I . , f • __ , . Auckland University Students' paper i t price 6d subscription 5s Teig could nota vol. 28 no. 4 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 ould be ‘vied t l l C C I M ig good traditid The boys clajj eat tradists rejjj although they a few ‘nits’ mi Irugged) for Students Misrepresented At Communist Meeting ; admitted bushed (groj appearances, and assorted anti-Communists emperance surged angrily around the Jon’t dig cocoa, Varsity part in anti­ stration, asking permission Eye witness account of doors. Police called for rein­ roup seem toi communist demonstration to move or act at all times. forcements. rticipation such^ was blatantly misrepre­ The anti-Communist chair­ sented. The letter sent by the Communist protest man asked his followers to makes for appropriate Executive re­ The paragraph which disperse quietly — ‘make it a presentative to the Herald peaceful demonstration’. This n had plenty contained the m ajor m is­ explained the situation On Thursday, April 11, some students contacted both for the South representation was the last. Police and Security informing them of a possible had little effect. ces, whose typi ably, but was hardly strong David Wright asked the s: Inspector S. M. Anderson enough in the circum­ student attendance at the coming Communist Party police if he could speak to the fine band, 1 confirmed the arrests and stances. The demand for an meeting in the Concert Chamber on Sunday night. students — they agreed; so nglish’. said: “A lot of stupid stu­ apology in the Herald was Two hundred students duly Igitur rang out, followed by he suggested, to alternating dents.” The inference here evidently deleted, either by assembled outside Varsity at stirring national anthems, cheers and silence, that the ken keys is too obvious to have been Executive pressure or by 7.30 on the 14th, and marched British and New Zealand. students regroup further down piano man Gi a mere printing mistake. the Herald. down to the Town Hall, where The students arrived to find Queen Street away from the ords to say And why was Inspector It is unfortunate that an they were greeted with boos all doors barred by police out­ doors. They moved. Police then . Many were Anderson published so ob­ opportunity to put an end and jeers — have we a Red side, thickset, overcoated men cleared the footpath in front ;h missing strj viously out of context? This to this was not taken. Image? inside. They became restive, of the glass doors. keys — 'butt! misrepresentation has been However, these changed to and when some people were It was evident at that stage confirmed by the Inspector. cheers when the Gaudeamus ejected, a mass of students that no more bodies would be nounters had'j However, — perhaps it allowed into the meeting, so sh comments i As can be seen by the was thought that a Horton they decided to wait ‘to the good after j letter printed in the Herald donation to the building finish’, make their presence ing laws — tit by the Public Relations fund was a possibility, and felt by singing and chanting .11 and the Officer, the students co­ as we all know the Build­ under the concert chamber fine together ad operated with the police ing Fund comes first. windows. To ensure all was is apparently; throughout the demon­ Editor. ‘above board’, David spoke to the ‘public minf. Inspector Anderson, who said c said that ttq that such action was perfectly lub but it wasi legal. Later in the evening he fir close harmq was heard to say, ‘You’re not ng, the grof making much noise!’ ?rge as forced Professor J. Rutherford dr own right, ^ At the same time David r obvious enjop The late Professor James scholarly books that cul­ asked if he could arrange for /ing a ‘blow’ i Rutherford was born at minated in his authorita­ six representatives to be ad­ ;r has contribute Dunston-on-Tyne in 1906, tive work on Sir George mitted. This the inspector iccess. Whata! and his sudden "death at Grey. tried to do, but the organisers , they keep win the relatively early age of For this work alone his would not agree — 'quoting me can remera'as 67 has come as a shock name will surely live on fire regulations. treement with a to all. in historical circles. So the two-hour vigil of man who stopped He was brought up in singing, chanting and marching utograph huntei the hard schooling of St. John’s began. Singing ranged from stence on see.} bleak Northumberland, In the early years of his ‘Harry was a Commo’, to ts, revisionists, where he early learnt that professorship he took a ‘Lloyd George knew my y are people li progress and success only leading part in administra­ father’. The number in the came from hard work and tion and served his time group varied from 200 to 400. F. J.L steady application, and the as chairman of the Pro­ TV cameras capftured every professional distinction he fessorial Board. He also new development. At 9 o’clock achieved undoubtedly served for. 21 years on the the group was encouraged by stemmed in fact from this St. John’s College Board the weather forecast and news. early lesson. of Governors, where he By 9.15 morale had dropped undoubtedly exercised con­ with light drizzle and perhaps ” SHOWS Professor at 28 siderable influence. a lack of novelty, so a march Graduating BA and then During the last war he was started down one side of MA from Durham Univer­ went as captain with NZ Queen Street and up the ed forun sity, he took his doctorate forces to the Pacific other, crossing below the lerable proconaf at the University of Michi­ Islands, and this was a Town Hall, once again with s son was like gan. From 1928 to 1933 period of service that police sanction. Many non- 1 Emperor. Hs he was lecturer in history meant much to him. students followed this, to clap­ e less pure, bat at Southampton Univer­ ping from bystanders. A bugler r was equally sity College. In 1934 he Music blew nobly from shoulders that l that of h was appointed at the age He had a love and talent often formed seats that night. ty-two acknw- of 28 — extremely young for good music and often BUILDING FUND From time to time informa­ lines, and a lib- for a professor in those sought relaxation in this tion was relayed from ‘inside’ 12,000 volumes, days, indeed, at any time outlet from writing, con­ The Government has announced a £220,000 sub­ to expelled hecklers. variety of his time — to the chair of centrated thought or the sidy for the new student building — to be given The problem then occurred nd from the pro- history at Auckland. hard grind of examining. on a pound-for-pound basis, on the money raised to the leaders of what plan to h he left behind He occupied this chair He enjoyed singing, and by the students. follow when the Communists 5 that the former for nearly 30 years, during in its early years he was appeared, for up till then the he latter wen the last seven of which an active member of the The student funds accumulated by the time students had been dignified use rather that Dorian Choir. that the building opens are estimated at £140,000. and law-abiding — while he suffered greatly from maintaining a vigorous vocal ill health. He leaves behind him a This means that £80,000 needs to be raised protest. record of achievement in by public appeal. Meanwhile scouts posted which Historian the fields of scholarship, around the building noticed Professor Rutherford writing and teaching of Students asked to help — see page 3 about a dozen police and three was first and foremost an which any University Govt, grant £22,0000 Public appeal £80,000 grey cars with engines running historian, and during the graduate could be proud. Student money £140,000 ------on the Greys Avenue side of suekland Univerc:» occupancy of the chair he ation, and prints published a number of —V. J. Chapman. Cost of building £440,000 the hall. Fifty students moved ers Ltd. — Continued eol. 5, page 2 areas to be in India, and finally Communist Protest—continued CRA CC UM Ohou En-lai in 1956 agreed from page 1 Students MONDAY MAY 6 1963 with Nehru that the so-called around to ‘send off’ the and tell ‘McMahon Line’ (as both speakers’, who appeared about pamphlet habitually called it!) should 9.45. Their terrified expres­ to visit: t be the basis of friendly re­ sions and hurried moves to tions. lations on the frontier, though the cars showed the demon­ MAJOR ISSUES IN he now flatly denies making stration was having some suc­ Pleas this statement. cess. They met controlled Students’ Further, the disputed areas hostility. SINO-INDIAN WAR being of small economic value Immediately these students Name but of considerable strategic returned to the main doors The Sino-Indian conflict about India’s Northern frontier, resulting in open significance, it can only be where fighting had begun, as war in October, 1962 has far greater international significance than the re assumed that the latter con­ some of the crowd, who were Address du mote location or limited violence of the clash might seem to warrant. obviously ‘along for the fight, sideration is the motivating mistook the audience, includ­ The issues involved are no­ though determined, was stead­ another Communist power factor. But here again strat­ ing some students, for Com­ ily overcome until, in mid- can only be explained by as­ egic gains are desired only by Address dui 8£tô thing less than the survival those who fear aggression or munist leaders. Eggs, onions of the contestants as major November, the Chinese forces suming that the U.S.S.R. and policemen’s" hats flew. powers and the realignment were within reach of the wants to check its over-am­ plan it themselves. Since it is The students watched while of world power groups. plains of Assam. At this stage bitious Oriental prestige, or ridiculous to suggest that In­ forming up once more outside Area in wl When India and Pakistan they unilaterally proposed a it has adopted the much dia plans to invade and con­ the concert chamber to march to visit (pi cease-fire and withdrawal of abused capitalist practice of quer China, the reverse must in Auckland became independent in August, be regarded as being the ex­ off. They left to the cheers 1947 they fell heirs to the the forces of both sides to selling its goods on any avail­ and clapping of police and area in thi frontier problems of the Brit­ positions 12 miles behind the able market regardless of id­ planation for the acquisition crowd. Inspector Anderson sig­ lines held on 7th November, eological considerations. of strategic areas by China. ish Raj and the agreement However, for China to con­ nalled approval to Dadd made by it with contiguous 1959. Indo-Pakistan relations Wright — the national anthem states. habitually strained since 1947, quer India is valueless unless was sung with conviction and Initially Pakistan had more have deteriorated further after it can literally exterminate dignity. dangerous problems since its By W. T. BOY, MA (Lucknow) Pakistan’s rejection of an its already teeming population North-West frontier included Lecturer in History, University Indian note of protest, on the and this it cannot hope to do all the historic invasion routes of Auckland grounds that the portion of without provoking massive estimation at any rate) and into the subcontinent. Also it Kashmir involved cannot be military and probably nuclear stand to gain much. had a turbulent neighbour in This stilll meant that Chin­ claimed by India as no pleb­ aid to India. So the only re­ We may therefore antici­ Afghanistan, and after the ese troops were well within iscite has been held to decide maining alternative seems to pate periodic renewals of the Faculty Kashmis crisis had settled into Indian territory. It is not its fate. be that domestic considera­ border conflict, and in conse­ the existing stalemate com­ clear whether this move was tions are behind China’s moves. quence of India’s new foreign Clubs mon borders with China and made in anticipation of the REPERCUSSIONS Three years of bad harvests, policy changes in the compo­ Tibet. By contrast Indian onset of a Himalayan winter, the reported failure to achieve sition of the worlds power Interests frontiers with Tibet, Napal, or to demonstrate that the A similar rejection by China industrial targets, unrest in blocs as they exist at present. Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma and Chinese had the ability to gives as its ground that it the communes, and a soaring The eventual pattern can­ China were regarded as being nominate a military objective does not recognise the access­ increase of population are not possibly be forecast be­ clearly defined, mutually ac­ and take it at will, or yet ion of Kashmir to India. This problems that may well make cause of the many imponder­ ceptable, and in any case im­ again to put on a flamboyant is a complete reversal of even a ruthless totalitarian ables in the form of new pregnable and therefore likely demonstration of sweet reason­ Chou En-lai’s statement of regime fear for its continued nations in Africa and Asia, to be peaceful. So Indian re­ ableness. There is no evidence March, 1956 accepting the existance. The solution may the desire of the U.S.S.R. to lations with all these states that any pressure exerted by Indian claim. India therefore well be to regain and hold avoid war and x'each Western Students was friendly and this attitude the U.S.S.R. was behind the accuses both China and Pakis­ proper support by foreign ad­ living standards, and above or a day’: was quickly extended to the withdrawal. tan of exploiting India’s dif­ ventures appealing to the all the spread of nuclear wea­ ferences with them to keep point People’s Republic of China At the same time as this traditionally xendpholric Chin­ pons, but its starting Full- 1 when it came into existance. offensive was in progress or seize Indian territory. It ese peasantry. If the victim may well be the world’s reap if you wc Even after the Chinese ‘liber­ talks were being held in Pe- also regards Pakistan’s action can be regarded as being cer­ praisal of the importance of holiday j< ation’ of Tibet which was ef­ kin to demarcate a Sino-Pak- in the face of a common tain not to turn the tables, India’s freedom. fective by 1954 the Indian istani frontier. The settlement threat not only treacherous then China can count on a Part- view was that Tibet had reached in December, 1962, but suicidal. Pakistan, on the war of attrition whenever she traditionally been under Chin­ provided for further adjust­ other hand, always wary of chooses, to reopen the quarrel, ★ We Sell Books! Pleas ese suzerainty and a strong ments when India and Pakis­ India, is perturbed about the and continue to do this until Students’ central government in Pekin tan settled the Kashmir flow of arms into India, and discontents at home settle was merely reasserting a question. is coming to terms with down. Name limited authority. All this was China (probably with private emphasised when China and reservations about its relia­ If the victim is a former India publicly announced that REJECTION bility as a signatory of agree­ diplomatic ally the loss is Address dt the basis of their friendly re­ The repercussions of these ments) is attempting to neu­ seen as a calculated price to lations was to be the Five events on the Indian scene tralize at least one of its be paid for remaining in power Principles (of peace co-exist- were varied and violent. The many troubled borders. at home. Finally, the Chinese Address du ence) or Panchshella. On close Congress Government an its There remains the unsolved have probably calculated on Auckland examination these appear to leader Nehru came under problem of Chinese motives keeping the conflict localised you woulc be high-sounding but amor­ severe criticism from opposi­ for launching this offensive on thus preventing wholesome phous nothings. tion parties, there were one of its few friends, when nuclear retaliation; but it changes in the Defence Minis­ it is already involved in major must not be forgotten that BEGINNINGS try and the Military High ideological conflict with its even were this to happen Mao- Command, and the economy only powerful supporters so tse-tung has repeatedly de­ The major Tibetan revolt of the country was put on a far — the U.S.S.R.. clared that China alone does Motor Scooter of 1958 and the closing of the war footing. The only comfort not need to fear nuclear war. Indo-Tibetan frontier marked the shaken Government got CLAIM The reason is simple—any Owners! the end of India’s apparent was that the major opposition such war would nearly ex­ unconcern about her Northern party — the Communist Party It cannot possibly be that terminate the nuclear powers Does your scooter approaches. Relations with of India — was deeply divided China seriously believes that but merely solve the Chinese Type o f \ China steadily deteriorated on the issue and, though a the territories it has invaded population problem, leaving a get up and go ... during 1959 and 1960 during majority manifesto protested do actually belong to it. After large enough number of sur­ or has it got up which period frontier clashes loyalty, the Party has lost all when the frontiers were vivors to guarantee China’s between Chinese and Indian much prestige. drawn in 1842 (Ladakh) and domination over all remain­ and gone ? patrols occuri’ed several times In its external relations In­ 1914 (the McMahon line from ing powers. and led to the exchange of dia has had to make a re- Bhutan to Burma) Chinese j You need “Scooter Main­ literally hundreds of notes be­ appraisel of its policy based representatives of the then RENEWALS tenance Complete” . . . . Name tween the Governments and on the realisation that ‘neu­ existing Central Governments ; The ideal non-technical their heads, and the publica­ tralism’ has failed to protect were present, Chinese maps I On balance therefore, the book on scooter mainten­ tion, in 1960, of an Indian it in the harsh world of of 1893 show the disputed Chinese risk little (in their ance. Addres White Paper on the entire ‘realpolitik’ as practised by the Covers all major makes. situation. Chinese. Finally, in October, 1962, the It has had to modify its ON TWO YEARS GUARANTEED We recommend it! 13/3 Chinese launched simultane­ pacific policy while clinging to FULL WEIGHT BATTERIES. Phone, write, call, or all I ar ous attacks on poorly prepared the shreds of ‘non-alignment’ 6-volt from £4/5/6 three! Appeal 1 and lightly manned Indian to the extent that it has ac­ 12-volt from £6/11/6 work. outposts in the North( Lad­ cepted arms and aid from any Reconditioned batteries from 39/6 TECHNICAL akh) and the North-East quarted including the U.S.S.R. (Longju). The numbers, fire The anomalous position of a BOOKS LTD. power and equipment of the Communist power supplying AUSTRALASIAN BATTERY COMPANY LTD 27-33 Victoria St. W., C.l Chinese indicated careful pre­ arms to an anti-Communist Phone 22-385 paration. Indian resistance, government for use against CNR, MACKELVIE ST. & WILLLIAMSON AVE. STUDENT VISITING FORM C R A C C UM continued Students are asked to volunteer to visit graduates YOU CAN HELP! MONDAY MAY 6 1963 3 off’ the and tell them about the new building. A printed The public appeal for £80,000 Auckland businessmen and the red about pamphlet will be distributed to each student offering will open on Capping Day, Students’ Association are rep­ ['. expres- to visit: this pamphlet will answer all possible ques­ May 10. Chairman of the resented. noves to tions. ; . & Appeal Committee, Sir John ; demon- Allum, will launch the appeal With a concerted effort iome sue- Please fill in this form and hand it in at the p— which will he supported by from the student body as a controlled Students’ Association office. a committee on which the whole, we believe that the University administration, Auckland public and graduates students Name Sex ! will contribute the needed .in doors ! £80,000. But if this amount is oegun, as not met, the extra money will vho were Address during term Phone be paid off from student levies he fight', New German after the first stage of the ;, includ- ; building is opened. :or Com- Address during May vacation Phone Department s, onion; Mr N. M. Speer has been flew, The German department has led while appointed by the University in which you are able every reason to be proud of Council ixs the organiser of e outside Area Times in which you are able the appeal. His work will be to march to visit (please state suburb to visit its main block, that two- mainly concerned with the e cheers in Auckland; town or country storey grey stone building at business community of Auck­ lice and area in the province). the corner of Grafton Road land. It is intended that all erson sig- and Wyndam Street. It has Auckland businessmen will be DAVID WRIGHT > David recently been extensively re-, contacted by members of the tl anthem First week of vacation Appeal Committee — working David Wright, debater, ction and decorated. The planning and under Mr Speer. walker and anti-communist supervision was done by R. W. (Maths student) has under­ Ellis, senior lecturer at the The Students’ Association is taken organisation and control Second week of vacation Elam School of Fine Arts, with contacting — by mail and per­ of work week. He feels that ate) and the actual construction being sonally — every available AU this is a great opportunity for graduate. students to show the public ? antici- carried out by the maintenance yet again (remember Commo’s ls of the Faculty Third week of vacation officer, Mr Roscoe. The dom­ and 50-mile walks and things) in conse- inant colour scheme through­ STUDENTS they are willing to knuckle v foreign Clubs The way to make the appeal i compo- out consists of various tonings down and produce more than a success is to show the enor­ smut and immorality — as [s power Interests of blue and oyster, with effec­ Beginning of Term II mous amount that the students ; present, tive accents of reds and black. well as degrees. are doing for the building — era can- The personal studies of the He looks forward to working least be- lecturers have a master’s touch 1. £140,000 in student money. with all the Auckland ’Varsity mponder- CUT ALONG LINE in their design, showing quiet 2. Helping with the appeal. students over the Vac, so don’t of new good taste. disappoint the poor innocent. nd Asia, STUDENT WORK VACATION It cannot be stressed too S.S.R. to This building is unique in highly that the only way to Western Students are asked to volunteer to give a day’s pay make the appeal succeed is to d above or a day’s work to the Building Fund Appeal. that it is the only one in ear wea- Australasia devoted entirely to have students publicly involved in raising money. It is more remember, two days’ work — rg point Full-timers: We can arrange work for you; or the study of German. Our than public knowledge that with the Government subsidy.) Id’s reap if you would prefer to give a day’s wages from your German Honours students not this, present generation of ■tance of holiday job, then please fill in the second form. only have their own seminar students gives generously to Students are urged, nay Part-timers: You, too, can do something to help. room, but also share a com­ a building to be used by the begged, to help the appeal. If mon room, complete with tea­ next generation of students— you are willing to help, please BUT we ask for more. fill in one/both (preferably) oks! Please fill in this form and hand it in at the making facilities, with the of these forms and return Students’ Association office. staff. them to the Students’ Asso­ STUDENTS ciation office. Name Sex The Stage II and III You are asked to help the students are not neglected, appeal in two immediate ways: In the past work days have Address during term Phone however. They also have their not always been successful. own seminar room with a 1. Volunteer to visit gradu­ This time we hope to achieve Phone library consisting of reference ates and tell them about the better results by spreading the building. work days over three weeks Address during May vacation works, standard authors, and and giving students the option Auckland suburb in which Times in which you are able current newspapers direct 2. Give the new building of contributing a day’s pay in you would prefer to work to work- from Germany. one day’s work (this makes, place of ‘work in kind’. First week of vacation •ter Second week of vacation LIBRARIANSHIP )oter Third week of vacation Type of work preferred OFFERS GRADUATES IN ARTS AND SCIENCE ) ... t up Beginning of Term II A WIDE RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL CAREERS CUT ALONG LINE Main- N am e New Zealand Library School chnical ainten- Wellington. Address Phone makes. One year diploma course; 13/3 generous living allowances paid to students. or all I am willing to donate to the Student Building Appeal Fund the equivalent money from one day’s work. :al Prospectus from University Librarian, or write to the Director (signed). t o . New Zealand Library School, Private Bag, Wellington V , C.1 (date) CRACCUM MONDAY MAY 6 '963 N ew Student Block On February 26, 1962, the University Council, on the recommendation of the Executive of the Students’ Association, appointed Messrs. Warren and Mahoney achitects for the new Students’ Association building. At the time, an area bounded by Princes Street, O’Rorke Street and Alfred Street had been set aside on the block plan for the future University development as a site for this building. After fourteen months of building complex; it will form detailed discussions between a link between the Science the University’s Building Com­ Building and the rest of the LIST OF AREAS mittee, the Architect, Mr War­ site. The more students 'we Administration ren and representatives of the have passing throuugh the Public Office ...... 1000 Students’ Association Building building, the more alive it Managing Secretary 150 Committee, the University will become, and the more President ...... 200 Council agreed to a defined students will tend to use the Council Room ...... 700 site in the same area. This common rooms and the cafe­ Executive Workroom 400 site is shown in the accom­ teria. Lying as it will between Executive and sub­ panying sketch. the Science Building, the Lib­ committee com­ rary and Art Block, the En­ mon room ...... 500 The site, which is somewhat gineering School and the Workroom for sub­ larger than that provisionally Social Sciences Building, it committees ...... 1000 allocated in the general block should become the focal point plan prepared some years ago of the University. Total ...... 3950 as a tentative guide, is more than adequate for our immedi­ Eating Space ate needs and allows for some Stages of Building Main Cafeteria .... 3700 measure of expansion in the Small Cafeteria .... 1600 future. One of the problems con­ Chop House ...... 1000 fronting the designer of the Kitchens ...... 3000 The prolonged discussion building is the existence of Snack Bar ...... 3000 over the site was a result of temporary Science Lecture Coffee Bar ...... 1000 the Students’ Committee’s con­ Theatres extending onto the Plan of New Student Union viction that the Students’ As­ site for the Student Building. Total ...... 13300 sociation Building should not Although most of the building a pound-for-pound subsidy of will be marked off on the consist of a single office storey can be started as soon as £220,000 has been announced, cards. Common Rooms block, but rather should be working drawings are com­ it is clear that £80,000 must Help from the whole stud­ Main Common composed of a number of two pleted about the middle of be raised by public appeal, ent body is needed now, in Room 3000 or possibly three storey blocks, 1965, construction of the cen­ which can begin without fur­ two main ways: by visiting Men’s Common thus rendering all facilities tral common-room will have ther delay. The fund-raising the graduates, and by giving Room 1000 easily accessible and providing to be delayed until temporary committee does not want to up one day, or one day’s wages, Women’s Common much greater scope for an in­ Lecture Theatres can be see a series of raffles or for the ‘Work Vacation’. De­ Room 1000 teresting design including out­ shifted. These will be needed Queen Carnivals, and believes tails of these are on page 3. Small Common side spaces as an integral part until the completion of Block that with wholehearted sup­ Rooms—2 @ 500 1000 of the function of the building. B. of the new Science Build­ port from the student body, Any inquiries or offers of Graduate and Senior ing which is not expected to we can do without such help concerning fund-raising Student Common Type of Building be ready until 1967. methods and raise the full should be directed to the chair­ Room...... 3000 ' £80,000 in one effort. man of the committee, Neil On the plan is sketched one Contents of Building Wilson. Total ...... 9000 suggested ground plan for the The main task of the fund­ BRENDA BRACEWELL, building showing the area In the box is shown the raising committee recently has for Fund-raising Committee Clubs and Societies available. The cafeteria block list of areas in the building been to compile a list of AU Meeting Rooms .... 4000 will be two storeys, the com­ as decided upon by the Build­ graduates from sources such Small Meeting mon room and meeting room ings Committee and approved as the mailing lists of Univer­ NEXT STEPS Rooms 800 block three with a basement. by the University Council. This sity clubs and societies, Crac- Workrooms, Records, The buildings surround a large list of areas formed the basis cum files, membership rolls Mr Warren is at present Duplicating 1050 courtyard and the main rooms for the application to Govern­ of graduate societies, and the working on sketch plans for Societies Storage.... 750 ment for the subsidy. Court of Convocation roll. consideration by the Buildings Sports Club Lockers 250 will face on the courtyard At present the information Committee. At this stage the Men’s House Com. 350 and across to Albert Park. The list was formulated fol­ held is being filed on separate Buildings Committee starts on Women’s House Com. The blocks will be linked lowing a study of specific re­ cards which indicate the a programme of detailed and Sick Bay .... 400 by covered ways at each level; quirements at Auckland and faculty, years at University, study of each iroom, its func­ Student Newspaper 1000 staircases will rise through of the facilities provided in and interests of each graduate. tion and relationship to other these to the higher levels the other New Zealand Uni­ This file, which will contain rooms. When the sketch plans Total ...... 8600 which will connect with open versities. A questionaire sent 12,000 cards, will provide the are completed in approxim­ balconies on the upper floors. to a number of overseas uni­ basis needed for the appeal to ately six months’ time, they Recreation In this type of design much versities resulted in the ac­ graduates. A letter and will go to the University and Table Tennis ...... 1800 use can be made of open cir­ cumulation of much valuable brochure will be sent to each Government for approval. Billiards ...... 1800 culation space; all parts of information. It must be re­ graduate, and then followed Working drawings can com­ TV ...... 600 the building can be kept read­ membered that this building up if possible by a personal mence once this approval has Music (2 rooms) 800 ily accessible and the building is regarded as a minimal visit from a student who has been obtained. At this stage is kept open with good access first stage. it is hoped to commence con­ Total ...... 5000 as far as possible the same struction in mid-1965. for each room to sun and air. Provision has been made for faculty and interests as the future extensions on the site. graduate he is visiting. Visits JOHN STREVENS, Theatre ...... Total 6000 How it will work made and donations received For Buildings Committee Sundry These will contain facilities Caretaker ...... 800 In relation to the site lay­ arising from new needs when Shop ...... 1000 out two important factors need the University roll rises to­ Utility Space ...... 1200 to be considered: circulation wards the 10,000 mark in the Toilets ...... 2500 1970’s and will allow for ex­ "PRO BONO PUBLICO" of the students through and tension of some of the facil­ Lockers ...... 2500 from the building and the pro­ ities provided in the first LET YOUR SAVINGS WORK FOR YOU vision of suitable places in the stage should these in fact AND AUCKLAND ! SAVE WITH Total ...... 8000 vicinity of this circulation for prove insufficient. Further students to stop and sit, lean sporting facilities will become N et Area .... 53850 on a rail or just stand and available when a gymnasium Circulation ...... 12000 talk. is built on a separate part of AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK The open design encourages the University site. “Where Thousands Save Millions” Gross Area 65850 students to walk through the Now that the good news of < CRACCUM The Rake’s Progress 2. The Revue Hero MONDAY MAY 6 1963

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Drowns LADIES — Costumes, coats, etc., restyled and 12000 himself in sewer pipe after I remodelled. being rubbished for his setting 65850 of ‘Eskimo Nell’ to Webern tone rows. CRACCUM 6 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 VON MEIER STATES DEFECTJM I The finishing touches are just being applied to the first project of the University’s ambitious £26,000,000 building programme. Land] ' ^rc Ls being purchased and ground cleared for the new science block; drawings for the arts block and the library, also to be built by the aarChitcctuia firm of Massey, Beatson, Rix-Trott, Carter and Co., are being studied currently. ^ight have be It is a crucial time to invite serious architectural criticism of the newly completed Fine Arts building and to examine the impliedjst is t tions it might have for the entire programme. *3the exterior 0 ec ur< cc In fact, the term ‘architec­ thoughtful look are incompat­ ing arrangement should be Crete base of the floor was no tioned before. „ r , tural criticism' may be ible. We must go closer. Building: Faculty of Fine attempted to control the direct properly laid. Only a cursor oppor um Y anomalous. The Fine Arts Arts, the University of and reflected light that spills attempt was made to correc ra, exPr^ssl0n building has such serious short­ PROJECTOR in over the suspension rods of it, and it is still not level, bo *ho ectui os comings that the term ‘archi­ The room I know best, and Auckland. (Elam School the curtains, but this seems punctuated by swells and hole beaf • tecture’ can be applied to it the room I use most, is the of Fine Arts.) to be very much of an after­ lows. Covered with undulatingion pi?* only problematically at best. lecture hall. It is on the ground Location: 58 Wynyard St. thought and will be a stopgap cork tile, one of these wave i 0Utside’ m It is a masquerade of architec­ floor, and is the first part of (just behind St. Paul’s measure at best. An added crested under a set of th iiea\ ily propor ture. It is devoid of human the building complex one Church, corner Symonds inconvenience is that the cur­ double entrance doors, whid ei* vy!.n 0W. warmth, puerile in a design comes to following the road in and Wellesley Streets). tains are difficult to draw and remained partially opened fo 3es.yf. er. gl sense, and if only a joke or a from Wynyard Street. It forms Architect: A. H. Curtis. ■ are suspended on such flimsy a few weeks until the dooi :e„° eing ia ‘ sporting diversion, then ex­ with the library above, a short rods that their weight (prob­ could be planed down. Hoi a y separate pensive enough to make a very two-storeyed wing, on one side Architectural Firm : Mas­ ably abetted by a lusty pull at long the cork will stay glue! s)™bc>kcally facing a small concrete court­ sey, Beatson, Rix-Trott, the recalcitrant draw cords) i j’ities of the s bad joke indeed. Carter and Co. down is anybody’s guess. reality seek £ But there is no protest or yard in which pieces of sculp­ has already caused one rod to Next, the booth itself j , vital in t e r . r e criticism. Among professional ture have been set. This hall Contractors: Calder Con­ give way. No attempt whatso­ ill-conceived: a box stuck up. architects there exists a is now being used for lectures struction Co. Ltd. ever is made to direct the on the ceiling. Shelves were erf a.re a. sei mutual praise and self-preserv­ for the BA unit, History and interior lighting, which is sup­ overlooked and supplied by the ra| PIa^ni^» r ing sentiment that virtually Theory of Fine Arts I, and plied by nine fluorescent fix­ contractor at the last minute! 1 ?e raised- j excludes any possibility for for lectures in the same field of the operative factors in- tures, arranged in aparallel The architect was unaware ot # 1S concerneo sound and honest criticism of that form part of the pro­ volved. rows of three. Clearly this or unconcerned with, the :'nye‘ *ai another architect’s work. The gramme for Diploma of Fine This suspicion tends to be should be supplemented by specific type of equipment td ' , :01. average citizen, who always Arts students. It will seat confirmed, if anything, by an lighting directed so as to avoid be used in the booth (movie ^ take int° ( pays most and suffers most about a hundred people and examination of detailing in the washing out the image on the projector, tape recorder, turn! ?roblem of from bad design, whether in has been used or other assem­ room. When not in use, the screen, but still providing ade­ table and amplifier in additia lion. If this architecture, furniture or blies and, with the chairs screen is covered by four large quate illumination for taking to the slide projector) or building as motor cars, is too ignorant or removed, for receptions. sliding wooden panels, two on of notes. storage space (for tapes, tatened with too apathetic to propose solid Most of the lectures in art each side ‘telescoped’. These Another factor which, for records, slides, films, etc.). The :escaace* *n *1 objections to the way his tax history require the projection are heavy, somewhat cumber­ no excuse, affects the lighting, points and light switches are A building, it money is being spent. of slides, hence there is a some, and certainly an expen­ is that the two sets of double badly placed and such a simple was very li large white plaster-surfaced sive solution to a fairly simple doors leading into the lecture thing as co-ordinating the on. sl to this. It w SET FOR A KAFKA NOVEL screen at one end of the room problem of protection. The hall from the corridor have off positions of three switches sire the profe: There is one hope: that the and a projection booth sus­ panels are constructed out of panes of pebbled glass. These was botched. of a practis students most directly affected pended from the ceiling at the two types of timber in con­ will require curtaining, and Ventilation in the booth will.,engineer to te by the current debacle of other end. The screen is built trasting light and dark tones for the time being are covered amost certainly prove to be ,, so, what ,. bungled building and those into the wall, and is immobile, that I find rather garish. Nor by posterboard. A solid door inadequate,j , and I the,5 projection ... ikons“ .... could scheduled to suffer soon in as is obviously the booth. is this questionable taste much would have been more reason­ apertures are narrow and* U1 1 g‘ new academic abodes, take a There is a fixed distance improved by the highly var­ able. But this same type of badly placed. A good design long, thoughtful look at these nished surface finish. door recurs throughout the for this space w'ould have FLEXIBLE RC between them which can be entire building. It gives one :here seems to architectural problems and at varied only about six inches demanded careful investigation that suggest.1 their implications. CONTROL OF LIGHT a dull, stuffy, institutional of its function and meticulous by moving the projector itself feeling. ded on to: the To take a long look at the forward and backward in the Unfortunately, this same planning. The result here is jforced eoncret Fine Arts building, one must projection booth. The size of criticism applies throughout unfortunately a nasty, cramped of the library cross to the other side of the projected image varies the building. Where native LADDER and inadequate space. Roadway i Grafton Gully. There is a according to the distance be­ timbers are used, in every case The door handles are par­ Finally, our attention will slities are nov pleasant slope of grass in the tween the projector and the their natural beauty is cheap­ ticularly unappealing bits of have come to rest on the floor ■ icted outside Domain, or a vantage point screen, in this case about 30 ened by an indiscriminate coat hardware, in general very itself. There were many prob­ art from this ] near the hospital, or a bench feet. Another way of control­ of varnish. Not only is the badly installed: more than one lems over the construction of :>rior additions in Blandford Park. Perhaps ling the size of the projected screen panelling particularly set of knuckles have been the floor, involving differences to be separ from the cockpit of Captain image is to vary the size of j offensive in this respect, scraped by crooked screw of opinion between contractors, :arate structur< Ladd’s aeroplane the building the lens on the projector. But neither does it work very well, j heads. One of these doors was sub-contractors and other par would look its best, set in there are only a limited num­ There are no stops for the j in place at the entrance to ties. Something like this prob­ in equally seri thick trees on the side of the ber of standard lens sizes. sliding panels so that they the photography darkroom ably happens on most jobs, met with int bank, partially hidden. Since the projection distance might be centred easily. When ; during construction, however; and indeed, will be virtually ® spaces are closed, their patterning, the glass pane was removed and possibilit From a distance there are is fixed, only the lens sizes impossible for the architect to i change seem no clear architectural masses may be altered. But with a slightl askew, upsets the visual and a panel of plywood sub­ avoid, if only because archi 120mm lens the projected equilibrium of the entire room. stituted. A great deal more tecture ls the creation of ally neglected, to assert themselves, just bits This can be psychologically sensitive thought might have this is the prol of brick, white panel and glass 35mm slide overlaps the screen human beings. The BA windows: fragments that are by an annoying six or eight subtly disturbing in a class been given to such questions To sum up all these specific ice. untroublesome, and easy to inches. If a 150mm lens is whose attention is directed of detailing. points of ccriticism, the lecture itory and The forget. From any distance the used, the slide ‘fits’ on to the towards the panels for an hour Within the lecture hall itself, hall as it stands today is a ls which was ir looming monstrosity of the screen, but about six or eight at a time. however, there are just three failure. It does provide shelter year requiri government flats, a white inches of screen space is A corollary to the problem other things that deserve par­ from the elements and it is, ate addition to shadow of Big Brother hovers wasted along each edge. of slide projection is that of ticular mention. The first of to be sure, a package of lec­ other art hist< over the Fine Arts building, The optimum use cannot be lighting. The room must be these is the ladder leading up ture-hall things. One can give The University harsh and white like a set for derived from the screen, and darkened enough for the slides to the projection booth. It is lectures in it. But strictly enough to a Kafka novel, compelling the one suspects that the architec­ to be visible; for colour slides no doubt costly, made of alu­ speaking this fact gives it little point Mr Arth vision, usurping the critical tural solution was arrived at this means that the screen minium, and is conspicuously superiority over a cow barn. Visiting Lectu eye. A distant view and a long, arbitrarily, without cognisance must receive as little inciden­ uuly. I do not know if the Functionally it is not truly an art histori tal light as possible. But at architect has calculated the adequate (mostly because of arse, desirable the same time, students need possibility that the steps of office near bo a certain amount of light by this ladder could snap as a id the lecture which to take notes in refer- result of metal fatigue (alu­ iiy space avail EAT AND ENJOY I ence to the slides. The problem minium is particularly brittle). JAZZ JAZZ remaining A.M.C. 1st Grade MEATS ! is not adequately solved by The ladder itself appears badly rated on the 1 ! compromising on the total made, with projecting bits of «building. Oth MONARCH 1 light available in the room. It metal here and there, and a riurers face fa should be obvious that the dangerously impossible hand­ May 8 May 8 iveniences but BACON, HAM and SMALL GOODS i solution lies in controlling and rail set much to close to the a brand new b i directing light and light wall. 8 p.m. HALL ippens when tl sources. he Arts appoinl QUALITY PRODUCTS The control of light is RESPONSIBILITY smber of staff attempted by hanging blackout But even having our sym­ A number of of , curtains in front of all win- pathy, the architect must, in New Groups Concert signed for use i dow areas. But these curtains the end, assume the respon­ gdents. In the T H E AUCKLAND MEAT CO. LTD. hang in folds and the light sibility for the finished (or from Jazz Club Ration, alread streams in. Some sort of box- unfinished) result. The con- to ‘doubli CRACC U M NEW ELAM BUILDING MONDAY MAY 6 1963 lighting). Architecturally honours students without of Elam some years ago, but The approach from Wynyard Another wall has a string of .Land a dead loss. studios of their own now they are manifestly false in Street is down a long drive, mean little windows near the by the ie architectural possibility share part of lecture rooms, the face of what has been under some grand trees: an top of a bleak expanse where might have been exploited but what happens when rising happening here in Auckland oak, a cypress, some Norfolk one would like to see a glass pst one — is the relation- enrolment prevents this, prob­ in the fine arts in the last few pines and, on the left, down wall. nplica- of the lecture hall space ably within the next very few years. hill, a bamboo grove. The The students’ common room •he exterior courtyard we years? The limited availability A narrow, dogmatic, aca- drive, when finished, promises has partitioned glass panes jtioned before. This was the of space also creates a problem demic-in-the-worst-sense atti­ to neuter some of the charm. that cry to be opened onto the was’ na i! opportunity for an archi- for storage. Apart rfom the tude has been superseded A consolation is that it could small adjoining courtyard. In cursoiCQrrM jral expression of the fact cloakroom, no significant space almost entirely by a new, have been much worse. With front of the lower glass win­ avel,vuu'* bi the lectures inside *the is provided for storage (a liberal, healthy, anti-authori­ one or two other individuals, I dows are radiators (a debat­ and h< bear some fundamental traditionally important prob­ tarian attitude. Results are claim credit for personally able solution, even though .dulatin ition to the pieces of sculp- lem for schools of fine arts). already apparent. There are making certain that the larg­ Mies van der Rohe can be e wave outside, in the courtyard, There exists a gallery in one some young fine arts students est of the big oaks was not cited as a precedent). Neither of "th !heav^y proportioned white of the sculpture rooms, but who could hold their own with destroyed dui'ing road building common room possesses so ted window and door operations. Even so, the trunk much as a single gas ring or s, whicl les ' rather give one the was grazed by the tumbling hot plate. If one should pre- ened fo|"se°f being in a cage; they stump of a redwood that “had chance, choose to fry an egg, helHov tally separate the spaces to be” cleared. Much earlier there is an electric plate in ivn. eluoi: symbolically divide two a rimu tree was carelessly the graphics studio, at the iy mities of the school which killed when it was scraped by risk of having etching ink in uess. reality seek an intimate a bulldozer blade. lieu of tomato sauce. The stu­ tself ! vital inter-relationship. dents Common Room has in­ tuck u] "nere are a series of large MYSTERIOUS SPACE stead a Mysterious Column. es wen ral planning issues that Lining the drive is a kerb. This Column is free standing d by thf1it be raised. The first of How much an insignificant and runs from floor to ceiling. minute, s is concerned with obso- thing as a kerb can have a It is rumoured that the Mys­ ware ot snce. Any large building character! Out of the. many terious Column continued ;h, the f;ted for the University possibilities for making a kerb, through rooms on the floors ment td::id take into consideration if indeed a kerb was needed at above and below the common (movie problem of growth and all, how well this choice fits room. There are various ir, turn* ; in with the character of the addition' ansion. If this is not done, theories about this Column. ;or) building as a whole is whole building. It is a fair Some say it is hollow, and tapes, eatened with premature warning. (Judge its character that just after the contractors c.). The elescence. In the new Fine for yourselves). The the curb left, there was still an aroma :hes are building, it seems that becomes a bluestone wall. It of amontillado clinging to the re was very little thought j is handsome, as well it might vicinity. i simple !ii to this. It would perhaps be for the expense. I would Students visiting from the the on' ;aire the professional judg- | prefer something less preten- School of Architectuure are in switches it of a practising architect I tious, like a wall of scoria disagreement. Some hold that engineer to tell whether— | boulders, such as the one on this Column represents an en­ oth will if so, what kind — of Gillies Avenue near Mortimer tirely new Order; others that r to itions could be made to Pass. There is an upper and it was intended to be Tuscan ojection building. lower parking area. Behind but that the contractor forgot w and the lower bluestone wall there the base and the capital. design OEXIBLE ROOM SPACE is buried a beautiful old wall Offices in the administrative I have ihere seems to be only one j of brick, worn and warm and wing are all located on the tigation il that suggests it could be weathered, but still basically shady side of the building. A ticulous :«d on to: the two-storeyed 1 sound. I wonder if there was few crisp mornings toward the here is .•.forced concrete wall at the any way that wall could be end of March already made ramped i of the library and lecture incorporated into the land- them uncomfortably cold. The Roadway and parking storage of pieces requires any students in the world of scapeing? Probably the plan­ main school office is another on will lies are now being con- negotiating a steep and nar­ comparable age and experi­ ning mentality was as inflex­ reminder of primary school he floor ■jcted outside this wall. row ladder: impractical for ence. Three or four (which is ible as the architectural forms days in its layout and materi­ iy prob­ from this possibility all most pieces of sculpture and a very satisfactory average) suggest. A bluestone wall, als. The library is one of the ation of erior additions will probably impossible for larger pieces. have true and exciting somewhat cold, to be sure, least unsuccessful rooms on 'erences re to be separate or semi- Lockers for students are promise. Throughout the whole now covers the buried brick the main floor but there are ractors, arate structures, absurdly small and give the school there is a spark in the one built by some unknown annoying things like an elec­ ier par in equally serious situation corridors a cluttered feeling air, a sense of subtle urgency but not insensitive early tric point right by the en­ is prob­ met with internally. The associated usually with ancient that something is happening, Aucklander. trance doors and none behind it jobs, m spaces are quite inflex- grammar schools. There is, and that this something is There is not room here to the librarian’s desk. A small irtually ie, and possibilities of growth after all, only a certain very close to the core or to question / the conception and electric heater just to take the itect to i change seem to have been amount of space to be obtained the well spring of all true art. the detailing of every space chill off during the first hours archi- ally neglected. An example from a building of a given It is sad that the new building in the building. In almost of the morning means a ion of this is the problem of office size. The critical question to enfolds all this in a lie. every area there are things dangerous cord dangling in ace. The BA unit in the raise is how much space in It is not only a lie in the that are just quite simply front of the doors and the specific itory and Theory of Fine the given building is wasted' realm of the spirit, admittedly wrong. A random and by no stairway to the mezzanine. lecture -swhich was introduced just Here, there is much. For ex­ a difficult area in which to means exhaustive sampling fol­ The sprinkler system which iy is a .a year required an imme- ample, there is the length of achieve consensus or agree­ lows. My office has a wretch­ accounts for the string of shelter ite addition to the staff of the corridor on the first floor, ment about what is happen­ ed carpet, salvaged from the pipes in most rooms is in­ d it is, uther art historian. some 80 feet by about six feet ing. The building is a physical old school on Great North stalled without apparent re­ of lec- Ihe University was fortun- wide and five feet high, above lie. What does it mean, physic­ Road because there was no gard for what is being protect­ an give enough to be able to the false ceiling of the corri­ ally, in Grafton Gully? What more money left when it ed from fire, here the books. strictly »int Mr Arthur Lawrence dor. This space could be con­ is there about it of relevance came time to put in things One of the sprinklers set off it little Visiting Lecturer for 1963. verted into usable storage area to the magnificent site? De­ like carpets. (The bluestone accidentally could do a famous f barn, an art historian, it was, of with added labour and ex­ spite all the glass, . there is walls were in though). There amount of damage in the two t truly irse, desirable that he have pense. As it is today, it is but a single place from which is also a curious double- minutes’ time it theoretically mse of office near both the library wasted space, with only trap­ one can enjoy a view of the paned frosted glass window in takes to have the valve shut :d the lecture hall. But the door access. hai’bour and Rangitoto beyond the middle of one of the in­ off. By the way, this master iy space available was the From the outside the build­ and that is at the head of the terior walls. It has no latch, valve is located in the techni­ remaining staff studio, ing presents hardly a more northern stair well. This space it is about seven feet above cian’s workshop, which is 11 ated on the top storey of favourable aspect than from could have been a wonderful floor level and it fronts onto usually kept locked; how much building. Other University the inside. The typical facade lounge area. The architect a Mysterious Space. On the more reasonable it would have durers face far greater in- is composed of insensitive filled it with two custodian’s other side of this Mysterious been to put the valve on the y« :ivenienees but none of them rectangles of glass, composition closets and, as usual, destroyed Space is yet another pair of other side of the wall, in a a brand new building. What board of a glaring white, and the sweep of the view by split­ frosted glass panes which can corridor and easily available in icpens when the Faculty of the dull, incessant mullions ting up the window area into be seen from the interior cor­ case of emergency. :e Arts appoints yet another and partitions. There is some­ cage-like series of separate ridor. Your guess is as good In the first weeks of opera­ mber of staff? thing suggesting the inhuman­ panes. Apart from the fact as mine. tion, the sculpture studios, all A number of studios were ity of a factory or the imper­ 1 that the administration wing The staff common room has located on the ground floor, ert igned for use by Honours sonality of an office block. rests on the hillside, the whole one full glass wall (sub-divi­ have presented a serious main­ ients. In the first year of These characteristics might building might just as well be ded of course) facing the tenance problem. One of the ration, already it is neces- apply to some schools of art. erected on the plains of Cen­ main entry of the school. This principal activities is plaster y to ‘double up’. Some and they might have been true tral Otago. is not conducive to privacy. casting, which means that the CRACCUM turally by locating the activi­ privacy essential. ved. But who is responsible ties of sculpture, painting and I am not interested in ex­ for the architect? These in­ 8 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 design on three different floor amining here the excuses for tricate issues are, however levels. The administration has the new Fine Arts building. closely they ibpinge upon one wing and the library, with Anyway they tend to follow architecture, outside the scope MORE ON THE NEW the history and theory lecture a pattern common not only to of an architectural c r itiq u e . hall, another. The staff com­ architecture or to the other There seems to be a d ea r mon room and the student fine arts. Excuses become very need for further types of OTAGO ELAM BUILDING common room are at opposite tedious: New Zealand is a criticism. I would like to read VICTOR ends of the building. Staff small country; there were statements by people who live AUCKL^ studios are on an Olympian only limited funds available; and work in the building, by CANTEI floors are covered with plaster however, the whole building level. who MASSE* chips and powder. They can­ looks like it might be toppled there were import restrictions: professional architects not be cleaned or hosed down by the first strong breeze. Now this is all very neat, people do not like ‘modern’ dare brave the “club ru les LINCOL quickly and efficiently, so the Actually, one small schoolboy but the kindest critic could architecture here, et cetra. I enough to make a s t r a ig h t ­ Weather pi plaster is tracked all over the with a cricket bat could do not really call it imaginative. find it very unfunny that forward assessment o f the the final anc an incredible amount of It is the sort of thing that otherwise intelligent people building as architecture, or building. Mats and a grating looks impressive only on the persist in kidding themselves by engineers, librarians, of the tennis, are just not the answer, while damage. Against more natural drawing board. As an expres­ g a r d e n ­ the cricket w it is also unreasonable to elements, the structure should along with the weak alibis, aestheticians, artists, Faints for tl survive quite well, which is sion of what the Faculty of and think it is high time those ers, by anyone who has look­ require students to make a Fine Arts is, it is an outright intelligent people muster ed carefully and who has .omputed on complete change of clothing likely a damnation in disguise. lie. This does not keep it from enough common sense and in­ something to say. The most they stood. when leaving their sculpture It is a pity that the building imposing (or at least imply­ well for a cup of tea in the com­ will probably never fall down. tegrity to start demanding trenchant criticism could mon room or, more import­ This is partly due to the vast ing) a mode of activity upon reasonable explanations. come from students in the antly, to work out some idea quantity of steel used in its those people who live and The first line of enquiry, school of architecture who work in the building, and which is also likely to prove have acquired some p ro fe s s ­ Otago stre: arrived while sculpting, in a construction. I should like to therefore, it simply cannot be the most embarrassing and ional background but who dfferent medium. Such essen­ have an engineer’s opinion ignored. Quite against the will hence the most dangerous, have not yet become stultified from Victoi tial pieces of furniture as bins about the degree to which the and efforts of the school, the might be the question of re­ or members of the m u tu a l Hatch, swii for storing clay were added building is overstructured. And various activities are severed sponsibility. Of course, there admiration society. land this yea as afterthoughts, to meet the steel in New Zealand is not into categories. was a programme submitted It is frustrating in the ex­ records in th objections and requests of cheap. This is the first of the Tremendous, but totally un­ by staff members many years treme to think of the m a xi­ style and 220 people who were to use the University’s new buildings necessary barriers are erected ago. This was little more mum possibilities: what the medley. In t rooms. ‘meant to last’, but it is impos­ between activities, and cross than a guide in most cases building could have been, with 220 yards fr The graphic studio, like the sible to escape the visual fertilisation is precluded to a and the present staff had very the exciting program of a the previous : sculpture studios and one of impression that it is just large extent. Two great needs little to do with the design school of fine arts, with rich did not come the design rooms, suffers from another ‘temporary’ expedi­ are completely ignored. There and virtually nothing to do natural materials and w i t h an final. high, prison-like sills. There is ency. The diving an impersonal sense of space, Just how inexpedient the needs to be one large space with the architectural con­ incomparable site. It m akes building is, though, is summed with facilities for many differ­ ception. In any case the staff one angry to thing o f the spectacular, made less comfortable by ent kinds of activity: sculp­ became officially connected minimum that the b u ild in g events, Andn sporadic pillars (actually steel up by the failure of the paint­ ture, drawing, painting, with the building only at the should have been, and a l l that heat the titl girders, sheathed in that ubi­ ing studios, located on the first graphics, design, reading, cof­ beginning of this University we have is a grim and sterile of Otago, by quitous varnished wood). The or main floor. There is one fee, smoking, music, or what­ term. forboding of things to come. Taylor of Cai main design studio and the large room and two smaller, place. photography studio are prob­ but still fairly good sized ever else should chance to Normally the architect Kurt von Meier, ably the best conceived work­ studios. The level of the win­ occur within the bounds of would assume responsibility Senior Lecturer, H is to ry Detailed re ing spaces in the building. dow sills is again about five propriety. This should be a for the “architecture” invol­ and Theory of F i n e Arts. lows:— This is primarily due to the feet six inches from the floor: room that is intimate with Women:—1 personal efforts of the two just enough to shut out the life, just as art and life are stroke: Dunl magnificent view, but not so essesntially interdependent. i0) 2, Bagle lecturers immediately con- And there also needs to be what do you look for [2.2s (recorc corned, each of whom supplied enough to exclude the glare. space where one may be detailed and well thought out Supposedly students are in­ alone: alone to read or think, programmes to the architect. tended to concentrate on alone to nurture that first shy in a motor scooter? Even so, it is now necessary forms of Ideal Beauty and not glimmer of inspiration, alone Before making your decision to buy, check this list of features and weigh the TEI to use the photography studio to be aware of the forms of benefits up very carefully. Think, and think hard. No one uni\ to work: in fact, alone to do Compare N-Zeta with this line up of other best known makes currently available as a seminar room three days nature and the restless, chang­ on the New Zealand market. Tournament of the week for the history ing natural light of the world any of the things that one might do in a large room FEATURE N-ZETA MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE ;oria and Ot and theory classes. about them. B C 0 i with other people, but would \ not sive wins in The design of the staff Well, an interesting thing just rather do alone. Pigeon What it the herta powar output and f .J 3.5 stated 6 2 i 10 «omen’s sect studios, located on the top has happened in two of the hole architecture prevents this capacity ? 1 75cc 5 0 « 150« 125« ISOcc »0« The Victo floor of the building, derives painting studios. The rooms as much as it prevents the Can it erwiaa at tpaadt up to the legal romped throu probably from a mistaken were at first bare and inhos­ other. No pigeon hole is ever maximum an tha «pan road ? y y V matches to r notion of the ideal 19th cen­ pitable, and students stayed truly private, and artistic final. In 18 tury artist’s garret. There is there to paint only grudgingly, creativity may consider some • quipm.nl ? the teams’ south lighting (southern hemi­ having nowhere else to go. y y y y dropped only sphere, you know) and sills Then, with the staff’s permis­ Hat it a built-in lockable luggaga boot ? The Otagc high enough to block out any sion, but quite on their own (N-Zata hat tha largast in tha world). y y y trouncing Ca initiative, they parcelled out CRACCUM view of greenery in Grafton Hat it an axtarna! luggaga rack fittad at early round, Gully. The resulting light is areas of the room, like ttandard ? four matches an incredibly harsh glare. The medieval fiefs. COPY y y other teams’ ^ Hat it gat blinking frafficatort at ttandard Play on th floors are covered with a Each student used pieces of equipment ? repulsive blue linoleum. Two discarded furniture, timber, or CLOSING / y y m Wellingtoi storage cabinets for each Hat it wall datignad tutpantian with Xhandallah, \ some of their own old MAY 19 hydraulic thack abtorbart on both studio are located outside the whaelt ? y good and bad. paintings with which to build y VV feature was doors, on the other side of a wall around his ‘land’. These Hat it 12" whaalt ar largar, for tafaty the corridor, and have un­ walls usually rise to shoulder vvtdar all condition! ? y the women’s locked sliding panels. height and some of them are LIT. SOCIETY AGM y and Canterbi It w .ig hl distribution tymm.tricat f .r saf* teams. Studio doors have the recur­ little more than symbolic. Literary Society, a formerly handling ? rent pebbled glass panels that However, they are also a .type defunct club, held a promising y y y VV need a piece of tapa cloth or of symbolic architectural criti­ AGM on April 4. Thirty en­ B.«t ilt ihap. .ff.r s.m. pr.taction in cardboard tacked up inside cism: students were forced to thusiastic students elected as cat. *f a h.ad -.n crash ? y Woi to preserve some degree of do what the architect failed president, Tyme Curnow; sec­ What it tha fual tank capacity (in gal­ privacy. Any piece of work to do, to provide for them­ retary, Gary Waller; treasurer, lant) » 0.75 1.7 i . i I .i 1.J Bask done in the studio must be selves places in which they Terry Snow; and a committee carried down the stairs by could work. It is unpremedi­ of eight — Pam Horne, John Whal it lha headlamp diameltr and watt. *■' 4" 4" 4" Si" 5j" Superior fit hand from the fourth ’floor, tated, necessity-driven criti­ Herbert, Anne Matthews, 35w 25w 25w 40w 35w 30» Otago worn as there is no lift in the cism like this that I find David Williams, Ian Pringle, * Can be omitted if desired. team a convin building. almost heart-breakingly elo­ There is no question that N-Zeta scores every time. Feature by feature, benefit tory. They wc Robert Nola, Graham Lord, by benefit, £ for £, N-Zeta is the finest motor scooter in the world. Hazarding a rough guess, quent. John Keene. they played. the amount of floor space In fact, this specific example Literary Society proposes Priced from € 2 0 9 / 1 0 / ■ Classified Res saved by installing a lift in points up a fundamental criti­ this year to hold lectures, Winner’s nai place of one of the two stair­ cism of the whole architectural poetry readings, literature dis­ N*ZETA Auckland v wells would probably have conception of the new Fine cussions and jazz and poetry 17; Otago v Vi paid for the lift itself. The Arts building, the importance evenings. Mr G. Waller (sec­ Built far N .w Zealand's rugged conditions. terbury v north stairwell would be the of which far transcends any retary) comments: ‘Literary Test ride N- Zeta now at . . . Otago v Auckl one to replace if only because particular criticisms of detail Society this year will not only Canterbury of its nasty little rectangular or material. The building is be reinstated, it will be re­ LAURIE SUMMERS LTD. windows poked in the phoney conceived as a series of boxes, vitalised. It aims to be intelli­ Licensed Motor Vehicle Dealer. Victoria 19 brick facade (another costly or box-like spaces. The admin­ gent, not necessarily “intellec­ 83-85 MT. EDEN ROAD, AUCKLAND. TELEPHONE 30-545. North v Sou Cui out this edvertisement and mail to laurie Summers Ltd. together with your name and TE OG 24-16 bit of icing on the stale cake). istrative structure of the tual”, literate as well as address, for further information. Apart from this brickwork, school is ‘expressed’ architec- j literary’. esponsible CRACCUM These in- OTAGO TAKES SHIELD MONDAY MAY 6 1963 however 9 g e upon the scope . critique, Auckland Third a clear Horn Vic types of OTAGO 48 e to read VICTORIA ...... 33 ROWING The drinking horn was won by Victoria at the Midland Hotel. who live AUCKLAND 30 Auckland Loses They beat Auckland in the final with a time of 6.4 seconds. Canterbury romped home in Auckland had previously held the record of 7.1 seconds. tiding, by CANTERBURY ... 27 Easter Tournament the rowing with a win in cts who MASSEY ...... 2 every race except the ladies’ However, a Special Challenge was issued after the final, i b ru les" LINCOLN 0 Shield fours. and the six Auckland architects who constituted the team s t r a ig h t - In the Universities Eights managed a 6-second drink. This was a fantastically smooth and of the Weather prevented play in Reminding readers that well-executed drink — the epitome of teamwork. The best the final and the semi-finals race Canterbury went for an cture, or there is a different shield individual drink was awarded to Barry Dacombe of Auckland. ib r a r ia n s . of the tennis. The last day of early lead, gained it, and then for Easter than Winter, had to withstand strong chal­ This was a new record at 0.7. g a rd e n - the cricket was also called off. ' The Auckland team, trained by Norman Legerwood, con­ Points for these sports were j which w ill be in Dunedin lenges from Victoria, then h a s look- Auckland. It was a close race sisted of John Sinclair, Murray Cockburn, Jeff Feast, Barry v h o has .imputed on the results as this year. Dacombe, Ivan Tarlevicz. —Craccum Reporter. they stood. until half a mile to go, when T h e most ! Canterbury drew away to win o u l d well by about 30 yards. They were in the i r e who SWIMMING striking 32/34 per minute. p ro fe ss - Otago streaked away to win the Swimming Shield Mr McLochlan, publicity offi­ t u t who from Victoria and Auckland in second place. cer for the New Zealand Row­ stultified ing Council, said after the m u tu a l Hatch, swimming for Auck- ! drews (A) 1, Setchell (O) 2, regatta that university and land this year, broke his 1960 Taylor (C) 3. Medley relay: schoolboy rowing was the i the ex- re cord s in the 110 yards free- Otago 1, Canterbury 2, Auck- backbone' of New Zealand lie m axi- style and 220 yards individual land 3. rowing. He mentioned, though, vhat the m e d le y . In the heats of the M en:—110 yards freestlye: and was backed up by Noel een, with 20 yards freestyle he broke Hatch (A) 1, Thomson (V) 2, Lynch, Victoria rowing coach, m of a the previous record by .9s, but Gerrard (O) 3; time, 59.9s that for university rowing to v i t h rich did not come up to this in the (record). 220 yards freestyle: be successful, students would . w i t h an final. Hatch (A) 1, Thomson (V) 2, need to row throughout the t m akes The diving was most un- ! Demsey (O) 3; time, 2m 20.3s. summer vacation. : of the spectacular. In the women’s 220 yards ind. medley: Hatch b u ild in g events, Andrews of Auckland (A) 1, Gerrard (O) 2, Jack He said that the standard of l a l l that Peat the titleholder, Setchell (O) 3; time, 2m 39s (record). university rowing was going id sterile of Otago, by .05 points, with Medley relay: Otago 1, Victoria up. to come. Taylor of Canterbury in third 2, Auckland 3. NZUPA Release Aucklander Tarulevicz drinks place. . H is to ry Detailed results were as fol­ i n e Arts. lows:— YACHTING No (Wo) man I Women—110 yards breast­ Victoria won the yachting easily. But there were YOU Couldn’t repeat couldn’t stroke: Dunlop (O) 1, King some unsatisfactory features about the whole series. But couldn’t (0) 2, Bagley (A) 3; time, Some comment has been raised as to whether the Nobody is tough enough for or ?2.2s (record). Diving: An- Craccum staff. rules of the Yachting Constitution should be changed. Don’t think that you’re the j At present the competition one who could ... is pleased to say that j takes place over a series of Mad orgies, drink, the intel­ igh lilt TENNIS many “hard - to - get” No one university dominated CRICKET four races in Cherub class lectual rat race, vtilaklt boats. yab-yum, Karl Barth . . . texts are now arriving Tournament tennis, but Vic­ Massey v Auckland This year at Port Nicholson (So you think you’ve got AKE MAKE toria and Otago scored deci­ After retiring hurt, Collinge many of the boats failed to what it takes?) D E sive wins in the men’s and came back for Auckland to hit start or failed to finish in Try Craccum and be cut women’s sections respectively. a powerful 81, and Auckland many of the races. Otago was down to size! The Victoria combination declared after assuring a first- the only crew to finish every romped through Auckland six j innings lead. For Massey, Jar- race. Try Minerva First matches to nil in the men's j vis started the innings off well, ! The final placings and points Defence Rifles final. In 18 ’ matches during but Gibson and Delatour were: Victoria 2437.6, Otago Otago gained a narrow vic­ / :he teams’ event Victoria | cleaned up the tail efficiently. 2312.7; Canterbury 1483.3; tory over Canterbury in the dropped only one set. Massey 881.2; Auckland 604.1; Haslam Shield shoot at the The Otago women, after Auckland 153 for 7 (Collinge Lincoln 281.2. Somerville Range, Trentham. trouncing Canterbury in the 81, Gunson 32; Shortt 3 for The final points were: early round, beat Auckland 34) beat Massey 149 (Jarvis Otago 1181, Canterbury 1179, MINERVA BOOKSHOP four matches to two in the 41, O Dwyer 35, Shortt 29) on Massey 1168, Victoria 1058, LTD. other teams’ final. the first innings. WATER POLO Lincoln 869, Auckland 786. 13 Commerce Street Play on the asphalt courts Victoria showed its superior­ In the other shoot, South in Wellington’s hilly suburb, Auckland v Lincoln ity in water polo by beating Island beat North Island. This Auckland Xhandallah, was a mixture of Auckland 161 for 8 (Smalley all other Varsity teams. second day’s shooting was fol­ V pood and bad. A disappointing 49, Blacktop 22, Gibson 20; Griffiths, Sladden and Crow­ lowed in the evening by a Tel. 32-960 feature was the standard of Wright 3 for 34) beat Lincoln der, who played with an in­ dinner at the VUW Student the women’s tennis. Victoria 159 (Allison 70; Laing 6 for jured shoulder, starred in the Union Building. and Canterbury fielded poor 5l, Winterbourne 2 for 29) on Victoria team, whereas Hatch teams. the first innings. pulled the Auckland team ✓ through to its two victories. Auckland v Otago Jack, Broughton and Sin­ COLD BEER Women's Auckland 192 for 9 (Arm­ clair, all selected for the NZU strong 36, Winterbourne 29, team, served Otago well, as COLD BEER Basket-ball Collinge 26; Coughlan 4 for did McPhail playing for Can­ 83, Matatumua 2 for 27) beat terbury. Si- Superior fitness gained the Otago (Morris 54, Kitson 32; The most interesting match ALSO WINES - SPIRITS 30» Otago women’s basketball Harper 5 for 23). was played between the NZU team a convincing over-all vic­ team and Wellington. This TEA - SOFT DRINKS tory. They won all the games Canterbury v Auckland resulted in a win for Univer­ they played. Canterbury 163 for 7 (Hop­ sity 6-4. Classified Results kins 50, Mikhelson 35; Harper —NZUPA Release JOHN REID & CO. LTD. 3 for 34) beat Auckland 159 Winner’s names first): ANZAC AVENUE Auckland v Canterbury 20- (Smalley 37, Armstrong 36; Beban 4 for 46) on the first Your Nearest Wholesaler i”; Otago v Victoria 25-6; Can­ innings. WUS REPORT terbury v Victoria 25-12; Last year NZUSA sent £1140 Otago v Auckland 21-16; Otago Places when rain stopped to the World University Ser­ Canterbury 30-8; Auckland play: Auckland and Victoria vice, reported NZ’s WUS dele­ Open: 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Victoria 19-18. 1 equal, Canterbury 3, Lincoln gate, David Moore, of Otago, North v South 22-16; NZU v 4, Massey 5, Otago 6. at the Easter meeting of MONDAY TO SATURDAY W E O G 24-16. NZUPA Release NZUSA. ■ ■ CRACCUM 10 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 VII Athletics nish-born unous in th( Otago and Auckland dominated the Tournament m, doesn’i athletics, held at the Basin Reserve on Saturday and have the Monday. lout democrae Otago’s R. Johnson and of McDell at the tape. His y system whi< Sylvia Oxenham were the out­ time was 4m 18.7s. pit', he said. ‘1 standing competitors. Johnson mmunists be won the three hurdle events, The men’s 880 yards proved the need. 1 the long jump, and gained to be Monday’s most exciting hv well by tl third place in the high jump. race. Almost from the start, With the outl Auckland’s Rae was in front, ar II, Mr Miss J. Loneley (Auckland) followed by P. Hewlett from -tape the Ges won the women’s 100 yards in Canterbury and Victoria’s Cam America. ‘C 11.5 seconds, one-tenth of a Murray. At the bell Muray ere right a 1 second under the previous took over the lead with a t recalled. T record. strong burst and held his place ms would in1 Auckland’s Alison Long re­ until the 300-yard mark. Then it nobody bei tained her women’s high jump McDell of Auckland, who had title and set a new mark of made second place in the mile J. Lonely (Auckland) winning in the 100 yards )!r Borge 17ft 9?in in the long jump. on Saturday, and Otago’s itle Rock ju Ibbotson, the new mile title- javelin, the women’s long jump Davies (V) 3; distance, 17ft rubles there. Sylvia Oxenham defeated all holder, streamed past with and the hammer throw. 91 in. :t to say anyt comers in the 80 metres McDell two yards in front. At 220 yards, women: S. Oxen­ illation, but hurdles, 440 yards, 220 yards, the 220 mark McDell was still Final championship points ham (O) 1, J. Loneley (A) 2, ring told how t and the high jump. She was hanging on to his slender lead, were:— P. Mason (O) 3; time, 26.5s. opening c third in the record-breaking but Ibbotson was running Men: Auckland 46, Otago 45, 880 yards: R. Ibbotson (0 lovernor Fau Alison Long (Auckland) win­ 100 yards, and was the final more strongly, and in a pun­ Canterbury 43, Victoria 82, 1, N. McDell (A) 2, P. Hew­ ning the long jump runner in the record-breaking ishing final sprint overcame Massey 9. lett (C) 3; time, lm 55s. Otago women’s relay team. the tiring McDell to win by Women: Otago 37, Aucklanl, Javelin, men: L. Clarke (A' WAT PB Five records were broken two yards with a time of Victoria 13, Canterbury 4. I, K. Sharkey (A) 2, D. Cosh over the two days. lm 55.9s. Classified results where (V) 3; distance, 183ft 3in. SAY The mile produced an ex­ The three miles developed Auckland people were in- Hop, step and jump: R I Bobby K e LAW MOOT citing finish. B. Jones, from into a struggle between J. ! volved:- Syme (C) 1, J. Bourke (M) 2. ’Every At Canterbury, set the pace for Farmer and L. Walker from Mile: R. Ibbotson (O) 1, K. P. Morgan (A) 3; distance, should rear Closely reasoned argument the first three laps, but in 44ft. fore he tui Auckland, P. Welsh of Otago McDell (A) 2, B. Jones (C) 3; Discus, women: M. Barclay l Brigitte Bare on a bizarre case gave Otago’s the final circuit McDell and and B. Jones of Canterbury. time, 4m 18.7s. (A) 1, L. Pennington (0) 2 moot team the F. B. Adams Ibbotson fought out a thrilling These four soon spread the 100 yards, women: J. Long- moi — Cra Cup for the first time in nine battle, with Ibbotson emerging field and swapped the lead J. Corry (V) 3; distance, 95ft i Christine K years. triumphant eight yards clear ley (A) 1, P. Trowbridge (O) 6in. read the £ until Welch and Jones took 2, S. Oxenham (0)3; time, High jump: Drummond (A) of Craccun off halfway down the back 11.5s (record). 1, Howard (A) 2, Johnson (0) (Gerald Profi straight in the final lap and 4 x 110 yards relay, men: 3; height, 6ft. ’Craccum < fought it out for first place. Victoria 1, Auckland 2, Otago Shot put, men: P. Norris good friem Welch finished very powerfully 3; time, 43.8s. (A) 1, R. Hargreaves (M) 2, iPravda wari about twenty yards clear from Hammer throw, men: D. C. Calcinai (O) 3; distance, a filthy, c Jones, with Walker coming Monds (A) 1, B. Parsons (C) 44ft lin. by-product S T U D E N T S f up hard to tip Farmer for 2, R. Tait (C) 3; distance, Three miles championship: fascist pigs third. 141ft 9in. P. Welch (O) 1, B. Jones (0 i NY Times Victoria were top dogs in Discus, men: P. Norris (A) 2, L. Walker (A) 3; time, 14m cum is sub the men’s relays. Slick baton I, P. Crawford (C) 2, R. Syme 26s (record). communist Solve your changes and consistent run­ (C) 3; distance, 152ft 3iin. 440 yards, men: A. Osborne paper run ning got them clear firsts in Javelin, women: P. Cameron (V) 1, B. Fox (O) 2, A. Mar­ foreign po Problems both the 4 x 440 and the 4 x (A) 1; distance, 69ft 3in. tin (A) 3; time, 49.2s. be banned’ 110. Shot put, women: M. Bar­ 4 x 110 yards relay, women: (Jackie Ken; Smartly clay (A) 1, G. Davies (V) 2, Otago 1, Auckland 2, Victoria ’Next to t / Auckland were the outstand­ J. Clark (C) 3; distance, 36ft 3; time, 51.8s (record). Craccum is ing team in the field events. 2iin. Vault: R. Syme (C) 1, A ourite thin They won both the men’s and Long jump, women: A. Long Howard (A) 2, B. Carver (C) What are y< at women’s shot put, discus and (A) 1, S. Oxenham (O) 2, G. 3; height, lift. Craccum V c WHITCOMBE'* NZUSA Meeting Reappraises NZUSA used to be considered a small clique. This is all to be resolved in far- reaching changes, the president said at the Easter meeting of Council. FULL RANGE Mitchell went on to say that NZUSA’s executive body. Re­ of its Executive body. Consti­ You si while much of the ‘undue ill- sults were: tutional amendments were AVAILABLE NOW formed emphasis’ on interna­ International Vive-Presi decided on in a meeting of have tional politics had been re­ dent: Canterbury’s Juliet Ful­ the presidents during Council IN ALL SUBJECTS moved, that ‘we would cer­ ton. and presented to the full ses­ your < tainly be deceiving ourselves Administrative Vice-Presi­ sion by President Mitchell. DRAWING INSTRUMENTS if we were satisfied with the dent: fomer NZUSA Secretary, Most drastic move was the BNZ present situation.’ Bill Falconer, of Victoria. scrapping of delegates. The AND MATERIALS Asking what NZUSA meant Travel Vice-President: Lin­ presidents advocated nine c hequt to the average student, Mitch­ coln’s Neil Gow. officers: President, four vice- ARTISTS SUPPLIES AND ell outlined a three-point pro­ Secretary: Victoria’s Exec, presidents, secretary, trea­ occo ur gramme for developing secretary, Roger Pitchforth. surer, cultural affairs officer, NZUSA. He called for: Treasurer: Victoria’s Treas­ sports officer and press officer. ALL STUDENT STATIONERY A change in emphasis of urer, Mark Harris. The four vice-presidents’ Association activities. Cultural Affairs Officer: Vic­ portfolios were designated as An improvement in internal toria’s Vice-President, Keren External Affairs, Internal at communications. Clark. Affairs, Travel and Adminis­ More vigorous public rela­ Press Officer: NZUPA Pre­ trative. President Mitchell tions. sident and former Salient ed­ pointed out that these were Michael J. Moriarty, Presi­ itor, Murray White. merely tag names and that dent of Victoria’s Executive, Sports Officer: NZUSU the duties could be divided up WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LTD. is NZUSA President for 1963- President Tony Gault. by the Executive. 64. Moriarty was elected in Moriarty succeeds Armour The new administration also Queen Street and High Street, AUCKLAND the Council meeting on Mon­ Mitchell, who was also Vic­ includes as press officer the Victoria Street, HAMILTON day morning. toria’s president before him. president of NZUPA under the Six other Victoria students Answering recent criticisms, new rPess Association consti­ succeeded in the elections for Council undertook a re-vamp tution. CRACCUM VICTO R BQRGE DECAMERRONEOUS MONDAY MAY 6 1963 inish-born humorist Victor Borge, who became Boccaccio 70, directed by Fellini (of Dolce* Vita inious in the 193Q’s for his satirical attacks on the fame) is a highly coloured, American-dubbed attempt of a zealously puritanical doc­ izis, doesn’t belong to any political party. to render if not the letter at least the spirit of tor who objects to a monster 1 have the same feeling posed to be here, but he poster, featuring Miss Ekberg democracy as I have for changed his mind when I Boccaccio in a modem setting. As such it fails, but partially draped in black, :ysystem which isn’t entirely refused to change the piano’s the failure makes up a diverting two and a hit hours. recumbent, advertising—milk! i f , he said. ‘I don’t lampoon keyboard’. This version has only three j only other feature common to This poster is planted right in imunists because I don’t The colour problem is a dis­ of the original four stories. them all is the presence of the middle of the park and the need. They are doing grace, he feels. ’It has been The one cut, we are informed, three interesting young ladies within range of his apartment. :iy well by themselves’. shown in a wrong light by the was not censored but deleted — Misses Ekberg, Romy The film has some witty With the outbreak of World press’, he said. ‘Those who are tot cut the length of an Schneider and Loren. things to say about the adver­ far II, Mr Borge had to causing the disturbances are already long film. The first story — ‘The tising cult, and the banal milk- -ape the Gestapo, and fled only a small section of the The three stories have little Temptation of Doctor Antonio’ jingle that accompanies the America. ‘Churchill and I population’. in common save sex — but — is the best of the three. It poster in stereophonic sound ere right a long time ago’, On American politics: few would quibble at this. The concerns itself with the history is delightful. recalled. T said the Ger- ‘Americans don’t vote for the Anita, continuing her role ■jns would invade Denmark, candidate they want — they as Rome’s sex-symbol from La nobody believed me’: vote against the one they don’t BOOK REVIEW Dolce, eventually comes to life want. This is a very dangerous (all fifty feet of her) and rtls Mr Borge performed in thing’. LAUNDERED LIMERICKS comes to terms with her per­ le Rock just after racial Sick humour? T have one Peter Pauper Press, NY secutor. nee, 17ft - ubles there. He was asked wish — that they would all The second story concerns a «to say anything about the get well again. This new anthology contains a reasonably large rich playboy with a passion S. Oxen- nation, but did not like ‘Humour is a medium with number of new works in a growing art form. Some, for call-girls. Romy Schneider, y (A) 2, sngtold how to run his show. which you create a situation. perhaps most of them, have, we are told in the fore­ playing his wife, gives a fine ne, 26.5s. opening comment was: You can make people laugh or word, been changed from their original state of performance, probably the best tson (Ci vernor Faubus was sup- cry. I prefer to make them pristine ebullience to a more refined form. of the whole film, though out­ P. Hew- happy. I feel obliged to make Sometimes this Bowdleris- There was a young lady gunned in other departments. i 55s. my audience smile. I get ner­ ation results in an anaemic named Gloria She eventually reaches an arke (A WAT PEOPLE ARE vous when I see a person in product, but often this process who was goosed by Sir ambiguous compromise with D. Cosh the audience who is not of refinement adds a certain Oswald du Maurier, her husband by charging four t 3in. SAYING smiling’. touch of elegance which is by thirty-five men hundred thousand lire for her imp: R. Bobby Kennedy says: Audiences are not just a ‘sea beneficial. then Sir Oswald again, favours, which arrangement is ;e (M) 2, 'Every Attorney-General of faces’ to Victor Borge. Each Limericks, it would seem, and the band at the Wal­ eminently satisfactory to him distance, should read Craccum be­ person is an individual, even have always been devoted dorf Astoria. but perhaps not to her. fore he turns sixteen’. in the balcony. ‘Little do they singlemindedly to the subject The final story stars Sophia Barclay Brigitte Bardot says: ‘Apres know they are being observed’, of sex. Recent research on the Definitely in the tradition Loren in an affair called ‘The i (0) 2, moi — Craccum!’ he said. apparently innocent father of of acute feminine wit and ob­ Wager’, in which she is the nee, 95ft Life is not completely frivo­ servance, running from Jane prize of an illegal lottery. This Christine Keeler says: T lous in the Borge household in the genre, Edward Lear, has Austen through to the present is her last lottery, as she has read the Spanish edition Connecticut. Mr Borge, who revealed that there is a dark day Misses Murdoch, Compton- almost saved up enough money lond (A) „ of Craccum’. was a concert pianist at 13, cess-pool of symbolism be­ nson (0) Gerald Profumo, MP, says: hag a Kentucky-born wife, and neath the apparent sexlessness Burnett and McCarthy. to get out of her present cir­ Ciaccum and I are just flve children, from 18 to seven of his lines. Dr. Schneider of The Bishop of Birmingham cumstances. . Norris good friends’. Illinois has convincingly argued is too well-known to bear The resulting confusions as (M) 2, tPravda warns: ‘Craccum is years old. that Lear’s inability to pro­ repetition, (unexpectedly she meets the man she really distance, a filthy, decadent, lousy ‘Children must' learn what duce a fifth line independent rhymed masterpiece though it does love on the night she has by-product of capitalist, discipline is’, he said. ‘They of the first is a clear sign of is) but a newer typical ex­ to pay off her debt finally )ionship: fascist pigs’. must be taught honesty, punc­ the writer’s preoccupation with ample of this genre is:— resolve. The production in this )nes (0 NY Times reports: ‘Crac­ tuality, respect and considera­ his impotence. Going back even case (Vittoria de Sica, sur­ me, 14m cum is subversive. It is a tion’. further, the one extant ver­ There was a young lady of prisingly) is rather less than communist - infiltrated Mr Borge’s humour sion from classic antiquity. Devon first-class. Osborne paper run by a certain | drawn from life as he has met Didorus Siclulus Who was goosed in the gar­ High spot of the film is Miss A. Mar- foreign power. It should it, and as it has affected him. made himself ridiculous den by seven Loren’s rendering of another 28. be banned’. He does not search for sub­ by maintaining that the High Anglican priests, banal melody—‘Money, money, women: tlackie Kennedy enthuses: jects, or study the characteris­ thimble was a phallic The lascivious beasts, money’. Victoria 'Next to the Mona Lisa, tics of each country before he symbol. Of such is the Kingdom of Boccaccio 70 is hardly meant ). Craccum is my very fav­ visits it. While irregular in form, is Heaven. to be taken seriously. It is ) 1, A. ourite thing’. eminently regular in senti­ Professor Woolf traces this mildly satirical of the Church, ■ ver (0 T could do a scene on my sex, advertising, money, the What are you saying? journey by train from Welling­ ment. As a didactically inclin­ school of limerick writing to European set, etc., but is in ton to Auckland’, he said. ‘But ed limerick in this new selec­ an Irish-American source, and the main calculatedly aimed I don’t think there will be tion puts the matter. produces a considerable at a Cincingondolanatti mar­ Craccum V copy closes May : time on the programme’. The limerick is an art amount of documentary evi­ ket The film is worth seeing, ■ —Groppo’s Baby form complex dence in support. however, for ‘The Temptation and usually inclines to the However, it must be added of Doctor Antonio’ alone. Here es subject of sex that a rival school, featuring Fellini is more subtle, and the n far- with stories of virgins mainly the redoubtable Father initiates will find him using and masculine urgins O’Flynn has emerged on the with tongue in cheek part of with vulgar erotic effects other side of the Atlantic. his amazingly successful 20th Consti- You should One of the best significant century Roman mythology in . were points about this new selec­ The final noteworthy fea­ what amounts to a parody of ting of have tion is that many of the ture of this book is the small a parody of a parody. Council authors are women. Up until number of that genre broadly fill ses- your own ! the present day the form has classified as medical which are chell. : been dominated by the male, present. This, one, suspects, is Her position to Titian vas the BNZ but a rapid change is now due less to a decrease in pop­ Suggested fruition, ‘S. The apparently taking place. ularity than to the propriety So he climbed up the ladder nine cheque spoken of in the foreword. and had her. This revolution seems to be Certainly, to misquote Ham­ r vice- account entirely beneficial, and has At least in New Zealand the trea- given the limerick a long- popularity of such amazing let, not a case of more madder officer, awaited touch of elegance young women as Brenda, the with less art. officer, and elevated wit—look at, for Maid of Bangkok, and assort­ The limerick, let it be said, sidents’ example, two of the more re­ is a genuine artistic form, and ited as ed females from Dallas, Belize, is slowly being recognised as nternal cent creations. the Azores, etc. is as strong Oh damn, said the Duke as ever. such — largely due to the dminis- Enjoy the double safeguard of paying 'ey efforts of that great critic litchell BNZ cheques . . . an automatic receipt of Buccleugh, The art limerick has not as William Empson, who brought for payment and protection of your funds I’ve' been struck from the ; were against theft. A BNZ cheque account also yet gained widespread support, the form to the notice of the d that gives you full control of your finances, rolls of Who’s Who, but it is here that the highest intellectual world in his great and standing in the community, too. Just because I was seen, ded up Enquire at any BNZ Branch or Agency. form of [limerick writing is book ‘Seven Types of Am­ Making love on the green present: biguity’. In this work he com­ on also With my Granny—and pared parts of the oeuvre of er the very nice too! While Titian was mixing the great poet Richard ier the Bank of New Zealand j Is it too much to see the rose madder Crashaw with the effect of consti- New Zealand’s Leading Bunk I influence of Miss Compton- His model was perched on some of the more exotic j Burnett here? a ladder. Bank with the BNZ limericks. and — continued in next column High praise indeed. EDITORL 12 e *AS£«J! i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I agree that everyone has a able lack of responsibility and liant scheme’ lacks the coui’age Dear Sir, OPINIONS ON democratic right to hold a maturity of certain students of his convictions to sign his Mr Shand should not be COMMUNIST PROTEST meeting without disturbance. in throwing paper darts, pellets name ? blamed for the expressions I j I do not, however, agree that and similar childish missiles’. As is well-known, this uni­ used to describe my impres­ As my po Dear Sir, the Communist Party, whose Mr David Williams, imme­ versity is grossly overcrowded sions of his discussion with say The Communist protest was avowed intent is to take over diately following the closure — by now to the point of the ‘idealists’. He did not refer In 1863, a mild success. We made our this country along with the of the meeting, admonished me exclusion of students. If the to ‘the intractability .. etc.’ — Once peop point that we do not like rest of the world, should be for moving a childish motion, sort of scheme that ‘Quills’ I used the inverted commas art Communists. The New Zealand allowed to hold an important although he admitted that proposes was to come about, because I think that this is a Goodbye, party is such a pack of ignor­ conference in this country dart and toilet roll throwing one of the obvious repercus­ quotation from A. N. White- .And what ant yobs that they do not mat­ during the Easter season. I was childish. His attitude was sions would be that over­ to say head. Ls good < ter much anyway. The child­ consider it an insult to our that we should ignore them crowding would increase, and As I had expected, none of ish sensationalism of the ideals that a public meeting and they would tire of their even more students would the replies has been able to Herald only proves that ‘a of this group was held on game in time. Attitudes of have to be excluded. Perhaps indicate just what are the (‘Lines for £ lot of stupid students’ do Easter Sunday. other responsible students this would be a good thing— ideals which our politicians At the rece much less harm than one The Communists are quite were: that the moment was if the gamblers and suchlike ought to be pursuing, unless was passed irresponsible newspaper that happy to go unnoticed as it inopportune, the meeting being were the ones kept away, and Mr Nola’s mention of worker the Executi’ distorts facts. allows them to infiltrate into in such a state of volatility; thus prevented from cluttering participation was intended in strong letter However, the vicious and the country. Complete exclu­ that I had already incurred up the facilities required by this light. Unfortunately, how­ mercenary unwarranted sentence of one sion of the Communists from the wrath of the meeting (by more serious-minded bona fide ever, none of the ‘idealists’ at Auckland F( , month’s imprisonment imposed this country may not be demo­ protesting the carrying of the students. Congress had any reply to Mr This letter by Mr A. A. Coates, SM, cratic, but then neither are the motion ‘that the Executive I suppose that before long Shand’s practical extensions support of t. on the unfortunate young man methods used by that body in shall officially recognise sex as we shall see ‘Quills’ or one of of this idea and Mr Nordmeyer student body who was arrested at the rally the accomplishment of their the fittest subject for student his cronies burst into print, himself said that complete It is unfc is a disgrace. He was charged ideals. humour’) and that my motion advocating the installation of lack of union support made the climax to ye with disorderly conduct. He wolld only incite the already a liquor bar in the university idea unworkable. philistinism was not charged with obstruct­ The students of this and all rowdy masses; that a large — probably with a special Donleavy’s ] ing the police, a more serious other NZ universities should section of the students present licence to open seven days a What Mr Dane said seemed of New Yori offence; he was a first make their views on Commun­ were already so intent on week with extended hours (or to me to have little relevance worth the offender; his act was in the ism publicly known. If it does having the meeting end in a perhaps not even closing at to what I was trying to say. notoriety it heat of the moment when men nothing else, it will at least shambles, that such a motion all). Thus he would not go But it was, I thought, quite a neither pa were striking police with their keep the public aware of the would be either defeated and/ good poem, so perhaps this very great potential danger of thirsty while playing billiards. doesn’t mattei\ torious nor j fists. Accused’s act was fool­ this doctrine. or worse than useless. If there are so many stud­ ing. ish and irresponsible but not Sir, I submit, indeed I assert ents with so much money that —Les Holborow. It is a pla scrously criminal. I can assure Mr Dickson that all these cowardly com­ ‘initial expenses would be level of Uni\ Mr Coates’ high-handed that none of the organisers of plaints are illustrative of the covered in about a week’, per­ week produc action could be accounted for the student demonstration has fear of Auckland students to haps they would be good sadly lack in a number of ways. He said any Communist leanings what­ disagree with the majority. enough (to club together and STATIONERY SALES seriousness. t)iat such behaviour led to soever. Not one student, not one Exe­ donate it to Studass Building University serious consequences, particu­ Yours, etc., cutive member, dared to pro­ Fund (for use in providing Dear Sir, which has se larly in a large crowd when GEOFF ALLAN test against the continual legitimate facilities), or some I apologise humbly for hav­ interested ii emotions were running high. barrage of paper darts. Many other worthy cause. ing to write to you on scrap now appears Perhaps the man is being people joined the throwers, paper, but my recent attempts saviour of J punished for the acts of the including a past president of Yours faithfully, to buy stationery from the However, crowd, a sort of whipping boy. Stud. Ass. WEE QUILLS. Stud. Assn, bookshop having point of vie Perhaps the learned magistrate Dear Sir, Verbal jousting, controver­ been thwarted, I am forced to. more serious is trying to discourage public The natural consequences of sial issues, unpopular motions, Last Thursday when I Three men protest meetings, an adr ted the organised demonstration differences of opinion, are all Dear Sir, attempted to buy stationery at tival Com constitutional right of .,'ew by students at the Communist in order at an AGM. But phy­ The Capping spirit is with the shop between 4.30 and 5.30 Beadle, Tom Zealand. Party’s Town Hall meeting sical violence of any kind and us again, and the letter by pm, when the place was adver­ have resigne > The sentence could be in­ recently was to produce illegal however slight is intolerable. Quills in the last issue of tised as being open, there was mittee’s poli tended to be a deterrent, in acts, for which one man re­ Are we to be intimidated by Craccum has set the standard a notice on the door saying, rejection of which case Mr Coates chose! ceived a prison sentence. mass violence? Are we to be for.this year’s frivolities. Such ‘Closed till 3.15 tomorrow’. was the sp£ to ignore the principle stated Furthermore, this disturb­ cowed into silence because our idiotic trash is not what we Discouraged by this, I bor­ explosion off by Lord Parker that ‘reform ance of the peace resulted in words might annoy the major­ expect from Quills considering rowed paper to complete the lies in the comes first—certainly in the the student body as a whole ity? Are we to suffer the his former pregnant efforts, work which had to be handed committee o case of young offenders.’ Per­ being discredited in the opinion indignity of being the object and we are surprised that he in before the shop reopened. A large r sonally, I think Mr Coates of the general public, and of misguided missiles and should lower the quality of On approaching the shop — with influenc had read his Herald that caused bad feeling with the remarks whenever we speak? his production in favour of now shifted to the office — on of the Festh morning and acted in the heat police, who have the duty to Are we social failures because quantity. a Tuesday morning, I discov­ fluence eithe of the moment without prevent apprehended breaches we ask for orderliness in what We were, etc., ered that the place was closed or social p< thought or care as to what of that peace. had commenced as an enter­ Members of the till 12. This is an inconveni­ them are pli would be reasonable in the However wrong their policy taining, stimulating and, at —Quills’ Fan Club ence which I feel could now It has beer circumstances. may be, the Communists had times, useful meeting? be overcome. As there is Festival pla But Justice must be done, a democratic right to carry I would point out to the presumably always somebody dressed in coates of many on the meeting without inter­ unenlightened that the above To prevent confusion among present during office hours, shades. ference or disturbance. If questions are rhetorical, and your readers, I would like to surely stationery sales could Yours sincerely, there is one thing that Com­ are intended to be answered indicate that the photograph be made at any time within Mother of Ten. munists cannot stand, it is to in the negative. accompanying your fine article these hours? be ignored, and they no doubt Sir, my motion was reason­ on Patrick Hanly, in the last Yours, welcomed the demonstration able. issue of Craccum, showed CHEESED OFF. PA as giving publicity of great Yours sincerely, propaganda value. So much so ‘Stripper with Stole’, from Dear Sir, that some of the agitators in KEITH BERMAN. Hanly’s ‘Showgirl Series’. This As one of the organisers, I the mob outside the Town Hall series was painted in Florence BROADWAY would like to point out to Mr were probably Communists in 1960, while he was on an Dickson that the student themselves. Italian Government scholar­ MOTORS LTD. demonstration was organised ship, and reflected the distrac­ Licen sed M o to r Vehicle Dealers with the full knowledge of the One wonders what a witch ON BILLIARDS tions created in Europe to give police. As another group had hunt among the student or­ relief from ‘the pressures and also organised a demonstra­ ganisers would reveal? Dear Six-, tensions created by the Nu­ Stc tion, I fail to see how the Yours faithfully, Apparently this university, clear Power Clubs’. Notably New Scooters illegal acts can be attributed NEV DICKSON. which is supposed to be an intimate revue, showgirls, and and Motor-cycles to our group, especially as institute of learning and higher stripper joints. ‘Stripper with 1963 Jawa NZ 350 Twin £252 thei none of our group was among thought, houses more frivolous Stole’ was shown in Mr 1963 Jawa NZ 250 sgle. £219 1963 J a w a 175 cc...... £180 those arrested. and time-wasting no-hopers Hanly’s 1962 retrospective 1963 Jawa 125 cc...... £159 The general public opinion and no-gooders than I thought. show at The Gallery 64 1963 N Z e t t a 175 fro m £209/10/- AGM Symonds Street (now the Ikon 1963 Puch 150 cc...... from £209 is not against our action. I am prompted to this con­ 1963 Rabbit 125 from £205/10/- N umuerous responsible busi­ Dear Sir, clusion, sir, by your corre­ Gallery), and not, of course, 1963 H o n d a S u p er C ub 50 £131 in his recent ‘New Order’ 1963 Yamaha Scooter 55 c.c. nessmen have stated that they The Studass half AGM ended spondent in Craccum of April £143/17/6 are glad to see the students in chaos. It has been alleged 9, 1963, who signs himself as show. The painting is now in making a public protest in that my motion was the direct “Quills” — I take it this is a the collection of Mr Otto • such a matter of world im­ cause of the final uproar. I nom-de-plume as no initials Groen of the Gourmet Res­ 49 Hi portance. The police, all bar moved ‘that the chairman ex­ ax-e appended. Could it be that taurant. Inspection invited one or two, were very happy press on behalf of the meeting the ‘student’ who conceived Don Wood, 1/3 deposit — 18 months A i with our behaviour. its disapproval of the deplor­ such a ‘far-sighted and bril­ Ikon Gallery. to pay EDITORIAL COMMENT Official (?) CRACCUM MONDAY MAY 6 1963 THE FESTIVAL ISSUE Sex * .. ‘ . / I Totalitarian States have from Restrictions In time to time partially As my poor father used to one of the few festivals in the from the public mouth. attempted systems of State- Syllabus say world that makes a profit. If Canon Blackwood Moore has i controlled sexuality, and even In 1863, this was only incidental to the denounced the University as non-totalitarian societies take Judging from the amount of Once people start on all this main purpose of the festival ‘an unweeded garden’, and an official line on sex as repre­ petty opposition that the new art there would be no complaints. denounced immoral art right sented in certain works of unit of History and Theory of Goodbye, moralitee ! But the Festival seems to be and left. His uninformed views literature. In China there is an Fine Arts for BA has caused .And what my father used geared only to the making of hold his species of narrow official party line (‘Look at among reputedly responsible to say a profit. bigotry up to ridicule from me, I’m senile before my university personnel, it seems Ls good enough for me. Therefore, any artistic piece outside and, one sincerely time’) against early marriages. that we will have to wait for —Sir A. P. Herbert that does not have a chance hopes, from inside. Auckland But it took the students of a considerable time for even ('Lines for a Worthy Person’) of coming out even or better is in danger of becoming the Auckland University at the the most minor of additions to At the recent AGM a motion is dismissed. little Dublin of the South recent AGM to add the last our restricted syllabus. was passed to the effect that So it was that until the Pacific. word in this line by passing a The situation as regards the the Executive should write a recent controversy, that show­ Christianity, while it must motion presented by the leader teaching of Russian was com­ strong letter protesting at the piece of American culture, the concern itself with the vital of the engineering delegation— mented on in the last issue. It mercenary attitude of the Ziegfield Follies, was appar­ problems as art, politics, etc., ‘That sex be officially recog­ illustrates the torpor of the Auckland Festival Committee. ently on the list of official should view these problems nised as the fittest subject for bureaucratic corpse that rules This letter should have the Festival items. There has been from a wide and liberal angle. university humour’. from above. support of the whole thinking Uninformed bigotry will dam­ Such a grave and unprece­ And now, with the shut­ student body. age the Church even more dented blow against freedom down on the taking of extra­ It is unfortunate that the than the cultural life of Auck­ of thought should not be mural units, the situation is climax to years of frustrating land. It is very sad that no allowed to go unrescinded. The worsened. Whereas before a philistinism had to come over clergyman has spoken out subject of sex has not been student could, at a certain Donleavy’s play ‘Fairy Tales against the canon’s puerilities, recognised as a fit subject, amount of disadvantage, pursue of New York’. The play is not because it leaves the impres­ but as officially ‘the fittest’ the study of Russian, Asian worth the attention or the sion that Christianity is of subject for university humour. Studies, etc., this is now no notoriety it has received. It is necessity a narrow, bigotted, Next, we can expect a longer possible. neither particularly meri­ puritanical dogma. motion at the autumn AGM The student body should torious nor particularly shock­ defining sex as the only sub­ instruct their executive to ing. If the canon had criticised ject for university humour. protest strongly on this matter. It is a play roughly on the the play as being a bad play, And, from the literary view­ Further, some sort of action level of University Orientation and then gone on to show that point, do those who so ear­ should be initiated to show week productions, which have its artistic lack of merit was nestly feel for the cause of that the student body considers sadly lacked fundamental being compensated for by the volkfilth in New Zealand and that the courses offered at seriousness. Ironically, the author’s deliberate use of sen­ await the coming of the first this university are too restric­ University Drama Society, sational sex, he might be on great New Zealand effort in tive, and that certain new which has seldom shown itself firmer ground. that field, feel that their courses should be set up as interested in serious drama, This apparently did not cause will be helped by the soon as possible. now appears as the cultural occur to any of the accusers. creation of an official sexual Something upon the lines of saviour of Auckland. It is unfortunate that the play party line? Victoria’s Asian Studies course However, from the wider is of little worth, but the point Could Boccaccio and Rabe­ is a necessity, and a wide­ point of view, there are far at issue is that plays or operas lais and even Will Shakespeare spread change of attitude is more serious issues at stake. of greater worth will receive have flourished in a society needed in the History Depart­ Three members of the Fes­ M R H O G B EN the same treatment in the that regarded impropriety as ment, which deals only briefly tival Committee, Messrs. future. What would happen if proper? with Asian history, and only Beadle, Tomory and Colgan, no denial of this from Mr the NZ Opera Co. wished to Never! then in restricted contexts. It have resigned over the com­ Hogben, whose lips seem to present Alban Berg’s ‘Lulu’ or is not suggested that these mittee’s policy. Although the be permanently sewn up. a drama club to put on Ten­ changes in the department be rejection of Donleavy’s play The committee has also set nessee Williams or some such such things can and should be made compulsory for the his­ was the spark that set the itself up as the protector of sordid fare? presented to them. tory student, but that at least explosion off, the real reason public morality. Any work of From the moral point of *A society can only be the option be offered of a lies in the attitude of the art that, might possibly offend view, it is not by avoiding healthy, spiritually and mor­ course of study which all but committee over recent years. the sensibilities of the average reference to immoral acts, un­ ally, when it begins to try to the few can see is of the A large number of people audience is taboo. Strangely natural sexual acts, etc., etc., understand itself. utmost importance. with influence on the planning enough, Puccini’s La Boheme, that these things are to be So perverted is the present of the Festival have that in­ a portrayal of immoral student understood. Plays with such outlook that a sophisticated It would also appear that fluence either through money life in Bohemian Paris, is con­ subject matter as themes are peepshow was reckoned mor­ the creation of a Department or social position. Some of sidered suitable. But opera is not for little children. But ally superior enough to be of Oriental Languages is over­ them are plainly ignorant. stylised, and Puccini’s pleasant there is a time when most sponsored officially. due. It has been the boast of the sentimentality evidently people stop thinking as little And so we have ‘The Reluc­ Festival planners that it is washes away the taste of guilt children, and it is then that tant Debutante’ as an official EUROPEAN LITERATURE, Festival production. It will HISTORY OF MUSIC shock no old ladies, and little Auckland University might children will be able to see it be able to set a worthwhile without peril. It will raise no precedent in New Zealand by problems and the tills will the setting up of a course in click and the Finance Com­ European Literature. Though PAUL'S BOOK mittee will smile. this could tend to become too And we shall all join in a wide and rather superficial, it rousing chorus (Mr Osborne could serve a valuable function will, I hope, forgive us)—• in furthering the cause of ARCADE ‘true’ education so piously i I want to hear of beautiful espoused by those up there. things, Another suggestion is that Beautiful things like love. the Music Department follow I don’t want to hear of the example of the Elam Stand on emotional wrecks, school and initiate a course in to give Of people who practice pecu­ the History of Music at least liar sex. as a Stage I unit. I want my love to be pure, Finally, the hope has been their heads Service MY INCOME SECURE, expressed by many students I don’t wish to wallow in a that some positive action is spiritual sewer. going to be taken as regards the inclusion of arts units in I want to hear about beau­ a science degree. Surely no one tiful things, in a position of authority will Beautiful things like love. argue that any move to break I don’t want to know about down the artifiicial dichotomy 49 High Street 79 Victoria Street fornication, between the ‘two cultures’ is But only of people who still a good thing? At least as Auckland HAMILTON keep their station. regards this, may we expect some action? ETC., ETC, EDITORS. l 4 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 f j j )Oil J€ūÊ

Ten members of the'Executive It was announced that the Executive, disciplined, and to act as adults in a place 1 will travel’. At one stage heI arrived for the meeting on Public Relations Committee’s their names forwarded to the provided for adults’. proposed the plan that a jazz April 10. Apologies were re­ Schools Tour to secondary Dean’s Committee of the band perform in the coffee bar ceived from two others, but schools in the south of the Senate where necessary’. De­ ★ ★ ★ each evening during Capping I David Williams, John Clarke Auckland province had over­ week. This was referred back I spite the fact that this sort of It would appear that the i and John Collinge were absent spent its budget by almost £9. behaviour is obviously wrong, to Capping committee to e- p without apologising. Perhaps Denis Browne, who reported the Executive defeated the Exec will turn a blind eye to port back to. the Executive. A; I that the tour had been suc­ motion four votes to five. this form of behaviour. How- j the time of going to press ra Mond these worthy gentlemen were ever, should any students be prevented by ill health from cessful, explained that extra definite decision had been 8 a.m. W ake trips had to be made to some Herb Romaniuk commented: caught using a window as a reached by Exec. attending, but surely some door, there is a good chance martini (2) form of apology could have schools because the secondary ‘This motion is a type of and take o Brenda that they will be called before been sent. Come to think about departments had not been police-State motion’. W e e k . Bracewell the Exec to explain their it, Mr Clarke’s earlier enthu­ aware that the University supported Mr Raise righ t 1 students were coming. He put Romaniuk, saying: T don’t see behaviour, as the Exec has siasm appears to have waned this power by the Constitu­ W I L L N O T somewhat. His attendance is this down to bad liaison be­ any reason why people should APOLOGY LECTURES not too good at the moment. tween headmasters and heads not step through the window tion. So if you want to be of secondary departments at occasionally’. Pamela Meeking fined, just try climbing through Craccum would like to 2pm - 4 pm . ★ ★ ★ these schools. spoke for the motion. She the coffee bar windows. apologisq for an unfortun- i A donation of £5 was re­ said that students would not ★ ★ ★ ate and unintended mis­ 1 pm - 6 pn ceived from Men’s House Com­ do this in a coffee bar down­ representation in the i GRAND’ w it) m itte e o f 6< mittee. The chairman, Peter ★ ★ ★ town, so why should they do Jill Mandeno reported that article, ‘Fine Arts for the | Curson, requested the Craccum it at University. Miss Meeking some artistic rubbish tins are Masses’ in last issue. Note: B ar t( reporter to note this kindly pointed out that the next step being obtained for the coffee Tap beer 62 is clombing on to the tables Mr von Meier has stated | B ra n d y . gesture. This sum was over­ A motion was moved Nuttall- bar. Exec authorised the pur­ to us subsequently that in j shadowed by. Brenda Brace- to make the exit easier, with Smith/Mandeno: ‘That any chase of a coffee-making no way did he mean to 8 pm. C A PPI w ell’s announcement that the persons caught entering or resultant damage to the tables. machine to replace the Cona suggest that the Auckland I T H E P E T E E Government had granted leaving the coffee bar by any Denis Browne made the sane units at present. This should Art Gallery was treating UNDERGRA £220,000 towards the cost of other means than by the door comment, T don’t think that make coffee available at all ‘crim- its collection in a j 8 pm. R evu e the new Student Building. shall be brought before the it’s childish to expect people times without having to wait adjective | inal’ way. The GO QUIET! in the queue for 15 minutes was applied to other | or longer. M A Y ’ . A t parties. T h e a tr e . In fact, the gallery has 8 pm. C o f f e e t Mr Romaniuk made quite a been one of the few re­ University N otes from sponsible bodies over the lengthy report on matters j last few years. Coffee B ar. Welcome to University for 1963. It may seem somewhat late for a welcome, Capping, including plans for but as this is the first Men’s House Committee report in Craccum this year, a tricycle race. ‘Have tricycle,; TUESDAY, MJ. we hope you will at least forgive us for this undoubted crime. Sam. A t t e m p t For those who don’t know, ; Chairman men students and Arts Block fail m iserabl MHC (Men’s House Commit­ An Executive member, re­ lockers to both men and APPLICATIONS ARE CALLED FOR THE 10 am. W ake u tee) is the body which has the sponsible for the formation of women students. Unfortun­ friend to ap duty, as laid down by the the committee and also respon­ ately there is a shortage of POSITIONS OF Constitution, of controlling the sible to Executive for its lockers, but there may be a RETURNING OFFICER lpm - 2 pm. Student Block and in general actions. few more available in the near 2 pm. A l c o h o l , < of looking after the welfare future. We’ll let you know RETURNING OFFICER Change hair (1) of men students. A mem­ Bookings when. Those students who had ber of the committee will be In control of all bookings their name taken at the begin­ and found on duty each weekday of the Student Block by clubs, ning of term but did not get * ASSISTANT RETURNING OFFICER I pm." V e n u e , F between the hours of 1-2 pm societies, etc. Rooms available a locker should contact MHC ASSISTANT RETURNING OFFICER some m em be and 5-6 pm in MHC room. are the Men’s Common Room again as some more lockers mittee of 64 That’s just by the new coffee (MCR); Cafeteria; Cafeteria are available. Only those Note: B ar t( bar. Extension; Committee’s Meet­ people who had their name ALL APPLICATIONS TO THE SECRETARY Tap b e e r 6. At present the personnel of ing Room (CMR); Women’s taken will get one. BEFORE THE MAY VACATION PLEASE B R A N D Y . Reading Room (WRR); Any other enquiries about B R A N D Y . . the committee is as follows: Women’s Common Room MHC wil gladly be answered Chairman: Peter Curson. (WCR). The WCR will not be by any member of Men’s Nominations are called for the following positions on 8 pm. S T A F F Vice-chairman, student faci­ available until the end of the House. Meetings are held the Executive of the Auckland University Students' ING. D irectei Association— Prof. B eadle. lities, Bruce White. first term, but a very small every two or three weeks and In t h e U n i v Secretary: Rod Sara. temporary WCR is available any complaints, suggestions or 1. President. REVUE: *Ni Treasurer: Mauri Hill. till then. congratulations (?) will be 2. Man Vice-President. His M a j e s t y Bookings: Ray Often. gratefully discussed. 3. Woman Vice-President. Lost Property: Pete Met­ Lost Property The first meeting this year 4. Treasurer. 8 pm - ? ? C o f calfe. Most lost property eventu­ was a routine one to welcome the C o f f e e 1 Communications: John ally turns up in MHC. A sur­ several new members and deal Forms are available at the Association Office. prising amount of it is un­ with business from the long iVEDNESDAY, Matheson. claimed, most has little or no vacation. Nominations must be with the Secretary no later Lockers: Toni Gavin. identification (especially books Men’s House Committee than 5 p.m. on FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1963. Sam. W a k e u Sales and Publicity: Noel identification (especially regrets the general lack of be m onotone Archer. books). If you lose something facilities in the way of com­ Nominations are called for the following positions Repairs and Renewals: come to MHC; if we haven’t 8.12 am. Trail Vacant. mon room space and areas for on the Auckland University Students’ Association Albert Park got it come back again — club meetings and get-to­ Executive- at 10 a m . ) The duties of the committee some things take a few days gethers. This shortage has been will be fairly obvious from to reach us. particularly evident- this term 1. Business Manager. 10 am - 12 n these portfolios, but some of with Revue requiring large 2. Capping Controller. cycle for 14. those which will be of more Lockers areas for rehearsals and cos­ 3. New Buildings Officer. interest to students are out­ MHC is responsible for hiring tume production. But at the 12 noon - 2 ] lined below: out Student Block lockers to best we do admit that facilities 4. Public Relations Officer. P A R K A L B E are limited and are therefore 5. Stuudent Liaison Officer. C Y C L E ). glad to announce that the St. 6. Societies Representative. (Events in ch IT'S TIME WE GRADUATED — Paul’s Church authorities have 7. Chairman of the Men’s House Committee. du p a r k , offered the University the use 8. Chairman of the Women’s House Com­ maidensprint mittee- maidenform, TO A NEW GALLERY of their hall. We are at pre­ Jocky a n d Young John Leech first hung out his art dealer’s shingle in sent investigating what best 9. Sports Representatitve. lap c o n s i s t s Auckland in 1855. That makes us 108 ! More than eighty use may be made of this most 10. Social Controller. Occidental, C of those years have been spent in Shortland Street. Soon generous offer. We are also Cross, C i v i c , we are leaving the hill, not without nostalgia. It’s to be investigating the possibility of Application forms are available at the Associa­ Leech’s of Lome Street, John, a fine new gallery, where using rooms in the new Elam tion Office. I pm. J A Z Z the arts course is easy to take. block, and suggestions of any UNIVERSITY other possible ways of easing Nominations must be with the Secretary no sored by A U JOHN LEECH GALLERY congestion in the student block later than 5 p.m. on FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1963.' REVUE ’63. ‘ will be considered. (No; we His M a j e s t y ’ s Now at 50 SHORTLAND ST. : : Soon at 10 LORNE ST. think banning students a little Student Liaison Officer. too drastic.) lpm - ?? C of B. K. SHENKIN, the AU Coffi

1 CRACCUM MONDAY MAY 6 1963

;tage he t a jazz >ffee bar * CAPPING ’63 Capping ed back: THE e to e- PROGRAMME xtive. At Monday 6th THURSDAY MAY 9 press no 8 am. Go to bed. CULPRITS d been a.m. Wake up . . . Dash martini (2) for breakfast 8.01 am. Get up and build float ‘Dance and sing, we are and take off for Capping for Procesh and hie . . . eternal; Week. 9 am - 10 am. For float build Let us still be mad with Raise right hand and say, ‘I a procesh — hie . . . drinking: WILL NOT ATTEND ANY 11.15 am. - Float procesh for LECTURES THIS WEEK’. build a — hie . . . ’Tis a madness less infernal Than the madness caused by ke to 2pm - 4 pm. Thinks. 11.16 am. Float hie . . . ortun- 11.30 am. hie . . . thinking’. 1 mis- i pm - 6 pm. Venue ‘THE 11.45 am - 2 pm. UNIVER­ They wrecked their brains the GRAND’ with Capping Com­ SITY OF AUCKLAND so we might live it up. They or the mittee of 64. STUDENT S’ CAPPING laboured, deep into the nights ae. Note: Bar temp. 84.67 degs. PROCESSION — . . . worried about the pre­ Tap beer 62.22 degs. F. Colour by Technicolor. stated Brandy. vious night’s labours deep into hat in 2.15 pm. Unbuild procesh. the day. Why? tan to pm. CAPPING BALL AT 2.59 pm. Swot for terms test. ’Twas to maintain the ckland THE PETER PAN FOR ALL 3.0 pm. Terms test. eating UNDERGRADS. slightly tainted image of our ‘crim- 3.02 pm. Ask for glass of glorious institution through H E R E W E jective pm. Revue ’63. water. the chaos of Capping Week. GO QUIETLY NUTS IN other MAY’. At His Majesty’s 4 pm: WC please. The following words stand Theatre. 5.0 pm. Get friend to ring fire as a tribute to the Capping department. Released from Executive. The few. Un-- ry has pm. Coffee and jazz at the WC. Transported to nearest rewarded, unthanked, unbal­ tw re- University of Auckland unspecified . . . boozer. anced and certified. ear the Coffee Bar. 8 pm. REVUE ’63, ‘Nuts in (In this space hum or TUESDAY, M AY 7 May’, at His Majesty’s. whistle quietly to yourself the 8 pm - ?? Coffee and Jazz at moving strains of ‘Star- Sam. Attempt to wake up — AU Coffee Club. fail miserably. spangled Banner’.) 8 pm. Film. A Classic Comedy. T H E | END Go Nuts, Man A few of the few . . . the Oam. Wake up — phone girl­ Lower Lecture Theatre. writer ran out of wit — there friend to apologise. are only 60 more subjects. FRIDAY, MAY 10 IS NIGH t | Capping days are here again pm - 2 pm. Lunch — ugh! 8 am. Alka-Seltzer, don’t fizz. Herb Romaniuk: Student, pm. Alcohol, optional. Shave? Thank Police Inspector An­ The skies above are clear philosopher, philanthropist. Change hair oil. derson for accommodation. again, 3 pm.------Thinks . . . Fish Day. . . And we sing this song of ‘Of mild manner, soft speech cheer again, and athlete’s foot. Last seen t pm. Venue, Kiwi Hotel, with Oh God! Remove fishbones. 9.30 am. Out of gas. Damn, wearing a hunted look and a some members of the com­ 1 pm. Drink skim milk (homo­ this could be ugly. Capping days are here again. wig hat. We’ll miss you, Herb.’ mittee of 64. genised). Capping days are here again! Peter Quennell: Student, Note: Bar temp. 85.22° F. 1.15 pm. Sing ‘Skim Milk’ 9.45 am. Apologise to— public speaker, lecher. 'ARY Tap beer 62.23° F. (harmonised). 1. Traffic Officer for parking To you, the University CASE BRANDY . . BRANDY . . 2 pm. Venue De Bretts etc., on foot. Student. ‘Of strident speech, broad BRANDY . . BREBDJ. etc., etc., etc., etc. back and yachtsman’s yaws. Why not go Quietly Nuts Last seen pursuing various odd tions on pm. STAFF PLAY READ­ 4 pm. Etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. 2. Governor - General for profs waving a slightly tatty tudents' ING. Directed by Inscrutable leaving sixpence in letter this May? The Capping Com­ Prof. Beadle. 5 pm. Wake up, ring girl mittee of 64 have toiled to uhcensored copy of the Cap­ In the University Hall. friend to apologise. box while parking on front present to you the greatest ping Book. Rest in Pete’. REVUE: ‘Nuts in May’ at 5.02 pm. Oh damn. lawn. Capping Festival this ’Varsity Tony Steemson: Student, His Majesty’s. has known. 5.03 pm. Ring other girl friend 3. Traffic Officer for parking huckster, alcoholic. Jpm - ?? Coffee and jazz at to apologise. As you read this issue you ‘Of wondrous wit, pardon­ the Coffee Bar. 5.04 pm. Oh hell, this could be on other foot. will have seen the end of the able puns and erythema inter- •ffice. ugly. 4. Mayor, Professorial Board, serious side of Capping and grigo. Last seen walking 50 WEDNESDAY, M A Y 8 6 pm. Complain to Inspector you can now look forward to miles to Maramarua being no later Anderson about early clos­ Arthur Lydiard, St. John the more informal side. Our haunted by a white limousine am. Wake up - this could Ambulance, Dominion Brew­ publicity boards and the pro­ from which a voice is shout­ be monotonous. ing. 6.15 pm. Write letter to MP eries, John XXIII, Senate, gramme in this supplement ing: ‘You’ve got to get up tositions 812 am. Train for Tour de complaining about early will give you details of the steam son!’ All mail c/- ociation Girl Friend (both), Billy widest variety of functions Maramarua State Home for Albert Park rally. (Finish closing. Graham, Mother, Self. arranged for you by the Com­ the Bewildered’. at 10 am.) 6.30 pm. Demonstrate outside mittee. am - 12 noon. Build tri­ Town Hall. Intimate wrest­ 8 pm. END OF TERM DANCE Colin Broadley: Dance hall cycle for 14. ling with young, friendly Capping Festival embodies proprietor, entrepreneur, teen­ policemen and sergeants, NOS HABETIT HUMUS. the true University spirit of age idle. '1 noon - 2 pm. TOUR DE when presumably mistaken joviality and good fellowship. ‘Of vibrant voice, hirsute PARK ALBERT (MIT TRI­ for George Wilder, Esq. This is the finest opportunity head and wild eye. Last heard CYCLE). 8 pm. GRADUATES’ BALL at in the year for you to identify saying: “It’s a date, great! It’s (Events include: Grand prix THE MANHATTAN. yourself as a University Stud-’ a great date; It’s a drate nmittee. du park, formula libre, For the Elite only. ent and participate in the gate! It’s aaaaaaaaaaahhhh’’!' ;e Com- maidensprint to determine REVUE, ‘Nuts in May’ at festivities to the full. All flowers to the Lido maidenform, supported by Hamilton. (Long walk home.) Theatre. Jocky and Burly. Victory Jazz and coffee at AU Coffee Always remember you are consists of De Bretts, Bar. celebrating the graduation of Seriously though, have you Occidental, Coburg, Southern those students who have ever considered just how much Associa-i Cross, Civic, Kiwi, etc., etc. SATURDAY MAY 11 passed through the same atmo­ work and worry is necessary pm. JAZZ CONCERT - 8 am. Thank Inspector Ander­ sphere of study and intellec­ to make Capping the success UNIVERSITY HALL. Spon son for accommodation. tual stimulation in this Uni­ it is? Why not just pause for tary m sored by AU Jazz Club. versity since 1883. a moment and pay silent 33. 8.30 am. Morning tea with Mr homage to the few. It won’t REVUE ’63. ‘Nuts in May’ at Coates, SM (Stipendiary Capping Committee wishes help them much materially, t Officer] His Majesty’s. Magistrate). you a time to remember . . . but I’m sure they would pm - ?? Coffee and Jazz at 9.30 am. CAPPING CAR in other words . . . have appreciate it ... if they were the AU Coffee Bar. RALLY. yourselves a ball. capable. CRACCUM MONDAY MAY 6 1963

fith this ye me years ii History of Capping in Auckland 4 theatre. it has been ae time that t varsity revr m the light- 1 8 9 1 — 1 9 8 3 lire in keeping ri Sunday sch production ol One of the first things that was attacked by a mass of until 1920, due to the war. starting another of the usual terical pulp in a very shoi gonal standa strikes you as you look back local hooligans, and dissolved In 1920 came the first of witch-hunts. Craccum, by way time, and the ceremony wa rive weeks over the history of Capping in a shambles, which dis­ the famous trilogy of shows of reply, published accounts thus duly wrecked. Much dis „e that can at Auckland University is the couraged processions for the by L. P. Leary, now Q.C.. It of Capping festivities in Wel­ may and ringing of hands 1, tpreparation similarity between days gone next few years. The next re­ was received with acclama­ lington and Canterbury, point­ th e Professorial Board, bu rje and stre£ by and present times cord of a procession is in 1912, tion, and for the next two ing out how the local populace the press, strangely, was m is requ An early record mentions when the first Capping Car­ years Revue was the big in ’those centres turned out little admiring. Encouraged bj . the talei one of those spasmodic out­ nival took place, complete event of the Varsity year, en masse to be insulted and this, the Hongis .outdid then .' d ti breaks of public disapproval of with a Capping Programme, with “Bill Stokey” in 1921, disgusted. selves th e following year, an student behaviour and censure in colour, and a Variety Show and “The “Bulgarian Bug” in the 1941 Grad. Ceremony dis Yoar of the students by the Uni­ at the Town Hall, Grad. Ball 1922. Some pieces of the Return appeared under a storm o ie mi versity Council, complete with and Grad. Ceremony. More scripts of these shows are toilet paper, corsets, bras dect Pr°duct the usual cries of “modern lengthy correspondence with still in existence, and the Still, it was not until 1936 sieres, paper darts, hakas an BrSi ^ Sre at c generation of louts,” and so the Professorial Board about style of humour is remarkably that Capping really got going chamber pots. It must hav a* fn*-° c on. But this, j behold, was in behaviour at Capping! modern by our standards, hav­ again, and it came back with been quite a show, but it i s principals dc 1891! It is not on record what ing a definite suggestion of a bang, featuring a tremend- noticable that little is seen a B?'e w^en ne actually happened that year, Goon Show, satirizing inter­ ou Procesh based on a Roman the Hongi Club since this in the set has but it must have been im­ Shemozzle national politics. Triumphal procession and cident. A bsolute pandemonium ith the to u r pressive. Capping Ceremony in 1908 A sidelight on the times:— featuring Mussolini and the followed,—screams from th ndishly clevei The University was at this was the beginning of another about this time, a Building Abyssinian campaign. Revue public, from the Professoria that it c stage situated in the Old public shemozzle. On this oc­ Fund was inaugurated for also bounced back after a B oard, th e newspapers, an snsported. District Court House and the casion, the students were the Student Block. Subscrip­ two year absence, with a even censure of the affair b ^ tour m. Parliament Buildings. It was seated behind a platform, fac­ tion £1 per student. This is powerful writer in the person C raccum . In short, universal ,hat not e, the old story—insufficient ing the main audience, with the block into which we are of John Reid, now Professor disapprobation. r needed 1 buildings, poor conditions and all the erudite speakers in now squeezed. Reid, and possibly known to ansportation, such. It was not until the front of them. Thus the stu­ you as a one-time film critic nineteen-twenties that the dents could not hear what was for the Auckland Star. John Post-war fnntry, toPf but arti we University got its present site, being said, and amused them­ Immoral Reid emerged as a colossus in and the two decades of talk­ selves by performing antics student affairs. He wrote the In 1941 there was no Pro- scripts have ing that it took to get it were and generally playing to the Somewhere around this time complete Revue in ’36, ’37, and cesh, as most of the trncia fir own parti marked by the same contin­ crowd. This ruined the cere­ Procesh was banned by the ’38, repeating the achievement in New Zealand were beinj here seems t uous pandemonium that mony absolutely, the audience University authorities, because of L. P. Leary, the show be­ used by the Army, and fron rusticated y< plagues us nowadays. Out­ being more interested in the of the “immoral nature” of ing received with the same then on Procesh was in reee< r;ach. And th spoken public opposition, for students doing handstands the celebration. One can only acclaim. Craccum of the times until it started again in 1947jne heartrer example. Even in those times on the seats than in the speculate, but it seems to be is filled with praises for John Also in 1947 Revue went ti hen the scr it was suggested that Govern­ solemn ceremony. The affair a case of “then as now.” In Reid, who seems to have Rotorua, the show significant ed their favo ment House be taken over by was covered editorially by the any case, it was not until 1936 carried Revue on his shoulders ly being called “Smellbound.1 lied in prefe the University, with the same newspapers who, as usual, that Procesh was to wend its for those three years. Revue Capping Week in its present ere universal results of late. Here is a quote blew it up out of all propor­ way up Queen Street once ’37 was a general rubbishing form took shape round thi iy, have you i from a letter to the Star in tion, and the usual hard words more. During these years Cap­ of Hitler and of Mussolini time, and has been going eve itter how n May, 1910, from an indignant were bandied about. ping Carnival was virtually and Procesh of that year was since, although with variou its get blam “Mother of Eight.” non-existent, so it seems. The called Olympia 1937, (more ups and downs. lavatory” hum authorities refused to hold a rubbishing). In this year also , „ ie always lav “How much longer are we Farce Capping Ceremony for some the first “Carnival Book,” so- In 1948 there was a fine in , ? to tolerate this riding rough­ years, due to the shambles to called, was published, which ternal political battle over th shod over us?” Sounds famil­ The year was notable for which it was habitually re­ followed the long-established cost of Revue parties, whicl jinspired iar, doesn’t it? another event. The Chancellor duced. The student body example of the Southern Var­ apparently had set the Associ ,. ,. of the University gave the countered this move by hold­ ation back some £50. all a “ lng “P It was against this kind of sities, which was reasonably w hich is a little comic in thi '*V.S a UI background that Capping students a Greek play, in ing a mock ceremony of their successful. This publication Greek, on the basis that it own, the nature of which is was a fore-runner of the Cap­ light of the money spent o ! 1 ls ,yaar Week first developed, and over was a nice cultural piece for not on record, which is a this worthy cause nowadayi ' in eie the years it has grown to be­ ping Book that we know. A nother significant change ii 1 a ec ^ c come the festival we know to­ a Capping play. After a little pity. From 1938, Revue was writ­ thought, the play was put on, ten by one Charles Zambucka, recent years is emphasised bj an^ ase u day. in Greek, preceded by a learn­ an advertisment in a 195 wted fr0™ The Revue tradition origin­ Doldrums who virtually ran the show Craccum for Capping Bool ,eislJ' e ated before the turn of the ed discourse on the virtues of from then until 1946, with a Greek culture by the said break during the grimmer sellers. T he prizes offered w eir wWch die century with the presentation Chancellor. When the curtain During the next decade, Re­ ten free beers for each of th were no of a play during Capping vue was an annual event, but years of the war. The names ten first people .to sell on Revue has al Week. The first original stu­ went up, the audience was the Capping Carnival appears of these shows are worth look­ treated to a spectacle of a ing at just for themselves. In hundred books ! ! ! Compan interesting dent-written presentation on Greek tragedy played tongue- to have fallen into the dol­ this w ith this year’s commis id this year’s record was “Sappho” by H. drums. The Twenties saw the 1938 was ‘Bled White and the sion and incentive plan. ■ no exceptic Dean Bamford, in 1902. No­ in-cheek, wringing out every “Tilly” series of Revues, and Seven Wharfies’, the following last ounce of dripping emotion, year ‘Hell Hath no Fuehrer’, j] res are pres< thing more is known about farce-wise. The result was a the early Thirties three Re­ Since the early post-wai many new this effort, but it was followed vues by J. A. S. Coppard, now and in 1940 ‘East of Sewers’. years Capping Week has beei L j v e r y gr£ the next year by “A Proxi(y) continuous hilarity which a local playwright of some beset by apathy among same w er Mating” written by L. T. threatened to stop the show, note. They were “Frenzy,” Hongi’s Club stud ent body. This complain thnicai staff! Pickmere and T. P. Hull, and and ultimately the play was a “Goat’s Train” and “Dudless appears over and over agaii in 1904 by “Love and Law” big financial success, probably Debit.” Also, in 1932 “Jubil- The next great event at in C raccum from about 194 1 mg * ' by A. E. Mulgan, who later for the first time since ade” by John Mulgan, son of Auckland University College onwards. Presumably, it i iast_ aic achieved eminence as a writer. Euripides wrote it. A. E. Mulgan mentioned earl­ was the 1940 Grad. Ceremony. part of the general world-wid ' ds c0 1 There is no trace of these The year 1913 saw the pre­ ier. This period, particularly A group of inspired idiots change in social attitudes sinot"," ’ ’ ’ ren early scripts, unfortunately. sentation of a show written the later years, was marked known as Hongi’s Club, whose the war; the prevailing U'lormanc“ . by Ted Kavanagh, later fam­ by much agitation among the avowed aim was to rubbish hell - with - it feeling U»~ gP'”?er bath), andH1E There was an institution ous as ! script-writer for student body for the rein­ everything they could lay abounds. There was no mei known as Grad. Social, which Tommy Handley’s famous statement of Procesh. Craccum hands on, introduced to the tion of the word “apathy" ii ‘Darling, ma; involved singing of Varsity radio show, ITMA. The Cap­ In 1930 front-paged an editor­ Capping Ceremony a drunken any prewar records. Yet te?!”) . . ' songs and whatnot, and here ping show was called “The ial, “Wake up, A.U.C.,” advo­ duck, liberally filled with alco­ spite of this, Capping Wi :td as the is the beginning of the tradi­ Legend of Kapinga-Ra and the cating a resumption of Cap­ hol. The antics of the duck, takes place every year, kicke wwhat me tion of Procesh, for Grad. Ngati-Phois,” and seems to ping Festivities. This editorial as it waddled intoxicated about along by a dedicated few. R«|. traction r , , w Social was started with a have been a success, both as was immediately savaged by the Town Hall being pursued vue has gone from strengt ^ ooc 1( a procession on foot through a show and , financially. After local papers, which denounced by various dignified and learn­ to strength, developing into a liance- the City. In 1901 there was a “Pan-Demonium” in 1914, no it as inciting public insult, ex­ ed professors, reduced the “art-form” exclusive to Aucl Remember “1 memorable procession, which more shows were presented hibitionism, etc., etc., this assembled company to a hys- land University. ith such won Ksions, almo: CRACCUM Nuts In May More Mature MONDAY MAY 6 1963 17 11th this year’s revue returning to His Majesty’s Theatre after an absence of ime years it is a fair indication that the standard is worthy of Auckland’s id ist theatre. REVUE GOES TO has been apparent for Moon’s M.G.M. Lion and his who would give us their time “new style” television adver­ in this fashion. Here I must time that the aspect of tisements for PHEW Deter- make mention of our rehear­ HAMILTON varsity revue has changed odourant and POW coffee are sals manager—Malcolm Frith, '•n the light-hearted romp classics which will be remem­ who has the unenviable job Revue this year has made Old Vic and the Theatre i re in keeping with a glori- bered for many moons. This of attending every rehearsal history. For the first time Royal, Drury Lane, it can Revue is going on tour... l>e seen that Hamilton has id Sunday school concert, to year he is not only the star and trying to get to every one of such epics as “The Larches,” at the proper time. to Hamilton. If, as we come out tops with this production of a m ore pro- and “I Spy with my private One noticable feature is the hope, this proves to be a effort. The result of many very shoi^iional standard. success, it will probably years of planning, it is a mony n eye,” but he is also a member lack of female parts in Revue. Five weeks is the m axim um become an annual event. tribute to those farsighted Much of our illustrions gang of We have had such notable ^ te that can be devoted to script writers. songs as “Femininity” sung by In point of fact, we need people who fostered the hands n Reparation of the capping Mick Brown has returned Helen Smith and Carol Scott to go to Hamilton in order original idea. oard, bu ,ue anc| stream lined organ - shiek to shiek after an ab­ (nee Baker), and the “Plain­ to recoup our losses on Bar Provision y’ was 1 ition is required to co-or- tiff Plantagenet” sung by the Auckland season! sence of several years. His Every aspect of stage turaged bj ,ate talent in all fields Ligita Maulics. Helen and Touring manager for stories were repeated for | production has been con­ tdid then» 5rociuction. Carol are again singing this Hamilton is Murray year, am ' months after! sidered, and the result is year. However, apart from Smith, husband of the ?mony dis Ttlis Year wil1 see probably Paul Harrop has been a tire­ a stage with all modern these there are very few parts poducer. He has spent a storm o B °* tbe most technically less pianist at rehearsals for facilities and an acoustic­ written particularly for great deal of time liaising ets bras dect productions of recent the last three years at least. ally perfect auditorium. with the Hamiltonians and hakas an Brs' A great deal of thought If only there were more people women. is most highly organised. The elaborate planning nust hav *be casting s0 that There should be no hitches did not stop with the but it i - principals double as chorus whatsoever in our move stage. A divisible audi­ is seen a when necessary, on M ay 14. torium and artistically ce this in The set has been designed Past Proceshes desgined entrance, com­ idemoniua rh the tour in m ind and Modem Setting plete with provision for a from tin ndishly cleverly constructed Procesh 1950 featured a covering further acres of Theatres in New Zea­ bar, are among the many ’rofessoria that it can be easily special “Hadies Rest Room,” newsprint, and brought to land are notoriously dila­ details which have been ipers, an sported. complete with porcelain toilets light an incredible quantity and female devils. of “Mothers of Six” and “Dis- pidated and depressing to implemented. Not only is affair b ^ tour manager assures April 4, 1952—-A pink para­ gusteds,” advocating flogging, work in. Imagine our the theatre acoustically unnera .that not even “M y F a ir sol appeared on the Tower whipping and other subtle pleasure in being able to perfect, but the audience ' idy” needed two trucks for gently shading the topmost sadisms. perform in Hamilton’s also has an unhindered ■snsportation, one of them new Founders’ Hall. view from any position. _ !e largest articulator in the spire. It stayed for three There were no prosecutions, This is the most up-to- W h at a fa r cry this is untry, but w e do. weeks until blown down by a squall. An evening on Queen but Capping Book sales fell date theatre in NZ and from the best that Auck­ is no Pro scripts have changed jn St., same month. Six students considerably, and the police one of the most modern land can offer! the triirkt teir own particular w ay too. paraded up and down inside threatened to ban Procesh. in the southern hemi­ vere bein) here seems to be a m ore an 8ft. long cat, painted bright This was probably an all time sphere. It is reputed to and from rhisticated yet clinical ap- record panic. Certainly it is a be the equal of any of marmalade. Later it started Emp. Ch. V. s in reces rtach. And there have been to rain, and the students left remarkable study in the anat­ the best theatres in Lon­ in in 1947, cie heartrending sessions the cat on the pavement out­ omy of public hysteria. don. As this includes the I speak Spanish to God, e went tc nen the script committee side a shop, where it slowly Italian to women, French to significant ied their favourite lines and dissolved into marmalade men, and German to horses. nellbound.’ sled in preference, one of papier-mache. May 2, 1957—Milkbar Indi­ its presen ire universal appeal. By the ans on motor bikes, complete round thi iy, have you noticed that no with squaws and war paint, going eve niter how m uch the stu- May, 1953—a gang of fifty invaded Queen St. and milled th variou nts get blam ed fo r w ritin g students invaded the Regent in a circle outside the Majes­ jvatory” humour, the audi- Theatre. The Varsity Capping tic Theatre in Queen St., utter­ What About :ce always laughs loudest at Band, clad in tramping boots, ing war cries and challenging a flne ia at kind? yellow socks, green shirts, blue milkbar cowboys parked out­ le over th jersey and red bow ties, par­ side the Majestic to war. lies, whid ninspired aded around the stage, while Serious young men wearing The Walkers! the Associl top hats and beards moved 150, ajj j Thinking up new ideas for four gowned men carried a yj jipt is a turgid occupation among the resulting crowd •mic in model harbour bridge about . id this year it was hoped the theatre. distributing handbills adver­ tising Revue Cornucopia. This nowad.), 11 *" j" teresi would be stunt drew a tremendous change it 'Mlated offering a Prize Procesh, 1953—A float fea­ crowd, and disrupted traffic ihasised b f any useful material, con- THE 50-MILE WALK in a 195 iMted from anyone in the turing an operating theatre, for half an hour, • Boo liVers*tY- T b e tw o contribu- with strings of sausages being ffered » which did a PPea r- hOW- pulled from patients scream­ is sponsored b y ...... Jr ing in agony, while “blood” iach of th "- were not inspiring’ May, 1958—A gang of five 3 sell on Revue has alw ays abounded spilled in torrents onto the students, posing as P & T ! Compart interesting personalities road. Some people fainted. men, strung a thirty-six foot ANSON BOOTS ’s commis «d this y ear’s “N u ts in M a y ” banner across Queen St. at plan. no exception. Many old the Quay St. corner at 3 p.m. supplied by jes are present but so too April, 1954—A 6ft. x 2ft. on a Friday afternoon, holding post-wai... many new ones. This is cardboard replica of a bow tie up traffic. The banner lettered BING HARRIS LTD. k has beei iee^ very gratifying. If only was placed over gates of the Triptomania, 1958 Revue, and among tht same were true of the then Mayor of Auckland, Mr stayed up for the whole week­ complain .hnical staff! J. H. Luxford. end. over agaii In the same month, a siimu- about 1941 Among thls year s star_stud_ lated pay-roll grab outside >ly it i cast are SLlcb fam ous May, 1955—A small statue a Queen St. bank took place. FRESHUP APPLE JUICE wnrld-uiri ®es as GeofC Q uills Renni- in Albert Park—“The Fisher t H c * • • • renowned for his Trouble was, it was well re­ tudes sine . _ T T Girl”—was chipped from its hearsed, and happened so fast SUNMAID RAISINS vailing l0 * rmances 111 B an H u r ! pedestal and disappeared. This that hardly anyone noticed. ling thi ®iember HiPPins singing in happened just before Capping HEARD'S BARLEY SUGAR .s no i bath), and Butterfat Nine Week and at a moment when All effect was ruined by a ‘apathy'y.,! 'Darling, m ay I kiss your the daily papers were short bright nit who immediately by courtesy of ds. Yet i i?!”) . is again tea- of headline news. The result­ afterwards told everyone pre­ ping as tbe foreman of a ing anti-student outcry cover­ sent that it was only a stunt, -ear, kicke ^ hat motley ^ang of ed more area in the papers but not before a public-spirit­ FOUR SQUARE - d few Ri ^traction workers. It is than a first-class murder. Just ed citizen had run and taken m strenet *rs,;ood that this a §uest as the panic simmered down, the number of the get away THE GREATEST NAME. IN ring into | tf°rmance! the statue was fond, dumped car. Moral:— next time you 'e to Aud Remember “Moon,” the man in the mud at Hobson Bay, commit a robbery, just tell FOODSTUFFS h such wonderful facial ex- with the head broken off. An­ everyone it is a stunt, and ssions, almost a plastic face! other outcry and witch hunt, ■ you will be in the clear. CRACCUM 18 MONDAY MAY 6 1963 Who’s Who In

REVUE DIRECTOR Following three years’ tuition as a lighting expert. Mr Killen COLIN BROADLEY he won the Cassel Silver gives his occupation as profes­ BOOK Colin has had a wide and Medal of the London Worship­ sional tramp, but as yet he varied career. He has reported ful Company of Musicians. has not been apprehended and REVIEW for various newspapers, among After graduation, his naval convicted. them the Waikato Times, duties have taken him to Rachel Carson, author of “I Truth, Joy, Standard, Dom- Singapore, Hongkong, Mainla, CATHY HELPS Sea Around Us’ and inio and the Herald. He has and many places in England, Cath studied set and cos­ Edge of the Sea’, has writ! been connected with broadcast­ where he took part in a wide tume design in London, and a new book, this time on ing and is at present compere range of recitals. Eventually since coming to New Zealand subject of insecticides for the television programme he was made solo pianist to has taken a large part in two weedkillers. Tn the Groove’. On the theatri­ the Royal Marine School of reviews. This year, as well as It is her belief that cal side of his career he is Music Orchestra. During this the previous two, she has been tinuous and indiscriminate manager of the ‘Lido’. He has period he studied under Cyril associated both with the sci'ipt of these toxics will eventui acted with the NZ Players, Smith and Phyllis Sellick. and the costuming. At the cause a serious and irrepaal but is more interested in Patrick gave his first recital moment she is a freelance upset in the balance of natu designing. Sets for Grafton in Auckland in May 1959, and journalist. as indeed it has already da Theatre, Hamilton. Playbox, in the following year he toured to a lesser extent in parts Whangarei Operatic Society the North Island under the JA N H E L P S the United States and Gn and Revue are among his sponsorship of the Community Jan started her career with Britain. She then proceeds works. At the present time Arts Service, giving about 30 ’Varsity Revues while she was cite examples showing the i he is designing sets for concerts in 30 days. still at Epsom Grammar. She expected effect that thi Whangarei’s ‘Showboat’, as This year Patrick has worked in the wardrobe and chemicals have had on p well as directing the Revue. ‘turned’ composer and has other societies, among them make-up departments for the soil and animal life. The Publicity is another of his scored the whole of the show. four Gilbert and Sullivan last two years, but this year are alarming. many talents which has proved It involved the composing of operas for Titirangi Players, is taking an acting role as most useful this year. six songs, dance arrangements, and several pantomimes for Sexina and the Fairy Queen, In 1959, in Northampt Colin will vouch for the fact as well as the arrangements Prospect Players. She was also as well as helping in the shire, 1300 foxes died that directing a revue of the for the 13-piece band. responsible for the set of Dick making of costuumes. She is a mysterious disease which size and standard of ‘Nuts in He’s been bashing hell out Johnstone’s successful ‘Zoo second year Law student. finally attributed to poiso Story’. through the constant This year’s Revue involves ity to chlorinated hydroear some seven backdrops and CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT so commonly used in the vi* about 14 different scenes. As Anyone interested in making an ity as ‘pest controls’. Seve can be imagined this involves overland trip by jeep rom Colombo thousand birds in the Eng'' a large amount of .work, and (Ceylon) through India, Pakistan, countryside have been fo the final result is a great credit Persia, Iraq (assuming the revolution dead through the same ca to Brenda, especially when it in Baghdad has died down) through These facts are causing is considered that she had only Jerusalem, Damascus, Istanbul, in doubts as to the necessity’ five weeks in which to design Turkey, Athens, through Yugoslavia, such wholesale and wi' then west through Italy to London spread use of these insectici’ the sets. (via a route across Europe that has not yet been decided) is invited to IAN McMINN — Revue apply in writing to the address Director (Stage) Ian is the person who does below. the job nobody else wants to The party, which will total four, do. He has performed his task will leave New Zealand in mid- faithfully and well, and has February, 1964, by Sitmar Line (fare killed no fewer than seven £90). Applicants must be prepared bodies by ordering large drops to arrive in Colombo with £500 — to be lowered from the flies at and it is advised that they also have available their return fare from the wrong time. London (£145 approx.). Ian is in great demand Applicants should state name, whenever nasty work needs to address, age, school record, Univer­ May’ is definitely a full-time of the chorus master as well, be done. Never has he been sity course and interests. At least job. Still, with his wide ex­ but they all love him. known to rage; swear quietly one applicant must be a reasonably and competently, yes, but competent mechanic. To quote him: ‘Miners perience, he is a most suitable rage, never. canaries to warn them person for this job. Those who CHOREOGRAPHER — DICK Reply to — deadly gases. It might not have seen Revue will certainly JOHNSTONE Great was Ian’s glee after MICHAEL MINEHAN a bad idea if we took the s bear testimony to his directing This year’s spectacular building sets for a fortnight, 250 Montreal St., Christchurch warning from the dead bi ability. dances have been arranged by as he thought he had built in our countryside’. Dick Johnstone. Dick has enough for next year, too, but REVUE PRODUCER — danced in Revue himself and to his dismay he was informed HELEN SMITH is also well known to Auckland that he had built only one- This is the first time that viewers as a most competent third of the required rostra, Revue has been produced by a dancer on the Tn the Groove’ etc. He is still swearing (not woman. Not only is Helen pro­ programme. He has acted in so quietly). His favourite ex­ ducing Revue, but she is also University Drama Society pro­ pression to those who only studying Italian III and ductions, among them Othello, stand and stare is, ‘All right, Anthropology II towards her The Caucasian Chalk Circle, do it better yourself’. During BA degree, and working part- and Poison Party. He is well the course of the year, Ian time in a bookshop. She has known as a producer, and was is usually to be consulted as been interested in the theatre responsible for the production lighting and sound expert for for as long as she can remem­ of ‘Zoo Story’. This year his no fewer than 15 or 16 pro­ ber. She started with roles as major production will be the ductions. a child in the Orakei Drama controversial play ‘Fairy Tales Club and has since had roles of New York’. BILL KILLEN with WEA, Henderson Little Dick believes in working his Bill was, surprisingly enough, Theatre, and the University dancers hard, but considers born at a very early age, of Drama Club. This year she is the results worth it. As well poor but honest parents. He playing in the University’s as his wide dramatic interests, tells us that he is a natural production of ‘Oh Dad, Poor he is a financial reporter for genius unhampered . by any Dad’. the NZ Herald. form of talent. At school, Bill She finds that Revue is hard was taught English . . . this work, but very satisfying to SET DESIGNER — BRENDA subject touched on the theatre. see the final result. HARTTIL Bill progressed no further. He This year’s Revue set was avidly attended every perform­ PATRICK FLYNN — The designed by 4th year Fine Arts ance he could — 11, 2, 5 and 8 Magnificent student, Brenda Harttil. pm, all inclusive. Mr Killen Patrick began his musical Brenda has been interested was responsible for the light­ career in England at the age in scene design since she was ing of the recent production of 14, when he entered the at school at Kelston HS. She of Hamlet and is well known Royal Marine School of Music. has designed numerous sets for in Auckland theatrical circles In our last issue we published an article from Mr. Kurt von Meier relating to the new Elam building. The name of the architect was mentioned and we have received in reply from them the following letter and enclosure :

The Editor, :iCraccum” , University of Auckland, AUCKLAND C .1.

Dear Sir,

We enclose a: copy of & letter which has been sent to Mr Von Meier. As the editorial staff of "Craccum” must also bear responsibility for the publication of the article, we would be pleased to hear your views on the publication of a suitable retraction and apology.

Yours faithfully, BEATS ON RIX-TROTT CARTER A- CO.

Signed : G. A. Rix-Trott

Enclosure :-

Mr Kurt Von -Meier, Elam Schooi of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, - P.0. Box 2175, AUCKLAND

Dear Sir,

In the issue of !iCraccum:i of the 6th May there is a lengthy article attributed to you in which you comment on the design and structure of the new Fine Arts building. While nobody can take objection to legitimate criticism, or the expression of differences of opinion in design, this article goes much further and questions the professional competence of Mr Curtis and this firm. The inference from the article as a whole is clearly that the members of this firm were incompetent in the design and supervision of the building, and should not be entrusted with any further work for the University.

Far from being given a ’guide’ (as you suggest) the Architects received detailed specifications, for the School of Fine Arts. These specifications were precise and specific and determined in detail (inter alia) the size and number of studios, their areas and contents, and stated that the nature and equipment precluded the use for alternative purposes of any of the studios. These detailed specifications comprised a 'brief’, from which the Architects worked, for a definitely restricted. number ...of. full^t-ime , and. an unspeci­ fied number of part-time students. It was compiled by the Department of Education, presumably only after close collab­ oration with the Director of the School of Fine Arts and his staff. Further, the* actual type of construction was dictated by the Department of ^Education and the Architects were instructed accordingly. With such instructions they can hardly be blamed for the functional aspects of the building which you criticise.

Obviously they cannot be expected to have a greater knowledge of the problems of teaching art than the experts for whom the building was intended. Your views differ in many fundamental respects - the question of southern lighting is an example - but the Architects should not be condemned for what you say are deficiencies, when they concern matters deliberately chosen by those formerly in charge- of-.-th.e- School and stated so definitely in their instructions.

The following (covering merely a few of your comments), will illustrate that other factors besides the Architects' decision played a material part

(a ) Steel construction , Your comments on the vast quan- tity of steel in the building and your suggestion 'that it is 'overstructured' are without foundation. You may not of course, be aware that in this country seismic forces are often the governing factor in structural design, A check by any reputable engineer would reveal that this building is calcul­ ated .to the minimum requirements laid down by the Local Authority.

(b) Studio windows You criticise the height of the sills from the floor, and the lighting. In these matters the Architects were given express instruc- ' tions in the Brief and by the School staff as to the minimum sill heights and orientation. . South light was insisted on, and any direct or reflected natural light was to be avoided, '

(c) Facade and colour of the bui1ding You have» some comments on the outside appearance and colour of the building. While this is a perfectly legitimate expression of opinion, it is fair to note that the particular windov\r design was approved by the late Director, and in this regard costs were of ..vital importance, and standardisation was a corollary. The external colour of the building was designated : . by the present Director.

(d) Site of staff studios You comment on the fact that these are located on the top floor of the building. This was expressly instructed by the late Director,

(e) The sprinkler system You state that this appears to have been installed without apparent regard to what is being protected from fire. The number and allocation of sprinklers is dictated by the New Zealand Fire Underwriters Association, and no departure from their requirements is 'allowed.

(f) Students' lockers You comment on their size. We were required to provide 75? hut just prior to their being made, the present Director of the school asked that they be doubled in number by being halved in size...

(g) Curtains, carpets and electric hot plates These matters were not under :the Architects’ control.

The foregoing examples - taken at random - show that you have ignored many factors which should also be mentioned in fixing the responsibility for the building as it now stands.

.There could he no complaint if you had limited your concern to matters of aesthetic taste and judgement, where opinions always differ. But a major part of your article deals with technical questions of structure and function, which are predominantly within an Architect's professional field. His reputation is very sensitive to criticism on these points and it is important 'that- it be fairly expressed.

While we disagree most strongly with many of your statements, it is not our intention to enter into a detailed controversy over then. We do insist, however, that where the functional design and structure of the building is criticised, all the facts should be taken into account, and the blame should not be laid so unhesitatingly on the Architects.

In common fairness, this firm and Mr Curtis are entitled to an apology from you, and a retraction of the charges of professional incompetence made or inferred by your article. We can assure you that we take no exception to legitimate criticism of our work or design, but you have exceeded all reasonable bounds by attributing the faults you discover in the building solely to the Architects, when there were so many other factors involved.

The matter is one of considerable importance to the h firm's professional standing, and we wish to make it clear that we insist on publication of an acceptable statement, to be given as wide a circulation as the article we complain of. To be effective, this must be arranged immediately. V/e are sending copies of this letter to the editors of "Craccum”, and to the University authorities.

We look forward to hearing from you in this regard within seven days.

Yours faithfully, BdATSON HIX-TKOTT, CARTER £ CO.

We are happy to publish their letter and it is thereby made clear that in respect of the matters they mention the laying of criticism on their shoulders is unjustified. We greatly regret the implication and apologise for any concern they may have been caused.

We are pleased to note that they take the view that "where the functional design and structure of the building is criticised, all the facts should be taken into account, and the blame should not be laid so- unhesitatingly on the Architects11. With this passage we are entirely in agreement and are greatful for their pointing out tha.t the brief on which they worked "was compiled by the Department of Education, presumably only after close collaboration with the Director of the School of Fine Arts and his staff.;i

As "Craccun" has now taken up the matter of the design of the Elam building, we think we should take up the suggestion of the architects. '.7e are therefore preparing an inventory of the matters which have been the object of criticism and propose to present this to the parties concerned for their comments.

It must be remembered that the School of Fine Arts is the first large building to bo constructed on the extended site, and the student are contributing a large sum’ of money to their own building which is in the next phase of the building program.

We think all parties will agree that "Craccun" is entitled to follow up these questions and we hope that the whole matter will be ventilated with decorum and justice.