Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 1. March 2, 1959
Referee Difficulty
Referee Difficulty
Each carnival had its high points but the water polo played in the murky Gonville Pool, Wanganui, must go down as the strangest game of water polo of the tour. The referee, supposedly impartial, had great difficulty trying to guess what was going on under water, and therefore was in danger of ending up in the pool himself on many occasions.
On the Sunday afternoon four of the Australians helped judge the Miss Wanganui contest. Peculiarly enough, the winner was well-known to certain members of the team. One contestant from Napier had a peculiarly Australian twang, and one from Whangarei looked remarkably like a girl who had dived for N.Z.U. the previous night.—Coincidence ?
The Australians got used to the New Zealand habit of starting carnivals about ten minutes late. In Palmerston North, John Conroy, the Australian captain, was having a warm-up swim when at 7.30 sharp "The Queen" was played. How do you stand at attention in the middle of a swimming baths?
The team arrived in Wellington early—the only time on the tour! On the first night in Wellington a cocktail party was provided by a local sportsman who found the Aussies drank three times the amount of Steinecker he had anticipated. The Aussies spent the whole tour complaining about warm New Zealand beer, and this was cold. Who was responsible for the bottle of beer that was found in the oven after a party in Wellington? The oven at this time had been heated for cooking.