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the provision under any pretext of Mururoa) Committee about the forth­ fissile materials to countries which re­ coming Nuclear Free Pacific Conference. Credits fuse to place their nuclear programmes As one of the sponsors of this confer­ CRACCUM VOLUME 49 NO. 2 under international inspection and safe­ ence, we would be pleased if your guards. Last year India shocked the organisation could make a donation Editor... Mike Rann Dear Ed, 1 world with the explosion of a nuclear either directly to Fiji or through G N .D ’s Technical Editor... Chris Brookes Just thought I would drop you a line device. Military action to solve the oil conference fund. Advertising Manager... Paul Gilmour. to say how much I enjoyed your first crisis is now the subject of serious A large part of the money raised will Reporters ... Rob Greenfield, Davina issue for 75, Mike. Keep it up, but watch speculation. be spent in subsidising delegates from Jackson. out for those Young Nats Peter Good­ These developments make clear the South Pacific countries who would Photos ... Murray Cam mock fellow and Bob Greenfield. We must imperative need for action, ls it possible otherwise be unable to attend. that only the smaller nations have Yours sincerely, Thanks to Jeremy Templar, Ruth Butter­ maintain our guard against creeping retained sanity and can offer solutions Mai re Lead beater worth, Bill Ralston, Mike Sharkey, Roger Nationalism. They first infiltrate the that place the supreme interest of man­ (Hon. Secretary) Horrocks, Dave Francis, John Hinchcliffe, media and educational institutions. kind before frantic, nationalist power- Clare Ward, Raewyn Stone, Alexis Grud- Behind these respectable fronts they soon seeking? Since partial agreements are noff, Dave Colburn, Don Mac Kay, John begin their vile, decadent practices. Prices easier to attain than universal ones and Robson, Barbara Amos, Mon, Tina and are increased to cover costs. Remember can lead to wider disarmament measures, Anne Chambers. AND we forgot to credit the food price increases ? Losses are referr­ 2 the nuclear weapons-free zone has been Dear Ed, our merry band of helpers who worked ed to with disrespect and profits praised. widely supported and was included in Students make me sick sometimes. long hours to give you Craccum No. 1. This cannot be allowed to continue in the manifesto of the N.Z. Labour Party Despite all the high moral talk about Anyway ta to Jeremy Templar, Murray God’s own country. at the last general election. pollution, the environment, and “ getting' Cammock, Graeme McClennan, Clare Arise fellow New Zealanders and pre­ It will be of interest to your readers back to nature”, Auckland students Ward, Sue Stover, Wendy Dove, Bob vent this takeover. Remember Creeping that a petition sponsored by the Cam­ would be the messiest pigs this side of Mann, Richard Rowe, Peter Davis, Fraser Nationalism ultimately leads to Capitalism. paign for Nuclear Disarmament for a the black stump. Studass catering staff Folster, Don MacKay, Alastair Dougal, For God, Queen and Country nuclear weapons-free zone in the South are treated with contempt, whilst stud­ Gail Zambucka and Mike Treen. Brigadier I.M.A. Twit-Smith Pacific and presented to the Parliament­ ents leave tables in a state that wouldn’t Father of 47, Remuera ary Petitions Committee on September be tolerated in their own homes or in 25th, 1974 was given “ most favourable commercial establishments. Half-eaten CRACCUM DISTRIBUTION consideration”, the highest recommenda­ lunches are frequently found stuffed in Dear Sir, tion Parliament can make. We fear, how­ ash-trays, cigarette butts in coffee cups 2 ever, that unless considerable pressure is etc. etc. Craccum needs a willing soul - Representatives of 70 nations, includ­ brought to bear upon the Government, The Quad is well served with rubbish Craccum E with car, van or truck - to pick up ing New Zealand, are to meet in Geneva the petition may suffer the fate of one bins and paper baskets - yet hundreds of ^cific - to b< Craccums from the Railway Station in May to review the operation of the presented in 1963, which although also Craccums, lunch papers and debris can delegates froi - and drop them off at Quad (with Non-Proliferation Treaty and to initiate further nuclear disarmament moves. They given “ most favourable consideration” be found strewn across the quad by nuclear testi help), engineering school etc. TH IS will find the pretence that the scientific was later shelved by the Government of Friday afternoons. You are not kids, so ment. IS A PAID POSITION. So, if you and technological gap between the the day. With hindsight one can see the be adult enough to pick up your rubbish, would like 2 hours work each nuclear powers and the rest of the world unfortunate consequence of such timid­ return your plates etc. If its too much Delegates w Tuesday - see Mike Rann in the can still offer security against the rapid ity. We believe the N.Z. Government effort then buy yourself a pig sty. The blems affectin offenders are probably the same folk Craccum office. proliferation has been shattered. The should take the initiative in calling a ing militarism, who moan about fees increases. Perhaps U.S.A. has promised to supply Egypt South Pacific Conference with the aim military bases, if students stopped fouling the place, and Israel with nuclear reactors and ruel. of establishing a nuclear weapons-free of status and ir stopped nicking cutlery and furniture, Iran is to buy French, Canadian and zone in the South Pacific. New Zealand various Pacific Items may be freely reprinted from and started treating the place with a American reactors and hopes to have should then seek the approval of the The organ is* little respect - we might not have to CRACCUM except where otherwise stat­ uranium enriched in the U.S.A. South U.N. for the treaty and its ratification Atom Commit fork out for more staff to clear up ed, provided that suitable acknowledge­ Africa will buy a nuclear reactor from by affected nations. the six-day me We hope that organisations concerned after us. ment is made. CRACCUM is published France in exchange for uranium. Argen­ achieved a grea By the way, if you do see people by the Craccum Administration Board tine expects to receive nuclear know-how about disarmament, such as yours, will economic and request action from the New Zealand leaving tables in a mess etc. point out to for the Auckland University Students’ from India. Japan will get uranium ore Pacific neighbc Government in accordance with the them the error of their ways. Cleaning Association (Inc), typeset on our own from Niger and make use of a French standing Atom recommendation given the petition by up our own backyard might be a worth­ will formulate I.B.M. typesetting machine, and printed enrichment process. These developments Parliament. while campaign in 1975. as a nuclear fre by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews violate the terms of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which outlaws We also enclose a statement prepared The realisat Avenue, Wanganui. by ATCM (Against Atomic Testing in Mr. Clean Atom, could b the long, hard nuclear disarm INFO... The rationa nuclear free-zc book shop criticism from Following 2 years of international the shop. If you have any other queries The debate, ex currency changes some textbooks at the about prices or discounts please contact in Suva, centre shop have 2 or 3 different prices for one Kitty or Gil at the back of the shop. a zone. One gr title. This is confusing we know, but each As all returning students will notice, Type first for a nucl price is correct for the time at which the the shop doesn’t get any larger each year ‘nibbling at a p book was received. We have attempted to and our display space dwindles as the the time growi place the cheapest books at the top of the number of courses taught at the university setting ? end.’ Others, h table piles or at the front of the shelves, expands. However we welcome all new scope of the pi so it is a case of first in first served. and returning students to our cramped limited to the Ten percent is given on almost all text­ environment and remind you that in a TYPE-SETTING NEEDED ? of trying to 'se books and books related to courses. For weeks time the supermarket appearance formidable go; some years Butterworths and some Govern­ of the shop will disappear and the full basis. ment Printer and Standards Association range of general books, art prints and Did you know we have our own magni­ The argume publications have not received discount as magazines will be brought back from ficent type-setting service right here on a Pacific Peace they are supplied to us at short discount storage at our warehouse. Campus ? aries, rests upc Recently, since the opening of their New The Students’ Association owns 50% though the nu Zealand warehouses, McGraw Hill and of the Book Shop and we are on campus We would be happy to advise you, and phenomenon - Wiley publications have been added to specifically to look after your textbook give you a quote. where’. Once t this list However the nett prices of and special book requirements. We would continues, the McGraw Hill and Wiley books are lower like to know your ideas on the sort of lever on adjace than the discount prices would have books you would like us to stock and See Tina at Students Office. theory’ in reve YOU! been had we had to order through their hope you will use the shop as usual as “ Nuclear-fr former Australian warehouses. Altogeth­ a meeting/browsing/information area Zealand inven CONTACT PEOPLE : er the books affected only amount to throughout the year. proposals for i about 8 % of the total text book stock in in 1957 by Ra man the information-advisory centre Minister, for a on the first floor of the student union The Rapacki p building. made for zone provide an informal atmosphere for library hey you recently in the you to talk-out problems of any remain unfulfi nature. LIBRARY RECORD COLLECTION Latest additions to the collection are Two nuclea help to put out TITW TI the weekly been establish» usually on show in the display case in ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND varsity newsletter and publicise events If you are interested in “ Classical” the Library entrance foyer. Antarctic Trea inside and outside campus. music, why not join the Library Record Subscriptions are payable at the ‘COMMITMENT : A CHRISTIAN arctica for ‘pe; Collection? By paying a modest annual in that area mi TO FIND OUT WHAT WE’RE Library Circulation Department. SCIENCE APPROACH”. ALL ABOUT : subscription, members can borrow two sions and the < records at a time for 14 days. The treaty do< Current subscription rates are : military persoi come and see us during the day A NEW WAY TO FIND OUT ABOUT Students $5.00 scientific resea or phone David Dean at 493-114 at THE LIBRARY A lecture by Roy J. Linnig of Chicago, Illinas. inspection is p night (Music Students $4.00) Staff and Graduates $6.00 Have you ever been overwhelmed at the Questions and Answers will follow. it is often diffi thought of finding your way about the from military i TO FEEL FREE TO COME TO United States I There is no further charge when borr­ catalogues in the Library ? Readers now TO BE HELD IN ROOM 202 owing records. The collection covers a have the chance to hear brief pre-recorded re-negotiate th to feel free to come to us for any­ (STUDENT UNION BUILDING) wide range of music from early times to talks explaining how to use the library posal of nuclej thing and everything, 20TH MARCH AT 1.05 P.M. the present day : from Gregorian Chant catalogues by listening with the head­ In 1967, th if you can spare a few minutes a week to electronic, from medieval student phones on cassette players at the consult­ established the to help us help students. drinking songs to recent recordings by the ing benches beside the catalogues on free Zone. Arg Auckland University Festival Choir. Floor 1 near the Reference Department. fully bound b> Page 3 he forth- Conference. is confer- your >nation ugh C.N.D’s

raised will tes from would Craccum at J. s sincerely, .ead beater ;cretary) South ne times. < about id “getting' j dents is side of Pacific ring staff lilst stud- it wouldn’t les or in alf-eaten stuffed in >ffee cups Conference th rubbish Craccum Editor Mike Rann will attend the Conference for a Nuclear Free lundreds of Pacific - to be held in Suva this Easter. The conference,to be attended by ebris can delegates from 30 nations, will discuss in depth the issues of nuclear power, jad by nuclear testing (both atmospheric and underground) and nuclear disarma­ at kids, so ment. * our rubbish, oo much Delegates will also discuss related pro­ at the centre of the 1962 crisis - was not other Asian states for the demilitarisation aircraft at Coburn sound. ; sty. The blems affecting Pacific countries, includ­ included in the zone. Obviously agreement of the Indian Ocean region - have been Support for a Pacific nuclear-free zone me folk ing militarism, the existence o f foreign to the treaty by the ‘nuclear club’ was virtually torpedoed by Britain’s decision is included in Labour Party policy. Last ;s. Perhaps military bases, as well as the constitution needed if the proposals were to have any to hand over Diego Garcia - as a nuclear September the Parliamentary Petitions e place, of status and independence drives of value. The United States and Britain have base - to the United States. Although Aust­ Committee gave a “ most favoured recomm­ urniture, various Pacific countries. signed the treaty, China and France have ralia voted in favour of the Indian Zone of endation” to a petition calling on the with a The organisers of the conference, Suva’s undertaken to observe its provisions, but Peace at the United Nations, it also gave Government to consider the Zone scheme. lave to Atom Committee, hope that by the end of the Soviet Union has given no support permission for the U.S. North-West Cape Cabinet is expected to discuss the issue in ar up the six-day meeting delegates will have More recent proposals by Sri Lanka and installation and for runways for military the very near future. achieved a greater awareness of the social, people economic and political status of their oint out to Pacific neighbours. From such an under­ Cleaning standing Atom hopes that the Conference >e a worth­ will formulate common objectives - such pollution: as a nuclear free zone in the Pacific. The realisation of such a zone, argues ier. Clean Atom, could be an important first step in the long, hard road towards TO TAL nuclear disarmament the politics The rationale behind the proposed nuclear free-zone has come under severe criticism from a number of peace groups. The debate, expected to reach top-gear in Suva, centres upon the scope of such of smoking a zone. One group maintains that trying first for a nuclear-free Pacific is like There is probably a great deal to be said about the macro-politics of smoking. The 'nibbling at a peace of cheese which is all growing of tobacco seems curiously linked with regressive regimes; the habit o f smoking became a mass addiction during the two world wars; the tobacco firms are prominent ? the time growing twice as fast at the other n end.’ Others, however, argue that the among the highly suspect multi-nationals; their advertising methods exemplify the most scope of the proposed zone should be insidious aspects of that dubious commercial agency; and tobacco may, more than limited to the South Pacific area - instead religion, come closer to being the ‘opium of the People’. D ? of trying to ‘secure’ the greater and more formidable goal of a nuclear-free Pacific There is also the ill-considered field of than actually smoking. The unfortunate basis. the micro-politics of smoking . . . how difference is that the smoker is a willing iwn magm- The argument for the establishment of the action of one individual impinges on participant, the non-smoker an involunt­ lt here on a Pacific Peace Zone, whatever its bound­ other individuals. In modern society, as ary victim. aries, rests upon the assumption that al­ a result of a comparatively recent change though the nuclear arms threat is a global in acceptability, the right to smoke is Any suggestion that smoking be taken as a basic freedom. Non-smoking you, and phenomenon - ’you have to start some­ curtailed is resented as an infringement where’. Once established, the argument areas on public transport are seen as a of the smoker’s freedom. It is a freedom continues, the zone will prove useful as a perverse limitation of human rights - and equivalent to the freedom to own and lever on adjacent areas. A sort of 'domino an invitation to the fearless to transgress. shoot fire-arms. If it is a practice that theory’ in reverse. Otherwise the smoker’s consumption is must be carried on then it needs regulat­ “ Nuclear-free zones” are not a New limited only by his purse, his personal ing in a way that does not harm others. Zealand invention. One of the earliest taste and the necessity of eating and This is not a question for ‘democratic’ proposals for a nuclear-free area was made sleeping (though he sometimes combines decision making. The fact that a majority in 1957 by Rapacki, then Polish foreign it with the former and uses it to punt- may wish to smoke only increases the Minister, for a ‘Zone’ in Central Europe. uate the latter.) oppression of the minority. One may as The Rapacki plan, like similar proposals Nowhere is there an awareness of the well halt the battering of one person by made for zones in Indonesia, Africa and oppression of the non-smoker. Admitted­ ten and take a vote on whether the 9 U recently in the Middle East (by Iran), ly a few smokers ask - ‘Do you mind’ melee should continue. remain unfulfilled. . . . ? . but the formality of the Non-smoker oppression is tolerated, Two nuclear free-zones, however, have question is indicated by the accompani­ like most other forms of oppression, been established with limited success. The ment of a striking match. What he is because it has been conditioned into our ATTEND Antarctic Treaty of 1959 preserves Ant­ really asking is ‘ Do you mind if I cause society. It can only be removed when it arctica for ‘peaceful purposes’ and prohibits irritation to your eyes, nose, throat and is realised that it is oppression. That IISTIAN in that area military forces, nuclear explo­ lungs? Do you mind if I compulsorily realisation must come first from the 3H” . sions and the disposal of nuclear wastes. subject you to all the health hazards - victoms and hopefully from some of The treaty does not prevent the use of the cancer, the bronchitis, the throm­ the oppressors. military personnel or equipment for bosis, that I voluntarily expose myself f Chicago, scientific research. Although unilateral to ? N.B. inspection is permitted, critics argue that To smoke in the presence of a non- Auckland University’s ‘Disciplinary’ allow. it is often difficult to distinguish civilian smoker is to subject that person to an regulations state that no student or any from military research. Recently the immediate physical assault at least as other member of the University shall United States has expressed its wish to damaging as a slap across the face. The ‘smoke in any seminar room except with [ 202 re-negotiate the treaty to permit the dis­ latter calls for court action or violent the express consent of all those present L.DING) posal of nuclear wastes. retaliation; the former ?.... If you’re feeling particularly devilish try P.M. In 1967, the Treaty of Tlataloco invoking this rule . . . then wait for the established the Latin - American Nuclear- The long-term effects are even graver. torrent of abuse as tobacco addicts face free Zone. Argentina and Brizil are not The consequences of breathing smoke­ the prospect of even an hour’s ‘cold fully bound by the treatys whilst Cuba - laden air are only slightly less grievous turkey’. Page 4

is permitted to visit her for 15 minutes each week. The Asian Students’ Association has circulated news of the arrests to the United Nations Human Rights Commi­ ssion, to Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Justice, and HAMZAH KASSIM to all student organisations, in an attempt to influence the Malaysian Government to observe human rights and justice. ARRESTED Action can be taken in support of people like Hamzah Kassim, Juliet Chin, and Anwar Abrahim. To be effective, a real concern for their fate must be obvious, and an interest in the future of Malaysian students and campaigners for social justice in general. Some avenues for action have been suggested by the Asian Students’ Assoc­ iation, and the following list is based on these suggestions : Early in January this year the New Zealand Herald reported that Encik Hamzah Kassim, one of his more notorious “ Ghaxali-isms” 1. Make representations to the Malay­ New Z< a Malaysian student who visited New Zealand in 1974, had been arrested in Kuala that Australian students were shooting sian High Commission. their w Lumpur. aborigines. Ghazali’s credibility has taken 2. Write to the press to express a iency, bul Kassim came to Australian and New with other student leaders and youth some buffeting in his search for a cul­ view. foster anc Zealand universities on a speaking tour during a hunger strike. He is held under p rit The Minister for Education, in a hard wori to publicise events in Malaysia. New the Internal Security Act o f 1960, an move hardly necessary, suggested that 3. Make representations to the UN Zealand students will recall that student amendment of the 1948 Colonial Emer­ the police should use violence on the Human Rights Commission. Alas, th arrests in Malaysia were common through gency Regulations. This Act has wide students so that the students could 4. Publicise the situation through not open t the later part of 1974; Malaysian Govern­ powers of detention without trial, and condemn the police with reason. student discussion, student women pr< ment anti-student activities coincided the identity and place of detention of Singapore, faced with its own student press etc. entreprenea with attempts to remove the embarrass­ those arrested is usually withheld. unrest over poverty and retrenchment, 5. Publicise the situation in the local Australia a ment of a “ squatter problem” in Johore The evidence used against the arrested has found a name for the dissension: press and other media if possible. nimity of 1 Bahru by means of the riot police. students is open to question. After Hish­ “ non-Communist subversion” ; this form It is futile to protest without hav­ social and Auckland Star reporter Bruce Wilson, amuddin Rais was arrested, the Supreme of subversion is alleged to have its roots ing it reported in the press, because women has reported from Kuala Lumpur that Malay­ Council of Patriotic Students issued a in the Australian press, the London exposutre can be effective in safe­ West Euroi sian students were demonstrating on press statement, alleging that explosives Times, the Guardian, the New York guarding rights by embarrassing the In addit behalf of rural Malays hit by falling had been found in the room of the Times, and the Far Eastern Economic authorities. (The Khoo Ee Liam lia are “far rubber prices (Auckland Star 13.1.75), Socialist Club at the University of Review. The search for a bogeyman case in 1974 was an instance of vinfem, sur and that 1 200 students had been Malaya. This attempt to link people like takes some novel turns. some effective action.) but not to arrested. Hisham with the outlawed Malayan A t present, the Malaysian universities rugby, raci 6 . “ Greet” Malaysian officials and Hamzah Kassim was the Publication Communist Party (MCP) seems to have are occupied by the military, and the there is liti trade missions with representations and Information Secretary of the Uni­ been arranged to ensure that those arrest­ public are denied access. The government wife excep on behalf of fellow-students in versity of Malaya Students' Union ed stay in gaol for a long time. has threatened, after arrests carried out game and < Malaysia (without violence). It has (UMSU) until UMSU was overthrown in More recently, the Chinese Language on 8 th and 9th December, to cancel hangover. been reported by the Asian a coup at the University of Malaya on Society (CLS) has drawn attention to scholarships of all students who had Slowly, Students’ Association that the Mal­ 21st September last year. UMSU had itself by continuing to endorse the taken part in the mass demonstration ing both ir aysian Government is to send a decided, after investigating the demoli­ UMSU and the squatters’ cause. The Mal­ of 3rd December. in the soci, special envoy to Australia and New tion of squatters’ homes in Tasil Utara aysian government accused the CLS of On 8 th February this year, the Asian the founda Zealand to explain the real situa­ by the FRU (riot police), to assist the being controlled by the MCP, and cited Students’ Association announced that bastion of tion in Malaysia; this might prove squatters by drawing public attention documents seized in a raid on a house eight student leaders and one lecturer, is epitomiz useful in resolving doubts. to the government’s failure to provide occupied by the CLS committee. The detained under the Internal Security Act, House. (Al a real solution to the “ problem”. UMSU Far Eastern Economic Review for 27 had been released on 4th February, but 7. M.P.’s, and other social leaders material isti cited, as authority for this action, their December 1974 stated that - at the same time,a nothrer 49 persons could be contacted for their views boyant edi union’s Constitution “ UMSU must “ a close scrutiny of the material had been arrested, including the former or support. attraction directly involve itself in maintaining the indicated that the connection for the President of the University of Singapore within). Th interests of the nation.” moment, seems superficial. Most of the Students’ Union, Juliet Chin, and the It is important to stress that only a ing affluen Hishamuddin Rais, the General documents were props and other items Chairman of the Malaysian Youth proper concern for the human rights of echelon of Secretary of UMSU, and five other used in connection with one of their Council, Anwar Abrahim. Juliet Chin Malaysians be evident in any action ing of thos students were arrested, and UMSU organ­ cultural shows, for which they could not had her spectacles taken from her, and undertaken by individuals. into the pr ised speakers corners and a demonstra - get a permit.” was denied reading material. Her family articulate < tion to protest against the arrests and The government has promised to release Michael Sharkey social conv the government’s actions against the further evidence “ in due course”. confined t< squatters. The demonstration was inter­ A report of government harassment dishwashin rupted by the FRU, who arrested more of Chinese cultural organisations in Co-exist students. Malaysia was published in Canta (No.12) bulk of wc UMSU occupied the University of as long ago as 14th June 1974. Among occupation Malaya, forming a Temporary executive other examples cited the government condemnec Council, together with students from called all the editors of newspapers to­ existence - the residential colleges. A rival group of gether to forbid them to publicise the service indi students, calling themselves the National­ Chun Lei cultural show, and the arrest demands tl ist Executive Council, marched on the of its organisers. A permit was granted involves th TEC’s offices and rioted the TEC. The for the show, but only when the organ­ est hours y NEC’s authority was repudiated by isation had been completely sabotaged, nil - the he UMSU, and by faculty and cultural and one day before the date of the show. Way to go There, \ organisations, but the NEC remained in Salamat Ahmad Kamal, president of between th control of the student offices, and now the Student Union of the University diverge. In proclaimed themselves the Supreme Sains of Malaysia, issued a statement ously entei Council of Patriotic Students. On 22nd from his place of hiding to the Asian Bank of New Zealand against resl September, the FRU arrested 48 people Students’ Association on 12th December Beginning in Johore Bahru, including seven students 1974. Kamal alleged a “ government reign professions two from the University of Singapore, of terror” against students, and reported Travel Services highly succ on a charge of occupying state land more than 14 arrests of students; two Lobby - pc without a permit from the National university professors, a lecturer, and a The only way to travel overseas is via your nearest Bank of New Zealand the emerge Land Code. All were tried and released youth leader were also arrested and Branch. That way you'll find things a whole lot easier. We can provide you groups whi on bail of $1000. The squatters were detained under the Internal Security Act, with travellers cheques in any of the major currencies of the world. If you W.E.L. in 1 despatched to welfare and old people’s following mass peaceful demonstrations want to transfer cash ahead, we can help you apply for the appropriate groups in a homes. On 25th September, UMSU was in support of demands by the peasants. Reserve Bank permits and advise you on the latest regulations. women fac suspended by the government. Kamal’s reports of tear gas attacks and W e'll be pleased to arrange letters of introduction through our overseas desertion. Hishamuddin Rais was released on violence are corroborated by journalists contacts. W.E.L. i bail, and is at present in hiding from the and travellers in Malaysia. If you'd like more information on any travel or financial matter, call at the which cons Police. Hisham had visited Australia in More than 1200 students and others BNZ Campus Branch and arrange for a chat with Branch Manager Russ main centr July 1974, and a few days before his have been charged in the Courts in conn­ Blakeman. He'll be very pleased to help. Or ring him direct on 370-385. ones, throi arrest he had contacted NZUSA to say ection with demonstrations, including the consist of s he would visit Australia and New Zealand academics and students referred to above. committee: for a speaking tour. New Argot (Sept/ At least three persons of royal blood with an ad O ct 1974 carried a story about his were arrested. The Malaysian government ordinates b arrest: “ Fascists Arrest Malay Patriot”). has blamed almost everyone except The birl In place of Hisham, Hamzah Kassim Malays for the large demonstration of the growth made the trip, and addressed a meeting 3rd December, although only 30 arrested internation at Auckland University on 1st November had Chinese names; the majority were which simu to present a view of the events in Johore Malays, and the government attempt to a responsiy Bahru and at.the University of Malaya, level responsibility on its “ traditional” quiet and c in justification of UMSU’s actions, and enemies, the communists and the sian womer to point out the illegal nature of the Chinese Malaysians, is a cynical move. The firsi Supreme Council of Patriotic Students. The Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Melbourne Shortly before the end of 1974, Ghazali, blamed British, Australian, and election tin Hamzah was arrested in Kuala Lumpur New Zealand students, announcing, in Page 5

15 minutes ciation has :s to the ts Commi- ►nal, and the : Justice, and All Not in an laysian an rights ipport of Juliet Chin, effective, a lust be W.E.L. he future of signers for have been ents’ Assoc- is based on in New Zealand o the Malay- New Zealand and Australia were the first nations in the world to give ities and advisers on women’s issues - their women the vote - a situation arising not only out of political exped­ without whose opinion government would xpress a iency, but from a pioneering society in which women slaved beside men to not or could not act (a position W.E.L. foster and exploit the wealth of the young countries; plus a great deal of has practically achieved). hard work and fighting by women themselves. The frustrations of groups working o the UN within established political channels, yet »sion. Alas, the granting of the suffrage did become a nation-wide organization with working to bring about significant through not open the floodgates for waves of an election strategy which was to set the changes, was brought out in the women’s dent women professionals, skilled workers and pace and provide a model for the many Report of the 1974 New Zealand Labour entreprenears. Indeed, New Zealand and other issue groups which sprang up that Party Conference. The report expressed parents in the lower economic brackets in the local Australia are still reclining on the magna­ year. W.E.L’s ‘philosophy’ and aim was gross dissatisfaction at the explicit and who will still not be able to afford the if possible, nimity of the 1890’s - whilst the legal, basically this : women had been denied implicit attitude of condescension luxury of staying at home. And to those social and political status of Godzone’s access to positions of power, their towards, or outright disregard for, the without hav- who don’t envisage women’s only role women has fallen behind that of most interests had been ignored and they were views of the Women’s Advisory >ress, because as stilLbeing that of a homemaker, take West European nations. second rate members of society. This Council. tive in safe- warning from the example of Hungary In addition, New Zealand and Austra­ was primarily due to women's place in arrassing the where the introduction of a motherhood lia are “famous” bastions of male chau­ Australian society and politics - as Women now form 46% of Party Ee Liam wage sent women back to the home in vinism, summed up in the (exaggerated, unpaid domestics. W.E.L. wished to membership but we are still in a sub­ stance of droves, under pressure from their hus­ but not too exaggerated) cliche of the change the way in which politicians were ordinate status... with the role of bands who were glad to accept their own rugby, racing and beer culture, where defining womens place in society, to women as the fundraiser, the food cials and personal servant, cook and nursemaid, there is little place for the sheila or the inform them about the experience of providor and the assistant..” (Confer­ •resentations compliments of the State. wife except as provider of nosh after the being a woman, to relieve them of their ence Report P.84), a predominantly dents in game and coffee and comfort for a ignorance on most women’s issues and, domestic role which was reflected in :nce). It has hangover. most importantly, to politicize women, These examples are just two of the ^sian the financial position and status of the Slowly, however, changes are appear­ to educate them to use their vote to buy many possible reforms, but they give hat the Mal- women’s advisory Council. ing both in the cultural waste-land and the reforms they need. an indication of the type of pit fall, o send a The reforms suggested by the Council in the social-sexual structure which is At this stage neither of the main blind alley or outright snare - into which ilia and New would make it an effective transmitter the foundation on which the “ he-man” parties had a comprehensive and satisfact­ women’s groups can fall. Here, that lack real situa- of women’s views - however there must bastion of chauvinism is built. The first ory policy on women (the Liberals didn’t of political expertise and power, (while light prove also be a receiver. is epitomized in the Sydney Opera have one at all). W.E.L. decided to rate perhaps keeping consciousness raising bts. It is a sad and stern comment on the House. (Although, true to the pragmatic candidates on ‘feminist’ issues, urging wider N.Z.L.P. when the Women’s type groups free from male moral taint), leaders materialistic tradition, Bennelong’s flam­ women to vote for individual candidates, Advisory Council (now the Labour is a liability, and such groups are being their views boyant edifice seems to hold more irrespective of party, i.e. a protest vote. Women’s Council) must throw down the self-destructively naive if they believe attraction than the aesthetic pleasure The resulting concessions and promises gauntlet and threaten to disband itself they can achieve reform through a virt­ within). The second is a result of increas­ that W.E.L. extracted from the parties before it is given air time. uous abstinence from politics. They are iat only a ing affluence, which has created an were surprising. The Whitlam government also misguided ff they think that the in rights of echelon of middle class women; consist­ immediately came forward with :- That the women in the party recog­ liberation and mobilization of women action ing of those few who have infiltrated An Advisor on Women’s Affairs; nize their subordinate status and realise can run on a course parallel to that of into the professions, and those educated, Maternity leave in the Public Service; that they lack real strength, is the first the established political institutions, yet articulate and confident women whom $300,000 grant to Family Planning step on the way to remedy the situation. somehow become an overwhelming jy social convention and pressure have Clinics; Removal of the sales tax on It is to be hoped that they will not be force to which the Establishment must confined to the homes and the joys of contraceptives; The re-opening of the bought off/sold out (as their suffrage yield.* dishwashing and nappy rash. Equal Pay case (which led to a wage sisters were) with sinecures, compensatory Co-existing with this group is the vast rise of about $30, although this was handouts or petty reforms. On the other hand, institutions like bulk of women. Denied educational and not wage justice). All womens groups, and especially the Labour Women’s Council must see occupational opportunities, they are W.E.L. had achieved this substantial the L.W.C., must keep an eagle eye on that party loyalty does not compromise condemned to a mundane, second rate success through efficient, effective what legislative proposals emerge from its first loyalty - to the women of New existence - providing society’s greatest organization and publicity; by gaining an the Committee on Women’s Rights. This Zealand. If it cannot be a right-hand service industry, an occupation which expertise in women’s issues which politi­ committee has the potential either to advisor to the Parliamentary Labour demands the most amazing versatility, cians respected; by presenting concrete, instigate significant reforms, or to yield * Party, the L.W.C. must become a thorn involves the greatest drudgery and long­ practical policy alternatives which comm­ inadequate half-measures, and comprom­ in its side. est hours yet where the remuneration is itted politicians to specific action. W.E. ises. Or, when its recommendations have nil - the housewife. L. has continued this pressure, steadily been run through the Parliamentary/ Finally, it is up to the Parliamentary There, however, the similarities increasing its expertise, experience and Bureaucratic mill, just amendments, Party to take notice of the L.W.C., to between the two societies begin to status on women’s issues. Simultaneously revisions, and ‘improvements’ which may take warning from the very strong dis­ diverge. In Australia, women have vigor­ it is also burgeoning out to encompass actually run counter to the ultimate satisfaction expressed in the 1974 ously entered the political arena to fight the wider ‘liberation’ issues which aims of progressive women’s groups. Women’s Report, and to be beware, against restrictions and discrimination. involve a deeper and more comprehen­ least L.W.C. members opt for an inde­ Beginning with groups of middle class, sive analysis of. women’s place in the Two examples will demonstrate the pendent rathjer than a partisan stance professional women in the form of the present social system. danger. First, the need and demand - as the most likely way to achieve their highly successful Women’s Electoral Pro or anti, all Australian politicians for a comprehensive child-care policy demands and, with what political skills Lobby - political activity has spread with will agree that W.E.L. is a force to be tailored to occupational, regional and they have gained, transform themselves ealand the emergence of working women’s respected and to be reckoned with. , ethnic needs - catering not just for into a W.E.L. whose loyalty to party ivide you groups which have co-operated with 9 - 5 working wives, but also for shift comes only second to their greater loyal­ I. If you W.E.L. in the establishment of Action In contrast, in NewZealand we have a workers, and mothers who just want a ty towards their own sex. jriate groups in attacking specific problems rather amorphous collection o f groups, few hours break from their children women face, e.g. rape, abortion, all claiming to be the voice of New every week. In Australia, the Lib eral’s RAEWYN STONE rseas desertion. Zealand women, from the conservative 1972 Child Care Bill stipulated that W.E.L. is a nation-wide organisation National Council of Women, to the only those families earning below the II at the which consists of small groups in all ‘liberal’ N.O.W. to the various ‘radical’ national minimum wage (then $50) were *NOTE: What has been r Russ main centres, and also many smaller feminist groups. These groups lack focus, eligible for a government subsidy. But achieved in France, re >-385. ones, throughout Australia. The groups unity, agreement or goals, and most if her husband was only earning this Abortion Reform almost solely consist of several specialized sub­ importantly, political sophistication. amount, a woman just had to work, through the brilliant political committees and working groups, each The ‘conservatives’ are happy to thereby raising the family income and maneouvering and tactics of with an administrative convenor who co­ make guest appearances on the all-male consequently forfeiting the subsidy. women strategic positions in ordinates between committees. political scene, offering advice on sub­ Therefore, the group of women who government (most importantly, The birth of W.E.L. was a response to jects appropriate to women. Groups like most needed help (low income working Simone Veil, Minister of the growth of Women’s Liberation as an N.O.W. are showing potential in the mothers) were denied it. But what Health). This triumph international issue in the late 60’s - quality, breadth and sophistication of other outcome could you expect from a demonstrates what can be which simultaneously created and found their submissions made to the Parlia­ Bill designed to keep women in the achieved through skilful and a responsive audience in the general dis­ mentary Committee on Women’s Rights, home? sophisticated use of established quiet and dis-satisfaction among Australa­ but are not really applying effective institutions, despite a liberal- sian women in the early 70’s. pressure on the politicians in so far as Second, the parenthood wage. Unless conservative government and a The first W.E.L. group was formed in making the womens vote something to be this is a ‘substantial’ amount, e.g. the tiny Women’s Liberation Melbourne in February 1972, and by sought after and earned. Nor have they national minimum wage, any such movement in a (nominally) election time (December 1972) it had really established themselves as author­ measure will discriminate against Catholic country. Page 6

aphids, and birds eating cater­ planting every 2-3 weeks. There’s pillars, and your cat eating the nothing quite like radishes for brekky. birds (We all have to eat). Which Even beats soggy Weet-bix! takes us back to Reason No. 1. SILVERBEET . A constant supply of \ j Also, if you have a garden and some winter greens. Buy 3 or 4 plants from the garden shop, and keep them watered. . questions I’ll try to answer them. Criticism is welcomed, as the result is Which reminds me, you’ll probably need better gardening and new ideas. Garden­ a hose if you haven’t already got one. ing can even be revolutionary. You BEANS. You can still plant dwarf beans can’t achieve change without feeding (i.e. those that don’t climb up poles) and the masses (for the Maoists)/multitudes also broad beans. Their success will (remember the loaves and fishes trick)/ largely depend on the weather and the children. bees, respectively. If you’re the gambling i sort, and you have access to bamboo DO IT NOW...... poles, or a trellis, then plant a late variety of runner beans, such as Farden- 1T ,j> i What does a garden need? losa or Market Wonder. If the sun keeps 1. Sunlight That patch by the shining, they’ll race each other to the front steps full of weeds will do. top in a few weeks, and produce lots of If the weeds are doing well, then the r nice, long, shiny beans. KA things you plant probably will, too. CABBAGES, etc. This includes brussel u Avoid places shaded by the house next sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, and all door, and get digging...... th at They are all prone to attack by ar in 2. Diging Implement(s). If in doubt slugs, snails and white butterflies, but This column is mainly for those people who don’t have a garden, and wish they did, about tearing up the immaculate don’t let that stop you. Buy yourself but don’t really know where to begin. To start a garden, you need a reason. lawn, better check with the landlord. some plants (or better, talk your neigh­ You’ll probably find he doesn’t mind, and bour into partying with the ones he REASON No. 1: We ail have to eat. an excuse not to do something as long as you plant something which he/ doesn’t want) and GET THEM IN THE Everything we eat comes from your girlfriend/boyfriend/flatmate/ she likes, she’ll be right, mate.... GROUND!!!! mother/all of those wants you to soil and sun, and doing it yourself 3. Seeds or plants. As winter is a There will be more next week on do. It’s a good way to get to know is cheaper, better, has more vita­ coming along, it’s the Wrong Time other aspects, like getting rid of that interesting person over the mins, is anti-cholesterol, vitamised, to start o ff Tomatoes or Sweet Corn or snails, and keeping the soil alive. back fence (“ Yer wanna radish?” ) and may be extremely habit­ Green Peppers, but that still leaves lots Meanwhile, get some dirt on your and somethimes you even get to forming. of good things, like..... hands, the weeds out of the way and > see the sun set. RADISHES. Good for any gardener’s yer ass into gear. REASON No. 2: Who needs another REASON No. 3: You’re a vegetarian EGO, as they spring outa the ground in reason, anyway?Well if you like... anyway, and you don’t want DDT a day or three, come in two colours Love, Dave. Gardening is relaxing after that all over your carrots, or lindane jn (red and white), and several sizes. Get hard day at lectures, in bed, at your cabbages, and besides, you them in the ground right away, and if P.S. REMEMBER THE GREAT last night’s party, when you want like to see ladybirds munching someone in the house likes them, keep GALLAH DAY!!

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NEW PLAYERS - WELCOMED Page 7 MEANDERINGS BY ourselves. Again, there is an urgent need for a MIKE national daily - perhaps analogous to the ON THE “ Australian”. To suggest that New Zea­ RANN land’s geography and population distribu­ tion makes such an ideal untenable is hog- wash. And this is where technological advance can help. A new process of the MEDIA sort that enables Time Magazine, with local advertising, to be produced simultan­ eously in many countries, has revolution­ ised the publishing industry. In a report last August entitled “ Are Since Journalists and editors and publishers are men , and therefore human, Should we ‘interfere’ with the news newspapers really broke” the Economist and therefore liable to error and prejudice and stupidity, a free press media ? If our ideal is democracy, cited this new electronic printing process exists only where newspaper readers have access to other newspapers shouldn’t we allow open slather ?Wouldn’t as a means by which newspaper product­ which are competitors and rivals, so that editorial comment and news the best win out, the bad decline ? ion might become profitable. The techno­ reports can be compared, verified and validated. Unfortunately history has shown that logy exists, argues the Economist, which time again newspapers have been allowed could enable newspapers to be produced A press monopoly is incompatible with a free press, and one can proceed to fold for reasons that have nothing to in more flexible and efficient ways - if do with its social role - or its journalistic with this principle, if there is a monopoly of the means of communication not, in the end, much more cheaply. adequacy. Though the sale of Britain’s In March of last year, the International - of radio, television, magazines, books, public meetings- it follows that quality newspapers is on the increase, Herald Tribune started printing in Britain this society is by definition and in fact deprived of freedom. journalistic standards are often peripher- and has begun the long haul to establish ,salto the ‘greater’ task of selling a itself as Britain’s fifth quality daily. By WALTER LIPPMANN 1965 commodity. German magazines like Neue August last year the other four could still Revue, Stern and Bunte lllustrierte - ignore its meagre 15,000 daily sale - a In New Zealand our major newspapers Yet, even taking into account the pop­ found that the dropping of a bikini pin­ twentieth that of the Guardian, and a are owned by three large conglomerates. ulation differences between New Zealand up from their convers - cost them a drop mere hundreth that of the Daily Telegraph Indpendent News runs the two Welling­ and the U.K., the British Press goes at in sales of about 50,000 per issue. - but sales by August had increased by ton dailies - the Dominion and the Even­ least some of the way to ‘reflect every When governments first began to inter­ 70% since the Herald Tribune first became ing Post, as well as the Sunday Times, aspect of the nation, its work, leisure, fere in broadcasting, the shortage of air­ available at breakfast time. Sunday News, Truth (the nation’s largest conflicts and eccentricities? The same space - among other reasons - necessitated The paper is set and laid out in Paris, circulation), and a string of provincial could hardly be said for New Zealand. control through licencing. The Press was and then up to 16 pages are sent through papers. New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. The Press, it is said, exists to ‘disclose, lest untouched because, it was often a high-speed transmission device in an hour publishes the Auckland Star, Christ­ publish and be damned’. Yet, one of the claimed, the almost universal access to and a half to the printers in Uxbridge. church Star, Ex Eve, 8 O’clock, the few instances of home-grown investiga­ printing presses - unlike air-bands - made Though the IH T has a total European sale ‘royal’ Woman’s Weekly and a host of tive journalism that I can recall in recent control difficult and undesirable. The of only 120,000 daily, its European divis­ suburban giveaways. Our third bastion of years - was Pat Booth’s series on the “ free” press and all that ion made a profit of $400,000 last year. investigative journalism is Wilson and Thomas Case in the Auckland Star. But is there universal access ? Can IH T editorial expenses are minimal, Horton, - printers of the Herald, Sunday Instead, opinion and ‘in depth’ probes every point of view get a fair-hearing. since most of its stories come from the Herald, Thursday (the climax of your seem too often reserved for the sports The concentration of ownership in the week), the Listener, N.Z. Agriculture and and T.V. pages. wire services and from two of its parents - hands of a few, as well as prohibitive the Washington Post and the New York more. A free and probing press is essential. costs, means that the would-be small In the recent past all have made The knowledge that any day the news Times. Distribution costs right throughout independent publisher finds it either very sizeable profits, whilst the concentration media may drop on the government, Europe are enormous. Yet, with a circula­ difficult or almost impossible to exist, of ownership continues. This year - with fairly or unfairly, is a good thing for tion less than the Sunday News, it can let alone compete in an economic climate newsprint shortages and consequent Ministers to know. Again, central to our still make a profit. The IH T ’s success progressively geared to large-scale produc­ price hike - our papers are likely to feel conception of democracy is that dynamic suggests that a high quality English news­ tion and distribution. The problems of the pinch. But rest assured that shares in struggles between alternate and often paper or a national morning daily in New the small independent publisher are end­ Zealand can survive and flourish under the Big Three, along with Forest Products antagonistic interests, views, policies, and less. Without substantial capital backing what might be normally considered very will remain front runners in the blue- lifestyles can be contained without (it costs about $2 0 ,0 0 0 a year to publish peculiar conditions. Meanwhile the» chip stakes. society falling apart Craccum) it would be very difficult to traditional newspapers, sweating under the Apart from these three there are a On television news, a spokesman’s establish even a monthly paper that could burden of rampant newsprint prices, are few suburban and provincial independ­ ‘point of view’ is usually immediately break-even. Unless you are lucky enough becoming more and more uneconomic. ents. However, the generalisation remains squared off - in the interests ot balance - to have your own printing press, you Perhaps, under my grand design, the true that all New Zealand newspapers with an opposing viewpoint. Prohibited also have the problem of who is going government should be the sole buyer of share three pervasive features in common. by statute from ‘editorialising’, the net­ to print your newspaper. newsprint - so that our newspapers would­ One - they are owned by largely the work assumes a quiet posture of impart­ Official Secrets Acts, libel and indency n’t have to try and outbid each other - and same people. Two - there is no real com­ iality. Newspapers, however, should be laws tend to make commercial printers thus be forced to buy at inflated rates. If petition. There is no morning daily to free to express opinions - hopefully not chary of ‘radical’ rags. trends continue, newsprint might have to compete with the Herald in Auckland, always the same. Imagine how dull our Some of my colleagues argue that the be subsidised anyway - despite our boasts ; Dominion in Wellington, and Press in newspapers would be if, like so many nationalisation of the press is the panacea of ‘having the largest man-made forests in jChristchurch; and no evening rivals for magazines, they dispensed with editorials for all our woes. ‘ Remove the profit the world’. Lastly, printing facilities should the Star, Post and Star. One recent - and assumed a pretence of impartiality. motive from the distribution of news, be provided cheaply to groups who want exception was the Tauranga-based Daily In my view a strong editorial line, what­ information and comment’ becomes the to use them. If not a direct state subsidy, Mirror, which took the extraordinarily ever its political hue, is an indespensable catch-cry. Without the need to attract then at least a type of Queen Elizabeth daring and adventurous step of setting part of the continuing democratic debate. advertisers and mass readership - the itself up in opposition to the Bay of II Arts Council - making grants to give at distortion of quality that often seems to least a chance for ‘arty’ and other more Plenty Times. Almost sacreligious. The differences between the two go hand in hand with the race for specialist (but not ‘sound commercial The third common feature uniting forms of news media-broadcasting and increased or sustained mass circulation - propositions) to survive. New Zealand press is a frightened con­ the press - was succinctly pen.ned out by can be avoided ! servatism. Disguising themselves as one critic, who maintained that the Duly nationalised, the argument con­ As society becomes more complex ac­ ‘journals of record’,'reporting ‘facts’ in simple action of switching on a television tinues, the presses that once printed the cess, to information becomes more the dull, restricting old ‘What’, ‘Where’, set was in the seventies, more analogous Herald and the Star could be more important It is the newspapers function ‘When’, 'Who’ and ‘How’ straight- to turning on a tap - than the more economically employed to BOTH print to supply that information. There is no jacket - our newspapers get their message conscious choice of buying a newspaper, morning and evening newspapers - provid­ substitute to analysis and good journal­ across - (sometimes subtley, sometimes magazine or concert ticket T .V .’s uni­ ing real competition for the first time in ism in our papers and that is the test by not) loud and clear. Editorials from one versality and pervasiveness lay behind years. Each of Auckland’s three or four which they stand or fall. rag to the next, could be shuffled and governments’ concern that adequate dailies (if that is what it was decided that Successful democracy and a just demo­ redistributed at random without anyone controls should be implemented to safe­ Auckland both needed and could sustain) cracy depend upon the artillery of the ever knowing. Those papers that don’t guard the public. The tap analogy seems could, like a broadcasting corporation, be press. adhere to the sage-old format, the weekly particularly appropriate in New Zealand, both independent and publicly owned. tabloids, have found their own conform­ where for fifteen years viewers have been Licenced groups could lease our national­ “ . . . The tension between elected of­ ity with ‘shock’ headlines, seductions in informed, educated and entertained by ised presses. A board of governors or ficials and the working press is not a Sicily, lovely bottoms and an average of only one channel. directors would run the newspaper. Per­ deplorable inconvenience . . . It is at the sixteen nipples per issue. So much for No, I don’t think there’s any harm at haps the directors could be selected, or very heart of the American System of the New Zealand Press. all in a newspaper taking a partisan elected, V i from the working journalists Government . . . For in the absence of In Britain things are slightly different stand, allowing readers to exercise their and production staff, [ from a wide range this tension it may be perfectly possible The sales of Britain’s quality dailies are preference - by choosing a paper whose of groups from the general public. for an elected official to use his official actually climbing. The papers there are editorial line is more akin to their own Another solution that many New Zea­ powers to manipulate the press and to unthinkably partisan. At election times thinking. Perhaps such a stance is irren- landers might find more palatable than the prevent it from making an independent the Daily Express urges its readers to concilable with the view of John Stuart ‘bogey’ of nationalisation would be trust audit o f the conduct of affairs . . . vote for the Tories, whilst the front page Mill, who said : “ A man who knows * control - the community running and - In the relationship between the govern­ of the Daily Mirror exhorts its readers only his own point of view has an unsure receiving a dividend from the newspaper, ment and the press there exists a system to vote Labour - replacing its usual dollie grasp of even that”. But the New Zea­ as with the" ASB and trust hotels. with a picture of Harold Wilson ‘titled land situation, where there is virtually no But even if we don’t take over the of checks and balances : officials are able to ferret out information and pub­ “The Sorcerer”, with Heath as the competition and where the press can existing papers we should at least establish lish it. These opposing powers check ‘,Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Not the sort of often propagate their conservatism in publicly owned alternative papers. Even if and balance one another, and result in a thing that Kiwi press barons could sanely unison - is also contrary to Mill’s thesis. our alternate daily ran to only 25,000 tolerable and workable adjustment”. contemplate. After all it might upset At least with a partisan press - the copies - the community would be done a someone. Electioneering - albeit for one element of choice so vital to our demo­ service it badly needs. The Herald and the WALTER LIPPMANN side - can be far more subtle. cratic ideal is present Dominion need competition. If we can’t from a 1967 column. Page 8

This is a tale of many morals, written in a code which experienced players of the academic game, the self-promotion competition and the superior life-style battle will find no difficulty in cracking. Intelligent and sentient human beings, on the other hand, may find TIM E magazine and other commentaries on the high life and low cunning of H. Kissinger useful accompaniments to later instalments. In addition, the blowsier ululations of the educational developers at either end of the authoritarian - permissive spectrum will provide an invaluable guide to the progress of our academic Hero of the Year. THE AEVENTUDK sc You and I know, best beloved (Kip­ A Future-Present Fable little boy Sarcophagus, or Sarky for ling, Rudyard) that all the bestest (sic) j short old adventure stories have A Hero. Even before he went to Nursery And all the bestest modern stories (telly C F M 2 K Y RUTH BUTTERWORTH School, his clever mummy and daddy q.v.) have an Anti-hero Hero. had taught little Sarky to be Numerate. But this is an age of Do It To Your­ ject for higher political codification which So by the time he was in Primary School self and I am telling a story about a would not only bring in the loot but also Sarky knew all about Chance and Oppo th Future-Present Person. And that is a the consultancy fees and even the knight­ Opportunity and Odds and Long-Range An essential < Dilemma. hoods. Not to mention the First Class Forecasting ānd was ready to learn hile at universi For you and I know, best beloved Expenses-paid Overseas jaunts. about Realisation and Rationalisation. (op c itjth a t you (and I) make Heroes So that is how or why Sarcophagus All of this put Sarky Ahead of the according to our needs. And that is the Sith came to be in not too due a course, Game because clever mummy and Unfortunatel' other part of the Dilemma of the history Professor of Higher Latin American daddy had seen to it that he had been iflicted with w teller. Political Codification. inculcated with a High Degree of Self- Jonah syndron So now you see (or later in the term Which is when (and why) the story Awareness. >s to escape frc you will see) that the Dilemma has been really begins. So when Sarky was Planning his jr the comfort; resolved in the academic's way by stating Future - which is an exercise that happ­ ne of our insti i t (Resolve : latter day meaning - “ to So you can stop fidgeting again. ens very early in That Kind of Family - ersity, Church, sweep under the carpet, ignore, pretend he went to the Career Computer Centre. r proletariat m it has gone away". Editor) He took his father along and together istitution becoi Now we can get on with the story they computed the future. nportant absoli properly and there’s no need to fidget And wait for the next instalment O f course, they also consulted the e defined in its any more. I Ching. Daddy wanted to look at the rmour and we < At the time when Sarcophagus Sith astrologers’ charts as well. But Sarky uard and being had embarked upon his Future there was AND NOW FOR OUR NEXT told him that research had shown the Kierkegaard call a partial and temporary maldistribution astrologers to be Unreliable Indicators We assume tf of human resources owing to an unfort­ INSTALMENT and said that a man called Post Canes nation, become unate error in the trend-adjustment had called the astrologers a superstitious vomen and deli; mechanisms in the central computer claque comparable in their day to the echniques. As f programme some years previously. earlier Balance of Payments Priests. asily lulled by 1 He had hoped to specialise entirely in When they had finished feeding Trends nd the Philistin ennumeration and higher political codifi­ into the machines and the machines had ie claims made cation, for he was a purist by nurture. EHSCCE II adjusted the trends and added a Realisa­ But as with J Indeed, he regarded himself as an aristo­ Once upon a time, a long way ago in tion of Potential Quotient, Sarky was ppears to disru| crat of academe rather than a peasant of the 21st Century, there was a very clever given his own personalised Future scape. Death h i the applied science sort little boy. O f course, best beloved* there Programme. laze. In the wo On The Other Hand, as we say in lec­ LEGEND : On February 18 1972 the were also lots of very clever little girls; Then they went home to mummy to the skull will gi tures, not to mention books, let alone Department of Government in the but they were intelligent as well and play it over to her on their Domestic ven the most le learned journals; Our Hero’s parents had University of Essex advertised for a that is quite a different thing altogether. Console. Mummy was very pleased be­ xotic religious < prepared him to exploit opportunities or Lecturer who could be either a specialist Intelligence is very disadvantageous in cause she could see that Sarky had been re let out at rel “ take advantage” as the older Tories in Mathematical Politics or a specialist in the thin air of the academic stratosphere. brought up to be just the right kind of dramatic way called it Sarcophagus was a flexible or Latin American Politics. This very clever little boy had a very clever boy to take Maximum Advantage iity of the absc lateral thinking (de Rono, Edward) man. clever mummy and daddy. Which is of Future Opportunities. ur life’s meanir, Sarcophagus Sith could see that there obvious, when you come to think about leaning of the < might be ways of utilising data as a sub- it, from the fact that they called their Next time : The Sith Family Plan een committed elves anything r ccidents” or “ n f atoms’, or “ p ppendage(s) of P o n s o n b y he world.” (Bee There are per ending that we aricatured by e: he institutions i dub r traits. That is, ecessity, under^ l such a way th ssume any real o grow in well-t tour ....Shame and passive object(s ninist assumptio ngly prevalent, | ciences. There a irguments but si Insult cientific proof f to attempt to make capital out of the ssue must be res On Friday 28th of February, in total secrecy the Ponsonby Rugby fact that they have included a few Poly­ >o those of us w Club crept out of New Zealand for their South A’rfcan Tour. Their nesians in the team, instead of treating lignity” must wi secrecy was that of shame: and shame they should feel. For this tour, of such inclusions as axiomatic, reveals not tour supporter responded when offered a ise our speculati all the tours, just cannot be justified. And they know it. only their racist patronising. It is insult. leaflet ;onsciousness, oi And they can have no doubts that the First he was violent, shoving the leaf listorical sensitiv For a start the hosts of the tour are the Pretoria Police. And no amount people of Ponsonby are fully aware of all letter and attempting to rip up the wad of ;nge and change this. The whole area had been heavily of image building can make the Pretoria Police into a force as innocuous as leaflets. Then he argued white was superior .ompeting absoli leafletted twice in the month prior to their to black. Next he argued the wealthy were your friendly corner Balclutha cop. Undoubtedly departure. Two community committees superior to the poor. And finally he stated ibsolute to whic had openly condemned them. And they that the intelligent were superior to the less illegiance of faitl The fact is that Pretoria is the centre for They need to feel shame. Because, like had the results of a random survey of 8 intelligent. He rounded off by praising his :hoice. Jung affi Police activity, civil and secret, for the it or not, they are making Apartheid Ponsonby streets which clearly damned war effort against the Nazis. )f all his patient whole of South Africa. That the Pretoria appear respectable. They will appear as their tour. He couldn’t understand what I meant when ous. But why w police are the exponents par excellence of friends of these cops. The media will see to Damned indeed. O f 250 respondents a I asked him why he’d fought on the wrong There are dan the dawn raid. Of electrodes to the that And all for a chance to go overseas! mere 25% supported the tour. By far the side!. eligious quest F genitals. O f concealing murder by Shame too, because when they left, largest body of opinion was adamently But the people of Ponsonby understand. iescribes the nei interrogation undeedhe term ‘heart they must have een aware that the people against it. And that Polynesians in Ponsonby The shame the insult and the racism in luring the quest attack’. O f strike breaking by sub machine of Ponsonby, the people they purport see the players as traitors,,and their just­ this tour. Their understanding is a victory gesture of placi gun. That the Pretoria police force per­ to represent, were more and more openly ifications as insults, is clearly shown from to all opponents of racism - in New Zea­ n the immortalii sonifies everything that is vicious and stating their belief that the Ponsonby the meagre 19% of Polynesian respondents land, in South Africa. And when the uggests the attei sadistic about Apartheid, ls indeed the club were selling out everything that who said ‘yes’ to the tour. Ponsonby players slunk furtively across )y a self-conceiv principle weapon of Apartheid. Ponsonby is trying to be. Nor can club members scoff by plead­ the tarmac, some 5 days before schedule, ;osmic absolute The Ponsonby team need to 'feel Heaven knows that Ponsonby is hardly ing the ignorance of Polynesians. Questions they acknowledged the victory of that such Promethear shame. It must sicken them to know that a harmonious multiracial community. But on the survey revealed that very few understanding. aear for long ant the legs they are tackling might have been it is multiracial. And it is fighting to be people interviewed were ignorant of So the people of Ponsonby say to death, rust or fai booting a black gut only the day before. harmonious. For the Ponsonby team to apartheid. That most people know full those players: enjoy the tour if you can. for analysts’ cow That the friendly, fellow player with whom jaunt off to a place where multiracial har­ well the meaning of this tour and the You won’t be going again. ;entres and total they are drinking may be coshing some mony is anathema is to make them traitors workings of minds that can agree to it. Another dang poor guy for not carrying a pass tomorrow. to the Ponsonby Community. For them In structure this. Behold how one ardent David Col bourn. meaning can bee enabling us to be an “ itinerant” or a guest within our institutions. Humility . is demanded: our fallibility and precar­ ious stance on the edge of oblivion sfc- GOD ON EARTH strongly suggest we should experience God’s grace, and not be the “ self made man worshipping his maker.” Such a faith can never be static or an escape from reality. It is an “ education in possibility” and requires, as Kierkegaard says, a faith that does not “ annihilate dread, but remaining ever young, it is continually developing itself out of the sorting out death throe of dread.” If dread, risk, presence and mystery are denied, the living God is replaced by the comfortable and convenient God of an institution. Undoubtedly some will argue that the theistic Absolute (God) is a psychologi­ John Hinchcliff cal crutch for fear and insecurity, or the th e g o d s University Chaplain object of a Freudian transference of a father-figure or the projection of a Feuerbachian egocentric ideal of selfhood An essential question fo r all o f us to face is “ Who am I? ” Most o f us expect that behind the God-ideal. But the theist tiile at university we will experience some significant growth in self-understanding. believes God is more than subjective fantasy, more than a possessed love ob­ Unfortunately it is all too easy to be ed from reality. Especially in ivory tow­ ject and more than a psychological iflicted with what Maslow calls the ers of academic or religious extremism bolster. Certainly he affirms a total Jonah syndrome.” This is the readin- there is a temptation to become too dependence upon a transcendent God, a >s to escape from the search by opting abstract, too fantastic, and too divorced subjective, loving and psychological Dr the comfortable security offered by from real existence. Such self indulgence 'dependence as well as physical, spiritual, ne of our institutions such as the Uni- can become a psychotic revolt against mental and moral dependence. Of course ersity, Church, State, C apitalist system, reality. because this is a faith statement there r proletariat movement The chosen The search can also be sidetracked by must always be the risk that it is another istitution becomes our God, the all- the seductive quest for analytic neutrality. masquerade, another hoax. But the theist nportant absolute, and we let our lives This is the position of the impartial ob­ wagers his life . . . as does the atheist on e defined in its terms. We put on its server who refuses to risk involvement “ personal” should not carry puerile anth­ his presupposition. rmour and we can’t risk dropping our and who balances from a distance every ropomorphic connotations. Rather it For the Christian the pilgrimmage to uard and being open to new possibilities. thesis that life has to offer. Invariably suggests that God is not the celestial self understanding involves a confronta­ Kierkegaard calls this “ shut-upness.” such a posture must be content compart­ grease monkey or absentee landlord of tion with the drama of the Christ-event We assume the definition o f the organ- mentalizing minutiae because the great deism but is a very real “ presence” The many paradoxes of his life teachings >ation, become committee men and questions relating to the mystery of involved intimately in a spiritual encoun­ death and resurrection instruct us in the vomen and delight in the established existence such as love, death, hope, faith ter. This G reat “ I ” is embraced as the •need to break out of all egocentric echniques. As functionaries we are then and wisdom require existential involve­ absolute value and is addressed as a Thou fetishism and embrace the absolute God. asily lulled by the trivial, the expedient ment for comprehension. for spiritual and moral dependence. Such We are asked to be free of all compet­ nd the Philistine. And we lose sight o f Apathetic casual acquaintance with an absolute Personness is thus encountered ing absolutes which are transient and ie claims made by other Gods. absolute is a common failing. Nietzsche (although by no means exclusively) in fallible. Then with our allegiance firmly But as with Jonah, the inevitable crisis soundly criticized atheists who had the lived expression of the Pauline virtu­ established we are able to work creatively ppears to disrupt the tranquility of our “ killed” God but were unable to live as es of faith, hope and love. and selflessly for our fellow man. Some­ scape. Death haunts even the m ost, if he were dead. So too, some theists This theistic answer is compelling for times this will mean to work within laze. In the words of William James affirm God but prior to their deathbeds many reasons. Fo r example it suggests the structures of our historical socio­ the skull will grin in at the banquet” of fail to take his existence seriously. This that we are able to transcend while Jiving cultural circumstances. Sometimes it ven the most learned discourse of would involve changes in life-style. A our finitude with faith, hope and love, will mean confrontation with these xotic religious celebration. When we survey shows that of those converted to etc. A creator is offered to support our structures that have become transfixed re let out at retirement we will face in Christianity only 4 per cent significantly creatureliness. An eternal meaning is as competing Gods. But whatever the dramatic way the question of the val- change their actions. The majority only given to our birth, life and death. An circumstance, we can accept that life is Jity of the absolute we have chosen as succeed in altering their language. inner security is offered enabling us to a precious gift full of meaning and ur life’s meaning. What has been the The absolute for the Judeo-Christian dispense with the inconsequential masks significance because of the God of (leaning of the God to which we have theist is a Personal God. The word we are challenged to wear in society Abraham, Isaac and Jesus. . . . een committed ? Are we in fact in our- elves anything more than “ trembling ccidents” or “ meaningless collocations f atoms’, or “ passive object(s) of fate, ppendage(s) o f others, plaything(s) o f he world.” (Becker). There are persuasive arguments con- ending that we can only be defined and aricatured by external factors such as he institutions and/or inherited charact- r traits. That is, we are tied up by lecessity, undergoing the process o f life i such a way that we are unable to ssume any real initiative in the struggle o grow in well-being. We are thus passive object(s) of fate.” Such deter- ninist assumptions are becoming increas- ngly prevalent, particularly in the social ciences. There are coherent counter- irguments but since there cannot be cientific proof for either position the ssue must be resolved by a leap o f faith, io those o f us who affirm “ freedom and lignity” must will to believe that we can ise our speculative reason, our self- consciousness, our imagination and our listorical sensitivity to creatively chall­ enge and change our stance in relation to ;ompeting absolutes. Undoubtedly we must choose some ibsolute to which we can offer an illegiance o f faith. This is the religious choice. Jung affirmed that the problems )f all his patients over fo rty were relig- ous. But why wait until forty? There are dangers involved in the eligious quest Rank the psychoanalyst iescribes the neurotic as someone who luring the quest “ makes the heroic gesture o f placing him self entirely with- n the immortality of his own ego.” He uggests the attempt of a person to live iy a self-conceived and self-supported cosmic absolute is doomed to failure, Taste Records i such Prometheanism is impossible to Dear for long and has no answer to SouthernCross Building High St.ph.370317 death, rust or failure. Hence the queues for analysts’ couches, guru cults, therapy [centres and totalitarian ideologies. Another danger is that our search for meaning can become disoriented, unhing­ Page 10 underway on made his ent ★ ★★ sang it, struc ★ ★ ★ artistic angui Freddy King first single n< Comes to Auckland ( wid some friends of mine../) THE AFTERNOON Terry and McGhee are ethnic throwbacks doing dat ole blues for The microphone didn't work. Norm­ ally I would have enjoyed that ‘I told middle-class college kids. The audience you so' feeling that comes to us malicious loved them madly. neurotics when we’re proved right. But A little tension with respect to the out of under the 16 stone gaze of Freddy King encore. McGhee wanted to do WALK 01 punchinna he I was too busy pulling stuff out of my but Terry wanted ROCK ISLAND LINE King is a pro bag looking for a biro and pad. A few and he got the right harmonica out of ar tuned by 1 hours later, Organist Deacon Jones told Houndog col the crowd at Western Springs that his Next nu n boss was a Sagittarius, but at 4.30 p.m. Water featuri in his room at the Grafton Oaks, Freddy reintroduced King looked more like a Taurus to me : keyboard sol MINOTAURUS in fact. Truculent and other keyboa bored. Smiling madly, and feeling like of Lewis) kef that Greek Joe who groped his way the set : like through the labyrinth on a silken thread, Muddy Water I found a pad and a biro which had clog­ stuff unless tl ged up on biscuit crumbs and didn’t work. unlike those Still smiling madly, I pretended to take King’s band \ tight rhythm notes. King (Freddy “ I must keep off the middle-class/ During the sociology l/‘significance of the blues’ bands which questions at all costs” I thought to So like many another black musician, ‘ to carry it off. Richard looks wasted and myself. King hadn’t gotten through to the big evil - Hound Dog’s gimmick is to be old, asked Freddy The best way to achieve that, I decid­ markets until white entrepreneurs black and cute. The crowd loved it : if glitter trip. A ed was to keep my fat mouth shut and (in this case Leon Russell) took advant­ he had been blind and/or crippled to meant by ‘glii let Henry run the show. This proved to age of the white market created by white boot they’d have kept him on all night you know ... on stage a lo be a very sound plan because Henry rock musicians who had made million As with Duster Bennett, Promoter, asked lots of questions which Freddy sellers out of his material. Like B.B. Coburn got the audience to clap Hound rely on the N didn’t mind responding to - quite seemed King and Muddy Waters however, Freddy Dog Taylor back on. He tried it with lottsa GLITT to enjoy it in fact. The only question I isn’t angry about i t ... Alexis Korner as well but Korner had Henry Jacksc got out (about which more later) provok­ “sure Eric Clapton and the Stones and the sense to realise that sections of the a deepening 1 ed a burst of malevolent vibrations which those guys made lots of money with our audience were getting restless. After all, his shirt before Brownie could shift his “Well SHIT r nearly melted the plastic fixtures in the music, but by doing that they gave us a it was wet underfoot and cool : a lot of capo. So when ROCK ISLAND LINE there” says F Hotel Room. break and we are makin’ money where the audience preferred to stand rather ended Brownie told everyone (front and silence or tw< This part of the day was primarily we wouldn’t have made any... ” and it is than contract arse-rot, and no matter backstage) whether a fal Henry’s bag anyway. He was there to this hard nosed progmatism which seems how good the acts are, concerts shouldn’t “ We’re doin' another one - this one’s in G window was , find out lots of esoterie for Hot Licks to be the hallmark of many blues men of become endurance tests. Its all very well Sonny” and thus got his encore done as around the st for the tripped-out Yankee middle-class readers while I was there mainly as the era which spawned the white rock’n well. And stand at Woodstock, but we working class moral support Also keeping my eyes roll millionaires. Freddy is a musician, Finally Freddy King, I was so physi­ listening to tl peeled for excess groupies who might but unlike the young white kids who heroes had to go to work next day. cally depleted after 31/2 hours of what of Benny Kir want to rush off with a couple of hack claim they’re in it for the kicks/Art/glory Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were essentially supporting acts that it wearing ice b amateur rock writers. or whatever, he is doing it because it is followed Korner. Their act doesn’t seem took a certain amount of screwing my and high heel There weren’t any groupies in the his job. to change much. Terry even did his old reserves together to stay to hear what gratefully ren lobby however : just the show's roadies Deacon Jones comes into the room “talk to me harmonica - you wantyo’ I’d actually come for. interrupted rr and flunkies - a bunch of mean yankee “ Hey Freddy - I’ve been out to Western Mamma’, stuff. If they’d pulled that one . Deacon Jones laid a bit of ‘function costumes as a bodgies - all white ! Nice racial role Springs and I’ve got the money and I’ve in front of a young black audience State­ at the junction’ jive on the crowd as the by “glitter” a reversal there I thought to meself. seen Coburn and ... ” side, they’d have botten rocks thrown at band got setting up problems ironed out steered the cc So while Henry asked about label “ Just cut out the crap and count it out” them. Still they don’t play in front of (regretfully we were spared another Poor Henry - changes and caught up on the life histor­ says Freddy. such audiences at home - essentially Coburn spiel and finally the band got interviews wit ies of divers ex personnel, I busied my­ KEY TO 1 played in a st self with getting a close look at this big THE CONCERT black Texan whose music I admired so cent of the A much. touring days, Like most New Zealanders I didn’t We squelched through the gates at which foil owe become aware of Freddy King until he Western Springs an hour late just as the LOVED A Wi started on the SHELTER label of Leon concert was beginning. There were almost not Eric Clap Russell. He is currently signed with RSO more policemen there than audience who considerable r (1st L.P. yet to arrive here - BURGLAR) were doubtless staying away because of and I felt tha which is the Robert Stigwood/Eric Clap­ the weather. Blues concerts are ALWAYS performance i ton mob. Freddy thinks that this label (well almost always) very mellow and a ing which sea will do him more good than his previous little older than yer average rock crowd. forming blues three (the other LP’s are on Federal, So why all the Fuzz ? King’s guitar King and Cotillion), all of which he feels Duster Bennett opened the show. He strained (perh neglected the promotional aspects nec­ was very good but he was on too long. that he plays essary to put him over the top. SHELTER Hound Dog Tayler followed. He was very using finger p in particular, he considered, had messed bad and he went on too long also. Tayl­ lacked the fli things up with respect to the radio or is like Keith Richard insofar as he can of say, B.B. K stations. “ Leon - he’s a nice guy. But front up to a crowd junked^or juiced ... detracted froi he didn’t treat those D.J’s nice. You’ve it is reported that ole Hound Dog did in show I have e got to make them feel important man - a bottle of bourbon at the press confer­ sore legs notv tell’em you think they’re doing a great ence jes’fer openers ... hie) up to the The weakes job ”______,______eyeballs and count on audience ignorance performance v Page 11 underway on Big Legged Woman. Freddy ional boogie sequence during which King Barry Coburn every success and long may made his entrance on time for verse one, looked like he had lost interest The band he continue to bring out bluesmen of sang it, struck the mandatory posture of pulled something together however, after King’s calibre, but the offering this time artistic anguish, and squeezed out the a few minotauran glares from the BOSS. was actually too LARGE - Barry gave us I can imagine that one always tries very too much for our money - perhaps if the hard if one is a musician in Freddy King’s night had been warmer and drier it might band. have been different. “ Criticism” aside,- couldn’t have screened his acts: cut Coburn deserves credit for grinning Bennett, Korner and Terry McGhee back After that small lapse, no one put a through the lousy weather and resultant 30%, left Hound Dog in his caravan to dry foot wrong (a second round of glares is poor crowd and financial loss, to give out, and given us Freddy King while we probably physically dangerous) and the value for money. Its just a pity that he were still fit enough to take him.

John Robson

HAVE YOU HEARD OF OR TREE

Dr. Tree was formed nearly three years ago by musicians with a desire to play something other than Top 40 or dinner music. lie Our music can be described as con­ lues for temporary improvisation in the directions ie audience indicated by the Miles Davis Bands of the late 60’s and early 70’s - a music which is receiving increasing recognition through­ >ect to the out the world. “ Weather Report,” “ The punchinna head for that no doubt Freddy do WALK 01 Mahavishna Orchestra” and “ Return to ILA ND LINE King is a pro however, and had his guit­ Forever” are three of the better known jnica out of ar tuned by verse two (something old groups in this field. Houndog couldn’t do in his whole set). We have played at several North Next nu mber was Woman ‘Cross the Island centres and the favourable reviews Water featuring a time change which received have encouraged us to progress reintroduced the chorus and a great to original compositions. The group keyboard solo from Deacon Jones. The now consists of: other keyboard (white piano player name to original compositions. of Lewis) kept a low profile for most of The group now consists of: the set : like the bands of B.B. King and Muddy Waters, no one does any flash Frank Gibson (drums) stuff unless the boss gives the nod - Mary Bradfield (vocals) unlike those bands however, Freddy Kim Paterson (trumpet) King’s band was GOOD. An extremely Martin Winch (guitar) tight rhythm section included Benny Murray McNabb (electric piano) King (Freddy’s brother) on bass. Billy Kristion (bass) During the afternoon apropos English John Banks (percussion) bands which were being discussed, I had set concluded with I HAD A asked Freddy what he thought of the DREAM AINT NO SUNSHINE and LET glitter trip. Asked (hostilely) what I THE GOOD TIMES ROLL - the last of meant by ‘glitter* I lamely said, “ well.... which featured nice chord work from om Have you you know ... bands that er — run around brother Benny and the rhythm guitarist on stage a lot and dress up and don’t just who played a very competent rely on the MUSIC ... ” and wear chordal counterpoint to King’s leadall heard the lottsa G LITTER ...” chimed in a worried night and was even allowed out for a couple of beautiful solos = light and Henry Jackson who, like me had noticed technically brilliant and (to my mind) with rumour? a deepening furrow on Freddy’s brow. a tonal feel that was much superior to the ' jld shift his “Well SHIT man. I just don’t STAND unchanging roar emanating from iND LINE there” says Freddy after a pregnant Kings Gibson. ie (front and silence or two during which I wondered The motorcycle place whether a fall from a second floor hotel with the new large premises this one’s in G window was automatically fatal, “ I move core done as around the stage A LOT ”. in K R o a d ..... you k n o w ...... And standing there in the audience what's their name..... 'as so physi- listening to the excellent bass guitar ph. 78741 rs of what of Benny King who happened to be JO H N DALE LTD. Imvd acts that it wearing ice blue hot pants, blue tights crewing my and high heeled silver thigh waders, I lm told they 're offering a rather lucrative deal to students hear what gratefully remembered how Henry had in March 1975. interrupted my attempt to use Slade’s af ‘function costumes as an example of what I meant crowd as the by “glitter” and had adroitly Rumour has it that ns ironed out steered the conversation back to dry land. if you buy a motorbike from them another Poor Henry - he always winds up on these between the value of s band got interviews with some loud-mouth ass-hole. $350 and $500 they will give you $20 cash...... KEY TO THE HIGHWAY was next, between $500 and $750 its $30cash...... played in a style (dare I say it) reminis­ between $750 and 51000 cent of the Allman Bros in their tighter they reckon its $40cash and touring days. This number and the one above $1000 its $50 cash. which followed HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN (“ I wrote this song, not Eric Clapton” ) demonstrated King’s Its got to be a good deal for we poor students considerable range and power as a singer because its a saving of up to 7.5%. and I felt that it was this aspect of his performance rather than his guitar play­ King came out to encore and sat down Apparently it applies to new and used motorbikes. ing which sealed his reputation as a per­ to do SWEET HOME CHICAGO accom­ forming bluesman here in Auckland. panied only by his pianist who was at Well, what do you reckon? King’s guitar playing seemed jerky and last able to show off some of his stuff. strained (perhaps a function of the fact The rest of the band reappeared and played for another half hour. By this time A trip up to DALES might save us some bread. that he plays a small note lead style however, exhaustion had set in and I was using finger picks) and 1 thought that he out on the great north road looking for a Yeah, its worth a visit, cause they re also lacked the fluidity and tonal subtlety cab. I had wanted to see Freddy King for giving 15% discount on accessories of say, B.B. King, but this in no wayiy a long time and could never have predict­ over the same period. detracted from perhaps the best live ever ed that I would walk away from one of show I have ever enjoyed : wet arse and his concerts. But that is what happened. sore legs notwithstanding. By 12.30 p.m. I was stuffed. The weakest moment of King’s Perhaps this is a wierd criticism to make See you there performance was a somewhat non-direct- of a promoter - and God knows I wish MOVIES 1945-1975 YC

It is al interferer Styk'SstarsiiiK’m asix’nMM'ship situation dealer; th ation, exl think the In New Zealand, most of the writing about films consists of film reviewing, and attended a cinema at least once in the likely to regard as evasive and therefore that tends to be deadly dull because the reviewer does not have the space to do past year. In the 20-24 age group, the obscene. When Germaine Greer was anything but briefly list his likes and dislikes. On this Craccum film page, which proportion was still high (84%) but then brought to court for using the word ‘fuck’, Even the I hope to supervise for the next few issues, I want to shift the emphasis from a big decline set in. From 71% in the she said that she believed her audience such as me< hasty opinions to something broader and more factual. 25-34 age group, the proportion fell to would have been annoyed by anything being subjei are thro win I want to present background articles ing Candidly’, the first and still the only 30% for those aged 45 and( over. less direct This is a word used often in Support by this older group is still private info about trends in film-making, changes in book about the N.Z. film scene, written movies today, but it is invariably cut necessary for a film to run for several film taste, the structure of the N.Z. film in 1945 by Gordon Mirams.) This kind by the N.Z. censor. The battle over One of t business, and so on. I'll also try to pro­ months, but it is obvious from the film censorship in N.Z. is a fascinating Zealand is 1 vide news of the local film scene, includ­ of regular viewing of large numbers of survey that the hard-core of the film study in cultural styles since on so many derives its I; ing details of film screenings at the movies, most of them produced very audience consists of young people. occasions it has brought our cultural Britain, we university which seldom receive adequate rapidly, is now catered for by television. avant-garde into open conflict with our for breache: It is also interesting to see that publicity. I hope that this page will In Hollywood the ‘factory’ system has cultural rear-guard. The censor decides the United men and women are about equal in become a clearing-house for information largely disappeared, fewer films are being what is objectionable in terms of society Constitutioi their overall attendance of films, but and that I will receive plenty of articles made, and each film tends to be more as a whole, but those who are the most both these ; there is a variation in ages. Up to the and news items. (Send them to the individual. Enormous amounts o f money frequent movie-goers tend to have more probably be age of 24, more men than women go Craccum film page, c/- Students Associa­ are spent on advertising a film to ensure liberal attitudes than the majority. What we to the films, particularly in the 2 0 2 4 tion Office). I’ll even consider printing that it has a distinctive identity. For Counter-culture films, with their salty entanglemei age group where women are presumably some reviews - provided that they have example, three million dollars were spent launguage and their frank treatment of case law mi busy at home looking after young more to offer than the usual vague a few months ago in the U.S.A. to launch sex and drugs have been hit particularly date and, m ‘The Trial of Billy Jack,’ which is a much children. In the 25-34 age group, men opinions generated by one or two casual hard by the censor. Fims banned entirely it difficult 1 and women attend the cinema in equal viewings of a film. greater sum of money than the film cost include ‘ Fritz the Cat’, ‘Heavy Traffic,’ During 197: to make. O f course, ‘ B films’ and ‘quota numbers, but after 34 the balance In this first background article, I want ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ ‘Drive He Said,’ remedy the quickies’ are still being produced in many tilts towards women. to examine some of the unique features and ‘Inferno of First Love.’ Films cut be publishir parts of the world, and about one of of film-going today. Since a person’s include ‘ Performance’ and ‘Taking O ff Human and every three films screened in Auckland is Young adults (say, 16 to 24 years of taste is so heavily shaped by the period (both initially banned), ‘Woodstock,’ out the law a cheap exercise in horror, martial arts, or age) have always represented an import­ in which he is born, it is useful to acqu­ ‘Zabriskie Point,’ ‘Medium Cool,’ ‘Easy particular ai soft-core pornography, without much ant part of the film audience, but in ire a sense of history. Most students grew Rider,’ ‘ Five Easy Pieces,’ ‘Carnal of the Cons individual character. But most Aucklanders recent years this age-group seems to have up during the period when television was knowledge, ‘ MASH’, Catch 22, ‘ Klute’, v launched Ia1 no longer say, ‘I’m going to the movies’, become more distinctive and more at war with the cinema in its bid to and so on. Nz’s film censorship is Committee they say ‘I’m going to “ The Sting”.’ or influential. In N.Z., as in other countries become the most popular and influential today far more conservative than that of Interest, an< ‘I’m going to “ Xhe Exorcist”, ’ because it this is the group least interested in tele­ form of art and entertainment. When most other countries (including Aust­ Written by takes a special movie to pull them away vision. The fact that it became a trend­ television arrived in N.Z. around 1959 ralia). Andrew Ter from their television sets. setter in the 1950’s and 1960’s appears (ten years after it reached Britain and Goods Act to have many causes-- more young the U.S.A.), there were 547 cinemas, and Despite this battle of cultural politics, legislation c In 1945 most cinemas offered a new people were growing up in the city, with an average of 17 cinema tickets were pur­ the films screened here today deal with selling of G< programme every week or two. Today a more education and more spending chased every year by every New Zealander. sex in a more explicit way than those of run of eight or nine weeks has become money. The 1960’s saw the emergence of Twelve years later, the number of thirty years ago. And this is not the only customary. ‘The Sting’ was seen by almost a mostly youthful ‘counter-culture’, cinemas had dwindled to 208, and the area in which film-makers have gained everyone in Auckland, and similarly involving left-wing politics, greater sexual Cons average number of tickets was down to more freedom. In 1945, a film was ‘Alvin Purple’ occupied a city cinema for frankness, and an interest in drugs. These 4. The film industry struggled frantically expected to follow a strong story-line, over three months. The trend towards are complex developments, but their to retain its disappearing audience by without too much jumping around in Char longer seasons has produced a terrible cultural impact is clear enough. For ex­ experimenting with 3-D, wide screens, space and time. A film-maker was advised bottle-neck in the distribution of films, ample, consider the rapid evolution of By / stereophonic sound, ‘adult’ subject- not to pursue serious problems (part­ and last year only half of the films pop music. One result of this in Auck­ matter, and anything else that television icularly political ones) too fiercely. And When yc imported into N.Z. by the major land is the contrast between radio was not yet able to provide. good was supposed to triumph over evil buy provisit distributors were able to be screened. stations such as Hauraki and 1ZM whose The decline continued until a few in the end. In other words, the cinema the transact listeners are mostly under 25, and stations years ago, when sales figures suddenly Many of today’s long-run films do not of 1945 obeyed the same basic con­ other than such as 1YA and 1ZB whose listeners are levelled out and the film business regained feature well-known stars. Thirty years ventions as television today. For anyone have to pay mostly over 35. Those aged 25 to 35 a sense of optimism. Statistics for the ago, the success of a film depended to a over the age of 40, there is a continuity show up on audience surveys as floating whole of N.Z. suggest that the ‘shake-out’ great extent upon its cast. There were between the programmes that he watches But each voters, alligning their taste with either of still continues in the suburbs and country about sixty ‘big names’ in 1945, led in brush, book the two groups. today on television and the films that he areas, but business is now booming in the popularity by Bob Hope, Greer Garson saw as a young adult The newer styles is bought, a Sale of Goc cities, and once again cinemas are being and Betty Grable. Today, the names of Although pop music is perhaps the are poorly represented on television, contracts, v\ built or renovated. In the U.S.A. and Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood or most important medium of art and except in the fast editing of some written con Britain, the ownership of television sets Bruce Lee can still assure the success of entertainment for young adults, films overseas-made commercials, or the occas­ commonest seems to have levelled out at around 90% any action film, but outside of this also enjoy a great deal of prestige. Often ional young adult series such as Popco most people of households. N.Z. has only recently genre, the value of a well-known actor is the two interests are combined, as in or Kung Fu (with its jumpy cutting). The Act reached 80%, and it has also been slow less certain. Paul Newman, Robert ‘Woodstock,’ Easy Rider’, or ‘Ladies and Some American made television series and usage o to develop colour television, a second Redford and Barbara Streisand have all Gentlemen the Rolling Stones.’ It has also reflect the self-conscious, humour­ As this bod' channel, larger screens, and more ‘adult’ been involved in box-office flops. become fashionable for pop stars to act ous approach to genre that characterizes lished, it wa programming. These developments -- in films (Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, recent movies such as ‘The Three Cinemas themselves have changed in given effect together with the many possible applicat­ Mick Jagger, Ringo Star) and to nourish Musketeers,’ ‘Blazing Saddles,’ and recent years. Any cinemas built today is At the tu ions of videotape -- will continue to draw a secret ambition to become film direct­ ‘Young Frankenstein.’ Today even likely to be small, luxurious, and well- draftsman o people away from the cinemas. But ors. More generally, the young adult group comic books tend to be highly self- equipped, and is usually part of a ‘twin’ well-settled overseas, film and television seem to have has influenced recent films in a number conscious in this way (illustrated by or ‘multiplex’ arrangement. By creating form. Consu worked out a kind of truce, defining their of ways, encouraging film-makers to feel the in-jokes and foot-notes of Marvel a cluster of small cinemas, the owner aim and he separate spheres of influence, and recog­ more free in their treatment of sex, comics). But apart from these few puts his ground-rent to better use, and his work ref nising the value of collaboration in cert­ politics, and verbal obscenity, and to traces of the newer approach, N.Z. in some cases is able to pool projection Charter” as ain areas. In N.Z., a popular television television continues to be devoted to facilities. These overseas trends have now adopt a more rapid and less linear style programme such as ‘The Onedin Line’ the older styles and older conventions. reached Auckland, as shown by the of editing (as though the first generation Although can still have a marked impact upon building of Cinemas One and Two to to grow up on television has become cinema attendance, as shown by the fact marketplace replace the Regent, and by the ‘twining’ bored with the conventional style of This is not to assume that movies own, it has I that Monday night ticket sales picked up of the Civic. As movie-going has changed putting a film together.) today are necessarily better than those again as soon as ‘Tom Brown’s School­ pretations gi from being a regular habit to a special made in 1945, or those screened on days’ replaced ‘Onedin’; but despite ups continual pr occasion, the cost of admission has But I don’t want to simplify the television. There were film-makers thirty and downs of this kind, the N.Z. film work in moc increased from an average of 14 cents generation gap, since there were plenty years ago who understood the censorship made it wor exhibitors seem confident that the next of other reasons why films moved in system and the production-line methods decade will be a period of good, steady in 1945 to about one dollar today. The favour. rise has been particularly steep in the last these directions. Furthermore, the of Hollywood so well that they could business. R eight years (40c in 1967, 60c in 1971, majority of young adults are still con­ still produce brilliant results. And The Act i This new phase is not simply a return 83c in 1973). servative in their taste. People who although most television drama today is to the golden era of the movies because adopt the values of the counter-culture handicapped by hurried script-writing detail but th so many changes have occurred. Most Has the N.Z. film audience changed represent a small minority, however and cheap studio sets, there are times importance t people reading this article will have in character over the past 30 years?Facts influential they may be as a cultural when everything clicks into place and rule of cavea started their film-going after 1945, so let are difficult to find, but occasionally a avant-garde. Auckland’s cinemas present a series like ‘Softly Softly’ or ‘Columbo’ beware - is n us look at the films of that year as an survey appears such as the 1974 study far more Elvis movies and ‘Alvin will produce an episode that is superbly In its plac example of how greatly things have conducted by Research Marketing Purple’s than hip films such as ‘Alice’s tight and stylish. As for the hip movie matically im| changed. The films of thirty years ago Services for the Kerridge Odeon organ­ Restaurant’ or ‘Zabriskie Point’, just as audience today, its preference for a These are th; seem to have more in common with isation. The results (based upon 2,161 Hauraki and 1ZM play more simple fast-moving style often leads to over­ merchantable today’s television than with today’s interviews throughout N.Z.) are similar singles than complex album tracks. The value material that is gimmicky and reasonably fi films. The audience of that time went to those of other surveys I have seen. Australian film ‘Alvin Purple’ attracted pretentious. Films today are not necess­ “ out of sheer habit to the same theatre The basic point is that the younger a both the young and the old, and was arily better, although they are certainly If these re week after week, often occupying the person is, the more likely he is to seen by about half of Auckland. Such different. the buyer cai same seats, regardless of what picture was attend the cinema. 91% of those humour still depends upon “ naughty” and get his n showing.” (The quotation is from ‘Speak­ interviewed in the 13-19 age group had innuendo, which the hip film-goer is — Roger Horrocks______he can keep for any dame Page 13

But because our law of contract is generally given where a complaint'is based on the principle of “ bargain” and justified and standard form contracts TOUR RIGHTS.... the contractual freedom of both parties to are being drawn up in a fair and make their own contract the courts can enlightened Way. In fact, the New Zealand only interpret and enforce the agreement Retailers’ Federation has recently and not rewrite it. The fact that the drawn up a standard hire purchase form It ls almost certain that sometime in 1975 you will be subject to consumer has not read the fine print or in consultation vyith the Consumers’ interference with your personal rights. The present economic was not happy with the terms the con­ Institute and this agreement can be situation makes you a prize victim for a ‘con’ by a manufacturer or tract contained will not help him as the applauded for its clarity and fairness. dealer; the Housing Shortage continues to open up the way for discrimin­ courts have often said that they are not All the same, reform is desirable. The ation, exhorbitant rents and appalling conditions and somehow I don’t insurers against bad bargains. retailer is in a powerful position in this area and the exclusion clause is open to think the Police is quite as Mick Connelly says it is. 1 therefore Be Careful abuse. The fact that MOST sellers are sr was Until Parliament acts so that sellers responsible and aware of the consumers 2 word ‘fuck’, Even the glamour professions of society caused. In some circumstances, the Act cannot unfairly and unreasonably exploit position is not a sufficient safeguard. audience such as medicine and psychology are even protects an innocent consumer to their superior bargaining power, the anything being subjected to official pressures which the extent of allowing him ownership in consumer should read carefully before he The consumer deserves a better guar­ preference to the true owner where goods d often in are throwing confidentiality o f a patients signs and if necessary go to another antee of a good deal than the hope that have been sold to him in good faith by a tbly cut private information into jeopardy. supplier who may give him a better deal. he will be buying from a scrupulous fraudulent third party. e over One of the big difficulties in New Fortunately, the vast majority of shopkeeper. tscinating Zealand is that being a country that Means of Redress retailers are reputable. Refunds are on so many derives its law and legal existence from An all-embracing definition of ;ultural Britain, we have no overriding backstop “ merchantable quality” cannot be given. and include some of the Soviet Union’s t with our for breaches of Human Rights. Unlike But, to use the quaint words of a judge top stars and directors. ir decides the United States we have no true of 1815, “ The purchaser cannot be The Festival will include : s of society Constitution or Bill of Rights and indeed supposed to buy goods to lay them on Russian “ The Seagull” - An adaption of Chekhov’s 2 the most both these along American lines would acdunghili”. famed play and starring Ludmilla have more probably be inappropriate here. Thus the consumer can have redress in Film Savelyeva. arity. What we do have is a comprehensive widely differing situations. Woollen “ Lovers Romance” - A modern romantic ieir salty entanglement of both statutory and underpants containing sulphites causing Fertival itment of dermatitis, milk containing typhoid germs, drama which won the Crystal Globe the case law much of it hopelessly out of Seven important new Russian films >articularly new cars with scratched paint, old cars main award of the 1974 Internal Film date and, more importantly, much of will be presented in a special one week ned entirely with serious engine faults and thousands Festival at Karlovy Vary. it difficult for a layman to understand. festival at the Lido Cinema, Auckland, / Traffic,’ of other cases, have given the purchaser During 1975 Craccum will help to commencing Thursday March 13th. Each “ King Lear” - A new version of Shakes- Said,’ a remedy because the goods were not of remedy the situation. We will regularly film will screen for one day only. The pears tragedy starring Yuri Yarvet :ilms cut merchantable quality. be publishing, as part of a series on Festival is being presented by Amalga­ “ Uncle Vanya” - An adaptation of iking O ff’ Human and Civil Rights, articles setting d stock,’ out the law and background to the law in The test of merchantable quality is >ol,’ ‘ Easy particular areas. The first article is part highly flexible; obviously, the standard irnal of the Consumer Rights Campaign to be applied to an old car will be lower than !, ‘Klute’, 1 launched later this month by a Joint the level for a new one. This condition, ip is Committee of Business, Consumer however, does not apply if the purchaser han that of Interest, and Government personnel. has examined the goods and should have ng Aust- Written by University Law Lecturer discovered the defects. Andrew Terry it examines the Sale of Fit for Purpose Goods Act which is the main piece of The other important protection is jral politics, legislation covering the purchasing and that, if a purchaser tells the shop­ deal with selling of Goods. keeper he wants goods for a specific an those of purpose and relies on the shopkeeper’s lo t the only skill in choosing the goods, then the /e gained Consumers goods must be fit for this purpose. n was tory-line, Charter Obviously, the purpose of many of ound in the goods we buy is clear enough; was advised By Andrew Terry, Lecturer in Law. watches to tell the time and clothes to is (part- When you go to your corner store to wear, etc. But if we want to go under­ jrcely. And water diving with our new watch or need ih over evil buy provisions, you probably don’t give the transaction too much thought - the clothes for climbing, the storekeeper he cinema can hardly be blamed if we do not tell lie con- other than to wince at the price you have to pay for things these days. him what the goods are for and he For anyone supplies items inappropriate to our needs. mated Theatres Ltd. and New Zealand Chekov’s play and starring Innokenti continuity The “ fitness of purpose” requirement But each time a loaf of bread, paint­ Film Services in conjunction with Smoktunouski. t he watches can cover various circumstances from roof brush, book, car or any other product Sovexport and the Russian Embassy. “ The Fierce One” - An unusual story of ilms that he paint that fades in the sun or peels in the is bought, a contract governed by the Accompanying the Festival will be a primitive peasants and a young boy’s wer styles rain to fountain pens that don’t work. Sale of Goods Act 1908 is made. Such number of Russian actors and personnal- attachment to a young wolf-cub. evision, But this condition is not implied if the contracts, which are as binding as any ities, including two of their most famous “ Ruslan and Ludmilla” - A lavish and some goods are asked for by a patent or trade written contract, are therefore the International Stars Ludmilla Savelyeva spectacular medieval fantasy inspired by >r the occas- name. However, if the goods have defects commonest consumer transactions - and Innokenti Smoktunouski. They will the poems of Alexander Pushkia. as Popco not usually associated with that product, most people making several each day. arrive in New Zealand on March 12th. “ Pirosmani” - A film dedicated to the cutting), the buyer can still recover. on series The Act grew out of the customs The films represent an exciting cross noted Georgia painter Niko Pirogmanish- and usage of the old English merchants. section of Russian Cinema entertainment vili who died in obscurity but who has , humour- The implied conditions of fitness for As this body of rules became estab­ from the classics to contemporary drama since been recognised as an outstanding haracterizes purpose and merchantability therefore lished, it was gradually recognised and talent hree overlap to a large degree, thus providing given effect to by the courts. ,’ and the consumer with considerable protect­ At the turn of the century, the even ion. But - and this is the big difficulty draftsman of the Act merely put this ly ser­ for the consumer - the seller can wriggle well-settled area of law into statutory ated by out of these provisions by placing a form. Consumer protection was not his f Marvel clause in the contract under which be e few aim and he would be surprised to hear his work referred to as the “ Consumers’ excludes all liability the Act places on , N.Z. Charter” as it is sometimes called today. him. looted to These clauses are unfortunately com­ inventions. Although the Act is the product of a mon in sales of more expensive goods. marketplace vastly different from our Even liability regarding statements made ; movies own, it has been kept alive by the inter­ about the efficiency of a product can han those pretations given to it by the judges. This be excluded by a clause. ned on continual process has not only made it No Time to Read akers thirty work in modern conditions but has An English judge has/ecently been e censorship made it work effectively in the consumer’s rie methods favour. very critical of exclusion clauses in ley could written standard form contracts and And Reverses Rule The Act is too complex to discuss in has urged reform. na today is He said: “ In the ordinary way, the t-writing detail but the provision of the most direct importance to the consumer is that the consumer has no time to read them, and are times if he did read them, he would probably >lace and rule of caveat emptor - let the buyer beware - is reversed. not understand them. And if he did under­ r ‘Columbo’ stand them and object to them he would In its place two conditions are auto­ is superbly generally be told be could take it or leave matically implied into retail" sales. WORLD RECORD ATTEMPTS The only restriction is that we refuse to hip movie i t ” These are that the goods should be of The Orientation Programme contains a subsidise any gluttonous or anti-environ- e for a Unfortunately, because of a monopoly, merchantable quality and must be perhaps cryptic looking note referring to mental efforts (like goldfish swallowing) to over- or alternatives offering a similar agree­ reasonably fit for the use intended. world record attempts to be made in but there is still plenty of scope. Last ky and ment, the consumer cannot afford the Albert Park next Wednesday March 12. year 1300 odd Auckland students organ­ not necess- luxury of leaving it. If these requirements are not met, This is very much a participatory thing- ised by Don Gardiner (of Albatross Enter­ e certainly The courts have developed various the buyer can repudiate the contract there is a copy of the Guinness Book of prises) set a new record for sitting in an devices to protect the consumer who and get his money back. Alternatively, Records in the Orientation Office and you unsupported circle (on each others knees) has an exclusion clause in “ regrettably he can keep the goods and sue the seller are invited to come up and browse and This is now in The Book, but it would be fine print” unwillingly imposed on him. for any damages the breach may have find something you think you can break. nice to have some more. Page 14 r STOP PRESS.CABARET IS OFF NGA.TAMATOA CmiENTXnON COUNCIL Nga Tamatoa is not specifically a we started in 1970 has been Education student group. We are a political pressure and the importance of Maori Language in DETAILS group with the aims of pressurising for the fostering of Maori identity. c l u Maori self determination and recognition In the past we have had a lot of of Maori cultural ideals in all fields. We student involvement in Nga Tamatoa and ENVIRONIV have done work in Education, Welfare this has been very useful in helping with - committe and Legal Aid as well as making submiss­ our working as well as enabling us to restoration ; and dub ions to just about every Government enjoy the advantages of being affiliated to ment The p Committee, going on all bills affecting the Association. Ombudsman Maoris, e.g. Race Relations Bill, Police Membership is open and Council Meet­ directors inc programmes Offences Act, etc. etc. A major issue last ings are held weekly with a monthly Professor G. year was the campaign against the act­ General Meeting where all members and Dr M.J. O’S ivities of the Police Task Force as well as associates are welcome to discuss anything students) is ORIENTATION — Programme Changes Week Two. These additions ongoing pressure on education and the of interest to Nga Tamatoa. receive regul should be read in conjunction with the programme. need for teaching Maori language properly On Campus the contact is Michael E.D.S. New; in schools. Possible our major issue since Walker, c/- A.U.S.A. Office. The Envi P.O. Box Monday 10th Rubbish Ti| 1.00pm Council Room Education Committee meeting — all welcome. The Env 1.00pm Rm 203 SUB Seventh Day Adventists has filed pr and Soil Cc 7.30pm Law I stir now in Cafe Extension Auckland C 8.30pm Womens’ Common Room Maori Club Social. City Counc alleged poll Tuesday 11th harbour fro 1.00pm FORUM ‘75 on Penal Reform — Speakers now include Dr Martyn Finlay MP Barry’s Poii and Mr Peter Wilkinson MP so the meeting will be held in B28 ure of the I rights. 1.00pm Rm 203 SUB Latter Day Saints 7.00pm B28 P and Q films programme is “ Alice’s Restaurant” and “ Traffic” 7.30pm Rm 144 SUB Canoe Club General Meeting HALF-WA\ 7.30pm Top Common Room Labour Club meeting A group 7.30pm Rm 202 SUB Rotoract meeting have begun 7.30pm Rm 203 SUB Wine Society meeting for Women, 7.30pm Main Common Room Tiddlywinks Society General Meeting and Social. way for a si you to join Wednesday 12th in sisterhoo 6.30pm Exec Lounge Womens’ Liberation social with tapes of Jessica Starr environmen named prop at a crisis p< Thursday 13th 1975 support fro 12.00 noon Main Common Room SIMS (the Yankee lot) meeting. Bring your identity in 1 chequebook. POSITIONS terms of soi 1.00pm FORUM '75 on Drug Abuse will occur in B15. We want 1.00pm Room 202 SUB Latter Day Saints temporarily services so 1 1.00pm Exec Lounge Cultural Council meeting jobs, accom 2.00pm Quad Tae Lwan Do display lawyers, or 5.00pm Rm 203 SUB Evangelical Union feminist) w 7.30pm B10 Tramping Club AGM 1. C00RDINAT0R children. 7.30pm Top Common Room Tennis Club wine and Cheese We woul 7.30pm 13 Symonds Street Social Anthropology Club evening for staff, students and skills to ioii beer: group to mi Saturday 15th icipation of 2. BU YERS need a worn Ski Club work party at Mt Ruapehu. Phone 548 570. ancy to join If you can \ ORIENTATION NOTES time, furnit extra-murally at Massey University. His professional If you want to break a world record paintings will be on view this week in the 3. SUPERVISORS contact Bro in anything come up to the Orientation Main Common Room, and enquiries re 766-287, Ai Office and look up your target in the purchase should be made to Contact if Julie 763-2( Guiness Book of Records. Attempts will there is no attendant with the paintings, NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY be held Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Orientation officially ends this Friday, Michael St • A late addition to the Orientation though some events have drifted on into Paremorem Programme is an exhibition and sale of next week. Comments on the efficiency 1. THE COORDINATOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WEEK- studying fo paintings by Michael St Cloud. Mlcheal is of the programme would be welcomed, To get somi at present in Paremoremo and is studying particularly from the first year students. T0-WEEK RUNNING OF THE COOP./ WHICH TURNS Association OVER $300-$600 PER WEEK. MAINTAINING A works. He has b ROSTER OF BUYERS AND SUPERVISORS/ AND few years ai CONTROLLING FINANCES AND PRICES. on two occ; moremo Mi 2. BUYERS BID FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AT support his to return tc THE CITY MARKETS EVERY THURSDAY MORNING/ he has takei AND ARRANGE FOR TRUCK TRANSPORT TO THE to have to v release and STUDENT UNION. Michael wil to the Intel 3. SUPERVISORS ARE REQUIRED FOR THREE AREAS: Children Fi (1) SETTING UP TABLES/ SCALES AND CHANGE/ In an em AND RECEIVING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AT Paremorem massive ele< ABOUT llAM ON THURSDAY MORNINGS. any visual s (2) OVERSEEING SELLING, AND COLLECTING walls, and c actual local THE ST90 IS A COMMUTER BIKE WHICH GIVES 90 MILES PER MONEY FROM 12 TO 2.30PM ON THURSDAYS. inspiration GALLON AND ULTRA - LIGHT HANDLING ON CITY ROADS. (3) ARRANGING CLEARING UP AND STACKING reliant upor LOW COST $499.00 - THAT'S ON THE ROAD. 6 MONTHS for subject WARRENTY OR 6000 MILES. TALK HONDA TODAY WITH: BOXES FROM 2.30PM TO ABOUT 3.15PM ON seriously re common ra THURSDAYS. nonetheless and inject ii AUCKLAND'S WE ALSO NEED GENERAL HELP thing of my Nol HONDA DEALER longing for .EAVE YOUR NAME& ADDRESS AT STUDASS idyllic quie RUSBEU side. OR PHONE 360283 Michael St. Page 15

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Tutors are required to assist prisoners in their iu cation educational development at Paremoremo. anguage in The areas of need at present are English, clubs and tit-bits....contd Philosophy, German Literature, German ft of Culture and Religious STudies. This is GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION matoa and ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE SOCIETY WHY BOTHER SWOTTING? voluntary work. Transport will be pro­ ping with - committed to the preservation, vided. 1975 sees a fairly determined attempt l us to restoration and national use of the environ If you are able to assist please contact to revive the Geographical Association, affiliated to ment The patron of the society is the Australia will be wiped off the John Hinchcliff, Chaplain, ext. 495 or 732. Ombudsman, Sir Guy Powles. Its and to instil some new blood into its face of the earth in 1975, accord­ ranks. G.A. incorporates the more social, unci I Meet- directors include Warren Templeton, ing to Abdul Hafiz Attar, Leban­ informal aspects of Geography, but it is tnthly Professor G.A. Knox, Dr Bob Mann and on’s ace soothsayer. The Middle by no means a purely social club. In the nbers and Dr M.J. O’Sullivan. Membership (for East “ situation” will escalate into students) is only $1.00, and members past (and in the future) field trips have j s s anything a third World War, and six world NATIONAL receive regular copies of the excellent been very informative as well as entertain­ ing, as those who came to Mayor ls., leaders will die - according to the Tichael E.D.S. News. The Environmental Defence Society, Little Barrier, M t Tarawera, Browns ls. soothsayer who claims 95% accur­ P.O. Box 3838, Auckland. Pouto and Leigh will remember. The Asso­ acy for previous predictions. World CLUB ciation also tries to encourage liaison bet­ Rubbish Tip Prosecution War 3 will be unleashed after an It is essential in any major Political ween the students of the different stages The Environmental Defence Society Israeli bomb attack on Mecca. in Geography; to prove that first-years Organisation that gets branded as Conser­ has filed prosecutions under the Water Attar predicts that the involvement can speak to Masters students and survive, vative to have an active and critical wing and Soil Conservation Act against the of a super-power in the Mecca and that the staff members are people, of Progressives. It is this function that Auckland City Council and the Takapuna ready and willing to help students and incident will spark off Armage­ National Club will once again endeavour City Council. The prosecutions relate to play cards and cricket with them. ddon. The six world leaders that alleged pollution of the Waitemata to perform. National Club is far from Those of you who will be enrolling in harbour from the Meola Road and will “ pass on” in 1975 include being a bunch of Tory hacks. During last Geography (or even Geology etc.) will Barry’s Point rubbish tips and the fail­ China’s Mao Tse Tung, America’s year we were instrumental in getting a have a chance to join GA as you come ure of the Council’s to obtain water President Ford, Britain’s Harold number of ideas through which to the into the Geog. Dept to enrol. Remem ber, rights. Wilson, Spain’s General Franco and National Party were Radical. We hope to it’s a society by the students for the stu­ Rhodesia’s Ian Smith. dents and what’s more it only costs 50 achieve the same in ’75. HALF-WAY HOUSE GROUP INC’ cents. Planned events include an Orienta­ Of less significance, we will CO M IN G UP tion affair (at a time and Iplace to be dec­ witness a world-wide epidemic > A group of six women in Auckland ided), and an Easter trip, and probably “ more difficult to cure than 12-2 p.m. T H IS F R ID A Y - Womans have begun to establish a Half-Way House some good fun at mid-term break. cancer” , whilst the price of oil will Common Room. Aussie Malcom for Women. Negotiations are well under­ double. Mao, however, will not die Candidate for Eden and Jim McCay way for a suitable house. We would like of old age. Instead, the ageing AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY CANOE CLUB Candidate for Birkenhead. you to join us in any way you can so that Chinese leader will be felled by in sisterhood we can build a psychological 3rd Week - Annual General Meeting Canoe Club straggles away on trips the assassins’ bullet. environment at Half-Way House (yet to be see notice board for date. every now and again and again to rivers, named properly) in which women who are Australia’s demise will follow a TERM II MULDOON is coming- lakes, surf, rocky torrents and stagnant at a crisis point in their lives can find tremendous earthquake. Mr. Attar details later. puddles. It’s a club comprised mainly of support from women, and find a new neglected to mention the effect of For further information - identity in themselves rather than in people who like the outdoor life but such a catastrophe on New Zealand. don’t like too much effort. Phone 489-892 terms of somebody else. His predictions were published We want to provide food and shelter YOU DON’T NEED YOUR OWN CANOE YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW HOW TO earlier this year by the Beirut NATIONAL CLUB temporarily, transport and babysitting Daily Star. services so the women who come can find PADDLE A CANOE YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE EVEN jobs,'accommodation, and see doctors, lawyers, or counsellors (hopefully SEEN A CANOE t feminist) without worrying about their You do need a sense of humour as canoe club types are typically mad. (Ask children. tramping club). We would like feminists of all ages and We take trips to such places as: skills to ioin us. It is too big for any small group to manage, and we need the part­ LAKE TARAWERA: Lie in Hot Pools, icipation of amny women. Especially, we swim in lake, paddle across lake, sip a need a woman who has Stage III Account­ few cold ales, play guitars, sing, (apart ancy to join our group. from the beers, it sounds like a bible class tramp but its not). This is an ace * If you can help with : time, furniture, advice, soft furnishings, easy trip which is good for girls and new members. GENTLEMEN professional skills, etc., etc., please > contact Bronwyn 763-477, Joy/Brenda FULJAMES: Rapids just north of Taupo 766-287, Annie 764-865 (evenings) or with a beautiful campsite. Paddle down Julje 763-265 (evenings). rapids in canoes (double or single) or ;ARY drift down in a rubber raft or tyre. De Bretts Hotel in Taupo provides TH E M O S T Michael St Cloud is at present at hot ppols. We’ll run a trip here in the Paremoremo Prison where he has been second weekend of term. EEK- studying for a Bachelor’s degree at Massey. LAKE W AIKAREM OANA: In the TURNS To get some money to help him study, the Urewera country. It’s a good spot ■ K l T l t i B Association is holding an exhibition of his for raging and dieseling. i A works. TONGARIRO RIVER: For the better He has been painting on and off for a canoeist its a great river full of rapids ID few years and has successfully exhibited and rocks. on two occasions. Since entering Pare­ RUAPEHU SKI TRIP: SKI‘ HAVE SNOW I a c t I fights inside the hut. Throw gravy and moremo Michael has been painting to food at each other and even do some support his university studies. He is due AT skiing. Some members can actually ski. to return to “ Society” later this year.as (Well, two.) IING/ he has taken on 5 papers he hopes not SURFING: At Piha or Pakiri or anywhere. 'HE to have to work between the date of his We are feared by the surfers because of m i m e release and finals. Hence this exhibition, our pointed canoes. Surfing is really ace Michael will also donate 15 % of his sales fun and with p*~a*,tice you (yes YOU) will be able to handle 10 footers with ^REAS: to the Intellectually Handicapped Children Fund. ease. Also we have stirs, keg parties, movie IANGE/ evenings and all the other decadent items In an enclosed environment such as .ES AT clubs have. Paremoremo Prison, surrounded by this We run Baths Training Sessions at the massive electronic security, devoid of start of Term where we teach people any visual stimuli other than bleak grey paddling, stability, eskimo rolling, how to NG walls, and of course not able to visit get in and out of canoes etc. See the actual localities from which to draw noticeboard for details. >DAYS, inspiration and to paint from life one is Girls especially should come to these sessions as they give a very painless intro­ :ng reliant upon material from photographs for subject matter. One is therefore quite duction to canoeing. ONE N.Z. SHOW ONLY! THIS SATURDAY >M ON seriously restricted as an artist to a CHECK THE NOTICEBOARD FOR 8.30 p.m. NEWMARKET PARK. AUCKLAND common range of calendar-like scenes but BATHS TRAINING, ORIENTATION nonetheless I have tried to interpret them TRIPS AND STIRS or ring David Lee 676538 RESERVED SEATS ON SALE AT: and inject into my interpretations some­ or john Henderson 666 393 DIRECTION RECORDS thing of my feelings for the land and my or Grant Haskell 5 % 515 CITY - QUEENS ARCADE - DARBY ST - SWANSON ST. longing for the wide open spaces and P.S. Be sure to come on our freshers trip idyllic quiet of the New Zealand Country­ to Fuljames rapids on 15th-16th March. TAKAPUNA - NORTHCROFT ST. AND “ THE CORNER” UDASS side. You’ll be taught in basics of canoeing and you’re also guaranteed of an ace good - ONE PRICE $5.20 - Michael St. Cloud time. Cost will be $5 for everything. ananda

Survival of theideological stance on certain issues and always ensure their work takes that part­ marcja icular stance. Buy the staff member you are trying to impress a beer if you see him in the pub. Engage him in useful conver­ sation about some obscure point in his SLACKEST last lecture, he will be overjoyed that cosmic someone actually listened let alone has a question about it. For girl students the course is much easier. Blatant seduction can be taking it Here is what might be termed advice to first year students in graphic detail too far, but try going braless to tutorials, or casually unbutton your blouse to the on the art of survival in the academically orientated pseudo-intellectual navel. If nothing else you should be rem- environment that is university. Please DO NOT bother to read any more of The fact that the fortune of very indi­ ■embered. vidual, not only of this earth, but of the this column if you understood that first sentence. In many departments the art of the entire cosmos, has been wreathed togeth­ Cunning student is made easier by the er will have to be admitted one day by me The reason you are not allowed to proceed if you understood is because open approach. For example, there is men. A spiritual aspirant has to fetch that - Please put an X in the appropriate box a certain department where; auspicious moment sooner by his pause­ EITHER: Young Nationals are advised not to pro­ less effort, service and propagation of (a) You are obviously bright enough to succeed without assistance ceed beyond Stage I and an early enrol­ great ideology. This alone is the Supreme task for the present man. b) You are a liar, and in that case well suited to survival at university. ment in the Princes St branch of the — Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji c) You saw the words DO NOT and automatically stopped (with such obedience you Labour Party is a pre-requisite for Masters. (spiritual preceptor of Ananda Marga). should go far). The enterprising slacker can go a long way [d) None of these. by wearing an NZLP badge and carrying Evolution towards the most subtle |e) Don’t know. of this is a recycled Stage III essay that the pamphlet “ Mike Moore - more than an infinite consciousness is the inate charact­ [f) There isn’t any box. achieved A - for the acknowledged M.P.” One parting thought to those first eristic of all things. With humanity as a “ golden haired boy” in th e ...... depart­ year students who still remain dubious However, if you filled in this question­ Whole its evolution must encompass a ment the first time round. Next year, the about the merits of employing cunning - naire you are obviously stupider than you subjective approach with an objective identical essay, handed to the same tutor, you’ll fail. 60% of all students have their thought so read on, you need help. adjustment That is to say, there must be gained only a B. The reason, the second first sexual experience, encounter drugs, Very few students are supplied with an individual process geared towards high­ time around it was handed in by a notor­ drink more alcohol and go flatting during the right psychological machinery to er evolution and a truly humanistic socie­ ious slacker who had failed to secure a their first year at Varsity. 40% drop out succeed, hence the high drop out rate. ty conducive to everyone’s physical*, reputation. Remember, your reputation That can’t leave much room for work. This machinery is not intelligence but mental, and spiritual development is all important It need not be gained W ARNING : Any resemblance to persons cunning, pure animal cunning, the ability Ananda Marga (the Path of Bliss) purely by academic subterfuge. Male living or dead (including me) is purely to outwit the system. embodies the subtle aspect of Tan trie students should find out their tutors coincidental. Considerable sociological research and Yoga in its broadest sence. As a medita - many long afternoons in the Kiwi has tion practice it is a scientific method of proved student' fall into one of three concentrating effort towards overcoming categories : all limitations. It is an impossibility to A ROCK HAPPENING! conquer a crude idea and replace it with (1) those who achieve good marks. DIRECT FROM 27 S-M-A-S-H SELL OUT U.S. CONCERTS a subtle idea without a fight, hence (2) those who receive average marks. struggle is the essence of life and without (3) those who fail. it comes stagnation and eventual death. Some of you might find this a truism; The being called man cannot truly be .if you are one of these people then DO called human until he has overcome all NOT read any further, return to the the limiting human tendencies and fully proceeding questionnaire and start all over, blossomed the infinite potential of his again. (Deduct ten points for knowing divinity. what truism means). The purpose of Ananda Marga is to Now that we have got rid of the smart freely provide a practice of intuitional pricks we can move on. science (meditation) and establish a If you want to get good marks and dynamic, humanistic society which guar­ achieve category one in the preceding antees everyone the basic necessities of table, then you have two choices; life and hence the ability for all to adopt (1) Work hard some method of self-development OR Our aim is to establish a universal (2) Use Cunning - to reduce your work society based on the cardinal principle of load, artificially inflate your marks , love and respect for all beings as express­ and generally succeed with a ions of the one Cosmic Consciousness minimum of effort (God). And to fulfill this ideal we must If you answered (1) definitely stop read­ have a way of overcoming the rampant ing, you are doomed to a dull, placid exploitation, immorality and hypocrisy university life with either a PhD or a which are the source of many of the mental break-down as the result. world’s present-day diseases. Shrii Shrii If you answered (2) READ O N ...... Anandamurtiji, the preceptor of Ananda. Cunning must be used from the outset Marga, has given the tools whereby the By borrowing essays and assignments new order may be established - spiritual from people who did the same course the philosophy, universalistic outlook, socio­ year before you can probably halve your economic system, spiritual and social workload. Because the same subject scriptures, and spiritual practices. The matter is being covered there is little ideology of Ananda Marga is reaching into variation of essay topics, thus a couple of all spheres of society to precipitate the B grade essays from last year can be com­ growth of a universal society : e.g. bined into an A grade essay this year. In Ananda Marga schools are being Commerce and similar subjects, assign­ established to allow natural creativity ments are seldom altered drastically, if and universalistic sentiment to flourish you are lucky you might be able to pick in the child; another section Renaissance up last years model answers for the pro­ Artists and Writers Association (RAWA) blems and gain top marks. is channeling the artistic talents into awak­ Swap essays and other work with simil­ ening society to its greater development arly minded people during the year and The socio-economic philosophy, called further cut your workload for exams by PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory), using their essays as swot material on sub­ is far better than capitalism or communism jects you have not been able to cover in its allowance for the whole range of yourself. human abilities and potentialities and the However, Rule One in the art of cunn­ guidance of a countries economics in a ing must be observed at all times, i.e. way benevolent to all people. become known in your department Care­ Many are the changes that must be ful cultivation of lecturers, tutors, secret­ made in this stagnating world, but we ary’s and janitorial staff means valuable WESTERN SPRINGS must all adopt an optimistic viewpoint allies gained in the struggle for marks. The SUNDAY MARCH 16 at 8.15pm and march to the tune of the highest “ known” student will always triumph ideology - universalism. Our ideal is cert­ over the “ unknown”. By cunning strategy ainly peace, and our banner is unquest­ you can achieve that must in the slackers B _ _ i, * DIRECTION RECORDS ... 9n BO O K a T . * THE SUN gHOp (Next to Town Hall) *a‘zu - ionably love, but today the call must be success story : a reputation as a hard work­ to battle and all moralists unite. Each of ing, sincere student us to take the stance of soldiers - soldiers It must be remembered that at advanc­ Don't delay book today and S/WE! for an ideal. ed Stage II and III levels most marks are GATES OPEN 6 P.M. FOR TICKET HOLDERS gained not on performance but predeter­ ANANDA MARGA, 27 BELLEVUE RD, mined to within 5 or 10% by your reputa­ * GATE SALES FROM 6.30 P.M. $5.50 tion gained at Stage I level. An example MT. EDEN. PH: 601-438.