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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 12. 1967.

Highlights from tournament arts festival and nsusa

Highlights from tournament arts festival and nsusa

Victoria's Tourney Performance Only Mediocre

An Improvement on last year, Winter Tournament performance was still only a good mediocre. In only one sport did Vic emerge clearly victorious.

That was badminton. The other red ribbon placing was in soccer, where we tied for first place with Otago.

There were still some fine individual performances by Victorian sportsmen. With only one exception Victoria was represented in all NZU teams.

The exception was Women's Hockey. In other sports Victoria was well represented, but in none as well as Badminton, in which four of the eight members were from Victoria.

Among those who wore the green and gold colours with distinction were Lim Ee Chiat, Greta Firth, Rodney Baltrop, Teresa Lawes and Richard Hawkes.

Lim Ee Chiat was the top individual Badminton player. He won his fourth consecutive NZU blue.

Greta Firth won 15 of her 16 fencing bouts and captained the NZU Ladles Fencing team.

On a strange course Rodney Baltrop won Tournament Golf's individual stroke play and chipped well to hold second place in the NZU Match Play Championship.

Teresa Lawes and Richard Hawkes both won individual titles in squash.

Final overall placings were:

Otago1

Canterbury2

Victoria3

Auckland4

Massey5

Lincoln College6

Badminton Team Victorious

Victoria won the Tournament badminton. Second was Otago and third Auckland.

Unbeaten in all their matches, Victoria players then filled four of the eight places in the NZU team.

Leading the tournament team, Lim Ee Chiat had a narrow win over the Otago No. 1, Wong Tat Mong. This three-set match was the highlight of the series. The score was 15-8, 8-15, 15-12.

This performance won Lim Ee Chiat his fourth consecutive NZU blue.

An Arts Festival scene.

An Arts Festival scene.

The fitness of Victoria's No. 2, Brian Quirke, stood him in good stead in his match against Otago's L. Chisholm. This was also a three-set match, won by Quirke, 17-18, 15-1, 15-9.

In comparison with the high standard of the men, that of the women was generally weak. Victoria girls were in most cases above the overall standard, winning all the doubles and most of the singles.

In the NZU game against the Otago provincial side, the students narrowly won 9-7. The University men were superior, but lack of team understanding squared the doubles 2-2.

The Otago women proved much stronger, their only defeat being at the hands of Canterbury University's Miss S. Ching over the Otago No. 3 seed.

Victoria was represented in the NZU side by Janet Miles, Jocelyn Trewby, Lim Ee Chiat and Brian Quirke.

Soccer Honours Shared With Otago

An Unfortunate draw meant that the Soccer team met stiff opposition on the first day when the grounds were heavy. Consequently despite good results against Otago and Auckland they nearly lost to Massey.

Victoria looked decidedly sluggish with the defence crumbling disastrously in the latter stages of the first half. A rest on the Tuesday afternoon proved a tonic and the team went on to dispose of Lincoln and Canterbury with ease.

This was good enough to give Victoria joint first with Otago, leaving the match against Massey one of the great might-have-beens of Tournament, although, ironically, it was one of the few games that pre-match pundits would have given us a chance of winning.

The best Soccer from the Victoria team came from K. P. Too (an NZU player), whose footwork was remarkably good. The powerful R. Howell was worth his weight in gold (or should I say goals?).

Worthy of mention was the whole defence, specially the goalkeeper, R. Bustard. Apart from the lapse in the Massey debacle the rearguard played consistently well and set a standard for the forwards. inspiring them to give more than their best.—evidenced by the rout of Auckland.

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Victoria'. [unclear: erard] Curry was judged [unclear: bes] [unclear: fividual] speaker and was [unclear: select] [unclear: lead] the NZU team in the test [unclear: ite] against the touring [unclear: Austra]t Neil McKenzie, of [unclear: Canterbur] [unclear: ?] placed second.

In his [unclear: ?] Joynt Scroll contest Peter [unclear: Bu] of Victoria, was placed [unclear: thi] the individual's to win a [unclear: furt] place for Victoria in the NZU [unclear: t] [unclear: o]

At the [unclear: ssing] council on the day follow [unclear: ?]the final round of Joynt [unclear: Scr] [unclear: uckland] proposed a change in [unclear: ?] [unclear: tructure] of the contest which [unclear: oid] ensure the two top teams [unclear: ?] in a single final.

In [unclear: sugge] the change, Auckland's [unclear: Ric] Rudman said the two top [unclear: t] should meet in a single [unclear: fina] ensure each presses the other [unclear: ?] best debating, and to afford [unclear: t] [unclear: idges] an immediate [unclear: compariso]

The [unclear: proj] [unclear: ?] changes are to be [unclear: considered] [unclear: ?] Easter Council.

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In a unanimous decision the three judges awarded the debate to New Zealand. Peter Butler was judged best individual speaker in this debate.

Salient Wins Press Contest

Salient won the prize for the best student newspaper at the Student Press Council in Dunedin recently.

The Otago paper Critic was placed second and thus the two papers share honours for the prize. Critic won in 1964 and 1965 and Salient has won in the last two years.

The judges said they like Salient because they felt it was organised and separated news from comment. They also liked the layout. They said Salient and CRITIC were well above the rest, in which they were disappointed.

Salient Co-editor Barrie Saunders was elected President of the New Zealand Student Press Association as from December this year. He was elected to replace Warren Mayne, who resigned earlier this year. This means the organisation will shift from Christchurch. where Don Gray has been acting as President, to Wellington.

Jazz Workshop At Festival

Jazz workshops were held throughout Arts Festival week, at El Segundo, a highly suitable coffee bar. A concert was given on the Tuesday evening, at which groups from all the universities performed.

Folk music workshops were also held throughout Festival at another convenient coffee bar, the Club Jamal. Folk singers also gave a concert on the Thursday evening.

Folk and Jazz combined in a lunchtime concert on Wednesday in University Hall, which was very popular. Jazz also combined with the Literary people in a session of jazz and poetry reading in the El Segundo.

VIC deligates at NZUSA social. Treasurer Murray Redford on left with MVP J. Wallance on right.

VIC deligates at NZUSA social. Treasurer Murray Redford on left with MVP J. Wallance on right.

Photographic Salon Drew Vic Entries

A Photographic Salon and Exhibition was held at the Ham Campus throughout Arts Festival. Entries were judged according to approved salon practice, with those considered to be of suitable standard being "accepted" and those of very high standard being awarded "Honours."

Four Victoria exhibitors had work accepted—in the Slide section, R. W. Joiner showed two untitled works in the Art classification, and R. K. Harker showed "Toadstools" under Science.

In the Print Section, R. K. Harker's "Motherhood" and "Tree" were accepted in the Art Division, and Chris Hector's "Julie Again," Dave Fergusson's untitled, and R. W. Joiner's three untitled works were accepted in the Personality Division.

Vic Organists Performed

One of the high points of Arts Festival Classical Music was a concert of Sacred and Solemn Music held in the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. The programme was taken up almost entirely by the Victoria University Choir, who performed two works. Schubert's Mass in G Major and Handel's Cantata Dixit Dominus. They were accompanied by a string orchestra of Victoria and Canterbury players, and conducted by Anthony Jennings.

Organists from Victoria also performed during the concert: Allen James played Organ Prelude in F Minor and Organ Fugue in C Minor by J. S. Bach. Anthony Jennings played Come thou creating spirit by Schroeder, and Roy Tankersly played the Great prelude and Fugue in G Major by J. S. Bach.

Other items on the programme were a Solo Cantata Unschuld Kelenod Reiner Seelen by Bach, for soprano, flute, oboe, and viola, performed by students of Otago University, and a Mass for Three Voices, by D. Q. Buchanan of Canterbury University, sung by students of the university.

Four lunchtime concerts were held in the University Hall. Items were provided by an Otago group. but Victoria was featured in a Violin Sonatina by Lennox Berkely, played by Peter Walls, and in Lilburn's Sings Harry and Lyall Cresswell's A. A. Milne song cycles, both sung by Michael Jones, baritone, of Victoria. Two Victoria pianists also performed, Ian Frazer playing Liszt's Three Petrarchen Sonnets, and Thomas Gatti playing Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms by Bela Bartok.

The Victoria University Madrigal Group performed at an evening concert of Music for Voices and Recorders on the Wednesday.

McGrath New President

Victoria student John McGrath was elected unopposed the second full-time paid president of NZUSA.

John was Capping Controller on the 65-66 Executive and President of VUWSA on the 66-67 executive.

John is a fifth year Law student and anticipates finishing his degree at the end of this year.

He will take up his one-year appointment on the first of January next year.

He will receive a salary of $1800.

John is no life-long supporter of NZUSA.

When capping controller on the 1956-66 executive he was one of the most determined opponents of the full-time presidency.

Victoria beat Canterbury in this soccer game 3-0

Victoria beat Canterbury in this soccer game 3-0