out at the Auckland Medical School Teacher and Student Unions in will be cancelled. Auckland have formed an Education Action Committee to protest against The Need to Expand cuts in Education expenditure. It has long been recognised that Recognising the trade union such areas of education as pre principle “ Unity is Strength” they school and Technical Institutes have are jointly sponsoring a mass pro been poorly served by successive test meeting in the Town Hall on governments. The Auckland Techni the evening of July 23rd. The cal Institute has been refused a Student Unions are in addition special grant of $40,000 by the organising a lunchtime march from Education Department, which the University through the city on means that some classes will run out the same day. of materials before the end of the year. Discussion is already underway Cuts have already been announced on the closing of A.T.I. Catering by the Minister of Education in School later this year. The Institute’s nine areas of educational spending: Library is totally inadequate, using 1. Savings in the administrative costs a converted hall with seating for of the Department of Education. only 100 students. The ATI roll is 2. Restrictions on the employment 18.000 this year. It has 25,000 of short-term relieving teachers. books and magazines with a library 3. Restraints on costs of in-service staff of 5 full-timers and 3 part- training and travel by advisers timers. Auckland University by and inspectors. comparison has 700,000 volumes 4. Restrictions on the discretionary and a full-time staff of 100. A work allowances for ancillary staffing ing party investigating funding of of primary schools. institute libraries says library grants 5. Delay in the establishment of to Waikato University(with a roll of three pilot education centres. 4000) are at least double those for 6. Increases in the charges of all the libraries at the country’s departmental publications and 14 technical institutes. items produced by the Visual In recent years waiting lists for Production Unit; and introduct kindergartens have increased 47%. ion of charges on some other The Government’s method of items. tackling the problem has not been 7. A reduction in the number of to increase the building programme weeks for which non-vocational but to try and increase the rolls in evening classes may be held this the existing facilities by one third. year, those who have enrolled This has already been carried out at will not receive a refund - an least two Auckland Kindergartens. outright case of theft ! The policy will mean an effective 8. Increases in the entry fee for increase in teacher - child ratios and examinations administered by reduced contact with children and the Department of Education, their parents. Thus the basic aim of including School Certificate. Kindergartens, i.e. to develop and 9. Removal of free rail passes in maintain close contact with the urban areas. child’s family is to be lost. This The Director General has taken move is a further step in the ongoing steps to alter the regulations. This devaluation of early childhood means that these cuts are not just education in N.Z. temporary to meet an emergency situation, but are permanent. Nor has there been any commitment The Need to Increase Bursaries During the projected protests that further cuts are not being planned. students at Technical Institutes and Universities will be demanding a cost-of-living bursary. Those Significance eligible for a bursary receive the The Minister has stated that these EDUCATION pittance of $13 per week, or $24 cuts represent a saving of $8 million. if you have to live outside your This is only part of the story. He parents’ home town. The Govern has also announced that the ment expects students to live on Education vote will be pegged to this amount as is shown by the fact last year’s expenditure. The loss of ACTION that students may not work more purchasing power through last than 6 hours per week. Such part- year’s inflation rate of 17% means time jobs are impossible for most areal cut of $102 million. To this students to find. Since these must be added Mr. Gandar’s own bursaries were announced last figures last year that the real afford to let such a policy continue. Children who are emotionally disturbed and who need special year the cost of living has skyrocket value of educational spending had ed, yet the government refuses to declined $60 million on the year The Disadvantaged assistance within the ordinary Apart from the effect that school programme will suffer from give a cost-of-living increase. before. Added together these Students are demanding that there figures mean that over the last two retrenchment will have on education cuts in the provision of travel for in general these cuts will particu visiting teachers and psychological be automatic cost-of-living increases years the Education vote has been and that the full bursary should be effectively cut by $170 million. larly affect children with special services.NAll children whose learning needs. Ironically, the National programmes depend on the provision available to all full-time students. Each child has only one opport Only in this way will tertiary unity to gain an effective education Party’s election policy pledged not of flexible staff use will now receive to curb the educational opportun a limiited and disrupted education. education cease to be the preserve and that time is now. Even if these of the wealthy few. At present cuts were restored quickly some ities of Maori and Polynesian Discretionary ancillary staffing children, and children in rural areas, desigmed to provide help for child only 5% of the University student children will already have been population has a parent in unskilled denied educational services, and if in any way. ren w/ith particular and special The effects of these cuts, however, needss has been more than halved. or semi-skilled occuaption yet these they are allowed to continue one categories make up 40% of the generation of school children may will be that children in rural areas This {provision so recently approved working population. A living allow never recover. Not since the will suffer because of the lack of is novw seriously curtailed. This cut ance is the only way to make Depression has education been support and advisory services which meanis that some teachers’ aides will tertiary education truly free and subjected to cuts as damaging as previously helped to ensure equality be tolld to work fewer hours each equal. these, and the effects will be as of opportunity with the urban child. week and some will be sacked. lasting. Children suffered for 40 Schools which have received Trainted teachers will work less effectively when their time is re years from the legacy of staff additional assistance to meet proved PROTEST MEETING TOWNHALL directed to paraprofessional tasks. shortages caused by the closing of needs because of their socio 8 P.M. JULY 23rd the teachers colleges. The Govern economic and multi-racial characters To thie above mentioned cuts can be ment appears to have decided to will be deprived of that assistance. addecd the halving of research grants PROTEST MARCH - ASSEMBLE maintain a level of unemployment All kinds of handicapped children to Umiversities. This will mean that UNIVERSITY 1 P.M. JULY 23rd. of teachers at the expense of whose needs are recognised by some ■ m uch needed research such as children’s education. We cannot everyone will now be at risk. that iinto child health being carried
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status and opportunity. This concern is an urgent one: U Thant warned the world that ‘ugly conflicts of race and colour are among the great sources of tension This yei threatening us.’ They can ‘tear nations probably 1 apart from within’. It is hoped that through the work of this association, share of in racial tension and suffering will be reduced at their po The Association hopes to achieve its little credi aims by financial support of victims of of the Exe racial injustice, by investigation, research people wh and discussions with a view to ascertaining done. Wei the facts about racial discrimination in David Dea New Zealand and elsewhere, and by public Officer. A ONE RACETHE HUM AN RACE meetings, addresses, panel discussions, printed matter and the use of the various from Exec the pressui M any students are now faced with a Fighting Racial Prejudice. Going activities in the sporting field and will public media of education and problem; they have been involved with into such fields as the Maori Land also move into the work of economic information. By such means it aims to Film Festi the anti apartheid movement, either Question, Pacific Island Immigration, boycotts against firms like Corbans inform the New Zealand public about responsible within the confines of HART or as a How the education system affects people Wines and Rothmans. These and other racial prejudices and to help educate it some of th passive supporter, but now appear to of Polynesian descent, how the court companies are often built upon exploited towards the broad acceptance of racial spectacula have come to a dead end. The South reacts to Polynesian ‘Crime’, how Land black labour and are frequently owned by equality. He organis African Tour went ahead, and HART lords rip off the Island people, the South African shareholders. This does not mean the end of HART, Informatic but rather a spreading of activities into would appear to have finished its work. Task Force, and other questions relating others - at to Pakeha/Polynesian Relations. domestic racism and boycotts of South Many people are confused as to which )ppose year, was ( way they should be heading. HART is a Countries. CARE is at present especially Africa economic interests and other Associatio reactive organisation - it reacts to South To Promote Research. Into all aspects concerned with the disregard o f Polynes forms o f overseas racism. HART remains African Sports Tours - but now it of race relations in New Zealand and to ians in French Territories. and will draw itself up once again to is generally apparently has little to react to. help educate public opinion in matters of combat any sporting contacts with South persons wl However there exist other organisations racial equality. For instance, many people To Give Support. To the Defence and Africa. It is, and will probably always be, do what is that are involved with racial matters, both believe Polynesians have lower I.Q.s than Aid Fund for the succour of those the best weapon to fight racist sport, but Not very v at home and abroad. A University Branch Europeans because of results o f I.Q. tests convicted by South African apartheid now our activities must also encompass but produ< of the CARE movement will be starting which favour Europeans. laws. other forms of racism. called on. soon after mid-term break. This organisa The Citizens Association for Racial The first meeting of CARE - University tion is concerned with a much wider range To oppose contact with South Equality was formed by New Zealand will be held lunchtime Thursday 15th Lyn Do of issues than is HART. The University Africa. In both Sporting and Economic citizens who wished to assist in promoting July in Exec. Lounge, 1st floor of the has m uch 1 branch will become involved in: fields. CARE will supplement HART’s race relations, based on equality of Student Union Building. her job - u | of her m ai year is th e 1 ations fo r numerous appeared t smoothnes ■ « * < * * - ^ Exec meet except wh ing her po:
Executi with a rasl term, and exception, months o f without th & Manager, ( and Public by-electioi greybeard fill these p the duties ^ h begin and lit end is som & clear on, t Bob L ack’ 4 » 8 difference Associatio tone of th meetings. CRACCUI in short oi V finished e< his not-pa (except to \ Book. Ml % 5 Exec’s rec . / y « and carry e ^ count the floor can ] Lack’s abi verbiage a He seems factorily \ s i* *> successful presidenti
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'mm. more Dncern is an ie world colour are sion nations This year’s Studass Executive at Kelston High School. His contrib that probably has more than the average utions at Exec meetings are down- share of individuals who work hard hopefub to-earth without being pragmatic. iation, I be reduced at their portfolios and get very Since House Committee is ihieve its little credit for it beyond the rest virtually defunct, Gulley is ctims of of the Exec and half a dozen other involved in working towards the i, research people who know how much is Education Action Day . ascertaining done. Well up on this list must be one year later ation in id by public David Dean, Student Liaison One of the officers of the Exec ussions, Officer. Although he asked leave utive who lapsed quite early into he various from Exec meetings to cope with oblivion is Simon Curnow, ex- the pressure of attendance at the Welfare Vice President. At the aims to Film Festival, Dean has been start of the year Curnow worked r about responsible behind the scenes for well during Information Week ucate it some of the more useful and less and Orientation. During first racial spectacular happenings of the year. term his involvement dwindled, of HART, He organised an excellent and although he represented ties into Information Week for freshers - and Auckland at NZUSA May Df South others - at the beginning of the Council, he has been invisible ?ther year, was Controller for Students’ since. He apparently refused to T remains Association side o f Open Day, and resign, thereby making it imposs lin to is generally one o f those rare ible to open nominations for a vith South persons who can be relied on to successor, and has only recently always be, do what is required, and on time. lapsed through non-attendance sport, but Not very vocal in Exec meetings, at Executive and SRC meetings. compass but produces good sense when There are more responsible University called on. ways of leaving office than y 15th dribbling out o f it. Jens Hansen, of the Lyn Doherty, the Societies’ Rep, former Sports Officer, also resigned has much the same approach to after some average work on behalf her job - unspectacular work. One of the sports clubs whose interests of her main responsibilities in the he represented to Exec. Applic year is the coordinating of applic ations for both these positions ations for grants made by the have been called. numerous campus clubs, and this appeared to go with commendable Resident ideologue on the Exec smoothness. Her contribution to utive is Mike Treen, International Exec meetings is almost nil, Affairs Officer. As leader of the except where matters arise concern Young Socialists on Auckland ing her portfolio. campus, Treen has had several years’ involvement in student Executives often have to put up politics. Early in the year his with a rash of vacancies in the first stance was not popular with some term, and 1976 has been no o of the more pragmatic members exception. For the first three .£ of Exec, but with the new empti months of the year, the place ran es asis on policy, and three major without the benefit of a Business a protest marches, Treen has taken Manager, Cultural Affairs Officer a leading role more recently. He and Public Liaison Officer. The is probably the only Exec member by-elections in April produced one Societies Rep: Lyn Doherty Cultural Affairs : Barbara Hochstein who has an in-built concern for greybeard and two greenhorns to policy together with experience, fill these positions. Exactly where political know-how and the the duties of the Business Manager willingness to work at seeing it begin and those of the Treasurer through. The lack of other well end is something I’m not quite voiced ideologies on both Exec clear on, but it is undoubted that and SRC has meant Treen has had Bob Lack’s presence has made a considerable prominence and even difference to some of the dominance of the latter body. Exec Association’s business, and to the has followed Treen’s line some tone of the Executive and its times by sheer default of thought- meetings. Lack made sense of out alternatives. CRACCUM’s financial operations in short order - once he had Education Officer Janet Eyre was finished editing and distributing persuaded by Mike Walker to take his not-particularly-memorable time for Students’ Association from (except to the Catholics) Capping the workload of Med School. This Book. Much of the impetus for ^ portfolio looks to be growing in Exec’s recent concern to make S importance as the Association and carry out policy rather than S concerns itself increasingly with count the dust on the Cafeteria 5 the University and its education floor can probably be traced to system. Eyre was an impressive Lack’s ability to cut through ^ delegate to the Education Com- verbiage and unnecessary detail. ^ mission at NZUSA’s May Council, He seems to have worked satis and has worked with Staff/Student factorily with Mike Walker, his Ex-Welfare VP Simon Curnow reps and the Senate reps on assess successful rival from last year’s ment and limitation of enrolments. presidential elections. Medical School exams have limited has been over-aware of what she poliicy fo r the arts, but is generally her involvement in the Education Barbara Hochstein, arts reporter doesn’t know. Hochstein does a not; at home in student politics. Campaign for July 23rd, but she for Radio B, has worked hard at dedicated job working with the has otherwise worked hard in trying to build her Cultural Council cultural clubs, who are not always Btruce Gulley was last year’s several areas of a vast and import into a working body since she was the most active and cooperative of Chairman of SRC and stood for ant portfolio. elected as Cultural Affairs Officer. bodies. She is the initiator of a 1976 House Committee Chair Coming very inexperienced into proposal for NZUSA to set up a person even though he is off Allan Bell ureou the arena of student politics, she Cultural Commission to propose campus most of the time, teaching
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12 July 1976/Craccum/page 4 Abortion Conference Donation It was passed at an SRC meeting in mid-June that AUSA support the Abortion Conference to be held July 31 August 1. This is to take the concrete n e w sb rie fs form of a donation of $200. Editorial
Studass Fees Increase? Students Association fees are likely to YOUR go up next year. The suggested increase of $4 has something to do with the Building Levy - apparently there is a horrible gap between what has to be E M IL Y P O ST paid, and what Studass has been able to pay. It is hoped that $4 x (10,000) students will help relieve this burden. Of course, the increase is not yet GUIDE officially sanctioned because there has to be a general meeting first to discuss the matter. This will take place some TO SLAUGHTER time in the last week of term. T he innate absurdity o f the human animal came out strongly in the NZUSA Cultural Commission recent trial o f the mercenaries in Angola. From the destruction and the N holocaust o f the civil war, the Angolans were able to haul 13 men in It is hoped that a Cultural Commission front o f a court o f law because they played unfairly. They were also will be set up at the August Council of able to play God and make the distinction between ‘baddies’ and the NZUSA. This Commission, if it comes ‘goodies’ among those participating in the carnage. into being, will look after cultural affairs The 13 men were charged with (a) being mercenaries and (b) crimes concerned with universities only, as against peace. Dictionaries generally define ‘mercenary’ as the state of opposed to NZSAC which encompasses high schools, technical institutions and working merely for monetary gain, or some other reward, investing the so on. This will enable it to deal more word with sordid connotations. Legally then, it is a crime to fight in a efficiently with cultural happenings on Ad Man Easte war just for the money - one is supposed to have patriotic feelings, or at campus. least a sense of duty to one’s country before one is allowed to run out and shoot someone. But where does the financial motivation end and the m ore worthy ones begin ? All soldiers are paid for what they do, and it is noteworthy that most advertisements for recruitment put the ening. However, if we look at the opposite aspect, that school leavers are emphasis on “ adventure, thrills, the promise of making a man out of not coming on to university in numbers you” and “the money”. comparable to previous years, we are left The legal distinction between the thirteen “ soldiers of fortune” and SENATE with some questions which must be the com m on or garden variety lies in the implication, by definition, answered. that they went to Angola because they were itching to fire a bullet into Is the university out of touch with the som eone’s guts and get paid for it. This is ridiculous, especially in view needs of the present school leavers ? Is o f their backgrounds o f poverty, lack o f education and general aimless REPORT this trend simply a natural consequence ness. Most had drifted in and out of institutions, jobs and finally into of the growth of Technical Institutes, Angola. Ultimately there can be no distinction between a “ soldier” and Teachers’ Colleges, and Community a “ mercenary” - one dead body equals another. Colleges ? Are the figures perhaps biased The July Senate meeting was The prosecution in the Angolan trial demanded death sentences for marked by some stormy patches, by the growth of faculties such as Arts and Science which draw older students wvhat it described as “ crimes against peace” . The well-respected bastions discussion centering around the while the professional schools remain o f the law have peculiar conceptions o f this vague phrase. It can apply Report of the Deans’ Committee restricted 7 Are a significant proportion to almost any action undertaken by those in power. Nixon could thus on procedures for enrolment next of over-25 students women who are be described as a war criminal, as could Churchill, as could anyone year. taking advantage of the tertiary bursary making military/political decisions. The law in Angola however has to complete degrees interrupted by chosen to apply it to a few pathetic individuals unlucky enough to be It was interesting to note that some marriage and child-raising ? in the wrong place at the wrong time. While the actions o f Colonel members of staff (happily a minority) Perhaps some of these questions can be Callan are not to be condoned, it is unjust to single him out for punish seem ready to sacrifice student interests, answered when the figures have been cost considerations and anything else analysed, and the answers may have far- ment. Any war is a criminal act in itself and it is impossible to select a which may get in the way of their reaching implications for university particular person out o f a particular set of circumstances within its personal research. Those of us who moan policy-making. sphere and focus the common guilt on him. and become cynical about student apathy The second half of the Vice-Chancellor’s The trial indicates a futile attempt on the part of the authorities to may take some small comfort (or should report concerned a letter written to him inject a bit of morality into the institution of war. It was ridiculous we ?) that the negative attitudes, the by Michael Walker and Richard Mills, that in medieval times two kings should first observe some social same inability to put constructive altern expressing concern at the breakdown of niceties, such as not letting battle commence until the appointed hour, atives forward, the same unwillingness to social and recreational life in the university b e fo re unleashing their soldiers to beat each others’ heads in. It is just become voluntarily and energetically and placing the blame squarely on the as ridiculous to have certain rules of military honour to be followed involved in the decision-making process is abuse of the on-course assessment system. still evident among the intellectual elite The Vice-Chancellor said that visiting in such a dishonourable - to say the least - phenomenon as war. It is a of our country. And while taking a look academics told him that Auckland “ tends grotesque joke on civilisation to pretend that civilised laws can be at staff in general, a caution against the to overteach its students” . He then im posed on such a barbaric situation. forming of over-hasty judgements with requested that Academic Committee : respect to those staff whose personalities 1. Investigate excess teaching loads Jill Ranstead can be abrasive and therefore earn the occasioned by the demands of label of ‘heavies’. When the chips are on-course assessment. down, these are often the ones who come 2. Investigate excesses or distortions in out strongly on the side of the students given faculties due to continuous as people with real needs which they assessment. (It was recognised that acknowledge are not always wisely workloads vary greatly between considered. departments in the same faculty.) The actual text of the proposals for 3. That they should bring down enrolment next year will be held for a recommendations. fortnight until after Council meets, before The Deans of Arts and Science then being published and discussed in stated that Dr Jones, the Higher 112 July 1976 Auckland University Student Paper Vol.50 No. 16 CRACCUM. Education Officer, is presently carrying The Vice-Chancellor’s Report contain out surveys of continuous assessment C J ra ccu m is registered with the Post Office as a newspaper. It is published by the ed some very interesting figures on in both faculties. (A facetious comment CCraccum Administration Board for the Auckland University Students’ Association, student enrolment. The total increase in from the floor that Senate should perhaps PPrivate Bag, Auckland; typeset on the Association’s IBM machine; and printed by the university roll in 1976 was 808 look into Dr. Jones’ workload was greeted Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Opinions expressed are students. Of these, 588, or two-thirds, with approval.) m ot necessarily those of the editorial staff, and in no way represent official policy of are 21 years of age and over, and 419 It was decided that an investigation of thhe Students’ Association. (or a half) are 25 years of age and over. the matter proceed as well as and in spite Of the first year increase of 27 8, only of the present surveys. As in all Senate 115 are under 21 years. Committee investigations, the student Editor...... Allan Bell Percentages by age groups show that representatives are entitled to put their Chief reporters...... Fraser Folster, Jill Ranstead in 197117% of the total student popula own submissions and to speak to them. Technical Editor...... Murray Cammick tion was 25 years and over. In 1976, the To return full circle, at the beginning Advertising Manager...... Graeme Easte percentage is 25%. Again, in 1971, 48% of the meeting Richard Mills presented Music Editor...... John Robson of students at Auckland were 21 years apologies from Mike Kidd who is at Photographer...... Paul Gilmour and over, whereas in 1976 it is 55%. The present in Communist China. His 1976 roll contains fewer students under announcement that Mike will be taking 21 years than in 1971. a close look at the anti-intellectual WWith our previously solo Chief Reporter now learning shorthand and five-finger These figures show a significant swing movement among students there was tjtyping down at ATI, we’ve promoted Jill Ranstead to share the workload. Julie to a more mature student population. In greeted with appreciative laughter. We PiPendray joins us as a reporter, Louise Chunn is arts editor. Proofreading this week terms of the ideal expressed by the await Mike’s report of his activities bt>y those failthfuls Helen Rea, Kennedy Warne and Paul Chrystall. Sue Stover grew Educational Development Conference with great interest. tithe yogurt bug. Typesetting by Barbara and Lorraine. Front cover graphic is Judy that education should be a continuing JcJohnson’s. lifelong process, this trend is very heart- Liz Winkworth
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FOUR STROKES AHEAD CA 772 Studass Finance Committee Welfare Vice President Minutes Applications are hereby called for the RN 2/76 position o f Welfare Vice President of the Auckland University Students’ Associa THAT the following accounts be tion. Nomination forms are available written o ff and that no further from the AUSA office. Nominations goods or services be provided for the should be in a sealed envelope addressed following until such time as the to the Association Secretary, and be accompanied by a photograph and account is paid : brief biographical details and a policy statement. Nominations close on Pacific Publications Friday 16 July at 1 pm, and nominees are (Paul Halloran) $ 16.50 required to attend the SRC meeting at Polynesian Panther Party 20.82 that time. Chris Reid 10.09 n e w s b r ie fs Wagon Mound - Law Students Society 18.00 John Woodroffe 14.99 NZ Labour Party - Youth Advisory Council 10.50 Flatmates 40.00 R. Fletcher 30.59 Dennis Hansen 6.71 Hospitality Newspapers 63.70 Hospitality Services 361.30 The Atrium 8.00 Hot House - The Atrium 8.00 Mono 109.50 Alister Taylor Publishing 5.00 1977 Enrolments May Be Limited Barry Coburn 93.60 Coburn Artists 43.20 Limitation on the enrolment of over Richard Rowe 51.79 seas students was discussed at a recent meeting of University Deans Committee $912.29 and it seems that admissions will be limited to 5% of students taking commerce next year. The Committee reasoned that because overseas students applied to come to “ a New Zealand overseas University” and not specifically to Auckland, then the students should be news satisfied with any New Zealand University. The Students Association had opposed Apologise Or We Will Sue, USSU all measures restricting the choice of any tells Devan person qualified to enter a New Zealand University and argued that “ any Faculty The University of Singapore Students’ which currently excludes qualified Union has given Mr Devan Nair a seven- students or any course which may do so day ‘ultimatum’ to retract his statement in the future is at variance with this on the Union’s activities made at the principle.” recent Socialist International Meeting in London. A statement signed by Peter Chua, an USSU executive council The Wheel of Fortune member for the USSU general secretary, Task Force said unless a public apology was made Orientation Handbook Editor within seven days, “ We shall have to Am idst the changing fortunes of * 5». sue him in court to clear the name of A petition has been initiated on young broadcasting, it is interesting to note the the Union.” policemen staffing the Auckland Task Applications are being called for the rise o f Mr Ron Jarden to be chairman position of Orientation Handbook The Union accused Mr. Nair, the PAP Force Units, calling for more mature and of the new Broadcasting Council. representative to the SI meeting, of experienced officers, and protesting the Editor of the Auckland University Jarden was a star All Black of the 1950’s, Students’ Association. Applications making “ such irresponsible statements often brash behaviour of the juniors. a leader in the Rugby-men-for-Rob move not only publicly but internationally.” The petition is available for signature close at 5 p.m. on Thursday 15 July ment at the last election, and an admirer 1976 with the Association Secretary, It said Mr Nair, had distorted facts about at the Students Association reception of Television’s more gutless serials. His the Union, adding that “ Such distortion office on the ground floor of the Union with the appointment being made at rise is an interesting contrast to the fall the Executive Meeting of that night. are an attempt to discredit all forms of Building during normal office hours. of Mr David Exel, prime mover in the criticism and opposition for the sake of Nomination forms are available Citizens for Rowling Campaign. Muldoon from the AUSA Office. the coming election.” has succeeded in making Exel almost On Mr Nair’s statement at the London Publications Grants unemployable within his profession. Meeting describing student organisations here as being natural targets for infil Recently Publications Committee tration and subversion by the communists, met to decide what clubs would be given the Union said: “ The Students Council how much by way of publication grants. has never advocated the overthrow of Publications is a sub-committee of the the Government, violent or otherwise.” Executive and consists of such important Straits Times 4/6/76 people as the President, Editor of STUDASS POSmONS CRACCUM, Advertising Manager and the Business Manager, all chaired by Publica Nominations are hereby called for the following positions:- tions Officer Henry Harrison. Any club can apply for a publications grant, and Two Representatives on Student Union Management Committee to serve Former Selangor Mentri Besar Dato eighteen of them did so. The most spect from 1.11.76 - 30.10.77. Harun was sentenced by the High Court acular request was for $3000 from the in K.L. on 18th May to two years Two Representatives on Theatre Management Committee to serve Chinese Cultural Society to be used for imprisonment on 3 corruption charges unspecified purposes. Considering the from 1.11.76 - 30.10.77. involving a $250,000 pay-off by Hong committee had a total of only $2000 to Nomination forms are available from the AUSA Office. Nominations close at Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. give away, it was not surprising that this 5 p.m. on 30 July with the Association Secretary. Nominations must be in a Mr Justice Azlan took nearly two application brought forth no response. sealed envelope and accompanied by a photograph and brief biographical hours to deliver the 80-page judgement. Field Club received $250 to help with details. The appointments will be made by the Executive and nominees should Harun was sentenced to a one year’s jail the production of their annual opus be prepared to attend the Executive Meeting at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday 5 on the first charge of corruptly soliciting maximum Tane, and Literary Society August. for $250,000 from the Bank as a were given a total of $300 to launch the gratification for UMNO. The money first three issues of a new literary broad Executive was an inducement to Dato Harun as a sheet. The rest didn’t fare so well: Mentri Besar to get the approval of the Political Studies and International House Treasurer Publications Officer State Exco in respect of the Bank’s got nothing. Engineering, Imperial Trans- Business Manager Public Liaison Officer application to amalgamate three pieces Science (a Clement front), and Geogsoc : Education Officer Soccial Controller of land and a piece of the state land in were given nominal sums of $25 - 50. Societies Rep Sp(orts Representative K.L. to construct a multi-storey building. Ms Glenda Fryer’s Labour Club publica House Committee Chairman Stuident Liaison Officer He was sentenced to two year’s jail tion Iskra won $150, partly because the International Affairs Officer Environmental Affairs Officer on each of the 2nd and 3rd charges, editress admitted to having financed the corruptly accepting $25,000 gratification first issue herself. Ski Club got $100 and NZSAC Representative from the Bank at K.L. airport through Car Club $110 for their respective news One student Representative on Council (tio 30.6.77) Haji Ahmad Raziah to attain approval of letter-magazines. Two Student Representatives on Senate (1 .1 1 .7 6 - 30.10.77) of the Auckland the State Exco relating to the Bank’s The Young Socialists were awarded University Students’ Association. application; while being Mentri Besar $130 to help cover the deficit on their accepting from the Bank the sum of national paper. Then followed the Nomination forms are available from the A U S A Office. Nominations, which $225,000 in his office for the same Polynesian Panther Party with $125. should be in a sealed envelope addressed bo the Association Secretary and purpose. Friends of People’s Union were granted accompanied by a photograph, and brief biographical details and a policy The sentences are to run concurrently. $100 to assist with the production of the statement, close at 5 p.m. on 30 July. Elections will be held on 5, 6 August, Mr Justice Raha Azlan also ordered PU paper. Also ran: Tramping Club $100, 1976. him to return $225,000 to Selangor MSSA $50, Samoan Club $50 and UMNO within one month. Execution University Feminists $212 (if they can be Sharyn Cederman, proceedings would be taken in default. a bit more specific about exactly what ASSOCIATION SECRETARY Dato Harun was granted bail of $100,000 they want to do with it). All o f which pending appeal. leaves a couple of hundred dollars in hand for the late-comers. Bernam a 18/5/76
12 July 1976/Craccum/page 7 Lifeview is a feature that will appear regularly in CRACCUM . In it people who have a thought-out and com m itted view o f life in general, and this University in particular, will he interviewed or given the opportunity to express themselves. You can expect to hear from Socialists young and old, feminists, brands Lvfeview o f Christians, m editationists, et al.
As w e rus mire o f a un many o f us i our p a rtic ip ; of the dem o ately known culminating ‘winning’ (rr degree ? Bes obvious phe enlightened former who path througl cloisters for better to do possibly be hindsight oJ Readers of CRACCUM during the I always have a sense that nearly through the first term will recall that it contain everything is possible in NZ, that are in a p o s ed a weekly column Academic there are not the same social and occasional 1 Notebook, which com m ented political forces which will occasional < pithily on aspects o f university life. absolutely inevitably prevent ! occasional 1 A fter a m onth's silence, the colum n massive social change as say in : machine (o will appear again from next week. Britain or any European country. may p ro d u i CRACCUM interviewed the author When I left NZ at the end of 1970 ! specificatio M ike Hanne, senior lecturer in it really was a high point for the Is U nivei Italian, to find out in m ore detail protest movement in NZ, particu enclave of £ how he views the university and larly against the Vietnam War. I was society, or w h y . involved in the Free University in factory cati that year, I was one of the half- big, h u n g ry dozen people who got it going in such arresti I think the thing that concerns the first place. I thought that the stumbled ir me most about the university is the spark that was going then could Theatre on way in which we induce in so many well become something substantial, ing, to try £ students an awful sense of alienation a real social change. There assen from what they are studying. And I Coming back nearly four years from Govei believe that we, university teachers, later, I felt a lot of that had gone. MPfor Wh£ are to blame for this in several ways. What was lacking in the protest of the H ous We fail in general to inform pros movement at that time was a posit education), pective students clearly and honestly ive ideology. People were largely Wilson - N 2 in advance (I mean, before enrol against the Vietnam War. They were teaching st£ ment) of our personal objectives, often in favour of one kind of •Chapman - approach, style and bias as teachers communal living or another. But Students Ai for each course that we offer - as if NZ is essentially a non-ideological Mike W alke they either didn’t exist or didn’t country. Ideologies don’t thrive members of matter ! here, and have not traditionally got questions d Again, we behave as if students’ much support. There isn’t a great the T eachir objectives in studying a particular deal of thinking about politics and subject were (or ought to be) the social ideas. The firs t same as ours, whereas we should be Elliot, w h o welcoming the fact that they are How did you com e to your views aim of any different and using it as the starting one view.of a on education ? Is it philosophically would be “ 1 point for the course. And we also based in som e way ? person, beti use teaching formats, especially the I think firstly politically based. and/or bett large lecture, which are essentially I’m not quite sure what I am place in th e teacher-centred, rather than student- university politically. I used to think I was an integrated i centred. Even so, we still manage anarchist, but I think more and education n to be patronizing or scornful of strike me as a document which than group teaching of one kind or more I’m probably a socialist - by isolate, or a students who “ lack motivation” suggests that the university had another. I do almost no lecturing at which I mean a real socialist, not a then he w oi or make it clear that they “ expected anything to do with education in a all, and try in different waysi New Zealand Labour Party-ist. I see doing th e jc something different” . Of course wider sense. None of it is about to break down the lecture situation the university as one of the means education s; what I’m saying isn’t true of all objectives or methods. It’s almost and turn it into a discussion by which the established elite Elliot th e n : lecturers all the time - but it is true entirely a set of instructions, and situation. controls who’s going to be a part of aspects of u of too many lecturers (including me) instructions which you’ve got to I think the papers system creates that elite. Going through the those in v o h too often. follow if you’re going to enrol in the illusion that it is possible to university is one of the ways of vocational t When students come to a the university. fragment knowledge into little making reasonably sure you’re medicine ar university like this, I question if And it comes to the first few blocks, each of which has to be going to be in that bracket. A very education b what they’re doing is going through weeks of term and they’re lectured taught and examined inside an simple question I would like to ask cultural dev a really educational experience, at, and what is conveyed is very eight-month period. People have set is : What sort oLpositive encourage ed (e.g. psy< which it seems to me has got to be largely chunks of information. It’s themselves lots of little races which ment does this university give to anthropolog essentially directed by them. That information absorption which is. are a distraction from serious think Polynesians ? The answer is training as z is, if one is getting an education one the first thing that’s required of ing about education and what any damn-all. national pla does it oneself, but with the aid of students in this university. It seems one’s doing here. One of the para Increasingly I’m becoming aware Mr Elliot en resources like university teachers, to me it is much more important doxes about the paper system and of the political and social function ity and life libraries and so on. That seems to to learn thinking techniques, to about the departmental system is of the university, and getting to like good com pe me what a university ought' learn where to get information, that there’s extraordinarily little it less. One thing that has influenced qualificatioi to be. rather than attempting to store it encouragement to think across me a lot is a book that will be com system wou all in your head briefly. It’s more departmental or discipline lines. In ing out shortly by Chris Wainwright, broadening Do you think students com e with important to find out what the that respect the system is much less who was a lecturer at Victoria meet th e d e any real goal ? resources are for acquiring a certain flexible than in many European University. It takes the statistical later in life, One of the things that really piece of information when you universities. There is only just lid off New Zealand universities from schoo l disturbs me a lot is that many happen to need it later on. beginning a movement towards the very effectively. It talks about the tion for th e students do come with clearly teaching of interdisciplinary courses. proportion of women going through education n defined goals and hopes and ideals. What about the lecture/tutorial NZ universities. In percentage terms His them e v And they lose those ideals rather s y s t e m ? What is your own university it is apparently lower than it was in education f< quickly when they get used to the I hate the lecture because it’s background ? 1900. It looks too at the ideology an educatio university, and realize that’s not authoritarian. Lectures are not Classic British university: three of universities, the ways in which necessarily 1 what it’s about. Primarily they’re bad at conveying information. years at Oxford in an incredibly people in fact operate in universities involved in an administrative They’re about as efficient as any rigid system. I came to New Zealand as against their supposed ideals. Dr. W ilso system and they have to find their other learning system, but on all first in 1967 for three years, lectur University lecturers often sound views c o n c e way through it. the other counts - all the things ing in Italian. And then left and very liberal in terms of their ideals. teaching an< Take the externals - things like a which university teachers say are went to Italy for six months and When it comes down to their areas o f v ita Calendar, an enrolment form, and important, like developing critical did some research. And then I got a teaching and examining practice, industry. H< so on. The Calendar looks to me thinking, developing the ability to lectureship at Exeter University, they frequently become totalitarian. majority of very much like a local council’s think for oneself - the lecture is taught there for three years, and ed in indust building regulations. It doesn’t lamentably poor, very much worse I’ve been back here two years. Allan Bell was fu n d e d
12 July 1976/Craccum/page 8 As we rush head-first into the natural that industry should play a properly, not supplying people with ing experience of an individual’s mire of a university education, how great part in curriculum planning. the capacity to form a balanced life, and not only in job terms. The university provides a working model many of us are aware of the aim of As research is the major basis for view o f life, with the capacity to for the next civilization: the our participation ? What is the goal promotion in the university, and think. The university should, at all costs, avoid perpetuating the participants learn to live by doing of the demolition derby affection this basis is inevitably reflected in courses taught, it should be logical tendency to stick people in ruts - by making and acting on their own ately known as a full-time course, and should aim instead at equipp (and a collective input of) decisions. culminating (we hope) in the that industry has a large say in what research is done, since in industry ing the person with the capacity to Professor Chapman praised the ‘winning’ (more like surviving) o f a recognise his or her person-hood, recognition by our university of the degree ? Besides the statistically the cycle is nourished, enriched, and completed. Dr. Wilson argued and to think, rather than with the fundamental distinction between obvious phenonemon of the un training and education; we do a lot for a broader spectrum of research, narrow technical expertise demand enlightened and undirected seventh- of training, but we are also aware of greater inter-action between indust ed by a few dominant professional former who treads his lemminglike leagues. Walker noted that the the extra values that make people path through the once-hallowed ry and university, and multi discipline approaches to related university, as a relatively autono flexible, that provide the best basis cloisters for the sake of nothing mous structure, had to decide for for training and re-training. If this better to do, the answer may problems: his assessment seemed to itself whether it must take up the possibly be best provided by the accept as a fact that as industry m s kind of distinction^ which is hindsight of those who have come the dominant graduate employer, demands of industry, ox whatever. recognised by the planning author iat nearly through the machine. Those who the aims of university education Walker’s contribution was echoed ities of the very successful Californ Z, that are in a position to pull the should lie in the refinement of the by the concluding speaker, Professor ian Community Colleges in the :ial and occasional lever, adjust the interplay and cohesion between the Chapman : “ Where we fall down United States, is upheld, and train occasional cog, and tap the two bodies. again and again, is that in our ing is placed on a level ‘above’ individual courses, in our overall ent occasional tappet in order that the general (“ humanities” ) education, degrees, people no longer come out ty in machine (our hall of higher learning) Mike Walker lamented the narrow we will provide a far sounder basis at the far end with a grip on what ountry. may produce a product to their ness of the “ technical professionals” for specialisation and specific our major values in society are, and of 1970 specifications. - those he had found in his personal application. With an eye to the ‘or the Is University the last altruistic experience to be least prepared to how the damn thing all fits together. social and economic future of this particu- enclave of an increasingly cynical think, while they largely manipulat The twentieth century seems to be land, Professor Chapman was War. I was society, or is it merely a mind- ed the hapless mass with the divine working towards something which convinced : “ The area, undoubtedly, srsity in factory catering to the demands of sanction and immunity of a pro is exceptionally hard to define where we could make the biggest »half- big, hungry industry ? It was with fessional order. Walker complained except in vocational terms.” advances is precisely in understand oing in such arresting thoughts that I that the university (in its present ing our society. The way we hat the stumbled into the Lower Lecture transition period from an elitist Chapman noted that the normally understand New Zealand could Theatre on a black Tuesday morn club to an apprentice’s playground) university is about the knowledge society is to read a book about bstantial, ing, to try and find some answers. had lost sight of the general and values of each individual in his English or American society and There assembled were spokesmen education function of the under life - the combination of understand say ‘Well I suppose it’s the same’.” tr years from Government (John Elliot - graduate degree. As a result it is not ing we see and call meaning. Research in social areas is the d gone, MP for Whangarei, and Chairman training professional people University ought to be the fertiliz obvious way ahead - we have a huge otest ; of the House Select Committee on resource of personnel in this field, s a posit- education), industry (Dr Ashley so why not use it ? The potential largely Wilson - NZ Forest Products), social and economic usefulness is They were [ teaching staff (Professor Robert terrific. Thus, the aim o f university d of ; -Chapman - Pol.Studies), and the education should be clear: by the »r. But Students Association (President use of the university system as a ological Mike Walker). They addressed model, where delegation, responsib thrive members of staff on these very ility (out to the participants), nally got questions during the first session of discussion, and questioning are the a great the Teaching Skills Workshop. procedures of day-to-day living. itics and The first to speak was John Although the symposiasts agreed Elliot, who considered that the on the basic and general aims of r views aim of any education institution university education, there was iphically would be “ to produce a better some obvious disagreement over person, better qualified for his job, the order of their priority. Which ' based, and/or better prepared to take his comes first - the reward and im place in the community as a fully fulfilment of the subject taught I was an integrated individual. And if his (through research, etc.) of the j and 1 education makes him a snob, or an student, or of the society in which ist - by isolate, or a mis-fit, or a know-all, this ail goes on ? For industry it st, not a r then he won’t fit in and this is not must boil down to a question of r-ist. I see doing the job that any higher “ you pays your money and you 3 means education system should do.” takes your choice” (and the recent lite Elliot then identified three main student upheaval in France over a part of aspects of university education: the demands o f French industry he those involving professional shows just how far that can go). ys of vocational training (e.g. as in However, it’s not so easy for u’re medicine and law), general academia, which must analyse such . A very education by which our social and responsibilities in both monetary :e to ask cultural development is strengthen and human terms. It may be argued ieourage- ed (e.g. psychology, music, that a happy student will make life ive to anthropology, etc), and researcher more harmonious and productive s training as an important area of for all parties, so society and national planning and development. research reap their own con ng aware Mr Elliot emphasised that matur sequential rewards. unction ity and life experience are often a This workshop seemed to agree ng to like good compensation for a tertiary that a university education must nfluenced qualification, and the tertiary somehow be synonomous with the be com- system would have to realise a creation of an awareness, in the rin wright, broadening o f its scope in order to student, of the necessity for the >ria meet the demands of those enrolling development of a critical perspect ;istical later in life, rather than straight ive and an appreciation of values; sities from school. He saw no justifica does the derby the university should endeavour to out the tion for the idea that a ‘general’ provide a meaning of life for the l through education must finish at UE level. individual - that there should be an education for all which, by its ige terms His theme was one of general fulfilling nature, would provide a it was in education for ‘total’ development; have a sound basis for both social and eology an education that should not economic progress, and academic which necessarily be vocation specific. advancement. In an age where liversities economy is generally the determin eals. Dr. Wilson endorsed Mr. Elliot’s finishing line ? ing factor in any forward planning, ound views concerning the basic aims in an aim such as this must be the r ideals. teaching and research - the two most acceptable for it will benefit iir areas of vital importance in all concerned if it is followed ictice, industry. He felt that as the talitarian. majority of graduates were employ sincerely. ed in industry (and much research was funded by “ the public” ), it was David Miller
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Since the apartment was relatively and differential rents through the Rent RENTS, BONDS modern the condition of the flats was Appeal Board, and begin to recover the even more surprising. Many had stained illegal bond payments. The landlord will wallpaper or carpet where dampness had be informed of the illegality of the 10% seeped through brick walls. Bathroom surchage for late rents, and of the pro & COCKROACHES taps and facilities often leaked, and vision in the tenancy agreement that one tenant was unable to use her shower allows him to cut off the tenant’s power because the outlet had been blocked for should the tenant fail to meet the condi two to three months. Plumbers had been tions of the agreement. Lastly, the Mt. sent, but they claimed it was the main Eden Borough Council Health Inspector tenance carpenter’s job. has already consented to fumigate the V Almost every flat was infested with whole apartment block to rid the flats of The Man W1 cockroaches ! There were cockroaches the coctaroaches. Jason Calde in cupboards, under carpets, and even in In general then, the tenant should a bed. Some of the children were covered firmly but politely ask for a copy of the Dunmore P: in bites from the vermin. When tenants tenancy agreement, should refuse to pay complained the landlord ga:ve them an more than the equivalent of one month’s No, not to insecticide, but within two to three days rent as bond or rent in advance or both, perhaps tom o the cockroaches were back gain. Not and refuse to pay ‘letting fees’ and inform exercise in br surprisingly some tenants were becoming the landlord of the illegality of such pig. Our storj desperate, but as one said, ‘What can I do? payments. While some landlords seem to we are introd I’ve got a wife and two children. It’s not consciously take advantage of the tenant, an executive ; always easy to find accommodation.’ many are simply ignorant of tenants’ employee of What is TPA doing to redress the rights under law. more hunters situation ? First, under the Rent Appeal than any oth< Act (1973) it plans to assess the excessive Clive Makeef/TPA certain peopl things Amerh destruction. ] Rent variations that seemed to imply month’s rent. Clearly several tenants had with their sta racial discrimination, illegal bond pay made illegal bond payments according exercises in d ments, illegal letting fees, dampness, to the survey. One tenant paid $233 just phone calls, f blocked plumbing and cockroaches, cock to move in! Under the same Act an and emotion) roaches galore ! These were the findings additional ‘letting fee’ is also illegal, yet .Mr. Tulloch s of a Tenants Protection Association most of the tenants had had to pay $20 thousand dol survey of a modern apartment block in to $25 as ‘letting fee’, and one, when about eight, t Dominion Rd, Mt. Eden on Saturday, moving from one flat to another within spent on its t 26th June. T.P.A. had received several the same apartment building, had to pay last elections complaints from the residents of Heiber another ‘letting fee’ of $25. Further, i f traditionally Buildings, a conglomeration of forty-eight rent payments were late, the landlord groups are in flats, spread over three floors above a reserved the right to levy a 10% sur and the moti block of shops, and decided to investigate. charge. And if this was not effective, the of the killing Results of the survey showed that rents tenancy agreement gave the landlord the Muldoon varied widely and unjustifiably. They right to switch off the tenant’s power more than w ranged from $26 to $56 per week, and should he fail to meet any of the condi perpetual me while some flats had only one bedroom tions of that agreement. Interestingly, interviews. A and others three there was little correla T.P.A. was allowed to see this provision ing about sec tion between this fact and the amount of in action as the landlord entered a flat, considers un: rent charged. Most significantly, three of where a TPA worker was taking the the book act the four highest rents were paid by survey, upbraided the tenant for not of the man i: Islanders or Indians. paying his rent and promptly switched cast of parliE According to the Rent Appeal Act off his power. A few minutes later the display of M (1973) it is illegal for a landlord to de co-worker sought to reason with the for ‘the cutt: mand as rent in advance or as bond or landlord, but to no avail and the ful handling both, more than the equivalent of one response, ‘Go on sue me then.’ Dead Cockroaches this brief gla Jason Caldei Zealand geoj of our intern by Time or i From the versy surrou BOB rightly expe with a stron bias. In fact John Panting ingly tame, HALDANE escapes witr 1940-1974 although Mr said of secui have some s makes them Sculptor left-wing ph MOTORCYCLES at comment Instead c treatment o NZ's largest Second hand the Firm, ai selection spares the history, of tyres cedures of ( rather a bor profession - Fitted free Fast efficient remote and of charge - workshop. who seems while you wait. occasional; of the w orl Mechanic ii both creatii Anyone assembled . to read this Always dismantling late model bikes genre - but of Muldooi propagan d< STUDENT DISCOUNT further tha on Accessories & Spares Hugh Co< 157 MANUKAU RD. EPSOM Ph. 601-369 Richard 1 Retreat fi Oxford 1'
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12 July 1976/Craccum/page 10 I The Man Who Shot Rob Muldoon Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Rhodesia or Jason Calder anywhere is something that anyone Dunmore Press with morality must consider. For us in New Zealand where we purport to be an egalitarian multi-racial society the No, not today’s headline (though complicated problem of our sporting perhaps tomorrow’s) but a fictional relationship with an avowedly racist T** - 'fev* exercise in bringing the abbatoir to the nation must be considered. pig. Our story opens in California, where Richard Thompson’s book ‘R etrea t we are introduced to George H. Tulloch, from Apartheid' is a most excellent book an executive assassin and long-time to read for background information on employee of the Firm. In a land with this issue. Thompson has been very more hunters and deerstalkers per capita thorough in his research for this book and The N ew Zealand Students' Arts Council presents “ Cambodia, its People than any other nation, it seems that adopts a historical perspective. He weaves and the War". This is a photogi'aphic essay by Terence White who has certain people feel that they must look to his way through the history of New travelled extensively throughout Asia. He spent several months in Cambodia. things American when it comes to pest Zealand/South African rugby relations The present photographs cover the time up to the recent change in control destruction. During the opening pages, revealing a tangled web of bureaucratic of the country. The Exhibition opens on Monday 12th July, in the Little with their standard melodramatic buck-passing and political expediency. T heatre. exercises in disguises, anonymous tele The opening pages set the stage of politi phone calls, false identification papers cal intrigue against which the drama is and emotionless stares, we learn that reflected. Thompson briefly outlines the .Mr. Tulloch stands to collect one hundred political attitudes and climate of South thousand dollars for a successful killing - Africa since the early days of sporting about eight times what the Labour Party contact with N.Z., a contact that seemed spent on its television advertising for the to be justified in the New Zealander’s last elections. Indeed, none of our eyes by the rationale that sports and traditionally impecunious opposition politics don’t mix. He mentions too the groups are implicated in this manuscript growth of non-racial sports bodies (and and the motivation behind authorisation the accompanying persecution and of the killing remains murky throughout. harassment) which are to play a signifi Muldoon himself is presented as no cant role in changing world opinion to more than walking timetable, arranging ward S.A. Thompson doesn’t punctuate perpetual meetings, telephone calls and his account with the controversial interviews. Although he is shown protest incidents that so often polarise attitudes ing about security precautions which he over such an explosive issue, but there is considers unnecessary, the closest that moral under-tone right through the book. the book actually gets to the personality Thompson covers all New Zealand’s of the man is in a description of a broad sporting contacts with S.A., not just cast of parliament which features a rugby, and shows up the naivety and in display of Muldoon debating, noteworthy some cases the subtely racist attitude of for ‘the cutting, rasping tone, the master us ‘good Kiwi blokes’. He uncovers the ful handling of sarcasm.’ In keeping with political machinations behind the this brief glance at our head of state, ‘ Bridge-building’ policy, the ‘all-white All Jason Calder provides a sketch of New Blacks’ tour team. He illustrates the al Zealand geography and the exoskeleton most presumptuous arrogance of our of our internal politics, as done perhaps. political leaders in the face of world by Time or N ew sw eek. opinion. In an issue where we claim to From the title, and the public contro the world’s leaders (i.e. a multi-racial versy surrounding the book, one might society), we should do more than pay lip- rightly expect a highly political work service to such a claim. This is the tenor with a strong radical and anti-National of Thompson’s book: he points out our bias. In fact, it proves to be disappoint hypocrisy based on ignorance and ingly tame. The SIS enters the story, but obstinance. And he deals even-handedly escapes without any scars to show for it, with some of the protest groups, indicting Harold Pinter gramme. The absurdity of communication although Mr. Calder does allow it to be them on the same grounds of political The Birthday Party becomes linguistic fantasy in the “ high said of security people that ‘they seem to exploitation. The very fairness and object Theatre Corporate speed taper shank spiral flute reamers” of have some sort of built-in mechanism that ivity of the book coupled with the subtle Trouble in the Works and linguistic makes them respond to suggestions of banality in Evening Standard sales and moral stance make it required reading for An evening’s saturation with Pinter’s left-wing plots’ - which may be an attempt anyone wishing to become active in this last buses on the Fulham Road of Last at comment. theatre leaves one in no doubt as to the To G o and Black and White. Although issue of justice. somewhat dubious value of our daily Instead of politics, we get a loving Another book, though a less scholarly humour dominates, the sinister quality treatment of the power and mystique of verbiage in the service of communication. prevails in The Applicant devoted, to work, which should go hand in hand with Although something of a period piece the Firm, and a detailed description of Thompson’s book is Tom Newnham’s electrode bombardment of an interview the history, lifestyle and operating pro in Avant garde theatre these days (must victim resembling the cross-examination Apartheid is not a game. This eminently be Stoppard’s fault!), The Birthday Party cedures of George H. Tulloch, who is readible book is quite different in scene of the earlier play. rather a boring character - but for his is still a hardhitting and in part witty The Pinter season ends 11th July. approach to Thompson’s. It is more a reminder of the alienating forces within profession - a man who is enigmatic, reflection and a testimony by Newnham Next production - Raymond Hawthorne’s remote and perhaps even inscrutable, the language ritual. The significance of vision of Midsummer Night's Dream on the growth of the protest movement, the word in its delivery rather than in who seems to express no emotion except and specifically of CARE. As such it is a opening 23rd July. occasional anger. Tulloch borrows some its meaning exploits the theatrical medium rather subjective and emotional account to its best advantage, but demands much of the working habits of Bronsons at times. Quotations are prolifically Robyn Sutcliffe Mechanic in the film of that name, and of the performers themselves. Certainly &!r?3 scattered throughout the book, the Theatre Corporate players under the both creations are similar in their ending. the only flaw with this being that so Anyone interested in a New Zealand- direction of Peg Escott (a motivating often the statements are out of the energy behind the potential Lake Pupuke assembled American thriller is welcome context where they were originally made. to read this competent example of that pumping station arts centre project) This tends to make them a pretext by an capture Pinter’s humour in the current Theatre genre - but remember that the mention author to justify the pre-suppositions of production. Marion Parry in particular of Muldoon is spurious. As far as making his book. Newnham is no exception in propaganda goes, Mr. Calder never got brings a wealth of comic gesture and this case. To illustrate: In 1949 Major- expression to her role as Meg, the slovenly, further than the title. General H.K. Kippenberger made a V\feek dull-witted landlady craving after the public statement against SA’s apartheid affections of her rather less enthusiastic Hugh Cook - policy and discriminatory ideas regarding boarder. Acceleration of the threatening Maori selections. Newnham refers to this mood in the Second Act, precipitated by MON JULY 12th - FRI 23rd incident (p.22) Thompson mentions the the arrival of McCann (Colin MacDonald) LITTLE THEATRE: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. same statement but includes the sequel and Goldberg (Alan Johnston), lacks Photographic Exhibition by Terence Richard Thompson where Kippenberger is reported to have the appropriate intensity to assure the White - sponsored by NZSAC. Admission Retreat from Apartheid apologised for his‘objectionable remarks’. fullest projection of Stanley’s “ existential free. Oxford 1975 I know that I too have taken things anxiety” . But the onslaught of barely out of context here but it serves to coherent accusations during Stanley’s TUESDAY 13th illustrate the point that neither book is cross-examination (shades of Ionesco’s OLD MAID 7 p.m. Film ’ 76: T he D a m n ed Tom Newnham complete in itself. They compliment one admission 50 cents. Apartheid is not a game knife incantation in The Lesson, culmin another. Both contain provocative mater ates in a well sustained decline into Graphic, Auckland 1975 WEDNESDAY 14th ial. Thompson’s book gives a political insanity’s moronic stupour from Ian LITTLE THEATRE 1 p.m. University perspective and the associated problems, Hogg in the role of Stanley. Jenni Ward, Dancers Lunchtime Event - admission by Friday night May 28 anti-Apartheid Newnham gives the more personal as Lulu, brings vitality to the party, and donation. demonstration. Friday night June 4, dilemmas. In assuming in many ways, Paul Wentford, as Petey, gentleness to Friday Conference with Abraham Ordia, that the basic fabric of N.Z. society is the final scene with Meg. FRIDAY 16th Precious McKenzie and others. June 17, right, they both fall short in providing The ‘impertinence’ of silence in the OLD MAID 1 p.m. Conservatorium of the Soweto incident. On the eve of the any thought-out directives for a “ monologous” dialogue of Request Stop Music Lunchtime Programme - Admission All Black’s South African tour apartheid solution in the long-term to the apartheid sets the comic mood for the Workshop free. seemed to be the number one news item. problem. production of five Pinter sketches (1959) MONDAY 19th : The plight of the white the black and the which follow The Birthday Party in a OI.D MAID 1 p.m. Rock Concert - ‘The coloured whether in South Africa, Angola, Tony Woollams late evening appendage to the main pro Living Force’ ...... ______Y •
CAREFULLY! Rich Body
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12 July 1976/Craccum/page 12 Ska or Bluebeat, and the only international Ska hit was Millie Small’s ‘My Boy Lollipop’ (on which incidentally Rod Stewart played harmonica). But as the music developed through the 60’s the instrumental emphasis switched from pianos and saxes to the guitars and bass which picked out lines o f increasing The news in last week’s news melodic and rhythmic complexity, paper read - ‘Jamaica was while at the same time the overall yesterday in an indefinite state of effect was less cluttered and more emergency, announced by the powerful. One critic tried to Prime Minister Mr Michael Manley. h o V e * ° define this music’s appeal - ‘the \ The emergency declaration secret of reggae rhythm seems to followed the discovery of a cache be that the bass leaves the final of arms by the security forces in beat of the bar empty for the the Trenchtown section of Kings ticking drums and guitar to come ton, one of the areas in the through, giving a feeling o f tension capital plagued by violence. The and release as old as jazz’. But indefinite state of emergency was the only records to break out of announced in an effort to curb their Jamaican origins to internat violence which has claimed more ional success were Desmond than 70 lives this yfear.’ To Dekker’s 2 hits in the late ’60’s anyone familiar with Jamaican ‘The Israelites’ and ‘It Mek’, while music, this news would have Johnny Nash and Jimmy Cliff used come as little surprise. Reggae the West Indian rhythms together reflects the embittered feelings of with Western pop music to create many young Jamaicans. As a diluted reggae style. But the Desmond Dekker sings in Shanty more uncompromising forms of Town - ’dem a loot, dem a shoot, reggae have only come through to dem a wail in shanty town’, this country only as it has been real Marley talks of ‘burning and a ised that it could be sold to a looting tonight’, while the white audience en masse, rather Slickers tell of ‘ walking down the than just to exiled West Indian road with a pistol in your hand, communities. Johnny you’re too bad’. And the Even so, for the reggae music Slickers should know, for on the devotee in NZ it’s rather like last information we have one of coming in half-way through a the Slickers had gone under very long movie. For example, ground, while another was on Toots and the Maytals have been death row. Bob Marley & the a success in Jamaica since 1962 Wailers are probably one o f the black people by whom and for and have released 10 albums and Louis Jordan and Joe Turner. The 200 singles in their home country most strongly political of all the whom it is played. But its back West Indians began to play their Jamaican bands. Marley and his ground, the unemployment and while in NZ their first single and own adaptions of the R & B album came out last month. Still band are Rastafarians, a peculiar slums of the West Indies is far sound using the roughness and religion that takes its name from worse than anything you might things are on the up as reggae gets spontaneity they admired in the the international hype through the the Ethiopian Ras Tafari, also find in the USA today (as anyone originals and adding their own popular music press, so now the known as Emperor Haile Selassie. who saw the Film Festival feature feeling for rhythm, which was They saw him as a kind of ‘black Maytals can tour the States as ‘The Harder They Come’ will completely different. Many of support act to the Who and the Moses’ who would lead these lost appreciate). these early records were unsophist Wailers can headline tours around tribes of Israel home to Africa. Like Marley, the son of a icated in musical arrangements and the world. Because of this belief in a return British army captain from Liver primitive in execution for many For like most of the innovatory of the Promised Land the movement pool and a black Jamaican woman, of the musicians were still learning music of the 20th Century it has encompasses a fierce black racial reggae is a half-caste, a hybrid. how to play and so had to limit arisen out of the black man’s pride and a desperate anti-author Its birth was the spread of black themselves to a few notes and experience and only looks like itarian stance in Jamaica. For like American music among the black chords. Still the home-grown spreading to a wider audience now the blues, reggae functions as a West Indians during the 1950’s. product was more acceptable to the media music industry sees its necessary release from the everyday Particularly popular were the more the Jamaican audience as it used potential for sale to a white existence in Jamaica. Like R & B and raucous records originating from a ‘beat’ based on a calypso rhythm, audience. Jazz it is first and foremost a the Southern States of America a strange loping kind of shuffle black music with its origins among by artists such as Fats Domino, feel. This music became known as Alastair Dougal
panied by solid brass backings featuring she is a brilliant song writer and alto and soprano saxophones, and arranger and she is personally involved classy doo-wah soul choruses. The Buffy Sainte Marie Sweet America/Native North with all the songs she sings which band leaders - Domino, Toussaint and gives them greater depth and strength. now Dr John - are often pianists, and American Child Her increasing concern for women is piano solos feature fruity barrel-house Supplied by PYE manifested in her imagery of America chord clusters: to hear another band and of rape (both personal and political making use of his approach, listen to Buffy Sainte Marie has two new kinds). America is seen as the mother Little Feat’s Bill Payne on the title track albums out - Sweet America with a line land, the eternal woman giving life but of Dixie Chicken. Other musicians up of new songs and Native North have copied the New Orleans use of Brass: American Child with all her most well damaged and brutalized by men Alan Toussaint has been particularly known songs over the past few years. especially in “ America My Home” . In influential in this respect and it is no Sweet America is by far the stronger “ Free the Lady” she uses a more personal accident that Paul McCartney has this album, musically more sophisticated image of the woman “ used and abused in sound on some of his recent work: a lot and with better production. The lyrics her bedroom” . of it was recorded at Toussaint’s Sea also show her growth and development As well as the tracks which are Saint studios in, you guessed it, New into new areas including feminism strongly political there are others which Orleans. although she maintains her devotion to are concerned with more abstract Somehow, Hollywood Be Thy Name the struggle of the Native Americans. personal feelings. These are haunting Dr John and delicate. There are also rockers Hollywood Be Thy Name does not live up to expectations. Dr The harsh, painfully emotional cries of “ My Country ‘tis of thy People which, overlaid with Buffy’s personality, United Artists L35735 John has not broken any new ground. Rather he’s standing there on Sunset You’re Dying” and “ Now that the take on their own form which she calls Supplied by Festival Boulevard with all his New Orleans chops, Buffalo’s Gone” on the Native North “pow wow rock” . Sweet America has coming on like a fish out of water. One American Child album, shocking an impressive lineup of backing music The rock-and-rollers who came out would expect some kind of amalgam of indictments of the treatment of the ians and the arrangements are superb of Gumbo Country will never win Louisiana Shuffle and LA Strut to Native Americans, have grown into the especially when compared with N ative prizes for subtlety, but they hail from emerge from Dr John’s invasion of Lowell more controlled, more objective lyrics North American Child which features a rich and scruffy tradition which George territory; kind of Chubby Checker of “ I Don’t Need No City Life” and anonymous session men struggling on a includes such greats as Roy Jenkins meets Little Feat, but instead all that we Starwalker” on Sweet America. There poor quality recording. But the latter (Professor Longhair), Fats Domino, hear is a lad who is 2,000 miles away is also a trend towards a mystical does provide on one album all her Clarence Henry, Chubby Checker, from home base. feeling; in a way it seems like stepping classic songs (as well as the ones already Alain Toussaint, and the Meters. At Not that the record isn’t worth back from the front line of the battle mentioned, “ Soldier Blue” , “ Piney times I feel that Dr John pales into buying (although if you want an intro to a more contemplative position Wood Hills” and “ Indian Cowboy” are insignificance besides these archetypes duction to New Orleans you’d be better further back. But she hasn’t lost her probably the best known). They’re of his genre but nevertheless, listening off tracking down a copy of Dr John’s faith in the power of the people as both worth buying but if you can afford to his albums is a good way to discover classic G u m b o ): there are some fine evidenced in “ Look at the Facts” . only one then choose Sweet America the elements of the New Orleans moments on it. Like the piano on For my money Buffy Sainte Marie which is the best album I’ve heard this rock tradition. track 5, side 1: quintessential B lu e is a first rate political singer as well as year. being one of the best women singers The New Orleans “ sound” (insofar berry Hill. as such a term has any validity), is around. Her voice is strong and pure, Sharyn Cederman built around the piano, and is accom Robert Douglas
12 July 1976/Craccum/page 13 'SPECIAL NZSAC MONTHLY FEATURE METRO CINEMAS LTD - PAPATOETOE STUDENT Starlight Cinema, Gt. South Rd. Papatoetoe Concession : Central Cinema, St. George St. Papatoetoe DISCOUNT Students $1.00 CA n $1.00 OFF Public $1.40 3 0 This discount is offered until the end of August. If well supported, it will Letters: Le X 1 $ ^ f f n . . continue until May 31, 1977. Support your discount scheme by attending Publicatioi HEA'r the Metro Cinemas. f c * t c o n c e n t Town Hall July-13 STUDENT FLIGHTS WITHIN EUROPE STB sales offices all now have copies of the SATA flights programme between both Studer Check with your Students Association for bioking details. June and October this year. The SATA network services over 96 European ing their paj Special Gen cities with savings up to 75% o ff normal fares. So if you are planning to travel Association' ‘"Watch for publicity on your campus about he following NZSAC to Europe in the next few months and hold a valid I SI C, see your STB offices lours : The Renee Geyer Band (July 24 - Auust 1) and Flo opinion of t for a free flight schedule with details of the fare applying. that money [Eddie (10th Aug - 14th A u g ) ______My disgu STUDENT FLIGHT AND TOUR PROGRAMME MERCURY THEATRE - AUCKLAND at professio: STB's programme of student flights and tours are now open for booking. The probably di< 20% reduction on every studer seat Concession programme includes flights to Australia, Asia, Europe and North America with little comm Production "Otherwise Engaged" a new ply by Simon Gray tours and special accommodation and travel packages in these areas. All offer this event is (winner of the 1976 Play of th Year Award), substantial discounts to the travelling student holding a valid ISIC. However Student Ass Cafe is a ser produced by B. Benthaak. space on a number of the exchange programmes, for example to USA, Season : July 31 - August 21 matter the < Canada and Japan, are limited as are seats on desired dates on flights to Asia. Do we n< Production "Taming of the Shrew" Shakeseare So get in to your STB office now for full details to avoid missing out. consultants Season : from June 25th STUDENT CRUISES Jolpi Kovac SYMPHONIA OF AUCKLAND This summer STB is offering three student cruises in the South Pacific. The Grfeg Burke first with Sitmar is for 22 days from 7 November and costs $484 for Lynda Shin Concession best circles & stalls public $5.75 accommodation in a 4 berth cabin. The other two are with CTC Lines. The Paul Jenkin students $4.75 first departing 20 December for 15 days costing $464.40 and the other from David Case-' remaining circles & stalls public $4.75 3 January for 18 days costing $626.40. Berths are limited so again, see your students $3.25 STB sales office now for details of the itinerary etc. balcony $3.50 The decisio Production An evening of Viennese Music Finally, rather than fly the Tasman sail it with STB. Two sailings Auckland to Consultants General Schubert Symphony No. 7 "Ufinished Sydney, departures 24 August and 27 September, only $120 in 4 berth M e Executive h Mahler: "Songs o f a Wayfarer" cabin. Berths limited so book now. the policy. . Johann Strauss Second Half the consulti Conductor : Juan Matteucci in retrospec Soloist: Rosemary Turnbull (cntralto) mnning o f l Season July 24-26 To keep thi Association The National Discount Scheme is organised jointly by the New Zealand some familit NORTHCOTE'S BRIDGEWAY CINEMA Students Arts Council and the Student Travel Bureau Ltd. Discounts are ings, are car Concession : Students $1.00 only available on production o f an International Student Identity Card. report shou Public $1.40 A General Met This discount is offered until the end of August. If iis well supported, it will continue, otherwise it will lapse. So it's up to ya to SUPPORT THE DISCOUNT SCHEME. 7 More Chri More Caf Moans very proud. It might surprise you to know authority on his subject but is also, as is Being a ( that there are black troops in our Rhodes sadly often not the case, a brilliant Mr. S.W. Y< Perhaps have been working too hard ian army, and also to know that they teacher. ‘propagand; lately or nybe it’s mid-term blues, but fight along side our white troops on our For me, it was a pleasure and a privi was howevt lately I ha> found myself getting very borders, against the terrorist infiltrators, lege to attend his classes. apparent la angry withhe recent dictatorial actions but it is a fact. I am concerned, as are many other Christianity of the stucnt executive. I like a cup of The war on our borders is n o t one of students, th at such a paper will no longer his own phi No coffee, no/fags tea and a sioke after two hours of lect black versus white. It is a war of Rhodes be available. He says ures in thenornings but it seems this is ians of all colours uniting to fight against the apostro Here, what goes on ? First by some asking toonuch. communism. However we are determined Priscilla Thompson. If it is true act of God the coffee servery is spirited Firstly, ve are now destined to drink to win this war and when we do, we are it ? He says away during first term holidays and we manufactued powdered tea from the going to work together, as we are trying future and all have to trek down to the Coffee Bar or machines, r wait for a quarter of an to do even now, blacks and whites to actions, but suffer at the hands of the dreaded ABM hour for a up of coffee from the coffee make Rhodesia a haven of peace. We will Cut to Shreds “Only thro bar. Seconly, you cannot buy a smoke, make Rhodesia a place where all races save himsel machine for that black murk that is called Your reviewer of Solaris, Chris James, “ coffee” . Now I return one Monday if you wan one, from Auckland can live together in harmony and prosper, claims that the film is one hour too long. then is this morning to find that.... MY GOD.... the Universityl appreciate the Executive’s under the best possible conditions. I would rather trust Tarkovsky’s judge a man must cigarettes are gone ! ARRGGGGGHHH. concern fo my health,but something The second magazine shows the work ment in this respect, than that of a film of individus I spent the rest of the day sorely deprived makes me link that I am the best judge being carried out in the TTL’S, the review er w ho found three hours’ viewing Mr. Yee of such stimulus that is provided by the o f that. Tribal Trust Lands, to try to better the insufficient to understand the plot. James nicotine contained in the Benson and Is a cupif tea and a smoke too much standard of living of the African people. I states: ‘Gibayran has left a pre-recorded Hedges packet. On closer investigation I to ask, or i$32 a year not enough to am sure what you see and read will amaze message, then com m itted suicide because discovered that this is General Meeting cover suchneagre indulgences ? you, but it is the truth. Naturally though, he considered himself insane. Actually, Policy dating back three years or so to the good work being done in Rhodesia Gibayran specifically said he was not ban all Rothmans products from campus. Geoffrey hrrison for all its peoples, is never publicised. It is all part of the psychological war being insane. Just what would James cut out, I Far and good. Rothmans are renowned w onder ? I suggest that anyone who wants for their South African interests and so waged against Rhodesia. All I can say, as I said before, is please do not believe all to mutilate a work of art would be better should be banned. But why take a ll working for, or reading, R ead ers' Digest machines out ? Is this a move to send Rhodesia Replies that you read in the newspapers and hear than reviewing films. students up to the Kiwi (sorry, Wynard on your television sets, the vast majority is downright lies. Arms Tavern) to buy their fags ? Are they Quite accidentally I have discovered Francis Pound not aware that some considerable number that you hye taken the time and trouble, Once again I must thank you for your will go up there never to return in.a sober to send theaerogramme I sent you to the fine effort in putting that aerogramme state ? In an hour-and-a-half we collected press for pblication. On behalf of all in the press. It is really appreciated, I TYPESET assure you. Studass Management Astrologers over a hundred signatures from nicotine RhodesiansI wish to say a heartfelt thank The S tu d e addicts who were suffering from you to yoifor this mighty fine gesture. withdrawal symptoms in the Cafe. I At a time \ien events taking place in Richardyne Williams It seems ridiculous that $4500 of our time on its believe that a similar petition to open the Rhodesia a? being so blatantly and so money (ie that which is in the hands of student ch coffee servery resulted in over 600 names. grossly miscported, it is indeed nice to the Students’ Association) has been spent the Associ We want our cigarettes back. Refuse and know that .hodesia still has some friends. on management consultants for the pur extension you will be faced with thousands of I wish toreturn your good-will gesture Dr Kalous’s Resignation pose of finding means of preventing cafe- maddened and angry addicts within a few and I cann< think of a better way of taria losses, which last year amounted to A ssociatio weeks. doing so thi by sending you a Rhodesian As a former student of Dr Milan $25,000. magazine cled Rhodesia Calls. I will Kalous’s Stage II paper ‘West Africa Surely this cost only aggravates student finances ? Isn’t it like adding more money Dave Merritt initially sell you two of our fine maga before 1800’, it was with shock and deep PAPER F Julie Page zines and tyou would like more I will concern that I learnt of his resignation to Cafeteria losses ? And surely since the have one set to you every two months yesterday (June 23). recommendations of the managements Studass hi P.S. I found that this motion was propos as soon as ley are published, and that Dr Kalous’s lectures were among the were exactly those of the chefs working for sale: ] ed by Registrar Pullar and seconded by way you wl find out what a super best I have encountered. Rarely in my within the Cafe before the consultants Folscap S Vice-Chancellor Maiden, both of whom country Rbdesia really is. experience has a lecturer so ably even ventured into the badly designed smoke heavily. And they can get their One of te magazines I am sending you communicated his enthusiasm for his architectural anomaly that’s a sad approx ream), Qu fags in the University Staff Common now is a I f 5 issue, but it contains an subject to his students, and this accounts, imation for efficiency, why were they ream) and Room. excellent aide on the RAR, the I believe, for his popularity among them. employed in the first place ? It wasn’t per ream) Rhodesia /rican Rifles, a battalion of His lectures were meticulous, absorbing necessary. visit the S black Rhoosian troops, of whom we are and complete. Dr. Kalous is a world I feel this is a pitiful indictment of
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Maoristmis Flourish on Central Plateau
Nothing short o f a miracle o f social planning husbandry coupled with the natural law of the - that’s the way leaders o f the Maoristans to the survival o f the fattest. An agriculture spokes west o f National Park are describing the Govern man says that if there is no snow this winter, ment’s enlightened efforts to solve the problems they should survive. of racial conflict in New Zealand. An interesting byproduct o f this voluntary Thousands o f Maoris who were unable to experiment in returning to traditional values cope with the problems o f urban living are re has been a rebirth o f group solidarity. Dispass lishing the new challenges of living with nature ionate observers from the Justice Department’s in these former barren uplands. Toiling with a Corrective Division who are assisting in the will, they are transforming the pumice screes experiment say the Maoris in the Maoristans and peat bogs of National Park into blooming are practising tribal songs with a fervour not subsistence gardens. And the women, in a re heard since the 1870s. turn to their traditional roles, are building sod Meanwhile, the Government Computer at whares and nursing children at the breast. Wanganui yesterday denied that the Govern Crops which have been found to flourish on ment was planning to apply to the United the sub-alpine tundra are reindeer moss and the Nations for independence for the Maoristans. It dwarf Patagonian potato. Agricultural experts added: “ This is premature. We cannot do this who are supervising the brave experiment feel until they are all transferred to the Chathams. sure that the problems experienced last winter, But the crays are not fished out yet.” when about half the population of the Maori stans was wiped out by rickets and famine, Special Correspondent/Ohakune have been overcome by a policy of good soil