REGENT DEAD!A, periodic detention. Perhaps the hard luck story of the week should have gone to Beran *: — Jones. The presence of nine cannibas TV plants were reported by firemen IŪTT T n fw iw who were putting out a fire in his house. This was his first criminal or The irony of pay imigrants’ painting, the property of Dominion he couldn’t adequately explain. traffic offence. He was fined $70 for passages to NZ because they provided Breweries, worth $4,000. Hard luck story of the week. smoking dope (even though his ‘skilled labour’ was obvious in the And now, a $64 question - what Edward Maxwell tried but wheezed plants were only a few inches high) Magistrates’s court case of Cecil price a dozen oysters and a giant in his attempt to break into a shop and $300 for cultivation. Woolton (39) from England. A T-bone steak? Any of you naughty in Mayfair Arcade. The shop’s name A man separated from his wife people who say it could be done was Super Stud. got righteously annoyed when his (away) for nothing best take heed of wife started slipping in her upkeep series of burglaries from L.D. Lawrence Anderson got pissed at two lads who said just that, and had of the couple’s children. So he went Nathans’ Ltd; mainly of watches his sisters wedding and was found on to eat their words. John Wiren (19) to the railway hall in Newmarket had totalled $30,000 earlier in the the road outside. Fined $5 costs $2. and Harper (18) were drinking and to locate his wife. He found her year. The police were baffled until Up for sentence on a charge of had incurred a debt of $14 each at -dancing, so he felled the man she Woolton’s wife reported her car receiving and possession of a prescript the Steakhouse before they quietly ^was dancing with, thinking he was stolen, and when this was recovered ion poison was Patrick O’Rorke (17) left. They were later found. They the man his wife had been associat­ by the police, two watches were according to his lawyer O’Rorke were ordered to pay restitution of ing with. Unfortunately he wasn’t found in it with serial numbers finds going to court an ‘awesome $14 and fined $50 each. n»o the defendant was fined $60 costs corresponding to Woolton’s place and experience’. He’s had occasion to After a burglary from Kelton $5. receipts for goods wera found Electrics Ltd, police were keeping a contemplate before making profound The other extreme from this kind totalling $4,100. He was remanded lookout on Rudolph Afed’s place in remarks such as these, since he has of violence, which can’t really be until 24 June for sentence. Parnell. They executed a search on appeared previously on charges of praised, though it can be understood the block of apartments he lived in drunkedness and possession of is the example of Mr McCord. He and revealed Afed conducting a sale cannabis. O’Rorke’s lawyer made was convicted and retained in quite a lot of his client’s wish to Also on trial for receiving goods of the stolen goodies in a vacant custody for punching his wife and were William Bluitt and Antony apartment. These were valued at return to his native Ireland, perhaps beating his two sons aged 10 and 11. Clyde Harris. They were arrested in $2,369. Afed was also found with a thinking this in itself was punishment He had beaten and kicked his sons possession of a stolen Lindueur black market price list, a fuse, and enough. O’Rorke was sentenced by and then held a knife to their twelve detonators; whose presence Mr Nicholson S.M. to four months throats. BIKKIE BICKERING

TWENTY MINUTE QUEUES FOR FOOD RUIN STUDENT’S DIGESTION ■ SWEET BISCUITS ROT THEIR TEETH

Nearly mid-year and time to scrutinise the Cafeteria, which is controlled by the Catering sub-committee of the Union Manage­ ment Committee, in theory controlled by the Students’ Associat­ ion rather than the University Administration. Congratulations to Mr Bowie for his Silver Medal awarded by some International Catering association. If you can afford to eat in the restaurant or are fortunate enough to get invited to one of the “outside functions” he organises you may taste some of the food for which he got the medal. However, this article is not can get are little packets of about that sort of thing at sweet biscuits - and coffee in all, but about food for stud­ unpleasantly flavoured cardboard ents in the Cafeteria. coffee cups (what happened to the china cups?) You can’t GOOD MARKS for once again even get little packets of dry having coffee available from biscuits and segments of cheese human beings in the cafeteria. if you haven’t got a sweet tooth. She makes change and answers STOP PRESS when you speaks to her, is THE SNACK BAR - bad exceedingly decorative and mark, more or less - it is CONCERT CONCERT CONCERT friendly. supposed to provide an alter­ native to the hot food bars VERY BAD MARKS for the downstairs and it does until DON’T FORGET FOLK CONCERT pizza bar. After you climb the about 1.10 p.m. at lunch time stairs, you find this little room when the food runs out. THIS SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE gay with Italian red-checked Sorry, there’s sure to be cloths - and coffee at 15 something hot left - a few o*f, CAFE - SHONA LANG, JOHN cents a cup. Surely, the coffee those curious crunchy crumb- here is touched by human covered dark brown cylindroids- HANLON, WAVES AND MANY hands, and comes often in at 22c concession price to china cups, but a 50% mark-up students! Inside is - nothing MORE! THREE AND A HALF is not for students. There is but a smear of gravy. There always plenty of room though, are always some left - because HOURS OF MUSIC. 8 p.m. — if you can afford it. You can no-one would buy one unless get tiny triangles of pizza or there was absolutely no other apple pie here, at 15c a alternative. ONLY $1. RESERVE TICKETS throw. For three years now a feature of the University caf FROM STB. ANOTHER VERY BAD MARK has been the crisp outside, raw for the coffee bar. Does the inside sausage - at a modest Union Management Committee price. Many students male; and get a commission from the female, like to chew on a raw Dental Association? All you sausage and if the caf provides print exhibition

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away queue,... 9 minutes ... them at a few cents a go, rolls; slices of fruit cake, dry activity at lunch time around good luck to them. and in the healthfood bar biscuits, cheese segments. One a little so that it is not all queue ... 8 minutes. The toasted sandwich of the good things about the concentrated into three huge things in machines are not It seems that the whole coffee bar is that it opens queues. tactical effort of the cafeteria often availabe. The machines when everything else shuts - I can hear a voice say­ management is to channel are broken or empty or and those students - with 1p.m. ing - What about the restaur­ everyone into the ground floor something. lectures can still get something ant? Well, the restaurant is near the little quad. As a res­ Good marks for the hot to eat. great - for the very rich. I meals these days and the fact ult, the pizza bar is empty - SNACK BAR. Stick to (guess some students, architect- that you can generally get only the rich can afford it. the pies and spring rolls, wipe rural students, commerce stud- something at most times of The snack bar after 1.10 p.m. out the fraudulent crispy brown|ents, those sort of rich people the day. is empty - no food left. Plen­ can afford the fine foods up ty of room in the coffee bar- Good marks for the cylinders of god-knows-what. there - you get out of it for “health food” bar, so-called, if you like a lunch of three Put out more hot food though. about a $1.50 or so, and it’s sweet biscuits. (By the way, i the food is nice and as heal­ good at the price. thy as thick slices of bread the milk bar is O.K. especially so that some of the pressure And the club? Yes, the and cake can make it. in winter when not so many from the downstairs takeaway food there is good - have you Good marks for the people eat icecream and minties bar is relieved. tried the pork pie? - but it take-away food bar on the for lunch. PIZA BAR. Immediately costs you about 7 cents a day ground floor, especially for the reduce the price of coffee to to belong to the club - if five cent bits of crust and VERY BAD MARKS parity with the rest of the you are over 20 - so it’s roll with hotcheese and tomato FOR THIS TACTICAL MISTA­ cafeteria. If people want to hardly more relevant to the and bacon. They go fast be­ KE OF CHANNELLING ALL eat foreign italian foods, I can student body than the restaur­ cause they taste good like THE ACTIVITY AT LUNCH guess they can pay for them. ant. good food should. TIME INTO ONE SMALL Most patriotic New Zealanders I had hoped to get The students like these a r e a : will stay with the hot pie this to Craccum editor before three food bars too - all of and sauce; while the radicals he could write his article say­ them- and all at the same RECOMMENDATIONS will express their support for ing no-one, especially Michel time! Between 1 and 2, five Chairman Mao with the Cant­ days a week. The queues Tyne-Corbold, ever writes art­ RECOMMENDATIONS - onese Spring Roll (avoid For­ icles for Craccum - but it stretch on and around and mosan spring rolls, they often didn’t make it. out into the rain - a timed ' Restore some food to have a blue mould.) wait in the hotfood queue the coffee bar .- suggestions - The aim of these recom­ Michel Tyne-Corbold was 19 minutes... in the take­ a warmer with pies and spring mendations is to spread the Tony Do\ Wendy Di Capping (

We are satis no active p< mend th at i her.

Tony Dove the two pni RDICT nothing to s given separa Since the “bugging” incident on the door connecting it to the Coun­ both planne June 9th and its subsequent public­ cil Room. They did not have a key the reasons ity, numerous rumours and allegat­ which fitted this door. They first ions have spread around Campus. Ir tried to remove the hinge-pins but They had fc was going'tr an attempt to clear these up and succeeded in opening the door (be­ cause of its peculiar reverse locking) at some tim because of a general concern about and they th< the incident and its ramifications with & screw-driver. June). They the Executive last week set up a letter parts ( special committee to investigate the Having gained access to the room cause the Pr legality and the reasons for the in­ they first decided on their best even embara cident. The Committee chaired by course of action, then set to work. tape his reac Fraser Folster and consisting of In the ensuing hour or so, they particular w Peter Falconer, Ian McDonald, and cleared the top of Haysom’s filing to investigat previously e Matt Casey deliberated in what cabinet, climbed imto it and un­ screwed two acoustic panels betwe­ found out w must be one of the most thorough THE COMMITTEE tion was to i and conscientious sittings by any en the false ceiling and the roof, the tape oth A.U.S.A. body. climbed into the gap and installed what he saw, and once he had rung must have been faced, it is extremely un­ ence. Because the matter of crimminal a directional microphone. They Cederman, he phoned the police. likely that he was carrying out a calcul­ proceedings had not been discount­ tested it and wired it through a gap At the same time he rang the Union ated political manoeuvre. At most he Their reason ed until the last day of the Commit­ in the glazing around the spandrel, Manager, Mr Davies, the Head Cust­ felt and with good grounds, that the four after a full c tee and the need for personal frank and into Tonv Dove’s office up­ odian, Mr Verryt, and latter the would later return and remove the articles the executivi disclosures the Committee met and stairs. They made reasonable efforts University Registrar. The police, they had left. His decision in calling the considers th< heard evidence in private. However to ensure that the microphone and Davies and Verryt all came to the police was affirmed by those he also rang support theii were many c after submissions by Craccum edit­ wiring were well hidden. When dis­ Association. and Mr Davies told the Committee that had Haysom not done so, he would have. rights and th or Brent Lewis a “neutral” associa­ turbed, Tony Dove and Lack had their suspicic tion member was allowed to attend In the circumstances we consider the in­ reached the stage of fixing the wir­ A quick search of the Union Build­ volvement of the police at this stage to we do not bt the summing up on the Thursday ing with tape. Ross Smith was still ings was made to see if the four have been a responsible action performed were as close and Friday. in Haysom’s room. were still around, but they had in in good faith. Accordingly Craccum is satisfied the meantime set off on foot for Dove and Rc that the report below was made At about 6.10 p.m., Haysom and Cora Baillie’s flat nearby, as Lack (b) The action of taking the Police to a stantial brea< after intensive and considerable de­ Cederman were approaching the was staying there at the time. Student Flat. sibilities of tl liberation. It is hoped that everyone office, Cederman to do some type­ Haysom and Cederman then tried Because they fit to retain 1 will take notice of the report and setting and Haysom to complete to locate them by ringing all the The Committee is satisfied that the decis­ that the appropriate bodies and in­ entirely in or some work and see the custodian Executive members they could con­ ion to go to Grafton Road was based on be accepted, dividuals now involved will in good about a recent (unconnected) bur­ tact, but with no success. The last Haysom having heard Lack’s voice in the duct be serio faith act accordingly. glary. They saw Wendy Dove and number called was Baillie’s and she background when he rang. We do not become entri Ross Smith inside the foyer, but was not at home. Haysom was cer­ think it unreasonable that Haysom did responsibility Rob Greenfield. did not think it irregular. Then they tain that he had heard Lack’s voice not then ask to speak to Lack. iation in futu saw Tony Dove out on the spandrel in the background and in fact, Lack other action above Haysom’s office. There was had answered the question as to this matter. Consideration must be given to all the The Facts no cause to be suspicious at this Baillie’s whereabouts. It was decid­ circumstances. Haysom was still distraught stage and Cederman went up the ed, with the police, to go there and and still did not know what had been go­ By way of explanation, the action North stairs, while Haysom went see’them, to talk to them. Haysom ing on. He gave the matter due consider­ across to surprise Tony Dove. Dove took along all the gear left behind. ation, being fully aware of the consequ­ Bob Lack, lasted a very short time, so there person. were several discrepancies between claimed that he was wiring Radio When they reached the address, the ences of taking such action. At the time the stories of each person. Another Bosom through to his own office. two police with Haysom waited for he was not aware that this would involve Haysom’s suspicions were now be­ reinforcements before doing any­ any more than two police with him. When problem encountered was the tend­ they reached the Grafton Road address ency on the part of the other three coming aroused, as he noticed that thing. In all there were three police cars, each with two members of the there were only Haysom and the two po­ “buggers” to leave us in no doubt as the wire led into his own office, and the light inside his office was on. He force. Five of them surrounded the lice. Haysom was not aware of reinforce­ to the smalt role played by Bob m ents being called until after they arrived also saw Lack retiring into the sha­ building while Haysom and a plain­ Lack in the affair. and had been agitatmg to go inside. The dows in Dove’s office, and hurried clothes policewoman knocked on police had by this time assume some the door and were admitted. On the afternoon of Sunday the 9 up the South stairs. In the mean­ degree of control of the situation. We are June, at about 2 p.m., Tony and time, Lack had come out of the not dissatisfied with the way in which the When the four inside saw Haysom’s Wendy Dove, Rodger Ross Smith office and hid in a corridor recess police gained entry to the house. silhouette in the glass they decided and Bob Lack met in th- Union. by the e^tranbe'to the typesetting to remain unseen and wait on the We are in full agreement with the general The equipment which they planned room, having heard someone un­ locking the North door to the cor­ bake lawn until he had gone. How­ belief that police should not be taken to to use was already inside the build­ student’s homes over internal matters and ing, either in or within ready access ridor. He was surprised by Ceder-. ever, some police were outside the back door and everyone assembled in retrospect, find Haysom’s action most of the Council Room. However, man when she turned the corner regrettable, but at that time, this by no back inside. An air jof casual infor­ Sharyn Cederman, the Association and switched on the light, and he means appeared to be an internal matter Secretary was using the new type­ moved back down the corridor and mality pervaded in which it was de­ and Haysom’s actions were not beyond setter, so they thought it unwise at down the South stairs. He warned cided to go to Central to sort things the bounds of reasonableness. We think the time to proceed with the plans Ross Smith through the window of out. As a result of statements made that all concerned should have given they had prepared. Lack and Ross the President’s office and Wendy there, it was found that a micro­ greater consideration to the position of those not involved and whose privacy was Smith went to Papakura on person­ Dove at the front door. phone had been installed in the ceiling. This was later removed by jeopardised. al business, while the other two Bob Lack wa watched television in the T.V. room. During this time Haysom encount­ the police. The police retained all ered both Tony Dove and Lack, the gear and some keys. (c) Further Police Action affair. Howe\ and experien At about 4.45 p.m. the four met and asked several times for an exp­ Ed Haysom, President The Committee feels that it has been ards of condi again and entered the Association lanation as to their suspicious beh­ quite proper that further police action Council Room. All Executive mem­ aviour. Lack also acted in an obest- (a) His Actions in Calling the Police has been prevented and that the matter He first beca bers are entitledTo a key to the ructive manner, giving the others has been left to be resolved internally. June the day amin door, and Tony Dove had an time to get away. No explanation The Committee does not believe that this no part in th authorised key to the Council was given as to what they were was unreasonable in the circumstances. merely to pn He did assist Room. Wendy Dove began using the doing or why they were behaving as There had been a spate of burglaries, one (d) Resignations of them at his place, and security of the the incident typewriter at the front desk and they were. The four, Tony and Wendy Dove, Bob Lack and Rodger building was a current problem. It was The state of the executive a 1 the time is or Ross Smit apart from a few visits to see how mainly becai Ross Smith, then met in the base­ evident that he was faced with a breach a matter for discussion later in this report things were progressing, played no of security. Furthermore, those whorr# funny. He co ment of the Union. but the call for resignations is considered further part in the actual “bugging” he had encountered were acting extrem­ to have been proper in the circumstances. participant. ely suspiciously, particularly in view of Although this may have b : n couched ir. The other three collected all the Haysom meanwhile entered his them being members of the Executive. terms of the possible consequences o? tht Because of hi gear (including tools, wire, solder­ office and saw the mess all around incident, this is not seen as ?. o jbarate should have < ing equipment, adhesive tape and a it. At the time he did not know Because of the time factor involved and threat forcing the three to re s , i and have atte tape recorder) and attempted to wjiat conclusions to draw from the bewilderment in which Ed Haysom others from < feel that his 1 enter the President’s office through of appreciate stituted a serious breach of faitn. Because could have provided the information This was given as the source of much dis­ Tony Dove, Social Controller, of this, we consider it unreasonable that sought. At the time the grievance arose content amongst the Executive. Some Wendy Dove, Roger Ross Smith, he should remain a member o f the exec­ the plans were with the Architects. Other members felt that their close relationship Capping Controller. utive of the Students Association . We allegations of withholding information interfered with the proper functioning of recommend that the proper steps be wereViot substantiated to the Committee. each office. Fears were expressed about We are satisfied that Wendy Dove played taken to ensure his resignation. the loss of independence between the no active part in the incident and recom­ two in matters of administration and mend that no action be taken against We are aware of the many years of service JASMaD confidentiality. The relationship also en­ her. Lack has given to the Association and we gendered a certain amound of personal regret that we should find it necessary to It was felt that too much Association discord on the Executive. Tony Dove and Roger Ross Smith were make this recommendation. work was going to the Architectural firm the two principle actors and there was JASMaD. It was rumoured that Haysom Much of the ill-feeling was due to misun­ nothing to show that they should be was aspiring to a career with this firm. derstanding and personality clashes. Some given separate consideration. They had Richard Rowe, Administrative During his term the contracts for design­ Vice President Executive members also expressed disat­ both planned the “bugging” and shared ing Garfied Street alterations and the isfaction of Sharyn Cederman’s working the reasons for it. Association Office alterations were given methods. Her philosophy of work did The Committee is satisfied that to JASMaD. not always correspond with what members They had found out that the President Richard Rowe played no part in the at times expected of them. was going'to receive and important letter incident. Although his master key Before his term, the contract for the at some time during that coming week was found in the President’s office Recreational Centre had gone to JASMaD We do not see such a relationship as being and they thought on the Monday (10 after the incident, we are satisfied and they only took the smaller contracts necessarily detrimental to the Association June). They knew of the contents of the that he lent this to his flat mate, in the hopes of maintaining good relations and in fact, it can be of value in helping things to run smoothly. That the personal letter parts of which would be intended to Roger Ross Smith in good faith. In with the Association, so that they might cause the President some concern and secure future profitable contracts. relationship might not have worked out even embarassment. They wanted to fact, it was not used and could not this way is largely due to an accumulation tape his reaction to the letter and in in any case have given access to the of suspicions and mistrust and a combin­ particular w hether this would give cause President’s office. Nothing else Keys and Security ation of many matters which have arisen to investigate suspicions which they had which emerged in the Inquiry was and not been satisfactorily resolved, it is previously entertained. Once they had seen to implicate Rowe in either impossible to try and blame any one per­ found out what they wanted, their inten­ the planning or the execution The Committee feels that as no unauth­ son for a situation which has developed tion was to remove the bug and not use stages. orised key was used in the “bugging” in­ gradually and we recommend that all con­ the tape other than for their own refer­ cident itself, the question of security in cerned pay more consideration to the the building is not directly relevant. How­ better interests of the Association. emeiy un- ence. We are completely satisfied that no a calcul- ever, other incidents involving keys and persons other than Tony and Wendy ost he Their reasons will again be considered security have occurred which we feel The Relationship between the Pre­ it th e four after a full consideration of the state of Dove, Rodger Ross Smith and Bob have contributed to strained relations on sident and the Association Office Executive. We think that these problems the articles the executive, but briefly this committee Lack took part in the incident. Staff. tiling the considers them totally inadequate to can and should be properly dealt with at the Executive level. There were a number of incidents out­ ; also rang support their actions. Also there are and lined in which it was resented by some ;tee that were many other ways within their Executive members that Haysom should suld have, rights and the Constitution by which have sided with the Staff rather than er the in­ their suspicions could be confirmed and Tne Role of the Presidency with his Executive. Because of his posit­ stage to we do not believe that these channels ion as a full time President, he may have performed were as closed as they claim. identified more readily with the other full time staff and furthermore we feel Dove and Ross Smith have shown a sub­ The complaint concerning the increased that in many cases it was necessary that stantial breach of faith and of the respon­ channelling of.communications particul­ ice to a there be someone presenting their point sibilities of their position on Executive. arly with the University through the of view. Because they have shown themselves un­ President’s office, to the exclusion of fit to retain Executive positions, it is other executive members. Some have the decis- entirely in order that their resignations been met with the attitude that all deal­ based on be accepted, and further that their con­ ings must be through the President. This ice in the duct be seriously considered before they is administratively advantageous to the lo not become entrusted with any position of University but has the disadvantage of lorn did responsibility within the Students Assoc­ limiting communications between stude­ iation in future. We recommend that no nts and the University and reducing the other action be taken against them in role of the Presidency to merely another this matter. administrative branch of the University. all the Investigation of Reasons for These 1 distraught Actions. This situation is the result of a combinat­ i been go- ion of circumstances. Haysom’s predeces­ consider- sor, Russell Bartlett assumed a greater :onsequ- Bob Lack, House Committee Chair* During our inquiries we investigated person. grievances brought to our attention by control than usual of Association affairs. the time Haysom accepted the Presidency as he Id involve those concerned. We could not fully in­ vestigate all of these but included them found it and was influenced by Bartlett’s him. When methods. The Executive was such that he address in our report to indicate the background situation and the circumstances leading should not have tried to maintain this e tw o po- degree of autocracy. reinforce- up to the incident. We have not attempt­ ed to resolve any particular grievance but ley arrived The President has assumed the respons­ our recommendations are based on our ;ide. The ibility of administering parts of other consideration of them, taking into acc? some portfolios, to the Executive has consisted ount all points of view. )n. We are of some mebers who were either unwilling which the I or unsuited to carry out their particular e. Allegations of Reports Disappearing duties. With the usual diminution of The President’s Relations with the membership, but unusual difficulty in Executive. ' ie general replacing members, much of the Execut­ taken to It was alleged that reports and inward ive responsibility has been borne by a few It would appear to the Committee that a latters and letters were disappearing and/or ending members. certain amount of ill feeling has built up fcion most up in Ed Haysom’s personal filing cabinet. These letters may sometimes have against the President. This has been exag­ is by no In discussing any new Executive format, appeared weeks later. erated by all parties being overly sensitive al matter the role of the Presidency should also be to it. It has been caused by many factors beyond given full consideration. The Committee Letters have to be removed for actioning, some of which have already been dealt Ve think feels that the Presidency should be less which, by necessity or oversight could with. In many cases, small though not given centralised and the President responsible take some time. Some of the matters always trivial matters were amplified out iition of for a general supervision of Association may have been of such a trivial nature of perspective. Grudges originated partly rivacy was affairs in the co-ordination of executive that they were dealt with more approp­ from personal differences and opposing activities. ideologies. Bob Lack was a minor participant in the riately than through the formal channels. We find no evidence of a deliberate affair. However, in view of his seniority The Relations Between the Presid­ Some Executive members disagreed with and experience, more responsible stand­ conspiracy and that most of the instances occured in the usual course of business. ent and he Association Secretary. the way the President handled several been ards of conduct could be expected of hin matters and the more experienced mem­ action If it was thought that items were being removed deliberately, then this could be bers were unaware that their resultant ; matter He first became involved on Saturday 8 cynicism was being taken too seriously tmally. June the day before the incident. He had raised in the normal course of executive business. by their more impressionable colleagues. no part in the planning and was called in The resultant mistrust has lead to a merely to provide an extra pair of hands. breakdown in communication within the He did assist in the preparations and in Withholding of Information Executive. Liaison between the President the incident itself. He id not share Dove’s and his executive has suffered consider­ It was claimed that the President refused time is or Ross Smith’s motives but took part ably and this has lead to the allegations mainly because he thought it would be to show the amended plans of the Rec­ his report of witholding information. msidered funny. He could be described as a casual reational Centre to members of the exec­ participant. utive and also that these amendments distances The situation is a result of what we con­ were made without executive approval. uched ir. sider to be a conflict of human relations Because of his position and influence he The original plans were publicly notified ces of thf which is only to be expected in such a should have exercised greater restraint and the amendments were only of a sbsriite body. We think that the failure to recon­ and have attempted to dissuade the minor nature which were required from a cile grievances, although due in part to others from carrying out their plans. We formulation of working drawings from the communications gap has only succee­ feel that his failure to do so and his lack sketch plans. Other accessible students ded in contributing to this. of appreciation of the ramifications, con­ were on the relevant committees and continued overleaf Conclusion encourage where eco are at varii The Committee have not taken the for the pn task of investigating into the incid­ flats and e ent lightly, it was not possible to HOBSON Some o give full consideration into every ing second issue, because such a course of act­ stance, soi ion would have involved too com­ are vocifei plex an analysis. We have taken a Dove-Mye general view at the entire situation. ( ) interesting This includes the incident itself and ed tells all “ The M the events preceding it. BAY Myer Rob scheme wil It was a We have tried to present a construc­ Auckland 1 tive report which we feel will be of plimented value in improving relations within On November 19, 1962, the Coun­ cil of the University of Auckland added a w< the Association. We have not gone “ I don’t too deeply in the personal details of considered a submission from AUSA carried aw; the situation in our report, but have on the provision of sports ^rounds. happen in given them full consideration while The resolution of Council was: Dove-Mye] “Council expresses its sympathy, preparing it. The con with the objects set forth in the would tak< submission and resolves to investig­ with the p It is true to say that the executive ate proposals to develop sporting existing pr has had more than its share of prob­ amenities.” before the lems. We feel that it is a situation The recommendation was also start it.” that has arisen with no fault attrib­ adopted by the Senate on the 6 The Un: utable to any one person. However, May 1963. their allot] we believe that this situation had by consultant The Document from AUSA was no means reached a crisis point. We and Allard a thorough piece of research. The fidn in the light of our investigation nciple Arc Association was concerned that that the reasons given for the “bug­ nolds, met development in Princes Street did clubs on tl ging” by the participants were of not allow for any sporting activities. no substance. This incident was one general pn It was initiated by a meeting of the on “unifyi of a number of incidents but war­ committee of the University Cricket and for th rants very serious consideration be­ Club, which was discussing the open-ende cause of its far wider implications. question of practice facilities. The Simulta idea of combined facilities for all icipated ir We feel that part of the trouble has for inclusi outdoor sports clubs was discussed been the lack of common purpose. completec and it was decided to call a meeting within the Executive, it is clear that on the 18 of two representatives from each of for an Executive to function eifect- ersity now the outdoor sports clubs in order formal coi ively it must adopt an outward to ascertain their views. These were the Works looking attitude and bear in mind Cricket, Rugby, Athletics, Hockey clair, Dr P its greater obligations to the studen­ and Soccer. All participating clubs sor G. A. ts. affirmed their enthusiasm for the Chairman proposal and the land at Tamaki and the Pi Accordingly the Committee recom­ owned by the University was sug­ iation. It i tWe, v ita l tfvap Advisory mends that all Executive members gested as a logical site. The sub-com­ re-examine the scope of their port­ the propo mittee formed to draft the submis­ This report contained the recommend­ folio so that they clearly understand to turn Hobson Bay into a seaside park, Hobson B sion comprised the following:- ation that a permanent sports centre of with Botanical Gardens, Aquariums, Un­ It funci their individual responsibilities. If Mr Gordon Gilmour, Mr P. F. 40 acres be included as part of the Har­ iversity Playing Fields and boating facilit­ considers possible, reports based on these Clapshaw, Mr Colin Kay, Mr J. bour Board’s scheme for the development ies. Council then moved the following re­ ment, incl should be presented to the Assoc­ Irvine, Mr P. Morris, and the Sports of Hobson Bay. solution: - stadium. 1 iation - particularly for the use of Representative of the Executive. Why Hobson Bay? The University had “THAT the University express its warn versifies v the oncoming Execuitve. While the proposals only covered the fought and won the battle to remain in appreciation of the gesture of the Auck­ that while sports mentioned, it was considered that Princes Street. It had been an early pro­ land Harbour Board in making provision, at first, it It is to be hoped that the new ex­ basketball and tennis would eventually posal of the Harbour Board to allow the within the land proposed to be given by ledge of f; ecutive members give serious cons­ require facilities. University 40 or 50 acres of reclamation the Auckland Harbour Board to the city, out in Cai [ The submission is remarkable in that in Hobson Bay and had an Empowering for an area of approximately 40 acres for in Auckla ideration to their responsibilities as Bill passed which allowed them to build well. We feel sure that much of the it not only goes through the facilities the ultimate development of playing ium. The high density houses all over the bay. The fields for the University; and is pleased stadium v past discontent will disappear now existing at that time with conciseness, but forecasts extremely accurately the University attempted to obtain money to join with the Auckland Harbour Board, and after that there are new members of the needs and numbers of the sports club for 40 acres, but the agreement was such the Auckland City Council, and the Auck­ and overs Executive. when the role of the University had that the University wjould have to lease land Regional Autrhority, in the initiat­ Gymnasii reached 10,000. An interesting argument the land, and money would not be made ion and implementation of an approved a now almc The Committee recommends that is presented on why the University should available from Grants Committee under and acceptable plan for the progressive Street site while consideration is given to assist clubs, but the scene stealer is a such conditions, thus the University in­ development of Hobson Bay, whereby indoor sp changing the Executive year to the paragraph on “true University spirit”- terest lapsed. extensive areas of water and land will be­ Sam L< January-January system, the prob­ “We have all heard the often mention­ In a report by M.G. Starling and G.A. come available for public recreation and Officer of whereby the University will acquire an lems encountered by the present ed comment that Auckland University Wright in 1970 for the University Students proved to Association it was stated that : From a area in the Orakei Road locality for dev­ executive should be considered as lacks a true University spirit, and we be­ tee. He di< lieve this to be true to some extent. town-planning point of view, a University elopment as playing fields under a tenure facilities y for whether it should be implemen­ Whilst we realise that such institutions sports centre would be an asset to the arrangement suitable to the University.” ted this year. he conside as Residential Colleges will go a long way Harbour Board since it would provide Coincidentally, the Auckland Harbour fully utiliz Board released a scheme for the reclamat­ to overcoming this problem, we sincerely permanent open-space in grass, to comple­ opportuni Because of the very full investigat­ believe that a combined Sports and Social ment the high-density residential areas ion of King’s Wharf on the same day. ions. He tl ion which has been conducted, the Centre for the University will also imme­ which are planned. Those of you who have not studied this ipating in scheme and still believe that we should Committee considers that all points asurably assist the creation of this intan- I Hobson Bay should be the preferred site more thar have been adequately covered. It is gible university spirit. ” for permanent University fields. have a harbour we can call our own should make every effort to find a copy of the ity faciliti in the interests of the Association In this age of hard-bitten cynicism, It reasoned that: The Harbour Board sense whi< such idealistic talk is hard to take; how­ would be obliged to off-set its proposed Environmental Impact report, and read or those concerned that the matter it carefully. From t now be closed. ever it is difficult to doubt the sincerity high-density housing schemes on the commissH of the comments. The statem ent by the Harbour Board Hobson Bay reclamation; and University and circul The conclusions of the report are that on Hobson Bay was warmly received by sports fields would serve this purpose ment in 1 It is to be hoped that our recomm­ 10 grounds would be necessary. A com­ adequately. bodies which had hitherto strenuously The res endations be given full considerat­ parison between their projected require­ opposed Harbour Board plans. The Arch­ The alternative sites at Tamaki and ed in late ion and that the report be seriously ments, and the final designed require­ itectural Association (Inc.) featured it in Oakley were not considered suitable, seven mal ments will be given later with reference a Bulletin with the words:- received. mainly on the grounds that they were too eight hun to numbers competing now. Suffice it ‘7 n a change of heart, from one in far way, and it would be too costly to de­ students i F. Folster (Chair) to say that the predictions were extrem­ which economic viablitiy dominated all velop them. Thus, Hobson Bay was the other considerations, the Board has now thousand ely accurate, even to the extent of the recommendation, and Council was urged M. Casey made a gesture which will erase a century forms wei number of buildings needed for meeting to begin negotiations with the Harbour P. Falconer of neglect and abuse of the Bay. Their the colurr rooms, etc. Board. I. McDonald decision to rebuild the beaches, remove Broadl; From May 1963 to October 1970, Council resolved on 7 December 1970 as follows Postscript: there seems to be no record of any prog­ the sewer, dredge the shallows and main­ ress made. Possibly the University had to renegotiate with the Harbour Board on tain full-tide, as an open space recreat­ Numbers the Board’s proposals for reclamation ional reserve (a blue belt) will now ensure Hobson! The Committee acknowledges witth gone cold on the idea of using the Tamaki appreciation the secretarial assistance Merton Road site, nevertheless another and development. Senate received the re­ the retention of that delicate balance of less than land and water, interlocking, which is of Mg. Kristina Wicks in the prepar­ survey report was commissioned, again port on March 1 1971. once a w However, the Harbour Board had a part of the essence o f Auckland. ations of this report. by Sports Council, subsequently adopted as an infi by the Executive and forwarded to Cou­ change of heart and in April 1971 appro­ May this triumph of public participat- playing f ncil by the then President, Bill Spring. ached the University with the proposal on in the townplanning process by an encouragement to future encounters A theme which runs through all the meet­ where economics and the common good ings of the committee during this time is are at variance. This should be a model that of enthusiasm. Information was for the proper use of many of our tidal gathered from a wide variety of sources flats and estuaries. ” including a survey of overseas universities. Some of the same people are now hav­ ing second thoughts about their original The architects began finalising their plans stance, some have even changed sides and for the sports centre after the analysis of are vociferously opposing the scheme.Sir the questionaire indicated that areas hitherto allocated needed to be changed. Paranoia is not one of the things Dove-Myer’s comment on the scheme was interesting An equipment shed was added and the I am normally accused of manifesting. plan was made available to the Harbour “The Mayor of Auckland, Sir Dove- I do however have a keen sense of Board for including in the Board’s Myer Robinson, said he regarded the smell and over the years have publicity brochure. The Sports Advisory scheme with restrained enthusiasm. supplemented it with a reasonable Committee had met 7 times in all, and It was a magnificent plan and the degree of unhealthy suspicion. Fo1 now that their work was over, disbanded. Auckland Harbour Board should be com­ The Brochure duly printed was circulated instance in Christchurch two weeks plimented on initiating it he said, but to 500 residents in the area, the University, ago a flat was wrecked and the added a word of caution. professional people, Parliamentarians and NZBC TV crew was taking pictures. “I don’t think the public should get officers of Government Departments. One of those interviewed was a local carried away with the idea that it will lTPA bird, I think. She said words to happen in the next few years.” said Sir New legislation to replace that of 1965 was drawn up and presented to Council, Dove-Myer. I the effect that although the flat was The consultants had said the scheme which on the opinion of the University iwrecked and that she did not know would take 10 years to complete but solicitors, approved the legislation in [the tenants personally, she felt they with the present shortage of finance and principle, except for Clause 13. The Bill (;were fully justified. existing projects it might be five years gives authority for the University to In Wellington last week arrests before the City Council could afford to develop recreational, cultural and were made for trespassing and later exporting facilities and to reclaim land start it.” in that week another flat was The University then set to design fully for those purposes. Clause 13 allowed the University to sell any of the land it had wrecked. their alloted share. They used the same Our new local TPA man, gives the consultants, Kingston, Thom, Reynolds reclaimed. It also stated “Any portion of land which is sold or given in exchange to Government a blast and explains and Allardice, as the Board, and the pri­ that the flat wrecking was of no nciple Architect of the firm Mr Ian Rey­ any person or body other than the Board, nolds, met representatives from the sports the Council, the Authority or the Univer­ real consequence. Funnily those clubs on the 28 June 1971 to discuss the sity persuant to subsection (1) of this arrested were defended by a local section shall be deemed to be excluded general proposals. There was discussion well known Nat. lawyer and the from the First Schedule to this Act and on “unifying” the demands of the clubs Wellington TPA cause was defended shall cease to be subject to the provisions and for the central facility to be “truly by an Auckland NAT MP in Parlia­ of this Act.” open-ended in form.” ment, who said that the Govt hadn’t Simultaneously, the University part­ done enough. Locally, a group of icipated in the “Statement of Intention” Nats and Nat students have been for inclusion in the brochure. This was going around asking people - identities completed and adopted by the Council in Ponsonby - to form a new type on the 18 October 1971. With the Univ­ ersity now firmly behind the scheme, a TPA not to help in tenancy but to formal committee was set up, comprising screw us. There were no takers on the Works Registrar, Professor J. D. Sin­ the offer incidentally. I’m wondering clair, Dr P. D. Becroft, Associate Profes­ why the Right is so interested in sor G. A. Wright, Dr A. C. Kirkness, the tenancy. Why they are interested in Chairman of the Students Sports council us. I’m also interested in how our and the President of the Students Assoc­ people downsouth got out man­ iation. It was to be called the Sports euvered by them. Advisory Committee and was to consider the proposed sports field arrangements at l side park, Hobson Bay. riums, Un­ It functioned as a working committee, iting facilit- considering the alternatives of develop­ blowing re; ment, including that of an indoor sports stadium. Sporting facilities at other Uni •ess its warn versities were examined and it was noted We remember the Auck- that while usage of facilities is not great f provision, at first, it is likely to increase asthe know­ e given by ledge of facilities develops. This is borne to the city, out in Canterbury with squash courts, and d a o d I a tO acres for in Auckland with the temporary gymnas­ flaying ium. The concept of an indoor sports s pleased stadium was raised for only a short while bour Board, and after much investigation, both here id the Auck- and overseas the idea was dropped. The he initiat- Gymnasium and Squash Court complex approved a now almost underway on the Symonds ogressive Street site will provide for any need for whereby indoor sport. ind will be- Sam Lewis, the Physical Education iation and Officer of the University of Canterbury, ■quire an proved to be a great help to the Commit­ ty for dea­ tee. He did not think the Hobson Bay ler a tenure facilities would be a ‘white elephant’ and ” niversity. he considered that the grounds would be id Harbour fully utilized by the University, leaving no ie reclamat- opportunity for use by outside organisat­ ne day. ions. He thought that the number partic­ udied this ipating in University sports clubs would e should • own should more than double if there were Univers­ py of the ity facilities, because of the corporate and read sense which would be developed. From this committee a survey was )ur Board commissioned, organised by Dr Becroft tceived by and circulated to students during enrol­ inuously ment in 1972. The Arch- The results of the survey were publish­ itured it in ed in late March 1972. Four thousand and seven male students and one thousand one in eight hundred and forty eight female ASB now offers you two ways of securing your own home — Home Loan savings inated all students returned their forms. One accounts and Home Ownership accounts — enquire now at any branch of the d has now thousand three hundred and forty four e a century forms were returned with no entries in y. Their the columns. s, remove Broadly summarised, the results are and main- as follows:- AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK recreat- Numbers who would use the projected the bank that remembers people now ensure Hobson Bay facilities: - ralance of Serving Aucklanders for over vhich is less than once a week 6,163 a century and a quarter d. once a week or more often 4,333 participat- as an interclub competitor ss by an playing for the university 1,224 REGENT- •* - • * % • •

On Saturday, the Regent screened its last picture show. The presentation was fifth rate Kung Fu entitled ‘That Man Bolt’. The Regent deserved better than that seedy end for it had been showing movies since even before John Wayne became a household word. Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood and Jane Fonda all had been billed at the Regent.

Social mores changed and the The workman had found a dollar building passes away and another Regent showed them all. Sometimes they said. Ripping the seats apart building comes but the earth abides its movies were sensationalist, other they remiricted me of the end of the forever. times subdued but if they failed to Wild Bunchi when the Bunch were live up to Louis B. Mayer’s dictim dead and the human carrion moved And weren’t there seven cities of of beautiful pictures for beautiful in to pick their pockets clean. Troy and wasn’t Rome destroyed, people, the fault was more with It wasn’t a fair analogy: they were rebuilt, and reconverted. Hollywood than the Regent. only doing a job but emotion has Sure I know these things and I Each movie became a fleeting little to do with fairness. The place, know the Regent’s only one build­ moment for a thousand people. And you see had become a mausoleum, ing. Yes, so was the Star, the Grand as the carousel years waltzed by the and not even that for long. Hotel a n d ...... The list goes on. Regent never lost an audience. As a kid, I’d brought orange Where do our priorities lie? Are With the dawn of this decade the drinks at the counter - they were 6d contracting buildings or Regent hosted films from many then, slurping them quickly so I Its just a feeling that what we’re nations as the international Film could make the movie. building is too big, too formal, Festival was shown there. It took its Later on I’d wandered in usually and too cold and what we’re losing new role gradually, gracefully for late, and seen films like Mouch|ette, is ourselves. .movies1 were its pride and purpose. Do des Kaden and Minnie and So how’s your memory? On Sunday I entered the Regent Moslewitz. Auckland for one’s becoming a feeling like a ghost as I wandered The movies became a melting dreamland. There’s less of what I round the old place for the last time. mirage of marvellous moment». They want to know left and I feel a loss. I wondered how the projectionist were far too opaque, far too fim* Perhaps our councillors have better felt had been there for 30 years. tastic to ever be real. They scintellated answers or perhaps they don’t Things wouldn’t be the same. delighted and became in a way, cap­ /eally care. After all, a twilight city I felt trapped between anger and suled memories. in your twilight years isn’t much of nostalgia. Who was I? What could I a contradiction. do? I thought back to Mr Smith In amongst this storehouse of Still some of us are young. tn r f Goes to Washington, Frank Capra’s cinematic history was the picture- Anyway the Regent’s gone and we’ve idealistic plea for invooment. There house for one didn’t ever see the we’ve got to say that Samuel the senator played by a young James films in isolation. The marble Goldwyn was wrong. It wasn’t the Sue Weird exposed the system that was staircase and the foyer of inter­ picture-makers who would inherit trying to nail him. But I thought, mingling people - these were always the world. It was the developers and ‘what had any of us done to save there. speculators - the parasites who pul­ the Regent’. Sure we felt it but we The Building Society was happy verised paradise and the dreams of did little. though. They’ve got a new invest­ Shangri-La. Perhaps we have become a race of ment building and Queen Street a Brent Lewis spectators who curiously watch new skyscrapper and after all as while buildings crumble and cities Ecclesiastes would have it one slink into decay.

pn: JACKSON BROWNE coi sat: This is not a review of Jackson oped what was almost a cult worst Browne’s new album because its not following and so now he’s billed as all written yet (due for release before main act. )n behalf o f C the end of the year). The aim of this His songs are romantic, but not o make an off Craccum is per article is to bring the man* to the gushy romantic - its a kind of Joni inquiry into th notice of people who haven‘t heard Mitchell/James Taylor romantic kould have be him yet because he’s the kind of guy sensibility. But a word of warning- (jng aiio^d who is likely to get so pissed off don’t listen to him once and say yo ;jaccum notes with commercialism and exploitation don’t like him. Don’t comment ti iven when it is of the music industry that he might you’ve listened to ‘For Everyman iress to be prei throw it all in - so catch him while about five or six times (at least!) ito the first W you can ’cos he’s a giant among J.B.’s not a man you like at once teen opened t< singer/songwriters. then get sick of; he’s a guy you gro ttee ?oin£ to c Jackson Browne was born in to like and then continue to like. ritena. Heidelbury, Germany, but was iithout any re Well, what of the songs on ‘For lowed to be j raised in Los Angeles where his Everyman’? You are no doubt fam­ indant witnes family moved when he was three. In iliar with ‘Ready or Not’ which hi ie enquiry, 1967 he travelled to New York City been getting plenty of airplay is the Commit where he made his first major contri­ lately. Though not typical of what matter o f pul butions to the music scent - two of he can do, its still a very pleasant overly cautious his songs were recorded by The single. The chick who was ‘feeling to outside sc Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their first funny in the mornings; she’s havii legations o f fc album. He even played with the band trouble getting into her jeans’, is ly may be ui for a few months, at age 17, but he ie function o his wife. and , the cause i , of the swei r,., —stitutions act wasn’t happy playing ragtime music was their bouncing baby son Ethan Bethod of su n all the time - understandable when I talked about the title track in i [fe statement you consider that he already had ‘Take It Easy’ - it’s been turned inti ipeness but ral some good songs of his own worth unsuccessful single by the Eagles. Chas been sai< singing. He had already written And another bouncing song in the ift to newspaj ‘Shadow Dream Song’, ‘These Days’, same sort of vein is the delightful irculation b y : ‘Colours of the Sun’ and ‘Song For ‘Red Neck Friend’. ewspapers’ kr Adam’. 'I81SI Two of my favourites are the ‘Shadow Dream Song’ can be more gentle ‘Those Times You,ve heard on Tom Rush’s 1967 album ' Come’ and ‘Lady of the Well’. The ‘The Circle Game’ - a valuable album latter is a tidy little romantic song, in which Rush introduced many constructed in much the same way people for the first time to the songs as Joni’s‘‘Both Sides Now’ - thiswai of Browne, Joni Mitchell and James written when she was on a plane Taylor. flight and from ‘I’ve seen clouds It was Tom Rush again who first from both sides now’ she related th recorded ‘These Days’ on his 1968 idea to a wider horizon,I’ve seen album. The song was written about life from both sides now’. Browne the time of Jackson’s second acid began by describing a visit to what trip and he always thinks of it as a seems to be some sort of rural ‘tired song’ - this explains the commune set-up, concluding the difference in the 3rd verse of 1968 verse with ‘It’s so far the other way to the 3rd verse in Browne’s own < my country’s come’. Then in the H I M W H I L E V O U version on his most recent album artists. By 1970 he was noted, enough and voice lessons behind him, it second verse he relates it to a wider ‘For Everyman’. Rush sang, ‘I’ve for David Crosby to say in ‘Rolling finally happened. Asylum (the label field ending with ‘It’s so far the Quit my scheming, I don’t do that Stone’ that Jackson Browne was with the eye for great talent - they’ve other way my life has gone’ - a very much dreaming, these days’ but ‘one of the probably ten best song­ also got Joni), booked him up and neatly tied-up song. Browne changed it to ‘I’ll keep on writers around - he’s got songs that’ll released his first album in 1972. And, as I mentioned earlier, the movin’, things are bound to be make your hair stand on end - he’s Simply called ‘Jackson Browne’ jt album also contains versions of two improving these days.’ The song has incredible.’ received good reviews from music of his early compositions, ‘Colours also been recorded by Ian Mathews But besides the quality of his magazines and his single, ‘Doctor the Sun’ and ‘These Days’. and Greg Allman. songs, there was another good reason May Eyes’, was acclaimed by the So there he stands, one of the Tom Rush’s 1968 album also why he was only really noted as a press in England, America and great singer/songwriters of the brought us ‘Colours of the Sun’ which songwriter - he couldn’t sing. He’s other smaller countries. seventies. You can hear his songs Browne now performs himself on still not a great singer, but he’s had With this start behind him, he performed by Tom Rush, Linda ‘For Everyman’. some voice training and now his began nationwide appearances, being Ronstadt, Nico, Nitty Gritty Dirt So, in these days, despite the fact voice is a suitable vehicle to deliver billed as opening act to concerts by Band, Bonnie Raitt, The Eagles and that Jackson Browne played gigs his own songs - surely a much better Joni Mitchell, The Eagles and J.D. countless others. But better than around New York, he was primarily arrangement. (I for one am always Souther. (He had a thing going with that - catch him singing them himserf known as a songwriter. But his fame more interested in hearing songs sung Joni Mitchell for a while, but then on his two superb Asylum albums, in this field quickly spread as this by their writers). again, what male in the music bus­ look out for his new one later in song was made known by name With all this fame as a songwriter, iness hasn’t? ) In this time he devel- the year. Here are some release dates for hot to British folk freaks. etc. Sounds ethnic doesn’t it - but albums in the U.S.A. (Add a couple A Firstly there’s an album from a of weeks for N.Z. release dates). don’t expect anything as good as group called Gryphon who have Neil Young’s new album (now called Steeleye Span or Pentangle. recently been touring Britain with ‘On the Beach’ - he’s changed the The other album, by Bob Pegg and Nick Strutt contains original title countless times) was due to In the ter rather than traditional songs, but have been released in the States bet­ have been re still has that traditional British ween June 15 and June 17. Amer­ based soul k ica’s new album was due out on they have ui June 24 and James Taylor’s 'Walk­ Steeleye Span, The album contains labels bigges ing Man’ has been held up because a collection of traditional English aimed more of hassles with cover artwork and is folk tunes and songs, sung and than the bla now due for U.S. release on July 3. played aux recorders, crynphoms, ^2 success with Release date for Jackson Browne’s Vegas and tl new album has been tentatively set s supper club; at October/September. albums sue! Due for release any day now are the Supren two albyms from Translantic, the ‘Funny Girl label that brought us artists like They’re not albums that will have bassoons, harmoniums, glockenspeils folk soupd about it largely because the show-bi John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. wide appeal but they should appeal mandolins, guitars, glockenspeil of the use of whistles, recorders panied by E etc. _____ further her For efficient banking services The following statement is repnnted as a guide to students of the principles that we feel a paper must stand for. There was no deliberate exclusion of the press by the “bugging” you name it... committee. They exercise thdir mandate well and demonstrated to our ------satisfaction why they had been closen for the job. a cult worsh BNZ has it on campus! ne’s billed as *------)n behalf of Craccum, the Editor wishes and its opinions are less valid. Despite this, and the Committee has only Complete banking services are available to all students, through the tic, but not make an official complaint, Bank of New Zealand Campus Branch in the Old Student Union itself to blame, news will be presented to kind of Joni faccum is perturbed that the' entire Building. inquiry into the “bugging” incident readers next week concerning this equiry Cheque Accounts. Savings Accounts or a handy combination of both. romantic. kould have been held without the press that may not tell the full story. o f warning- (jng allowed to be present. This is only one small instance but if it Facilities for withdrawal on demand throughout New Zealand. BNZ has more branches and agencies throughout the country than ‘e and say yo ^ccum notes that the University Council, were to be part of a trend then democracy any other bank. omment ti iten when it is in Committee allows the would be even more of a farce than it is. • Everyman’ iress to be present. Even the Investigations As the American Press Association stated Safe keeping of documents and valuables. (at least!) into the first Watergate incident have in 1972; “At this moment there is hardly BNZ Education Loans. ke at once >een opened to the press. Is this Comm- a country where the press is not subjected Free consulting and financial advice. guy you gro &ee °Pera^e under a different ...... to severe tension and threats. Secrecy Full travel services. iue to like, ritena. and news management and sometimes All these services and more, on campus, and available to you through fithout any representatives of the press even prior restraints are the order of the the BNZ Campus Branch. ngs on ‘For day”. flowed to be present there are no inde- Never underestimate what the Bank of New Zealand can do for you! o doubt lam en(jant witnesses of what transpires at In excluding the press and tabling its )t ’ which has ^ enquiry. If you'd like more information on any financial or associated matter, conclusions for consideration without call at the BNZ Campus Branch, and arrange time for a chat with airplay jtthe Committee’s results are soon to be enabling the method by which these Russ Blakeman; he'll be very pleased to help. Or, ring him direct ical of what unatter of public record then it seems conclusions were reached to be criticised, on 370-385. •y pleasant overly cautious of the Committee to close the Committee fulfills the three criteria was ‘feeling to outside scrutiny. In such situations that the APA cited as being basic infringe­ ; she’s havii legations of bias are easily made although ments to the operations of a free press. r jeans’, is y may be unsubstantiated, We therefore demand to know the criteria e function of the press is to hold all by which the press was excluded and of the swe„ , -wtitutions accountable. It is the proper further wish a statement to come from the >7 son nethod of surveillance in our society, Committee answering the points made. F ujII banking services at the de track ini Misstatement is made not as a plea for There are weaknesses in the press, but to in turned into ipeness but rather as a demand for it. New, suppress its right to inquiry is to guard the he Eagles, ishas been said is far too important to be public against its right to know. song in th( newspapers but its far better than nk of New Zealand ■ delightful jrculation by rumour. However, other Brent Lewis Campus Branch, ewspapers’ knowledge itself is sketchy EDITOR, Craccum. Old Student Union Building. is are the nes You,ve e Well’. The nantic song, ie same way ow’ - this W ei >n a plane en clouds SUPREMES SUPREME ? tie related th ,Tve seen w’. Browne isit to what if rural uding the te other way ien in the l it to a wider > far the one’ - a very

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n’t it - but s good as tgle. Bob Pegg s original In the ten years the Supremes Her replacement Jean Terrell has caught up with the presentation you’ got extended treatment with ongs, but have been recording for the Detroit witnessed the return of the group to of Tamla acts have been using for a much vocal histrionics. But the later British based soul label Tamla Motown, a straighter rjythm n’ blues approach decade. Thus it was we saw the three part of the act improved with good they have undoubtedly been the and the recording of such songs as Supremes poured into skin-tight red versions of ‘Bad Weather’ and the labels biggest selling act, always ‘Up the ladder to the roof’, ‘Nathan Lurex gowns, with much cleavage D.’Jays ‘Love Train’. But at all times exposed. However this current ver­ they were a delight to watch as they i aimed more at the white audience Jones’ and ‘Flog Joy’.'Yet this £ than the black, they follow their ’60 ’s period saw less commercial success sion of the Supremes featuring their slithered through rehearsed dance ^2 success with performances at Las for the Supremes particularly in NZ third lead singer, Scheme Payne steps and hand movements. Open­ Vegas and the vest circuit of American where the records went largely displayed many of the faults assoc­ ing acts Erana Clark and Bunny supper clubs, while recording such unnoticed. iated with the Supremes in the past. Walters suffered from what seemed like bad arrangements for the back­ albums such as ‘on Broadway’ and However, the Supremes last The hits of the Diana Ross era and ing band. Erana’s material seemed the Supremes sing and perform Wednesday in the Town Hall managed much of the current material was uncomfortably pitched for her ‘Funny Girl’. Such acceptance by to largely sell out two houses to glossed over with medleys of hits apparently limited voice, while Bunny ely because the show-biz fraternity was accom­ enthusiastic audiences. Their act has while weaker ballads and uncharact­ eristic songs such as ‘The way we Walters overcame the obstacles with ecorders panied by Diana Ross leaving to always been largely visual and the were’ and ‘can’t take my eyes off assurance and a strong voice. further her own career. current swing to ‘glam and glitter’ - t An W g . *>oUfr*yU »_____ FILMS ireening Tne 6th Auckland Film Festival films, two thirds of them are only a Unfortunately with the change just a few to see. Below is a short Directoi promises to be probably the best so year old and the others were all of venue to the Embassy Theatre list of films in order of personal pre­ far in terms of overall quality. The made in 1972. So we are getting a in concerns th there is much more chance that ference. These films really should return to a policy of one film a day us for which d good general picture of thê state ‘ people may miss seeing films. The not be missed. One cannot however means a lot less films but at least a land experiem of world cinema. One film, Andrei * Embassy holds not much more than be a judge of everyone elses tastes. chance to see most of them. With d within the fi Rublev was made in 1966 but it is half of what the Regent held. So its This list covers only the films to be the large number of films last year his life howex one of the best films to come out of a good idea to go to early sessions screened during the first seven days. there were unfortunately a number Russia for a long time, the director or to book. his ideas and of poor films - one in fact was with­ ie extent Lete Tarkovsky would rank with Pudovkin Not everyone will be able to see all drawn from screening. Of the 22 icialities of Ala and Eisenstein. the films and some like to select ito make thes My Uncle Antoine ® ix idea. In this I Can Jump Puddles The Passion of Anna Director Claude Jutra illy a mixing < The film takes pace in 1900 at a small Director - Karel Kachyna Director Ingmar Bergman village'party for a newly married couple. a confusion W Jutra is one of teh growing group of none of the Among the guests are various artists, in- This story was originally set in Australia Bergman is a film maker who is able to Canadian Film Makers who are producing one finds in R tellectaula and local digniteries. There is but has been transferred to the Austro- lay bare the complex psychology of his feature films of very high quality in Can­ uns, the past a also a strange girl who asks the bride­ Hungarian Empire at the turn of the cen­ characters. His women often more than ada, none of which have been shown in (ever a very sub groom to invite a straw man. When he tury. his men are inhabited by a complex NZ. peal study into arrives so do other strange people - a Adam, the energetic son of a horse world of emotions, dreams and fantasies. ^imagination This excellently photographed story of court jester, a peasant leader, the long trainer living the rough and tumble life of Bergman carefully examines the whole a young man and his life in the mining dead fiance of the brides sister. The any normal boy eagerly awaits the day structure of a persons life exposing the areas is very forceful and direct. The film party is told of a threatened invasion by his father will teach him to ride. But he is evil and the good. Itven Madmen attempts to understand not only the a neighbouring country, they arm them­ hospitalized with polio. Through his cour­ The theme of domination of one char­ Director - Leop growth of a young man to maturity but selves but when called to the border they age and the strong love of his parents he acter by another which is central to many also the growth of the rugged areas of do not respond. The straw man begins to learns to accept his inability to walk with­ of Bergmans films is present in this film Ho Remo Erdo Canada itself. play a tune and they start to dance. out cruches and resumes hif life at home in the form of Anna Fromm who forces nstrated emplt ibut has no ec Butterflies racing around in a delightful wheelchair. on the strange Andreas a new outlook and aphis creation! Director - Janus Nasfeter In this film there is a strange reality in Adam remains determined however to was of living and reacting. It is for her an him not even The brief few days in the life of a young which the worlds of thoughts feelings and fulfill his dream of learning to ride a attempt to reconstruct her dead husband, to push him ii twelve year old boy as he falls in and ou occurences exist with equal footing, where horse and he persuades his friends to help it leads to tragedy for the poor man. [destroys Erdc of love with a young girl of his own age. dream and reality imperceptivly inter­ him in secret. Bergmans prowling camera examines This is essentially a childrens film tor twine. Three basic dimensions interreate, lies. He steals f The film is constantly beautiful to minutely all the elements of the physical it deals with the problems of love at that the wedding of poet to peasant girl, the ith the money look at, Karel Kachyna treating his whole world fixing them in the total structure age in terms and situations to children. larger background of political unrest and invention will subject lyrically with soft colours, slow of the world of teh characters, everything Like I can jump puddles though it has an the all embracing dimension of local 6cation of flo motion shots and emphasis on the out­ becomes meaningful and relevant. The |s denounced honesty and directness which is superb.lt folklore and fantasy. The fil m focusses doors and especially on the horses. The sensitive and controlled use of colour is isisits a strang fa a sensitive study which never labours on the illusory idea of brotherly love films chief strength however lies in the between nations or social classes. Each used as a foil to the dramatic action, though iho belongs tc and sentimentalizes. simplicity at its heart, perfectly captured character surfaces from the swell of at times it is used as a dramatic agent wants to desti from the original story, the directness and social celebrations as an individual with itself. land replace i The Wedding honesty of its appeal to our emotions with his own fears, phantoms and prejudices. :ided whethe Director Andrzej Wajda no trace of sentimentality or of melodrama.

presented o o E i r i o elves up as to me that ito his subj es himsell the way o: :e of us. F POETRY rso-younj of them p Hus down th stive stainec Poetry New Zealand: Volume Two consideration; but surely here are for self-assessment is shared by particular grief of Baxter’si idin souls ar Edited by Frank McKay published many poems rejectable by Summers and Smithyman, the handle overcoat of night, the very sn etic faith a Prhsdud z honest time, although held precious hal t going to Smithyman. death of parting with Brent i [than sin; Pegasus Press by their wordsmith fathers who gate, or return (to the spiritu heism of lif claim poethood. And iff all the work rhythm of R.A.K. Mason's i nar to expk $4 Library; $2.50 paperback. is significant, the quarrel probably In a hoary old way of spaying the along Michael Jackson’s wordjkhewn expe lies widely with the self-styled anguage: I am aware, you are critical led without Notes Towards a Review poetics of New Zealand, and not with he is plain bloody-minded. So we all ii:*************** as a voice w Frank McKay or the idea of a think, to carry on this line of arm­ Could there be less scene sel Zealand wil For it was written, as long as the biennial exhibition of poets. bending generalisations; any fool young ones, and more poems I Jerusalem, same poets who first appeared in can be twice blithely critical for inning at the first line? True m ‘Poetry New Zealand’ keep writing every minute fraction of poetry of metaphor and style (evenoi at a level of significance, they shall In order to make my own likes and squeezed forth by the daemon urge, tried as Mike Doyle’s locked gi appear. The editor endeavours to prejudices clear, these are the only and some who live here have been of secure contemplation, them give an accurate reflection of what poems from the 89 published which hurt as much as any, indeed; only the of wonder), creates its own I seems to be most significant, arid a I feel I would copy to leather and hope for better weather language life beyond analysis. We d o no periodical assessment with the auth­ carry and read in their banana-leaf and the morning experience, tries the punch-line, or the line-tho ority of Frank McKay’s volume is a covering on Hemi’s desert islands: to scrabble the crap aside and find phrase round which we are welcome necessity. (Wait for it). But Baxter’s fourth sestina ‘Song to the the keepers of the word and their And hands up those who prai would so much here have passed the Father’; ‘Campbell’s love. their word scales with proper true wine-tasting test without their Father’; Campbell’s ‘Waiting for the ing?Some elders, particularly! label-names, and still be found of Pakeha’; Doyle’s ‘Deserted Garden’; ^****************** of the academic persuasion, ct some import? Or be repeatedly read­ Jackson’s ‘The Return’, and ‘A To name names, it is less reassur­ well tell over the lessons in Bai able? The collection seems to become Marriage’; and McKay’s ‘Once’. ing to be under the first snowfall ‘Breadboard’ parodies to help as is always, the tendency in a small Doyle’s ‘Knowledge’ I would remem­ with Kevin Ireland, to tramp a over their allusive strain; beho circle of endeavour wanting in trad­ ber. Perhaps these seven warrant me shallow Porirua stream with Sam self-conditioned mannerism is ition, not what, but who, is signif- • the privilege of reading this collection, Hunt, to fly from Mount Meru with epitaph, and mental masturbal icant. Those trusted and tested for or talking about the public privacy Piers Davies, meet cold Europe with does lead to blindness. inclusion should naturally have a of these naked poem-makers. The C.K. Stead, or Thor (Thor?) with number of works out in the open foi Donald Crowhurst memorial spoon Gary Langford, than to share the In the verse and rhythm thinki creening or socialist. suggested. The themes all converge dur­ film the revolutionary aspects of style Director Francois Leterrier short After a series of intrigues with prost­ ing a strange beach party where the con­ and content are superbly welded. Jansco itutes, reactionaries and revolutionaries, mal pre- versations betray the restless unease at has abandoned his more intellectual style m concerns the making of a film lould Erdosain, totally frustrated, precipitates the base of Japanese life. of argument so it is now by the endless as for which derive directly from lowever his tragic destiny. ritual, the permanent simplification of and experience of the director (of tastes. The Seven Madmen is the first of Nil­ Red Psalm life which are his means of conveying iwithin the film). The people who ssons films to come to N.Z. for many Director - Miklos Jansco ls to be tiis ideas. his life however change in relation- *n days. years and is contructed around two Red Psalm is the third of Janscos films to his ideas and conception of them, novels by the strange Argentinian be screened at the Auckland Film Fest= The King of Marvin Gardens ie extent Leterrier has taken the writer Roberto Arlt. Torre Nilsson emph­ ival this one being even more notable Director - Bob Rafelson dalities of Alain Resnais and att- than the previous two. asises the relevance of Arlt's fantasies to % to m a k e these into some form of Argentinian social failures and tuopias, The film concerns a group of farm Two brothers (Jack Nicholson and Bruce id e a . In this he fails, the film is making of his film a deeply personal workers who are on strike. They kill the Dem) get involved in high finance, the ally a mixing of past and present to local baliff, cause the Count to have a ■gman reading of the novels. Bleakness and des­ buying of an island in Hawaii and with the a confusion which leads to tragedy, pair are intergrated into the film by a seizure and die. The local priest condemns Mob. One of the brothers works for a snone of the Bergsonian enquiry them as Anti-Christian. Soldiers arrive able to tight narrative line that acheives both racketeer who tries to put hime out of the one finds in Resnais into the nature and they join the workers in their danc­ / of his professional assurance and violent roman­ way on a trumped up felony charge. uns, the past and reality. The film tic elan. ing around the maypole^ At a given signal There are assorted matchings with girl re than (Ter a very subtly delineated psy- •lex the soldiers shoot down the crowd. The friends and stepdaughters until one jcal study into a complex and Dear Summer Sister sole survivor, shoots each of the soldiers brother is shot by his girl friend. fantasies, [imagination which may be the Director - Nagisa Oshima as they leave. The King of Marvin Gardens created a whole r’s. ing the The camera weaves hypnotically in and fragmented, incomplete puzzle (with iren Madmen All of Oshima’s films deal with the prob­ out of a moving mass of people as it did visual and verbal puns slyly hinting that Director - Leopoldo Torre Nilsson lems of post war Japanese life, Dear there might be a key), a game in which no )ne char- through the students in Confrontation. l to many Summer Sister deals with several such one finally sweeps the board. Atlantic ito Remo Erdosain is an insignificant Yet when we expect this kind of invent­ his film themes. There is the relationship between City becomes the setting for events which istrated employee, he is also an in- ion to become repetitive, Jansco produces 3 forces Japan and Okinawa after the American seem to be forever in rehearsal. Similarly ibut has no economic means to even more beautiful and surprising images: tlook and withdrawal. Family relationships, kin­ changeable and fleeting, the relationships ip his creations. Nobody under­ the first appearance of the army, heralded 3r her an ship and marriage of varying complexity between the four main characters are pin not even his wife. She just by distant bugle calls as they glide into husband, are also laid bare by the gruelling apprai­ built through a casual jostle of scenes; the to push him into a routine job view behind a group of whirling figures, nan. sal of Oshimas cameras. Throughout, perfect reflection of a menage with no destroys Erdosain’s dreams and there is a search for a boy. A girl is or the magnificent sequence of soliders lines and workers dancing around the maypole. cohesion, an alliance as transitory as jes. He steals from his employer searching for a boy she thinks may be every thing on the decaying carnival physical As well as being his most beautifully i th e money he hopes that his her brother. Accompanying the girl is an front of Atlantic City. ructure jvention will come true, the trans- conceived film (And tightly structured, old near alcoholic man in search of some­ The two brothers, the man of action verything Scation of flowers into metal, there are only 26shots in the whole film) one to kill him : a ritual expiation of and the man of contemplation, the yin t. The jsdenounced by his wife’s cousin it is also his most openly political one.It Japanese guilt for wartime atrocities per­ and yang of the same personality, neither olour is describes an almost classical pattern of visits a strange fellow, the ‘Astrol- petrated on the island. Then the girls seems quite able to become a self suffic­ ;ion, though rho belongs to an extremist group confrontation between the new found father arrives and we become involved in ient island nor to include the other in igent wants to destroy the Capitalist aspirations of an aroused peasantry and the full upheavel of family life. his dreams of fulfillment. and replace it by another, but it This becomes enmeshed in a web of the hidebound traditions and landowners icided whether it should be fascist resonances, some obscure, some half and church. Yet more than ever in this

represented here, so many hold [selves up as so-o-o Serious; it is to me that if the poet pays d to his subject and craft, and Unhappily Kenneth Clarke, that lisses himself lightly, nothing rotundest of popularizers in colour tele­ ent'"formation^ the way of the poem and its vision, once distribued an image of The Poet - a fond urban-bound image. He iaee of us. For lo, as the young described Wordsworth (wasn’t it?) as one on« recent comment by Jeremy Pope, of int-so-young popes of poetry of the first to see Mountains, to jump on yof them pretenders, it is said) them, and to stride over them on his way (2) puts the virtual cost in lusdown the dogma of their to the Letterbox. 6 ’ v ’ tive stained-glass reactions, we However in New Zealand, there is a And Baxter’s cho ary souls are defecting from state Literary Fund. An advisory Comm- ^ pQi6S\b \y^ 0m ’"ion' the very sma ioetie faith with motions more ittee helps this. Some months ago a poet, 197^ values ith Brent So arthan sin; better to believe in Professor Stead became this committee’s chairman. And his recent comments about >v\>ene the spiritual theism of life without pathetic COS «this committee, and poetry’s politics S t#1'06 Mason's sn mar to explain us, and to trust \Xve throughout NZ (1), somewhat undercut ;X\V icson’s word fhewn experience nakedly pro- \Y^e the Clarke view of The Poet. ■OeVStU"6 aed without commandment; During our current financial year this , t t c e * * * * * ** as a voice was once heard in the committee had some $17,000 to spend. fro& less scene set Zealand wilderness crying out When Professor Stead assumed office, V*1 nore poems 11Jerusalem, some $12,000 was already allocated. His 30? line? True m international reputation may be esteemed in ­ ityle (event» Terry Snow by our state. They don’t match such res­ vW ^ pect with their money. 3e^ ° le’s locked gi iCeÔA Apparently our state dreams in cost A v>X°' )lation, then benefit terms, even for leterary patronage. o?e' ;s its own thi But presumably too, and unfortunately iis. We do no so, our state prefers to buy ongoing , Should NZ poets . .automote to get more the line-thoi literary activities. Such favoured activites ’ a, e ?a r° naêe - This maybe more than a :h we are are those which straddle financial periods e a topic. Yet aside from the selective se who p: and regularly so. The appointment of a P riori the government cost-benefit vith proper new chairman cannot influence over 60% have, two economic facts stop particularly! of state literary patronage. ^ ’ an^ hke, appearing in print. ersuasion, co These recurring leterary events, then, . , a?s Automated Poets is a numero- seem to appeal to the cost-benefit analysis °^. digression, but beyond this, two essons in Ba: the state retains. But the state deems ordinary and common events inhibit an dies to help Professor Stead responsible enough to sort poetry from emerging in strain; beho spend just $5,000 this year. NZtoday. lannerism is Now government cost-benefit analysts Professor Stead has great faith in, if sal masturbal work in highly selective areas. For no^ historical allegiance to lyric ness. example, that $23,000,000 estimated poetry. (dated 1972) for the mooted L.E.I.S. lythm think MISS A LANEUS Public meeting

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