto-accompaniment you get name, ‘Comes a Time’ . to incorporate by pushing the right buttons on a Farfisa organ. These Orchestration is something Neil Young has toyed that it is all Mi two don’t have to be put alongside crappy functionaries with from time to time on earlier albums: most notice­ well defined, b to shine. The unaccompanied tracks are a delight to ably on ‘Harvest’ (1972); the excesses of that album other styles, al listen to, with intricate counterpoints and riffs sliding are fortunately absent from this one, but the artillery original and de effortlessly from the fingers. The tunes are dated but listed in the credits is still impressive; 8 acoustic guitars, There is, these boys could swing God Defend New Zealand. and no less than 16 ‘strings’, in addition to Rufus makes one pie< Sensitive and sophisticated jazz, sold out by plodding Thibodeaux on ‘fiddle’ -- same instrument, different piece Pop - bu sidesmen. A pity. style, a difference which makes for very effective inter­ contradictions play on the title track. covered by Dr Alex James But the orchestrated feel is only really present for INCONTEMP the first two tracks, and is soon left safely behind by the Musicology se< country sound imparted by Thibodeaux’s fiddle (taking convenient dis over the role played by Carole Mayedo on ‘American blurred by sue Stars ‘n’ Bars), and by Nicolette Larson’s backing who consisten loco vocals: she takes a couple of steps forward into greater their predomir prominence than she was accorded on the previous ly composing < album. This one was recorded in part in Nashville, and it. Dr Dyer see leaves no doubt as to the extent o f Neil Young’s as being furthe leanings towards country rock. Nicolette Larson’s voice : sophistication URBAN DESIRE is pure country, and it underscores Neil Young’s vocals | increasing tenc GENYA RAVAN on some half dozen of the ten songs on the album. On i fields of serioi ‘Motorcycle Mama’ (certainly a stand-out track) she As Dr D; Genya Ravan has been in the music business a trades the lead. On this track too the raunchy guitaring ^contemporary long time. She started out singing in bands - as Goldie is subtly underplayed by the violin. A suitably under­ fits unperforma of Goldie and The Gingerbreads, and later, as lead singer stated touch o f which is present as well in a number of as opaque to p for Ten Wheel Drive. She made a brief attempt at a solo the other tracks, while another fine touch is provided Rock then can career after their break-up but soon decided to move by Ben Keith’s steel guitar work, and especially by the but also make: into production, working with New York New Wave dobro on ‘Already One’ . appeal, which bands like the Dead Boys. Now, she’s back behind the This track, however, seems to be a rehash of ‘Long tease in point is microphone with a new album. May You Run’ o ff the album of the same name done . bizarre lyrics, < Although not consistently excellent, there are in 1976 with the Steve Stills Band. Despite the pun I’ll I modern poets, Music Editor Alex James has recently had his beard enough high points on this album to make it worthwhile point out the similarity of title and theme to Dylan’s firm classical f. removed and we have it on good authority that he no - the first and most obvious being Genya’s singing. She ‘ Forever Young’ , for what it’s worth. But it is some­ s with a sugary, longer looks like this...... has a great rock’n roll voice, strong and raw; and this, thing which cannot be ignored: that a lot of the material expansion and combined with the feeling and conviction she pours into on this album echoes earlier Neil Young work. There David Bowie’s the songs, is a winning formula. The other large dollop is an echo o f 'Saddle Up the Palomino’ in ‘ Field of of music made of praise goes to her backing band, who are strong, Opportunity’ , and in the line ‘ I can’t forget how love and behind flai supportive and very much alive throughout, especially let me down’ in ‘Already One’ , while ‘Peace of Mind’ an art form, pa POCO the honky-tonk piano player. evokes memories of something I can’t quite place, in on the album ‘ LEGEND As well as producing the album, Genya Ravan co­ addition to the similarity of title with ‘ Love in Mind’ instrumental, p ABC RECORDS THRU RCA wrote three of the songs, and these three are the pick of on ‘Time Fades Away’ (1973). finds mass app the bunch. The first, ‘Jerry’s Pigeons’, is a wistful look To sum it up though: Neil Young maintains the , mood music fc back at life as a tough, street-wise teenager: ditto ‘Aye quality of his lyrics in most o f the songs on ‘Comes A Those already familiar with the Poco sound will find audience in th( Colorado’, on which she duets very effectively with Lou T im e ', and he is ably backed by a considerable number few surprises on this, the band's 1 3th album; despite London, while Reed, and lastly, ‘Shadowboxing’, a slow, anguished of musicians who have appeared on his earlier albums, personnel changes that leave pedal steel player Rusty to the mass ma survival story which makes a stunning final song. With including of course Crazy Horse, who appear on two of Young the only remaining original member, the sound artists on their the exception of ‘The Sweetest One’, the rest o f the the tracks, and Nicolette Larson who would be worth her much the same as they always did, with inoffensive and of his own. Dr songs are basic, high energy R & B chronicles of man- place here for the ending to ‘ Peace of Mind’ alone. sometimes maudlin lyrics delivered with couytry-rock New wave styh woman relationships. Some of these work really well, One regret that I have is that the Neil Young distinctive backings. Poco play with a lot o f class - there are some that the Ameri but the rest, although they seem to have the right whining guitar is absent from all except ‘ Look Out For tasteful sax riffs and the music is pleasant enough, but such as Talkinj ingredients, just don’t seem to click into place. My Love’ , but fiddle, steel guitar and harmony vocals the lack of an independent musical direction relegates more preoccup I do have one grouch - the wet T-shirt cover shot work in fine to take its place. For the newcomer to Poco to the status of a background band. ‘Heart o f the British countei which merely proves, once again, the point o f the rock Neil Young’s music, none o f these quibbles will mean Night’ provides the only real stomper; as far as the rest Stranglers, wh< writer who commented that ‘most L.P. covers for female a thing, while any present fans are addicts already, and is concerned you could be listening to the Eagles on an and self-defeat artists were apparently designed by sailors who hadn’t should find that this album will settle neatly into place o ff day. retaining undei been on leave in three years’. right in the middle o f their turntables. \ What ma Alex James is compatible v Raewyn Glynn Guy Dalrymple , commercial ele best definition bridge the cont croecejsn crfSvzeiZ2/2^ /^ mass, and as su art form withoi uses to achieve must have a sa> and perhaps thi from a wide arr The audience is any art form, a can only ever a arrears, after it Rock represent written with yc presentation w; stereo record in sound, toes did to be lost looki in an academic pointer to the t k ain’t academic, an atmosphere is to reconnect the body, not t the enthusiasm * ! the bulk of roc Alex James PAGE 10 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 What is Rock?! Boo^e Prim er WHAT IS ROCK MUSIC ? In the last 50 years music has been categorised and pigeonholed down to the last unaccented quaver; bebop, swing, rhythm ‘n’ blues, rock Strings and roll, pop, heavy metal, art rock, new wave - the list P a r ts Strings are numbered 1st to 6th from the highest in Figure 7 shows the right way to take ud the slack o f goes on. The word ‘Music’ becoming near meaningless pitch to the lowest. The top strings (1st, 2nd & 3rd) are 'S this album has a new string, and tighten it (raise the pitch) once it ’s in embracing as it does every imaginable sound from the in fact nearest the ground while you are playing, so \ package: the place. The anticlockwise rule applies to both sides, so enigmatic silences o f John Cage to the mindless bleating remember to think in terms o f pitch - top strings are bed the Gone when you’re putting on the first windings ensure that the of Abba - all the aforementioned sub-classifications treble, bottom strings (4th, 5th, 6th) are bass. in the credits strings are in between the two sets o f studs on a stud bel titles it suffering from an implicit vagueness, defined by one Nylons piece of music, and undefined by another that happens machine head (see Fig 8), or emerging from the top and us the final Spanish guitars are strung with nylon strings. The top front o f the barrel on a barrel machine (sec fig 6, again) to incorporate shades o f a different style. The very fact three are made from a nylon filament similar to fishing ig has toyed that it is all Music means that any one style, however line. The bottom three are made from a light nylon >: most notice- well defined, becomes a starting point for a string of floss wound with metal wire. There is little to choose of that album other styles, all owing something, however little, to the between different brands, so a medium priced set t the artillery original and deserving to be classified with it. probably represents the best value. My favourite make is icoustic guitars, There is, as in poetry, a magic ingredient which Savarez - the 2nd and 3rd are nylon wound on nylon to Rufus makes one piece o f music Rock and another similar which makes them slightly thicker than the plain S it, different piece Pop - but what is it ? Some of the difficulties and filament, but smoothes out the difference in tone effective inter­ contradictions encountered in defining Rock were between the 3rd and 4th, which normally gets more covered by Dr William Dart in his lecture on “ TRENDS pronounced as the strings get older. IN CONTEMPORARY ROCK” (ANZAAS Conference, Steels WOT im present for TUNING y behind by the Musicology section). As he explained at the outset, Steel strings are similar in construction, except that Strings are designated by note and number: the s fiddle (taking convenient distinctions between musical styles are steel wire replaces nylon throughout. The top two are thinnest and highest in pitch is called the 1st string or n ‘American blurred by such artists as Bowie, Eno and Frank Zappa, - plain wires and the rest are wound. They are classified E string (usually ‘top E’ to distinguish it from the 6th ; backing who consistently purvey highbrow compositions to by weight string which is also an E). The 2nd is B, the 3rd G, the rd into greater their predominantly rock-orientated audiences, apparent­ With steel strings you trade volume for callouses - the 4th D, the 5th A and the 6th bottom E, descending in e previous ly composing over peoples heads, and getting away with loudest leave deep grooves in your left hand fingertips, pitch. Here’s how it looks on a conventional music Nashville, and it. Dr Dyer sees the main trends in contemporary rock while the lightest are easy to play but give a soft sound, stave: Young’s as being further synthesis o f differing styles, increasing and break easily. For a beginner, light are probably best - Larson’s voice sophistication of technique and performance, and an if you want to move on to heavier strings there are Young’s vocals increasing tendancy of rock to cross fertilize with the enough different brands to do so gradually: some, such fields of serious contemporary music and the avant-garde. he album. On as Gibson and Picato, offer a range of thirty different A D <3 ft E ut track) she As Dr Dart pointed out, rock has definite ties to thicknesses and you can match your own set, but until you have a good idea of your needs it ’s best to buy one nchy guitaring contemporary music - the music of Van Dyke Parks, with -p~ itably under- its unperformable conversational cadences, is every bit ready matched. Some include a spare 1st (usually 1st to n a number of as opaque to popular audiences as that of Stockhausen. go). Steel strings have a small washer at one end, so they can be fitted to a bridge without knotting them. i is provided Rock then can be serious - as long as it isn’t only serious, <5 t v isfr* String Wear ecially by the but also makes some reference or concession to popular There arc several ways of tuning. Perhaps the easiest Strings wear in two ways: wound and nylon strings appeal, which is after all its source of income. A good is to copy the notes on a piano. Here’s where they get understandably flattened where they touch the frets ash o f ‘ Long .‘case in point is Randy Newman, whose ironic and often are: - after a while the winding will fray or the string will e name done . bizarre lyrics, comparable in style with many serious stretch where it ’s thinnest and snap. Plain steel strings te the pun I’ll modern poets, are accompanied by music built on a rust from finger sweat and loose their tone - this can be e to Dylan’s firm classical foundation, but performed and arranged postponed by wiping with a dry cloth after playing. Jt it is some- t with a sugary, romantic flavour serving as a simultaneous Rusty and worn strings are hard to keep in tune, and of the material expansion and parody of the ballad form. IfflW work. There sound brittle - take the hint and replace them. If the David Bowie’s popular work serves as a good example E4H» ft E \ v strings are dirty but not too worn, clean o ff the in ‘ Field of of music made as an interpretation of current trends, 2*A get how love accumulated crapola with kerosene on a rag - you can and behind flamboyant publicity, he expands rock as AiDDuE C buy string cleaner at $2.45 a tiny bottle, but don’t : ' 'eace o f Mind’ an art form, particularly in hiscollaborations with Eno; The piano must itself be in tune, naturcllcment. If ite place, in it’s just kero with a yellow dye. If you’re putting a steel on the album ‘Heroes’ for instance, side two, entirely you haven’t the strength to lug a piano around, it’s ove in Mind’ string guitar into storage, put a strip o f card between easier to use a pitch pipe. This is a small specialised instrumental, presents the kind of music that normally the fretboard and the strings and wipe them with a light finds mass appreciation only in film soundtracks, and mouth organ, with the pipes marked EADGBE - tunc itains the oil such as 3 in 1 - remember to wipe it o ff when you each string to its corresponding pipe. Easy isn’t it. When : mood music for television drama. Lou Reed found his resurrect the guitar an ‘Comes A audience in the drug subculture o f New York and you buy a pitch pipe make sure that it's in tunc with erable number London, while Eno infiltrates his avant-garde vision on itself (cheap ones often aren’t) and that the pitch irlier albums, STRINGING UP doesn’t vary with the amount o f puff you use, which to the mass market more by collaborating with popular )ear on two of Change strings ONE AT A Tl ME. Each string applies a can make for confusing tuning. artists on their albums, than by making popular albums jld be worth her tension of over 200 lb per square inch to the neck, and Probably the commonest method of tuning is of his own. Dr Dart ended with a brief examination of nd’ alone, unless this tension remains uniform the neck can warp: relative tuning from one known note. For this you New wave styles on both sides of the Atlantic, observing ung distinctive so detune, string and retune each string in turn before will need a note of standard pilch from a tuning fork or that the American New wave as exemplified by bands Look Out For passing on to the next. If you want to clean the fret- an instrument that is already in tunc. All you need to such as Talking Heads, Blondie and Mink DeVille seem mony vocals board, slide a rag moistened with methylated spirits remember is the following rule: every string played open more preoccupied with style and image than their vcomer to under the strings. (unfretted) corresponds to the string below fretted at British counterparts such as Elvis Costello and the es will mean Here are some more of my exquisitely delicate pen fret 5, EXCEPT THE 2nd STRING WHICH CORRES­ Stranglers, who acknowledge their debt to be short-lived ; already, and and ink drawings: PONDS TO FRET 4 OF THE 3rd STRING. Here’s how and self-defeating punk movement with elliptical lyrics itly into place it looks : retaining undercurrents of menace and disillusionment. PEG ^ 1 PtEÊ TS What makes Rock roll ? As Dr Dart showed, Rock • z 3 ♦ 5 is compatible with the most obscure and the most commercial elements of modern music. Perhaps the A - I **■ © best definition is that Rock uses its ideological freedom to - 2wA ©PCM 5TIRJWGS W bridge the contradictory demands owed to the muse and the] T SrdL &P£W mass, and as such accepts the responsibilities of a serious s 4*VU Op£N art form without accepting restrictions as to the means it Z 5 >W 0 ?£M uses to achieve this end. And good for i t : the audience 3 cross- must have a say in the directions in which music moves, S e c fto o You can also tunc a guitar by harmonics. This is the O f and perhaps the best way it can do it is by choosing 1 2 3 4 - bridge most accurate and foolproof method o f tuning. Each from a wide array of competitive commercial products. string harmonic corresponds to a different harmonic on 123 and 4 show the right way to attach strings to the The audience is after all the most essential element in another string. Harmonics are made by just touching the bridge, 1 and 2 are for nylon and 3 and 4 arc for steel. any art form, and the state, however well intentioned, string directly above the appropriate fret, and then Note the position of the string washer on the peg type can only ever approximate the popular viewpoint in playing it in the usual way. It’s a quiet note: if you can’t bridge: if it is under the peg it will pull it out as it arrears, after it has found out what it is. For this reason, hear it, put one ear up against the soundbox. tautens. Harmonic Rock represents ‘Serious’ music at its best, because it is ------rv■a l written with you in mind. Dr Dyers w itty and informative above fret string presentation was enhanced by a brief video clip and fret string < r = Harmonic above 7th on 5th stereo recordings, but despite the high quality of the C 5th on 6th 5th = ” 7th on 4th sound, toes did not tap, nobody danced, and all seemed ------U- 5th on 4th = ” 7th on 3rd to be lost looking for an appropriate response to rock 5th on 6th = 2nd string played open, (u nfretted) in an academic environment: here perhaps is another 1 7th on 5 and 6 show how strings are attached to the barrels 5th = 1 st string played open. pointer to the nature of rock. Whatever else it is, it 7th on of the machine heads; On a steel guitar with stud, ain’t academic. It was never meant to be listened to in Once you’ve tuned a guitar 500 or so times you barrels (fig 5) the sting goes under the winding; this holds an atmosphere of formality such as this; the whole idea get the feel of the intervals between notes and you can it in place in the groove on the nut. If you wind the is to reconnect one to the primitive, urgent rhythms of hear when it ’s out, and whether it ’s sharp (too tense) or string around the stud a couple of times before threading f the body, not the mind. The most essential ingredient- flat (too slack). If you have a good car this is the fastest it through the stud hole it will grip better. Nylon the enthusiasm of the listener - was absent, and with it way to tunc up. The octave harmonics (above 12th fret) strings have a tendancy to slip through the barrels, so [the bulk of rock’s appeal and importance. when played one after the other should not sound • knot the string after threading it through, and slip the discordant, and they arc easier to get to know than the ' | Alex James knot under the first winding (fig 6) sound of open strings. CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 11 0

i]<< J The principle of freedom of information is that all The ‘N.Z. Herald’ o f 19 May 1978 reported that The I ISSUED BY information available to the government shall be freely Medical Association is calling for a special law to prevent I E AUCKLAI' available to its citizens. unauthorised disclosure o f patient information on the new helath computer. “ A t present the patient has no AS A BASIC CIVIL RIGHT automatic right to see his own medical records. It must therefore be ensured that sufficient guidelines are The “ right to know” about affairs of government as laid down to govern the actions o f individuals who will it effects the people, of whatever political colouration or have access to the information.” interest, must be one of the most fundamental civil rights Individual privacy is one o f our most cherished in a democracy. possessions. This right o f privacy, which is assumed to Democracy depends on the right to kno\y. It depends exist, is in fact being rapidly eroded. Governmental for its success upon political participation by every information concerning individuals, the validity or voting adult. This participation depends in turn upon the accuracy o f which cannot be determined or corrected individual’s knowledge of state affairs, whether at a by the individuals, is subject to no external control. The local or national level. If the public as individuals remains dangers to personal privacy and personal righ ts are ignorant o f the facts, or has no way o f becoming accentuated by the advent of the computer, and the use informed, it cannot make a useful political contribution. of data banks. The possible abuse o f computer held data Currently it is very difficult to get adequate, has been highlighted in recent press and until legislation accurate information from governmental machinery. is enacted, the question remains - is anyone’s privacy Where information is not obliged to be withheld from the secure ? public by the provisions of the Official Secrets Act, it is PRINCIPLES FOR PRIVACY held by virtue o f the rule of “ old secrecy” , a somewhat instinctive tradition in government circles that informa­ 1. Information should be regarded as being held for a tion shall not be released. specific purpose and not be used, without appropriate Where democracy’s efficiency is being seriously authorisation, for other purposes. questioned by substantial segments of the population, as 2. Access to information should be confined to those FFICIAL SE it is today in New Zealand, then the individual citizen’s authorised to have it for the purpose for which it was right to know must be restored. supplied. Official Seen 3. The amount of information collected and held should most no deba EXCEPTION TO FREE INFORMATION be the minimum necessary for the achievement of a ons. Passed di specified purpose. 950’s, it was i Although the principle of freedom of information asserts 4. In computerised systems handling information for corresponds that all information shall be available to the public, statistical purposes, adequate provision should be lad been in e some exceptions must be made for both reasons of made in their design and programmes for separating k o f reportec principle and practice. identities from the rest o f the data. i its predeces 5. There should be arrangements whereby the subject :rable criticisi EXCEPTIONS could be told about the information held concerning press and En him. jmerous incic 1. On Grounds o f Personal Privacy 6. The level of security to be achieved by a system icies o f the le 2. Military Information should be specified in advance by the user and should Zealand to r< Certain types of military information must obviously include precautions against the deliberate abuse or legislation fc be non-disclosable in the national interest. On the misuse of information. s unlikely in 1 other hand, defence spending, what the public gets 7. A monitoring system should be provided to facilitate conomic or r for its money, and what our military capability is, the detection o f any violation o f the security system. on, like mam should be publicly available. 8. In the design of information systems, periods should , was simply 3. Police Information be specified beyond which the information should existence anc Generally police information is not disclosable, except not be retained. number o f importan where investigations are discounted, or where the 9. Data held should be accurate. There should be on the books at all if innocence of suspects has been established. machinery for the correction o f inaccuracy, and egislation which stri 4. Internal Security Information updating information. fit is to continue, s 5. Trade Secrets and Financial Information 10. Care should be taken to code “ value” judgements. vague terms that mai Given by private individuals and companies to the jrought within its ar government (a special form of privacy worthy of jmbracing blanket sp separate mention). PRECEDENTS nental information, 6. Medical Records on news-gathering ac 7. Cabinet Minutes ls this a radical new concept or are there any traditional safeguard The Committee proposes that Cabinet minutes should precedents for Freedom of Information Legislation ? >e whittled down so also be exempt from disclosure. The answer is that there are two excellent examples In considering sue for study. As the principle of freedom of information is accepted to look at the histon Sweden has had such a law for centuries; the United as a desirable and needed reality in our political life, some of the incident States of America has had one since 1966, strengthened then exceptions to that principle must be carefully and enactment. The first by key amendments in 1974; and inquiries in several constantly scrutinised lest the purpose of such an Act to have been inspirec countries including Australia have led to draft Freedom be defeated by the exceptions. In practice it would erevent embarrassing of Information Bills. depend upon firstly the willingness of the various govern­ :o the press as by fea ment departments to follow the spirit o f the law, The Australian Royal Commission’s Report devotes 19th century the pre secondly, on the vigilance of the courts in balancing the Chapter 6 to Relationships between the Community and matters dealing with interests involved in cases o f dispute. the Administration stating : nent frequent embai An objection that has been raised overseas to putting “ 6.1.6 The arguments on which this demand for power foreign powers. Whei such matters in the hands of the court, is that judges sharing rests are threefold. First, that it would make the press published tl would not necessarily be well qualified to balance the government more effective; that members of the instructions and a do delicate interests involved in withholding information. community can bring knowledge which is more intimate confidential tracings Judges are mortal men. However, there are few men who than, and frequently an expertise which is superior to, to a foreign power, tl have more experience in weighing and balancing interests. that possessed by the bureaucracy; that programmes to kill two birds with If our judges, who constitute some o f the finest minds managed without the participation o f those to whom legislation dealing wi in the land, cannot be trusted to decide wisely, who is they are directed have a notorious record failure. Second, authorised disclosure more fit ? that participation is a valuable end in itself and should Almost all the prosec be seen as an important, if subsidiary, objective o f all with the protection c government activities. Third, that by skillful evolution ever the growing fear and decentralization of administrative procedures and turn of this century < PRIVACY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL the use o f modern technology it is possible, even in large which pointed out sc and complex societies to come closer than ever before 1889 legislation led t It probably never occurs to many people that someone to a situation where decisions can be made substantially Secrets Act 1911. Th somewhere, keeps a secret personal file about them. by consensus among those primarily concerned.” Parliament applied tc They may never find out, unless some incident provokes And in 6.3.27 the Report goes on to say : Zealand legislature er the discovery. It could be that inexplicably they are “ The Commission’s firm conclusion on the question English Act, our Act refused credit for a hire purchase agreement. Perhaps of access to, and use of, government information is that spying and espionage their social security benefit is suddenly reduced. They every reasonable attempt should be made to provide ed disclosure o f confi could be refused a certain job, not allowed an entry access to the community generally, and in particular to and provided severe p permit to another country, denied a political career, or interested community groups, to information which J The 1951 Act is, a just looked at sideways. There is no doubt that until now has been the privileged possession o f public number of fundamen authority in its many forms keeps records on YOU. servants. Such improved access is critical to the greater objections are (1) the The necessity for some records is understandable. responsiveness for which this chapter argues.” prohibited; and {2) tl fundamental procedu What is less acceptable is when the individual concerned For further information contact Mrs S. Baumgarten, does not know that the records exist, are being used, Secretary to the Alt Party Committee for Freedom o f ] (1) Breadth o f Prohit does not know what they contain or who has access to Information, PO Box 5471 Wellesley Street, Auckland 1. them. What happens if your record contains inaccurate Tel: 467-858 It should first be p information ? 1961 in sections 73 t< PAGE 12 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 visions dealing with tl communicating offici sections, although no much more narrowly whether there is the r at all, in the light of 1 Some may argue furtl dealing with spying a country such as New repealed. We do not t of the scale of the inc may be adequately re given the need for su< i Official Secrets Act a demonstration outsid which impeded the ei seems to amount to a [more than adequate I that sort of activity. , RNZAF Skyhawk air curiosity about its wc [offence, all the more OFFICIAL M E I S ACT d that The PAPER ISSUED BY THE PUBLIC ISSUES COMMITTEE f to prevent OF THE AUCKLAND DISTRICT LAW SOCIETY n on the t has no THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT 1951 ls. It must > are The Official Secrets Act 1951 was enacted into law ; who will with almost no debate in Parliament on its far-reaching provisions. Passed during the cold war climate o f the shed early 1950’s, it was designed to be the local substitute iumed to for the corresponding United Kingdom Act of 1911 riental ich had been in effect in New Zealand up till then, ty or e lack o f reported debate is surprising for the English r> 2 orrected tand its predecessors had been the subject of 9C )ntrol. The nsiderable criticism over the years, both by the ts are nglish press and English parliamentarians. There had tnd the use ien numerous incidents which had revealed the r held data leficiencies o f the legislation, yet no attempt was made legislation in New Zealand to remedy these problem areas or to privacy fashion legislation for a country which had never been and was unlikely in the foreseeable future to become a world economic or military power. Instead the English legislation, like many other laws on far less innocuous matters, was simply copied with minor variations. eld for a The existence and provisions o f the Act raise a chooses to make a crude sketch. In an English case in reasonable ground for suspecting the commission o f an appropriate number o f important questions. Should the Act continue 1932, a 60 year old clerk working in the Probate offence under the Act and for the consent o f the on the books at all in the light of the existing other Registry who gave a journalist details o f wills before they Attorney-General again to be given to this procedure to those legislation which strikes at spying and related activities? were officially released for publication was convicted of (except in cases considered by the Commissioner to be hich it was fit is to continue, should it be in such broad and communicating confidential information contrary to the of great emergency) does little to mitigate against our igue terms that many trivial actions are apparently Act, and sentenced to 6 weeks’ imprisonment and legal system’s traditional abhorrence of compulsory held should might within its ambit ? Should there be such an all­ dismissed from employment. The journalist who received self-incrimination - especially in a statue which strikes at ment o f a bracing blanket spread over disclosure o f govern- the information and “ scooped” the other newspapers by so many trivial activities having nothing to do with ientai information, with its inevitable muzzling effect a morning was jailed for 2 months. espionage or sabotage. tion for news-gathering activities ? Further, should the This last case was brought under the equivalent of Secondly, many offences under the Act require >uld be aditional safeguards normally given an accused person our section 6 (1). This provision strikes at any un­ proof that the accused was acting for a purpose eparating whittled down so severely by such legislation ? authorised disclosures of confidential information, not ‘prejudicial to the safety or interests o f the State’ . The I In considering such questions, it is o f some relevance just those involving any form of spying. Its spectre must courts have held that sometimes the government’s word ; subject to look at the history of the English legislation and at haunt both public servants who are asked to make state­ must be final as to what such interests arc. Thus, where oncerning some of the incidents which have occurred since its ments and persons asking them to do so. Leaking of any ban-the-bomb protesters led by the late Bertrand Russell enactment. The first law on the subject in 1889 seems document or information, however insignificant, from a sought to show that their activities were not against 'stem to have been inspired just as much by a desire to government department or any o f the plethora of the interests of the State because having a nuclear and should prevent embarrassing official information being leaked statutory boards may amount to an offence under presence in England was disastrous for the country, tbuse or to the press as by fears o f espionage. Throughout the section 6. Even if the recipient o f the information docs the court simply excluded that sort of evidence. In 19th century the premature publication in the press of not know that its disclosure has not been authorised, he defence matters (and one knows not how many other a facilitate matters dealing with foreign affairs caused the govern­ may be guilty o f an offence if he uses the information situations) the government’s word as to what constitutes ity system. ment frequent embarrassment in its negotiations with “ in any manner, or for any purposes, prejudicial to the the interests o f the State is final. >ds should foreign powers. When in 1887 in two unrelated incidents safety or interests of the State” (s 6 (1) (b) ). He is even Further, what one eminent jurist has called the one i should the press published the text of naval intelligence, guilty of an offence if he retains the document or a copy golden thread throughout the web of criminal law, the instructions and a dockyard draftsman sold some of it if the information is written (s 6 (1) (c) ) or “ fails rule that the prosecution must prove its case against an I be confidential tracings and designs of warships presumably to take reasonable care” o f it (s 6 (1) (d) ). The potential accused beyond reasonable doubt, is severely whittled and to a foreign power, the government o f the day decided effect o f this legislation on the press alone was thus down in several respects. It is unnecessary to traverse to kill two birds with one stone and introduced described in 1971 by an English judge, Mr Justice these in detail, except to point out that crimes as serious jements. legislation dealing with both espionage and the un­ Caulfield, to the jury in the trial o f a journalist charged as treason, sedition, sabotage and murder under the authorised disclosure o f confidential information. with (and subsequently acquitted of) unlawfully Crimes Act do not involve any derogation from this Almost all the prosecutions under the 1889 Act dealt communicating a confidential government document fundamental principle. It is anomalous and a potential with the protection of military and naval secrets. How­ dealing with the Nigerian upheavals : “ One recognizes threat to a citizen’s civil liberty that for many much less ny ever the growing fear of German espionage around the that an opinion-forming medium like the press must not serious offences such as those contained in the Official lation ? turn of this century coupled with further incidents be muzzled. The warning bark is necessary to help in Secrets Act such a major derogation is thought examples which pointed out some apparent inadequacies in the maintaining a free society. If the press is muzzled, you justifiable. 1889 legislation led to the passage o f the Official may think it becomes no more than a tenement o f the The Government has recently indicated that a review he United Secrets Act 1911. This Act of the United Kingdom political power.” The muzzling of public servants might of the Official Secrets Act will be carried out. No doubt engthened Parliament applied to New Zealand until the New be thought no less a potential danger. this will include an enquiry as to whether the Act is several Zealand legislature enacted our 1951 Act. Like the It may of course be argued that the provision in necessary at all in the light o f the apparently ample and t Freedom English Act, our Act also purported to deal both with section 14 o f the Act requiring the consent o f the more equitably drawn provisions existing in other pieces spying and espionage activities and with the unauthoris­ Attorney-General to the institution of any prosecution of legislation such as the Crimes Act. It is also to be ed disclosure of confidential government information, provides a safeguard against the prosecution o f trivial hoped that this will prove a suitable occasion to review rt devotes and provided severe penalties for the activities prohibited, offences. The argument is however a potentially the much wider question, of which official secrecy munity and j The 1951 Act is, as we have suggested, open to a dangerous one. It amounts to saying that there is no legislation is a part, namely the extent to which the . number of fundamental criticisms. The principal danger in having laws which are wide and uncertain in increasing tendency towards bureaucratic secrecy is to for power objections are (1) the sheer breadth of the activities their scope and application so long as there is some be reversed. In other democracies such as the United d make prohibited; and (2) the removal of traditional and control over the decision to prosecute. This is not far States and Sweden the citizen and the. press arc the fundamental procedural safeguards. removed from government by arbitrary decree. A further permitted much greater access to government information re intimate objection relates to the duality of the role o f the than exists in New Zealand. The prestigious Department­ 9erior to, (1) Breadth of Prohibited Activities Attorney-General as a member of the Government and al Committee under Lord Franks, which reported in ammes as principal Law Officer. It must be assumed that he will England on the official secrets legislation there, had this o whom It should first be pointed out that the Crimes Act attempt to keep any question of politics out of his to say in 1972 : ure. Second, 1961 in sections 73 to 76 and 78 to 85 contains pro­ decision and yet such a suspicion may well linger in the ‘A democratic government.... has a task which is id should visions dealing with the offences o f treason, sedition, public mind. And the giving of full reasons for his complicated by its obligations to the people. It needs the ve o f al I communicating official secrets and sabotage. These decision does not solve the problem either - for it trust of the governed. It cannot use the plea o f secrecy solution sections, although not fully free from objection, are creates the risk of prejudicing a fair trial. (It will be to hide from the people its basic aims : it must provide ures and much more narrowly drawn and it is questionable remembered that in the Sutch trial Mr Justice Beattie ven in large whether there is the need for any additional legislation was constrained to direct the jury to dismiss the the justification for them and give the facts both for and ;r before at all, in the light of these and other criminal provisions. Attorney-General’s statement from their minds). against a selected course o f action. Nor must such bstantially Some may argue further and say that any legislation information be provided only at one level and through 5d.” dealing with spying and official secrets in peacetime in a one means of communication. A government which country such as New Zealand ought to be totally (2) Removal of Traditional Safeguards pursues secret aims, or which operates in greater secrecy : question repealed. We do not enter into this controversy because than the effective conduct o f its proper functions ion is that of the scale of the inquiry involved before such a question The severity of the sentences provided for under the requires, or which turns information services into >rovide may be adequately resolved. It is sufficient to say that, Act (in some cases up to 14 years’ jail) would normally propaganda agencies, will lose the trust o f the people’ . ticular to given the need for such legislation, the provisions of the ensure legislative solicitude for the preservation of the which Official Secrets Act are far too broad. An orderly traditional safeguards given to accused persons, such as It is to be hoped that any measures taken in New >f public demonstration outside a telegraph office or the NZBC, the right to silence and the right to have the prosecution Zealand will reflect these principles. ___ ie greater which impeded the entry of staff to those buildings, prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. It is disturbing, seems to amount to an offence under the Act, although therefore, to see these safeguards treated with such scant ,(rQ> © A garten, more than adequate legislation already exists to regulate respect by the Official Secrets Act. Section 11 makes it edom of that sort of activity. A teenager who strays close to an an offence to refuse to give information to a police \uckland 1. RNZAF Skyhawk aircraft in an endeavour to satisfy his officer enquiring about a suspected offence under the curiosity about its workings may equally commit an Act or to give him false information. The need for the offence, all the more so if he is o f an artistic bent and Commissioner of Police to be satisfied that there is CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 13 his past theatre experiences, and about his first play at play first his about and experiences, theatre his past by Franz Kafka. Franz by in Auckland's Theatre to come hasCentrepoint recently f o North, Palmerston director formerly Paul Minifie, Corporate, Metamorphosis, adapted from the short story short the from adapted Metamorphosis, Corporate,

Photographs: Elizabeth Leyland about White Katrina to He spoke Hawthorne. Raymond Theatre Corporate, where he w ill be co-director alongside beco-director ill w he where Corporate, Theatre About the play ? play the About beetle ? beetle suppose the clearest way to state it is the opening line line opening isthe it state I to way clearest suppose the Berkoff. Stephen stage by the for adapted story, into a gigantic insect.’ So the play is a discovery and aand isadiscovery play Sothe insect.’ agigantic into transformed himself found hedreamsuneasy of from anight morning Sainsa woke.one Gregor ‘As novel, the of Metamorphosis in rehearsal in Metamorphosis look at metamorphosis, Gregor’s metamorphosis into a into beetle. metamorphosis Gregor’s metamorphosis, at look way he thinks, by the way he moves and reacts. It’s not not It’s reacts. moves and he way the by thinks, he way naturalistic theatre, because that isn’t really possible. really isn’t becausethat theatre, naturalistic at the back of the throat. Sort o f animal sounds; Kafka Kafka sounds; animal f o Sort throat. the of back the at the voice in unusual ways, using sounds that are formed formed are that sounds using ways, unusual in voice the often as a form of caged animal. of as aform often mansaw He heroesas his animals. about wrote often in a beetle form so that the whole metamorphosis of of metamorphosis whole the that so form beetlea in usesand- makeup and uses mime dance, that aplay It’s it - what kind o f set w ill you be having ? behaving you ill w f set o kind what - it body where most of the action takes place, with extend­ with place, takes action the of most where has main body a it and room, that’s his is has a cage It a which form bettle. within place takes Gregor, of family, the the play from within a beetle-kind of structure. of abeetle-kind within from play the sees almost audience legs. becomeThe that structures ing ordinary simple things, whose daily life is full of pressures of isfull life daily whose in things, and simple conservatory, ordinary the at violin the study to sisterhis sa a woi itrse i etei tig, n sending in things, aesthetic in interested is who is mana Shoes’ - ‘Gregor, Food’. And he can’t handle it. It does It it. handle hecan’t And Food’. Shoes’ ‘Gregor, - on but world, material the in valuesec any doesn’t who whom the real pressures are - ‘Gregor, Cash’ - ‘Gregor, ‘Gregor, Cash’ pressures-real ‘Gregor, are -the whom Someone family. his for money, shelter, food, provide to a beetle, vermin -like, scurrying about amongst the debris, the amongst about scurrying -like, vermin beetle, a ed ohv ihmrs quality. haveanightmarish to tend -Most of our plays this year do have a concern for for haveaconcern do year this plays our -Mostof symbolism. And perhaps the most important aspect of aspectof important most the perhaps And symbolism. the play is not that Gregor found it necessary to become necessary to it found Gregor that isnot play the family are at first horrified, and then they go through through go they then and horrified, first are at family u epes ecin omn h el ie ht His that. like feel who men to reaction people’s but crocuses coming out, spring flowers in the gloom. the in flowers spring out, crocusescoming is Ad h yl ehp eisaan Tefnl image final The beginsagain.perhaps beetle cycle the the And dies.that so negligent, become they and know’, to stage the to get they then And until pain, syndrome. and hatred, andfear, think’ neighbours the will ‘what the that Kafka gives us, through all this blackness, is one of of isoneblackness, this all gives through us, Kafka that want don’t just we but realise, we say,‘Well they where the programme, but we haven’t done many new things. new many done haven’t we but programme, the into; we have a strong classical theme running through through running theme classical haveweastrong into; man who has imprisoned. been who man felt, and ‘Jack’, a new Australian play, which is about a isabout which play, Australian •new a ‘Jack’, andwomen felt, how Doli’s with is ‘The concerned which Like Ibsen, by needs.House’, individual and rights individual PAGE 14 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 FEBRUARY CRACCUM 14 PAGE Are you going to actually portray him as agigantic him portray actually to going you Are e, u t’l ea a h eoe eteb the by becomesabettle who bemana ’ll it but Yes, the to true very and Kafka, the from directly It’s A whole stage structure that is built out o f scaffolding scaffolding f o out built is that stage structure whole A h ly ilb ntesui har, ee won here, theatre, studio the in be will The play el i hud e o ore ti orrsoy Here story. ishorror a it course; of be, should it Well, That could be particularly ominous. be particularly could That sti o o e h lya hl ? as whole a see play the you how this ls htsrgt ad tsanwae o oprt o move to Corporate areafor a-new it’s and right, That’s of doesuselot a which anallegory, much isvery It This is a play that hasn that Thisis a play Y endn eoei .. ? 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And when the director at Centrepoint left after ilf this sort of hun of sort this ilf after left Centrepoint at director the when And Council. converted it, as an on-going base for theatre in the the in theatre base asfor on-going an it, converted of working as a group, as a means o f alternative asalternative f asmeans a o a group, working of w rtre ots I a fee h o. twsa harles Jo; idea^t,Hawtrey, the te on keenonefeel was may very I wastime; an the It at prospect job. the exciting wasoffered I months, three or inf>hy-two Arts the from bursary asmall had I- theatre Australian ly n t ietbfr on oAsrlat ei iatonesii character in be to mel Australia metric wingto f going ° before a in appear direct to to there and play, went I atrust. formed and meeting some rougher theatre, for more extremes of theatre. of extremes more for theatre, somerougher on somedependent year; not this and level,basic more acity the at in theatre like work I’d in. clown some welive into get to community to relate do do which we asthings theatre a that important is it andthese days, of fundraising, we bought an old warehouse and warehouse old an bought we fundraising, of town. 1979, to life today ? today life to 1979, omtettee a n h opn, emngd |nlercurYmanaged. we company, the wassin torthcomir there commitment Corporate, with dressing rooms up on the roof, out in out roof, the on up rooms dressing with Corporate, oe asi a airta i iyo ukads HI serve schances Editionof ext remind your to actually 60,000 f o sizeabecausecommunity in Auckland’s of acity in waseasier than it wayssome the alley, and all that sort of thing. Really it wasa it Really thing. of sort that all and alley, the Theatre at studio the than was smaller which dive, commit ourselves to things we believed in. We were a We were in. believedwe things to ourselves commit s’ htmc o epet o Teeaealto I bored^rrayBeas ey pretty getting towns of Zealand New lot area oe' small There in do. people Coward,to people for much that isn’t there mean, I- greater much soare to listened being rty mosbestain btbcueo h _ the because of but situation, impossible pretty young company, and the classics are often difficult for for difficult classics the areoften and company, young bu aiy rbes bu oe. edd h NZ the Wedid women. about problems, family problems, about social about plays often plays: quitenew at a few looked weso company, inexperienced a young, cunt language. But we felt that it was a play o f relevance f o was aplay it that felt we But language. cunt premier of ‘ Kennedy’s Children’, and o f a play by play a f o and Children’, Kennedy’s ‘ of premier Corporate was one of the places I had wanted to go, to wanted had Iplaces the wasof one Corporate otecmuiyo amrtn ot seily the especially - North Palmerston of community the to and cock of kind frank, very call might you waswhat the building was completed, and a good audience base audience a good and was completed, building the business. great business did very,good have done whichnot play amight committment our becausef and- o women language the -and itself in rare isfairly which - women n ohr I am. Ihereso and Zealand theatre ? theatre Zealand was established, it seemed the right time to go. to time right seemed the it wasestablished, E. Whitehead, ‘Old Flames’. This was a play about about was aplay This Flames’. ‘Old Whitehead, E. spend my life working in theatre, and I simply want to want simply I and theatre, in working life to my spend want I me, for But seen NZ. as necessary still in att learn.’ to want eal t a tteedo t ‘’ tl lann, still I learning, still ‘I’m it, of end the at say to beable is‘overseas experience’ that claim the there suppose I to world. istruth some the f o rest the to away running And you see this as something which is relevant to is relevant which as see this something you And Yes, this is something that everyone is concerned w ithF^U R Y ONE Y R ithF^U w isconcerned everyone that issomething this Yes, Yes, the theatre began just over five years ago when a when agoyears five over began just theatre the Yes, It wasn’t until June last year that, with a great deal a great with that, year last June until wasn’t It What kind o f buildings did you have ? have you did f buildings o What kind You were director at Centrepoint for nearly five nearly for Centrepoint at director were You We were working in an ex-coffee bar cum snooker snooker cum bar ex-coffee an in working Wewere We felt it was important as a theatre to be able to ' ' to ablebe to as atheatre wasimportant it Wefelt hthdyuue sateteu ni hn ? then until up used as theatre a What you had New energies are needed for any theatre, and after after and theatre, any energies neededNew for are ? on put you did f plays o Whatkind What made you decide to leave Centrepoint ? 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relevant to METHING’S AFOOT /HAMLET POEMS FOR THE RED ENGINE (THEATRE WORKSHOP ;oncerned w ith f3 9 ^ .Y 5 ^ 5 GARY McCORMICK theatre do EB14- MAR 3 jUNIVERSITYG_ROUNDSi PIANO PUBLISHING ve in. I’d like FEB 7-28 is year; some Did you hear the one about the man who walked into Director Adrian Kiernander is well known at Auckland This new collection o f poems reveal McCormick’s ndent on te chiropodist’s waiting room and undid his fly ? - University, having taught as a lecturer in the English great strengths as a satirist and a lyric poet. Still in his ckland for 'hat’s not a fo o t!’ exclaimed the receptionist; ‘I know’, department for a number o f years. It may be supposed twenties he is without peer in NZ where poets are >f theatre. eadmitted, ‘but it ’s almost’. The same might also be therefore that his knowledge o f Shakespeare is published as frequently as false alarms to the local fire tarly five iid about the Mercury’s latest main-theatre offering extensive, and that he possibly felt that if a production station, and often with as much skill as a new fireman hich provides more like six inches’ worth o f not of ‘Hamlet’ was to have lasting impact then it would trying to manage the shiny pole, two thigh gumboots, irs ago when a irticularly cerebral humour than a full third of .a yard nave to be innovative. And certainly this year’s Summer and an already exiting engine. sre ought to beMeSant Nevertheless, those six inches comprise Shakespeare had both impact and innovation. From the The subject of these fire engine poems is often not held a public arcely a dull centimetre (if the reader will pardon the moment we sat down we were confronted with a large fire engines but the illusions of romantic love, the d appear in a lixing of metric metaphors) - and this despite the fact rectangular screen. The concept of such a screen is in sterility o f modern life, male chauvinism and the ia to be in iatone character sings unabashedly of his 'teeny little itself good, for it sets up a relationship already existing oppression of women - themes which show a deep, rom the Arts inghy.’ in the play between a facade o f a thing and its actuality, compassionate concern for society. Like all good ioint left after If this sort of humour seems to evoke the shades of between the person and the person himself. The set’s satirists McCormick lays pathos on the cuts made by his 11 was an haries Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams and the design, however, left much to be desired. Not only did it satiric pen as a kind o f balm: and the effect o f pathos, ;en on the ideak one may fee* tempted to conflate the titles of two clash structurally with the neo-gothic arches of the gentle caring, is created often by just one or two finely ative f the show’s musical numbers - ‘Carry On’ and ‘ I Owe background, it its sheen of aluminium foil looked like lyrical passages at the centre or end of the poem: :All (to Agatha Christie)’ - to form a cinematic sub­ something out o f a third-rate science-fiction movie. The The widows and the single tle o f‘Carry on Agatha’. It should be noted, however, suggestion o f timelessness that Kiernander so obviously men of middle age feel the wind blow iat, whereas the ‘Carry On’ crew are resolutely devoted wanted to impress upon the audience could have been like glass against their skin. a great deal > the exploitation of smut, smut, grubbiness and smut, sufficiently served by the excellent costumes, which That is love, they say.... •’ e and iomething’s A foot’ assumes the more sophisticated with their mixture of renaissance and modern dress (Love And The Big Red Engine) re in the jrm of generic parody - all the more pointed at the admirably served the purpose. As for the plastic guns lomentas ‘ Death on the Nile’ enjoys worldwide and pistols - they were mere gimmicks. In ‘ Firemens’ Balls’ the firemen at the party with jccess at the box-office. In addition to its parody of Concerning the production, what exactly was time­ nurses from the local hospital turn out to be ordinary iesublimely hackneyed ‘ten little niggers’ situation, less about the play was never really expressed. Without males kicking up their heels : iomething’s A foot’ deftly sends up the romantic any specific gravity to tie the audience’s responses to, These weren’t firemen at all ! onventions o f the thirties musical, and it is in this the production seemed to lack direction, with the actors They went home one by one, ----- aspect that the Mercury production reveals its true often mechanically gabbling their lines. For example, picking up their hats and sliding down the pole, trength. the aspect of duplicity intimated bv the screen was disappearing in the smoke tirector Chris Sheil, who has consistently revealed never fully realised. Albeit, Charmien Harre’s Gertrude to their wives and children nself to be a dedicated Broadway buff, has been ably wore a mask, but it was a mask both fixed and fatuous and their dreams of a ride on the big red engine. ided by choreographer Margaret Barron in the staging belonging more to a Pakuranga housewife than to an They want it all ways, these cunts, fthe musical numbers and these seem almost to ambitious queen who could well have conspired in the they are not prepared to lose. ompensate for the occasional inanity of the dialogue assassination of her husband. Likewise, Claudius’ retort ndto justify the homicidal extravagance of Pat to Hamlet’s ‘Seems, Madam’ speech was naive rather empleton’s admirably ‘stagey’ set. than ironic. I The broadly drawn outlines of most o f the characters Suffering a similar fate was the treatment of sexuality ndto be amply filled by the Mercury company and its in the play. Generally, this was only cursively dealt with lan obvious felicity of casting that the more excessively and it was not until the madness scene that it was given (pansive characters die first; only Lee Grant continues full expression. Sara Scobie’s rendering of the mad fmug obliviously on to the very end. On the whole, Ophelia was both poignant and commanding - fraught lough, the acting is of an adequately professional with oedipal implications. Indeed it was only after this jandard - which is rather more than can be said of a scene that the production cohered, culminating in umber of recent Mercury productions. Hamlet’s necrophilial kiss of his mother. Simon Philips portrayal of Hamlet was impressive. Hence, seen in isolation,'‘Something’s A fo o t’ repre­ Sensitively he revealed a man imprisoned by his own ss a pleasant evening’s diversion; however considered distemper and paranoia, beset by doubts both of others / then ? relation to the main-theatre programme since the and of himself. One could have wished that he had im snooker ercury was bitten by the subscription bug, it represents modulated his voice more, but perhaps this was only the Theatre *t another dismal concession to the exigencies of bum-on- effect of a first night performance — not until the roof, out in :at commercialism, tempered by a pre-paid complacency, graveyard scene did he really appear to relax. it was a nd yet least a glimmer of light is apparent at the end of What does one say about a production that was both ie tunnel as it is most devoutly to be wished that the f the good and bad. To state the obvious, it was like a patch- — - -V re managed. |Jercury’s forthcoming production of 'Henry IV, Part I’ work quilt. The base material was good and couldn’t be Auckland’s Mserve t0 rerr)ind subscribers that the English comic better. As for the stitching, sometimes it was tight and >ur chances of edition actually extends back beyond the plays of innovative, but more often loose and uneven - with the ean, there oe^ C°ward- whole being indifferently thrown together. e a lot of I g pretty bored,frray ^eas*ey P.T.R. Like the butcher in O’Sullivan’s Butcher & Co, the ‘IN PRAISE OF STALIN’ The following verse with its original values and attitudes of the man under the fire outfit arc > be able to * perception and sharp concluding twist is examined. In these poems firemen are seen to be . We were a HERMAN GLADWIN one o f the best in the volume. hypocrites, murderously calculating and corrupt. And i difficult for ALISTAIR TAYLOR they underline the violence, childishness and the )oked at quite ‘Those trains injurious qrassness of the NZ male. A main theme running through this we used to watch disgorging problems, The spooky black humour o f ‘What The Fireman Said’ : did the NZ collection o f poems is that man’s minis intellectual pretensions obscure his our mouths buried in pies and ‘The Killers’ ‘In Our Town’ is reminiscent of Peter play by Olds, while ‘White Crows’ darkly warns us away from ly about essential nature. The delusions o f the all cooked educated man, who has lost the ability to to the Prime Minister’s formula politicians and bureaucrats as Sam Hunt did in ‘ Beware the language The Man.’ of cock and relate honestly and directly to his environ­ and carrying their legal loads ment and can only perceive the world Poets like Peter Olds will we hope continue to rail ay o f relevance of unexportable meat through the distorting lens of erudition, cunt-munching by proxy from the psychiatric ward; meanwhile McCormick especially the stands on the outside-, between the madness o f modern t a play which are fiercely attacked. on number three platform .’ The strength of the poetry in this life and the psychiatric clinic, giving us the lowdown on id great ‘Long man life. whose art is as short volume lies in this clear eyed freshness of thought. The imagery, particularly in The poet, the street-wise lover o f women, is capable as the season o f the ant of looking on all this activity wryly. He sees that: jo in t ? remember the quieter more reflective pieces is both e, and after original and evocative. The engine the pant o f the lover is only j die nee base under night skies.’ Or o f the haunting longing in the 0 go. one form of destruction Most of the poems though are following lines ited to go, ' in search of another. characterized by a saving, wry humour. ‘How can the transport (Firemen) dawdle this side of knowing you He is drawn to the people who populate these ie New when the way was lighted with enormous fire zones we live in, these friends, strangers and lovers driven crazy by violence and speed. Without without lanterns shaky in the wind.’ losing himself in their press he writes for their appose there Herman Gladwin will read some of , salvation in these poems. xperience’ is ‘Poems For The Red Engine’ tells us about ourselves - 1 want to his work in the Maidment Theatre on Saturday 24th February at 7.30 as part our society and the way we relate to one another - more riply want to truthfully than all the poems published in the last five of the Orientation programme. arning, I still years in this country put together.

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There’s always a mutter outside, clutter Here they are at the magistrates’ court, The man in the rubbish bin, Of friends and family, magazines, Slumped in stairways, Your worship, Children and boredom, Leaning over bannisters, Was found drunk in the street, Queue for your ritual - Idle against walls. Drunk at an hour when all reasonable men Inside, the man in the dock Their style goes beyond fashion - Are safe and sound at home, Does not know where to put his hands. Leather and tatters, tatters and leather, Hitting the whiskey while they gather their courage His eyes move, Tatoos hooked across faces, To face their wives in bed, And his hands move, Clawed across hands, Gather the courage to tackle the lipstick and Valiumj. Settle of his hips, ease into pockets, A style far beyond fashion - Remember themselves, They have mythologized themselves. The man in the rubbish bin, Circle furtively, mindful of dignity, One man stands silent, man silent, Your worship, Then clasp in front of the crotch. Man unspeaking, Was found without a penny on him - And stay there. Silent, leaning, brooding, man unspeaking, He’s boozed it all away. The man stands dumbshow while his lawyer speaks, Man with black helmet, And while that’s good for dividends and taxes, While his mouthpiece speaks, Eyes occluded, Finances our retirements and supports our holy arsesr While his lawyer walks through his piece, Dark sunglasses, I hardly need to say And the court reporter is walking through her piece, One week of stubble - That the buyer best bewares, And the magistrate is thinking o f his bladder, I wal k past, And a man who’s not a man o f substance Walking through his piece, Hurrying in the urgent hurry of my own myth. ls hardly a man at all. And the audience is dull, they suffer As audiences must suffer, The man in the rubbish bin, your worship, Walking through their piece, Dresses like the gutter, And the policeman are at attention and inattention. •And there’s no worship in the gutter, your worship, Ease and disease, No reverence for suit and tie, Dreaming of speedway and banana cake and masturbation, No reverence for our legal right to fleece and gut, Bodies breathing, just breathing, Our legal right to knife and screw. Bit players walking through their pieces, And the magistrate speaks with little more than a mutter have criticised his pocket, his clothes and his face: Who can hear, who cares to hear, My case, your worship, stands secure and complete. They are all walking through their pieces - Except maybe the man in the dock. Maybe for him it is for real.

A resume o f what Orientation has in store for y o u ...... Tattiebogle, The Plague, Toy Love, The Unholy Three. Head Over-Heels, Lipservice, Hardl Cookery Jazz, Living Force, Baker, Ariel, Bunny Swan, Citizen Band, Schtung, Rick Steele & The | Hot Biscuit Band, The Three Musketeers, The Pink Panther, Jane Eyre, Far From The Madding Crowd, Annie Hall, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Day A t Thel Races, The Tenant, Night At the Opera, Murder On The Orient Express, The MagnificentJ Column Seven, The Canterbury Tales, Bonnie & Clyde, Savage Messiah, Streetcar Named Desire, So you’ve finally flown the familial fraternity and gained access to that glorious, gregarious group of terminal Traffic, Little Big Man, The Last Waltz, The Sting, Play It Again Sam, Dr. Strangelove, tenants. However, you’re faced with the Flatee’s Dil­ Poets, Folk Concert, Night At The Theatre, Club Events/ Displays, And, of course, emma — the cooking components of cramped quarters. the BALL. All this and more for only $2.50. REGISTER NOW - REGISTER NOW With a deficit of dollars, one is forced to face restrictive recipes. So, if all you’ve got is a saucepan and a gasring, and all your friends have called in for a flat warming dinner, and o f course you’re all dashing o ff to participate in Orientation (a lowish standard of cuisine is to be (almost) expected during Orientation as there are much better things to do than co o k.... ) so you only have time for a quick meal anyway. If you’re already sick o f ' mince and sausages, or if you live in hopeful anticipation of these delights, we’ll leave such recipes till later, so now why not sample this connoisseur’s creation that takes only minutes to cook and after all it doesn’t matter if it turns out wrong. Well, we’re only LEARNING to cook, and this is an easy way to s ta rt.... Chicken A La King* To feed four: 1 lb skirt steak cut into strips ’/2 lb celery, cut diagonally oil 2 tbsp soya sauce ) 2 tbsp cornflour ubs 2 tbsp sherry Put steak into this mixture, 1 tsp sugar soak V2 hour 2 eggs, beaten pinch salt 1. Heat oil. Fry celery with salt for 3 minutes, take out while still green. 2. Add some oil, and when smoking add meat and sauce. 3. Add celery, cook one minute and serve. Sauce can READ ALL ABOUT IT ON THE BACK PAGE OF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME be thickened if preferred. 4. Serve with rice. * You’ll probably notice (if you don’t, your guests prob­ UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP STUDENT UNION BUILDING ably will) that there is no chicken in this dish - but don’t you think that Chicken A la King sounds better than ‘Beef 50% STUDENT OWNED and Celery dish’? PAGE 16 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 d-bendsrsACROSS Chess Welcome to a spot o f culture. A quiet respite from 1) Understood the breathless diatribes o f the political heavies. Not that 6) Not a wage these lines carry no message. They are laden with the 7) Weight proselytizing zeal of one who has renounced the petty 10) Sovereign satisfactions derived from chance victories scored in men 11) Beget games of luck for an infinitely more rewarding study of 14) Large intestine the subtle stratagies and incomparable complexities of their courage 16) Thought transference this most aesthetically pleasing o f games. 17) Rustle in the Province Ahem - so much for the bullshit laden introduction. ck and Valiur 18) Wipe Actually chess is quite a good game. Crack a few tubes 19) A sugar sap, delicious. and it starts to become almost enjoyable. For those who want to prove me wrong the University Chess Club is DOWN holding its first meeting o f the year on Thursday 8th 1) Muscular and Lithe March at 7.00 pm in the Old Grad Bar. All playing Hotelier strengths are catered for so come along for a relaxing id taxes, Owl game in congenial surroundings. ; our holy arsesl Tall hill I apologise for using one o f my own games in this, Edible flower the first column. My excuse is that these were the only Davy Crockett’s last stand recently played games I could lay my hands on. The Reflective fabric nee diagrammed position arose in my game against Roger Striver Nokes from the National Championships held over Final Christmas/Ncw Year. Playing Black I was happy with He carries the sedan ship, my position. White’s e-pawn is under considerable “ Nymph, in th y ...... ” (Hamlet) pressure and if he tries to defend it with I. Rel Black has ^our worship, a strong reply in 1 .... Ne7 threatening to nullify White’s attacking chances after a queen exchange and also ce and gut, intending 2 .... Ng6; eyeing the critical e 5 square. Instead White chose to ‘sacrifice’ the pawn with 7. b3 Bf3 ? and his face: 2. Bf3 Ne5 ?? nd complete. 3. Bd5 f v Ow ! I thought that White had abandoned the defence z l of the sickly e-pawn and was chasing the illusion of an attack after 3.Bb2. After the text move if the bishop is taken the e-pawn is diverted to the d-file leaving the knight pinned against the king after a later Rel. Instead I tried to create threats against the rook in the corner with 3 ...... Qf6 4. Bb7 Rb8 If 4 .... Rd8; 5. Nd2 followed by 6. Bb2. 5. Be4 Black is now in a painful dilemma. His only counter- THE BASTARD No. 2 BY ASMODEUS play is based in a knight check on f3 followed by capture of the rook on al. However it is the centrally placed ACROSS knight which is holding Black’s game together - White 7) You can’t argue with a rifle barrage (1 2) would welcome the opportunity to exchange it for his 8) ls hero cult, put just so, a roundabout hint? (6) inactive rook. A possible variation is 5 .... Nf3 ch; 9) Nothing plus nothing could be egg-shaped (5) 6. Qf3, Qal; 7. Bc6 ch, Kc7; 8. Ba3 ch. Very painful. ipservice, Han 10) You need both ears to put a circle on a cubic Instead I tried : Steele & The metre o f timber (6) 5 Bd6 ■ From The 11) Now the law is repealed, we can make precise 6. Ba3 a, Day At The demands (5) This move destroyed my forlorn hope for variations like 6 .... Qh4; 7. f4, Ng4; 8. h3, Qg3, 9. gh4, Bc5 ch. After ie Magnificent 13) Their wages must be paid out per capita (6) 14) Bull, but hardly bullshit (5) the next move I resigned as 6 .... Nf3 ch, 7. Bf3, Qal, 8. amed Desire, 15) Few Bastard answers are in it, but this one is (6,5) Bd6, cd6, 9. Qd6 is hopeless. Strangelove, 19) Like Dick ? (11) : course, Algaebraic Notation ISTER NOW DOWN Each square has one designation only. The horizontal 1) Does he pee o ff the top board ? (8) ranks are labelled a to h from White’s left. The vertical 2) Call girls can take care of them, at a price (9,3) files are numbered 1 to 8 from White’s end. Normal 3) Oil, stain preserve (8) symbols are used (note that Nstands for Knight), except 4) Unaesthetic facial arrangement (10) that pawns as such are not mentioned; just the arrival 5) What has Bogart to gain by cancelling ? (10) square is given for a non-capturing pawn move. 6) The kind of proposals 2 Down make (4) Some examples : P-K4 (White’s move) — e4 12) Lace edge (4) N-QB3 (Black’s move) — Nc6 13) Synchronise (4) 16) Garland, but not Judy (3) 17) Barley whisker, or how to remove it (3) 18) Did he mutate from the cassowary ? (3)

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CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 PAGE 19 fi1. ORIENTATION 1979 MDodagr26 F rid a y s Rudman Gardens 1 pm - TATTIEBOGLE in concert. Voila, THE finalised version of the Orientation prog­ Quad 1 pm — Anti-Demonstration Demonstration KMT 7 pm — Two korny klassics, the movies that ramme for the first week. See if you can find the Demonstration. Learn how to demonstrate. March dow stunned the world with their wit, humour and sense of exciting NEW (totally new) event on a certain March 1st Queen St. in a fun protest against protesting against adventure .... “The Three Musketeers” and the inimit­ lunchtime ... If you are very observant you will notice protesting.... able Peter Sellers in ‘The Pink Panther’ other changes and additions but finding out about all of Quad 1 pm — Yoga Seminar Old Quad 8 pm — ‘Hamlet’, by Bill S., performed by these magnificent ‘happenings’ is not enough - you must KMT 1 pm — Conservatorium of Music Lunchtime Theatre Workshop. $2 students. have an Orientation Registration Card - if you don’t Concert. Every where - All day - Second issue of Craccum on already, buy one, it’s only $2.50. sale free to all students. Buy your Fancy-Dress Ball tickets from Room 113. 144 6.30-11 Tiddlywinks & Knucklebones Society UCR 7.30 Labour Club - Guest speaker Brian Eastern P Craccum Office 5 pm — From the people who brought you War and Peace, Biggies, and the Bible hear the P U S (WSMDQ® Editors of CRACCUM expound their theories on ALlTAfeek advanced molecular acceleration. If it ’s a fine day, AMSSA available for course information they’ll talk about CRACCUM instead. Radio B. Broadcasting 7 am to midnight. Cafe 8 - 1am — Our specially imported French Chef Newman Hall 1.10 pm Newman Hall Catholic Assoc trained in Electronics, BAKER ARIEL, presents his Mass. speciality, La Music, La Dance in the cafeteria. Quad - Club displays Rudman Gardens, Midnight — To cater for every taste we present the Midnight to Dawn Show. Comedy, tragedy, bodies, violence and drama .... Three Movies: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea” , “ Day at the Races” and “ The Tenant” . Lower Common Room, This night — Sleeping.... you provide the blankets, pillows and munchies, it can get cold ! SCM’s Second Hand Bookstall’s final day for selling books !!! T uesdays? Saturday 3 KMT 9 -1 1.3 0 am — Seminar of study skills and speed Cafe ext 7.30 - 10 pm Tramping Club - Magic Lantern Common Rooms, All day - Yoga Seminar. reading, conducted by John Hinchcliffe. Shaw. Old Government House Grounds 8 am - Rise and shine Albert Park 12 - 2 pm — In association with A.T.I., we OGB 7 pm — Tonights the Night Society to an Olympian feast o f chicken and champagne. are proud to present a concert of contemporary music, MacLaurin Hall 7.30- 10.30 pm — Societa Dante Quad/Rudman Gardens/Albert Park 9 a m - with THE PLAGUE, TOY LOVE and THE UNHOLY Alighiere. Competitions - no, you don’t get breakfast for nothing, THREE. KMT 8 pm — Come back Jazz.... all is forgiven. Jazz get rid of that weight you just gained by losing a leg Quad 1 pm — President’s welcome - Janet Roth expounds Evening with Hard jazz. and having to share with someone else ... or something, the virtues of A. U.S.A. Old Quad 8 pm — “ Hamlet” Quad/Rudman Gardens/Albert Park 12 midday — Lunt Quad 1 pm Tramping Club - climb the North face of the Albert Park, 12.30 - 4.30 pm - An afternoon of self- Cafe. indulgence and laziness - relax and enjoy LIP SERVICE Quad 1.1 5 pm - Competitions — pit your skills against T hursday ARIEL and BUNNY SWAN, bringing you the entertain- your fellow scholars - are the eggs that you’re carrying ment for the connoisseur. on the end of that spoon boiled ? Wainamu All weekend Tramping Club weekend car Rcc Centre 7 pm — Squash Club - Women’s Grading M arch 1 night - Squash courts. Cafe 8 pm — DANCE in the Cafe with LIPSERVICE Rudman Gardens 1pm Concert featuring LI VING FORCE’ You’ve been sayin and HEAD OVER HEELS Quad 1 pm — Assemble for Bicycle ride, organized by risk it at the loun* Old Grad Bar 8 pm — Craccum social. In the ‘good old Bicycle Club. • may call us, but w days’ editors drew prospective staff members with turn Old Grad Bar 6-12 — Law Students’ Freshers’ fling KMT 8 pm — “ Night At The Theatre” - a theatrical will print your ne< extravaganza, featuring folk music, drama, dance - with on, tune in and drop out. Nothing has changed. Albert Park 6.30 pm — Harrier’s Club Run. sexist, obscene, re Limbs -, and poetry from David Mitchell and Herman Old Quad 8 pm — ‘Hamlet’ proves there is life after KMT 6.30 pm — Ladies and Gentlemen, the classics ! Gladwin. The perfect end to a perfect day ? SO, if you have an death. Scotland Yard investigates. “Jane Eyre”, “ Far From The Madding Crowd” and Cafe 8 pm — For those who want to dance on a Saturda or for sale, Lost ar SRC Lounge - All day — Last day for receiving books “Annie Hall”. for SCM Second Hand Bookstall. n ig ht...... Voila. For a mere $5 you can enjoy the best Births/Deaths/Han Old Grad Bar 6 - 12 pm Law Students’ freshers’ stir Exec Lounge 1 pm National Club of Auckland’s.live music, and partake in liquid refresh­ pin my eyes and e; Thomas Building patio 6 pm Field Club freshers’ ments. Sponsored by University Gay Liberation. (A USA wish to ap< evening Newman Hall 6 pm — Hangi and dance. Rec. Centre 7 pm — Squash Club - men’s grading night, Meremere — Car Club sprint at Meremere. Yfechnesday 28 (surnames M - Z) squash courts. Newman Hall 7.30 pm — Prayer Meeting. WCR 1 pm — Young Socialist Forum. Clubs a n d Auckland Boys Grammar 5.30 pm - Evangelical Union CLASSIFIED > Dine and Dive Rudman Gardens midnight — Pooh Society - Pooh readings by torchlight. I want my adve Albert Park 1 pm — Evangelical Union “ Bread and Jam” >1nP oohl( picnic. Exec Lounge 1 pm — Young Socialists - “ What is Li MY AD IS ( M/ Behind the Iranian Revolt?” Quad 1 pm — Table tennis club demonstration. Quad 1 pm — A mystery speaker will be appearing speechify to the masses on the virtues of A lf’s Imperial Army, among other things. Sunday4 LT 1 pm — Introductory debate by the Debating Club. (tS Newman Hall 11 am — Academic Mass and picnic at Rec Centre — All day — Sho-te kai demonstration Karaka Bay. NAME : (outside at 1 pm) Ellerslie — Car Club sprint at Ellerslie. Rec Centre 7 pm — Squash Club - Men’s grading night, KMT 3 pm — A Movie Marathon - can you last the (surnames A-L). Squash courts. distance ? Yes folks, we present the pick o f the SUB 5 pm — Nominations close for election to : mediocre - “ Night at the Opera” , “ Murder on the AND NOW COt Exec - Overseas Students, Environmental Affairs, Orient Express” , “ The Magnificent Seven” , "The SENTENCE TC Women’s Rights, Sports Officer, S.R.C. Chairperson, Canterbury Tales” and “ Bonnie and Clyde” !! AND NOW COi\ Senate, Student Union Management Committee, Theatre Monday March 5 to Sunday March 11 Management. All Week REALLY LIK SUB 6 pm — Clubs and Societies Evening. Displays and Radio B — Broadcasting 7 am to midnight. activities by clubs and societies. If you are interested in Newman Hall 1.10 pm — Newman Hall Catholic Assoc, joining a club or just having a good time - come along. Mass. Quad 7.30 pm — Square dancing. n Quad — Club displays CRACCUM RESERV Newman Hall 7.30 pm — Folk Evening. Bring a friend, Small Lecture Theatre, Human Sciences Building 1 -2pm, some songs and sing the night away. V Higher Education Research Office. Also at 5-6 pm. PAGE 20 CRACCUM FEBRUARY 26 y How to enrol Phone your local Course Director for more information or to book into the next available course. You are very welcome to attend the first session without any obligation. However, a telephone reservation is essential. Your nearest Course Director is:

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