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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol.12., No. 11. 29th September 1949

Devalued?

Devalued?

After Mr. Piper, the seconder, had reserved his right to speak later. Mr. Heath moved an amendment which deleted everything practically except the first words. It supported Mr. Jenkins in his appeal: it thought the penalty might have been severe while not "necessarily agreeing with the article" and it didn't as Mr. Heath remarked a little apologetically, "give the same amount for your money" as the original motion.

"It's a matter of putting up with it," he said. "In any decent college, a rag like this wouldn't even be allowed to be printed." We didn't budget for a K.C., he apologised, and the question of legal assistance which Mr. Evison had raised might be difficult. We are living under an autocratic regime, and we have just got to make the best of it, was the arpnment. "Go ahead and pass your motions," he dirged, "the Prof. Board will get a belly laugh out of it."