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On page five of your last issue is an inset in black typo headed "Debating Team for NZU." This item contains two careless inaccuracies and furthermore this does not represent the position as it was known at the time of your going to press.

In the first place, the team was not selected by a committee of the Resident Executive but by the Resident Executive itself at its regular monthly meeting. This was done at the insistence of the Organiser, who was not prepared to take the responsibility, and it was known to all interested at VUC beforehand.

Secondly, I am not the VUC representative on that Executive. Mr. I. T. Heath having been appointed some time ago. I am entitled to attend meetings, but I have no vote as the only voting members are the president and College representatives, and in fact I cannot even move any resolution whether on a financial issue or on anything else.

Besides this, at the time of your going to press it was widely known that another VUC man was in the team, namely B. M. O'Connor, who replaced P. O'Connor of Otago.

I can only conclude, therefore, that this item was published without any regard to the facts of the situation, and the kindest interpretation is that it was done in ignorance, something inexcusable in a student paper printing an item of student news. Particularly is this so when it is remembered that the facts were so easy to obtain.