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Guess what Executive member wrote the Exec. news for Salient last week.

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Current issue of Communist paper "Peoples' Voice" asks why it's hard for Auckland students to get accommodation while whole floors of Auckland's Hotel Intercontinental are unoccupied. It may be a biased source, but there's an interesting idea there.

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Some people seem to have thought Anglo-Catholic literary editor Trevor James' article in the last Salient was autobiographical. It was called "Literary Lazarus".

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No, all Labour Club members were not intimidated by their President's shareholding in the "Dominion". The anti-Hirschfield picketers outside Wellington Publishing Company included Mr D. J. Butler a Labour Club committee member.

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Usual greeting for Chris Wheeler, who featured heavily in Salient's lead story fast week: "How's your 'Cock' ".

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And then there was the little fresherette who hadn't read "The Prophet Unmasked" in the last Salient but thought it was all about the Stud. Ass. loan to Cricket Club.

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Quote: 1 wouldn't be so worried about the defects in New Zealand's welfare policy if they hadn't abandoned full employment policies"-Dr Sutch, speaking at Vic last week. In other words, as long as the Government adopt my economic policies. I don't give a damn about anything else.

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We wouldn't mind so much if Fritz were just watering his potatoes. What is really worrying is the water he uses. Fluoridated water is bad enough, but the worst way to dilute almost pure starch is to add fluoride to it. This column is drawing the attention of the Anti-Fluoridation Society and the Natural Food League to the problem. If neither of them act, the next step is the Compost League.

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Recommended as a new campaign for the "Sunday Times": modernisation of the Plunket system.

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