The K I W I The Auckland University College Magazine

A P R I L , 1 9 0 7 Number One of

Volume Three

The Kiwi

The Auckland University College Magazine

C O N T E N T S F O R A P R I L , 1 9 0 7

O U R P R O G R A M M E . . Editorial . . 3 - 4

T H E T O U R N A M E N T . . . . . 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 1 0

I N A G A R D E N — ( A . B . ) . . Verse . . 1 1

I N M E M O R I A M , T R E V O R P H I L S O N H U L L . . 1 2

T H E S O N G OF T H E W O L V E R I N E — ( T . P. H.) . Verse 1 3

A S O U T H I S L A N D T R A M P .(W.E.Moore). 1 4 - 1 5 - 1 6 - 1 7

P E R S O N A L N O T E S . . . . . . 1 8 - 1 9

C O R R E S P O N D E N C E . . . . . . 1 9

T u i NA K A U V A N D R A . . . . . . 2 0 - 2 1 - 2 2

C O L L E G E S O N G COMPETITION . . . . 2 2

C L U B S AND S O C I E T I E S . . . . . 2 3

T h e KIWI will be published on the 15 th of each month. Al l contri-butions for each month's number must reach the Editor by the beginning

of the month

Our Programme

H E K I W I will this year be published on the 15th of each month from April to September. This course has not

been taken without long and grave cogitation. It was a frequent complaint last year that, publishing once a term, we could not print College news until all the interest had evaporated, leaving it stale and most unprofitably dull. Our open mind admits the justice of the criticism. We cannot, like the newspapers, thrill an astonished public with a great " scoop." But a College magazine must be a record of College events, and by a more frequent publication we hope to immortalise them while they are still alive. W e shall be able to give much more space to College news, and we invite (and indeed request) the co-operation of all students. W e shall welcome live accounts of College doings, personal notes, or topical paragraphs from Common-room, Lecture-room, or Lab .

The officers of College Societies are asked to send in full reports of meetings.

W e hope to receive news-letters from the Southern Colleges, to foster that friendly intimacy of the whole University which the annual Tournaments have produced.

Contributions of a literary nature, whether prose or verse, will be gratefully received. In this department we are promised a most magnificently epic verse-chronicle of College doings.

W e shall be glad to receive letters on any subject of interest. Many of us have grievances, and such people are requested to growl for the K i w i ; others have hobbies, and they are invited to exercise them in the field of our correspondence page. A charming modesty forbids some students to admit that they can write, but a letter, we think, should not prove so alarming a thing to ask from them.

The Magazine does not exist for the sake of keeping the Editorial staff out of mischief. Our object is the sublime one of pleasing and amusing all members of the College. W e shall be glad to receive, and to consider, criticisms of our

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O U R P R O G R A M M E achievement. But we wish to point out, most politely, that it is " up to " the critics themselves to contribute what they think we ought to print.

W e repeat, therefore, the invitation to all students, past or present, to give us contributions.

The new Colours have at last arrived, in very good time for next Easter. The hatband is a royal blue of the most uncompromising character, with a badge of the College arms, carried out in white, black, and chrome yellow, and en-wreathed with argent foliage of vague botanical type. Nevertheless the whole edition of six dozen was exhausted in two days.

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The Tournament Notes and Comments by "Criticus"

THE Tournament has come and gone, and at last the A. U. C. student, recovered from the excitement of

the Easter week, is able to \iew the situation calmly, and count his blessings.

The Tournament opened under no favouring auspices. The weather, lowering on Thursday, on Friday morning was abominable, and it was a very melancholy band of heroes who kicked their heels on the Onehunga wharf from day-break till noon, waiting in the rain for the arrival of the belated steamer, and breaking the monotony of the proceed-ings only by occasional adjournments to a neighbouring " pub " for seasonable meals and spiritual sustenance. How-ever, when at length the visitors did arrive, our northern climate was smiling most courteously, and continued so to do with astonishing politeness.

Perhaps the worst hitch that occurred throughout the holiday was the picnic to Motutapu. It seems to have been rather a mistake to hold such a function before the representa-tives from the various Colleges had assimilated and made each other's acquaintance. It is to be feared that by many the picnic will be remembered as a horrid nightmare through which they prowled about in chilly darkness, searching vainly for familiar faces that were not. Even the strains of Kumeraka scarce were sufficient to soothe the importunate cravings of the savage breast for the tea' and buns, in the absence of which frail mortality can find no real joy in a picnic.

Yet it may be that this is too gloomy a view of the situation and that there were those who, well content, preferred to blush unseen under the shadow of the friendly wings of night. Of these things the present writer hath no knowledge. At all events, the military and naval authorities of the colony are to be thanked for the fine pyrotechnic display so kindly provided, which lightened proceedings not a little.

The two hockey matches were very interesting, Auckland gaining, after a hard struggle, two second places. •

The kind hospitality of St. John's College on Easter Sunday was greatly appreciated by the visitors and their friends, who wiled away a very pleasant afternoon listening

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T H E T O U R N A M E N T to the powerful sermon preached by the Bishop at a delight-ful little service in the historic chapel of the College. Even the fact that many of us were compelled to trot into town on foot in the dusty wake of overloaded buses, under a running fire of exultant wit from those fortunati nirnium who, all else failing, had found a giddy resting-place on the roof, was not sufficient to overcome the pleasant impressions that we had received.

Of the glorious success of the Ball it needeth not here to tell, nor yet of the Tennis and the debate, but let us praise the gods for the result of the Sports. W e have broken the bonds of a narrow conservatism ; we have acted in defiance of all precedent; we have gone back upon our most ancient traditions; in short, we did not come last. After years of running, like the immortal White Queen, " a s hard as we could, to keep in the same place," we have advanced one step and attained to the third rank among the Colleges.

Thus ironically stated our athletic position sounds remarkably poor, but seriously considered it is satisfactory enough, and the still more serious question arises, " how are we going to keep it?" The outlook is not too promising. Next year we shall be without some good men, and it is unlikely that all our best athletes will be able to go as far as Dunedin to represent us. At the same time it seems to " Criticus " that there is one great factor in our favour that is liable to be overlooked. In spite of the fact that unusually strong men from the South were known to be in the field, there were found within the college several men, who without any particular prospect of winning, had sufficient grit to train hard and run their best for the pure love of the sport, and carried our colours home in good, though losing places. Playing a losing game to a finish is one of the hardest things in life, and there are few who can do i t ; but it is the true, and only true, spirit of sport. Its appearance is more or less of a new thing in our College and it is in its contagion that our salvation must lie. If the many who have not tried will follow the example of the few who have, our success in athletics is assured, be the raw material what it may ; for the man is greater than his tools. The winners must be few, but all honour to the losers.

The following are the results of the various events :— P U T T I N G I 6 L B . W E I G H T

G. S. Collyns (C. C.) ... ... I H. Hamilton (O. U.) ... ... 2

Distance, 32ft. 4m. C. C. 2, O.U. 1. 6

T H E T O U R N A M E N T O N E M I L E F L A T

F. G. Dunlop (A. U. C.) ... ... I T. Harrison (O. U.) ... ... 2

Time, 4 m. 42 3-5 sec. A. U. C. 2, C. C. 2, O. U. 2.

2 2 0 Y A R D S F L A T F. W. B. GoodbeheTe (V. C.) ... 1 F . R, Wilson (A. U. C.) . . ... 2

Time, 24 2-5 sec. A. U. C. 3, V. C. 2, C. C. 2, O. U. 2.

L O N G J U M P C. M. Gilray (O. U.) 1 F . W. B. Goodbehere (V. C.) ... 2

Distance, 21ft. u in . (record). O. U. 4, A. U. C. 3, V. C. 3, C. C. 2.

1 2 0 Y A R D S H U R D L E S [ F I R S T H E A T ] G. V. Bogle (V. C.) ... ... 1 A. C. Thomson (O.U.) ... ... 2

S E C O N D H E A T T. N. Holmden (V. C.) ... ... 1 C. M. Gilray (O. U.) ... ... 2

F I N A L

T. N. Holmden (O. C.) ... ... I C. M. Gilray (O. U.) ... ... 2

Time, 17 1-5 sec. record. O. U. 5, V . C . 5, A. U. C. 3, C. C. 2

H A L F - M I L E F L A T C. M. Gilray (O. U.) I M. H. Oram (V. C.) ... ... 2

Time 2 m. 9 sec.

O. U. 7, V. C. 6, A. U. C. 3, C. C. 2,

T H R O W I N G T H E H A M M E R

H. Hamilton (O. U.) ... ... I P. L . Foote (O. U.) ... ... 2

Distance, 79ft. 6|in.

O. U. 10, V. C. 6, A. U. C. 3, C. C. 2.

1 0 0 Y A R D S F L A T

F. W. B. Goodbehere (V. C.) ... 1 A. T. Duncan (V. C.) ... .. 2

Time, 10 4-5 sec. O. U. 10, V. C. 9, A. U. C. 3, C. C. 2.

M I L E W A L K

P. L . Foote (O. U.) ... ... 1 J . Oliphant (A. U. C.) ... ... 2

Time, 7 m. 45 sec. O. U. 12, V. C. 9, A. U. C. 4, C. C. 2.

H I G H J U M P

A. W. P. Brookfield (A. U. C.) ... 1 W. Oliphant (A. U. C.) ... ... 2

Height, 5ft. 4£in. O. U. 12 , V. C. 9, A. U. C. 7, C. C. 2

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F. W. B. Goodbehere (V. C.) ... 1 A. W. P. Brookfield ... ... 2

Time, 54 1-5 sec O. U. 12, V. C. 1 1 , A. U. C. 8, C. C. 2.

T H E T O U R N A M E N T T H R E E M I L E S F L A T

T. Harrison (O. U.) ... ... i F. G. Dunlop (A. U. C.) ... ... 2

Time 16 m. 6 2-5 sec. O. U. 1 4 , V. C. 1 1 , A. U. C. 9 , C. C. 2 .

4 4 0 Y A R D S H U R D L E S

W. C. Harley (C. C.) ... ... 1 G. V. Bogle (V.C.) ... ... 2

Time 62 3-5 sec.

O. U. 1 4 , V. C. 1 2 , A. U. C. 9 , C. C. 4 .

R E L A Y R A C E V. C 1 C. C 2

T H R E A D I N G T H E N E E D L E

R. Beere (V. C.) and Miss Grace (C. C.) 1

T U G - O F - W A R

First Round : A. U. C. beat O. U. Second Round : C. C. beat V. C. Final: A. U. C. beat C. C.

P I C K - A - B A C K R A C E

J . W. Heenan (V. C.) and J . McL. Hogben (V. C.) 1

220 YARDS HANDICAP [Open to Amateurs]

S. J . Howard ... ... ... 1 H. D. Crawford ... ... ... 2

Time, 24 2-5 sec. 440 YARDS HANDICAP [Open to Amateurs]

C. F. Burns ... ... ... 1 E. Williams ... ... ... 2

Time, 54 2-5 sec.

LAWN T E N N I S

M E N ' S S I N G L E S

First Round A. Friedlander, O.U., beat H. Benjamin, C.C., 6-2, 6-1 W. Oliphant, A.U.C., beat G. V. Bogle, V.C., 6-5, 6-5 G. S. Prouse, V.C., beat Gower, O.U., 6-3, 6-3 N. R. Bain, C.C., beat L. T. Pickmere, A.U.C. , 6-5, 6-4

Second Round Friedlander, O.U., beat Oliphant, A.U.C. , 6-1, 6-4 Prouse, V.C., beat Bain, C.C., 6-4, 6-4

Final Prouse, V.C., beat Friedlander, O.U., 6-2, 6-3

Victoria wins.

M E N ' S D O U B L E S

First Round Friedlander and Gower, O.U., beat Hunt and Howarth, A.U.C.

3 - 6 , 6 - 5 , 6 - 4 Benjamin and Bain, C.C., beat A. H. Bogle and Smith, V.C.,

6 - 3 , 6 - 4 Oliphant and Wyman, A.U.C. , beat Hamilton and White, O.U.,

6 - 5 , 6 - 1 8

T H E T O U R N A M E N T Second. Round

Prouse and Bogle, V.C., beat Friedlander and Gower, O.U., 6-4, 3-6, 6-5

A most exciting match. In the third set the losing pair won every alternate game, and were finally defeated after a close and " deucey " struggle. These close matches seem to suggest the desirability of making the third set an advantage one, so that the winners must establish their superiority by more than two strokes.

Oliphant and Wyman, A.U.C. , beat Benjamin and Bain, C.C., 6-i, 6-4

Final Prouse and Bogle, V.C., beat Oliphant and Wyman, A.U.C.

5-7, 6-3, 6-o Victoria wins. The final excited considerable interest. The local pair won the first

set 7-5, but then perceptibly slackened off owing to lack of condition, whereupon their opponents assumed the aggressive and won the next two sets and the championship.

L A D I E S ' S I N G L E S

First Round Miss Grace, C.C., beat Miss Wildman, A.U.C. , 9-3 Miss J . Scott, V.C., beat Miss Taylor, A.U.C. , 9-5 Miss Cox, V.C., beat Miss Hunt, C.C., 9-3

Second Round Miss Newman, O.U., beat Miss Morrison, C.C., 9-7 Miss Grace, C.C,, beat Miss McKellar, V.C. 9-4 Miss J . Scott, V.C., beat Miss Cox, V.C., 9-2 Miss Ward, O.U., beat Miss W. Scott, A.U.C. , 9-5

Third Round Miss Grace, C.C., beat Miss Newman, O.U., 9-5 Miss J . Scott, V.C., beat Miss Ward O.U. 9-6

Final Miss Scott, V. C.. beat Miss Grace, C.C., 9-4

Victoria wins. Most of the ladies played a vigorous game, especially the Otago ladies

and Miss Grace, C.C. ihe latter's fine overhead service stood her in good stead and enabled her to get to the final. There, however, she seemed somewhat exhausted by her previous match with Miss Newman, O.U., and was beaten by Miss J . Scott, V.C., who played a persistently accurate game throughout her matches.

L A D I E S ' D O U B L E S

First Round Misses Morrison and Howell, C.C., beat Misses Mcintosh and

and Cooke, V.C. Second Round

Misses Hunt and Grace, C.C. beat Misses McKellar and F. Scott, V.C., 6-0, 6-2

Misses Morrison and Howell, C.C., beat Misses R. Scott and Thome, A.U.C., 6-3, 6-2

Misses J . Scott and Cox, V.C., beat Misses Taylor and Gillman, A.U.C. , 6-3, 6-2

Misses Newman and Ward, O.U., beat Misses Wildman and W. Scott, A,U.C., 6-2, 6-5

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T H E T O U R N A M E N T Third Round

Misses Hunt and Grace, C.C., received a bye Misses Scott and Cox, V.C., beat Misses Hunt and Grace, O.U.,

6-4, 6-4

Final Misses Scott and Cox, V.C., beat Misses Hunt and Grace, C.C. ,

6-3, 6-4 Victoria wins.

C O M B I N E D D O U B L E S

First Round Miss Taylor and Wyman, A.U.C , beat Miss Ward and Gower,

O.U , 6-5, 6-4 Miss J . Scott and Prouse, V.C , beat Miss Hunt and Benjamin,

C.C , 6-2, 6-2 Miss Newman and Friedlander, O.U., beat Miss Grace and Bain,

C C., 6-4, 6-2 Miss Cox and Bogle, V.C., beat Miss Wildman and Pickmere,

A . U . C , 6-0, 3-6, 6-3

Second Round Miss Scott and Prouse, V.C., beat Miss Taylor and Wyman,

A.U.C,, 6-1, 6-3 Miss Cox and Bogle, V.C. beat Miss Newman and Friedlander,

O.U., 6-3, 6-4

The Final will be played off in Wellington. Victoria wins.

The Lawn Tennis Tournament aroused a great deal of interest. There were as many as twenty-two players competing, and many of the contests were very close.

Of the competitors, Prouse was easily the best, and he doubtless owes much to the fine practice he gets with the Wellington cracks. He has an aggressive drive, makes plenty of pace, and places accurately. He however does not take full advantage of his drive by following in and volleying, but prefers to stay back and drive his opponent about the court, He won three events, as also did Miss J . Scott. Victoria College has the unique record of winning all five events, and thus keeps the coveted cup for another year.

By the way, it is a pity that those responsible for the wording of the inscription on the cup should have used the worn " tennis " instead of " lawn tennis." It is too common a mistake to forget that tennis and lawn tennis are two distinct games.

Thanks are due to all officials and members of committees, who did so much to make the whole Tournament a success. We owe special thanks to the Devonport Lawn Tennis Club, who so kindly placed their lawns at our disposal, and to the A.U.C. Ladies' Common-room Club, for supplying afternoon tea on Saturday to all on the lawns.

" There is beauty even in beer, if you look at it in the right light."— Prof. Egerton.

Who was Marcus Impius ? Perhaps some of last year's Latin students could inform us.

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IN A GARDEN

A world in motion, grass and trees All swaying to the joyful might

Of this long eastward flowing breeze, A river, freighted full with light,

And cloudy fleets that throng and ply In windy roadsteads of the sky.

The summer call of birds nigh drowned (See now the poplars shine and swing)

In the grand rolling tide of sound That from the west comes billowing,

And, in the pauses, hark ! the rune Of the near flax mill's mournful tune*

A day when earth and air and heaven, (See, frightful like a silver snow,

The sheeted sunshkie falleth driven O'er the rivers heart and mclteth so)

Fling wide their flood gates and set free Their overflow of energy.

A day when all the pulses thrill With one calm pulse of hope and power;

When the dead past seems with us still, Healed of its fever, youth's sad dower,

And though 'tis noon by our life's sun Some good by us shall yet be done.

The dream we have not yet made true, From which we still refuse to wake,

Shall mass itself as those clouds do Across our brightning heavens, and make

A shadowing, kindly loveliness O'er those whom most we long to bless.

Nor grief, nor stress, nor fear withstand. Aye it is summer, by this hint

As of manuka fires at hand, And by those drops of light that glint

In the blue gums, and by this dry sound Of the long grasses swaying round.

A. B.

In Memoriam

T R E V O R PHILSON H U L L

H E beginning of another College year brings a renewed sense of the loss we have sustained through the death 01 Mr. Trevor Hull. The

Common Room has missed him, and will miss him. Bare and dreary as it is, his presence could ever transform it into a happy retreat from the gloom of the library. He it was who first suggested the possibility of making the place habitable. Upon him as President, fell the unanimous choice when a club was founded with this object in view. Almost to him alone we owe the cameraderie that has existed amongst us for several years past.

Those of us who were with him at the Grammar School well remember his humour and quaint witticisms in playground and classroom—remember, too, his staunch devotion to friend, form and school. With him, to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of the form or the school was always a matter of course.

A batch of us left the old School at the end of 19C0, and came up together. Brilliant in many directions, a genius in one at least, Trevor was always handicapped by ill-health. Yet he took his part in the College societies and athletics, giving freely of his best. His literary talent was continually called upon to meet our many and varying needs. For Capping songs he had a positive gift. It was his serious work that cost him strenuous endeavour. He was twice on the Executive, a representa-tive at several Tournaments, yet he never made himself a prominent figure in College life. His prominence was in the affections of his friends. Absolute unselfishness may have been the secret, but frankness, modesty and geniality of disposition had their part.

As manager of our team last Easter—only last Easter—he kept us all in good spirits by his accustomed quaint and happy remarks when as a team we did not deserve to be kept in good spirits at all. During his last illness he talked with animation about the coming Easter Tournament, at which he at first hoped to be a competitor. Robbed of this hope, he still took the keenest interest in Auckland's chance in the different events of the tournament, and would turn aside every enquiry as to his illness to suggest Hunt and Howarth as a possible combination in the Tennis doubles or to discuss Dunlop's chances in the Mile.

He was a Christian gentleman—his place will not be filled.

We are permitted to publish a short poem by Mr. Hull ; it will have a pathetic interest as the last contribution of Mr. Hull's work to this Magazine, which has owed so much to him in the past.

The Song of the "Wolverine"

(The Wolverine lay for many years, a complete wreck, ashore in Auckland harbour.)

Through many oceans have I been, By tropic and by floe;

And far-off countries have I seen Where vessels seldom go; And where Pacific breezes blow

Round sunny isles serene In tired gasps—all, all I know,

The good ship Wolverine.

Where over forests submarine The emerald waters flow,

And 'neath the ocean's glassy sheen The spoils of long ago Litter the sea-swept floor below—

Schooner and brigantine, War-ship and bark—all, all I know,

The good ship Wolverine.

The frowning adverse crags that screen The cannon of the foe,—

The aching light, that o'er the scene Pours out its milk-white glow— The sounds of weeping and of woe,

The death that comes unseen, The mangled corpse,—all, all I know,

The good ship Wolverine.

Ofttimes, a cable's length between, We swept the seas arow.

Our canvas sparkled on the green— A meadow flecked with snow. Now, grunting hulks ply to and fro,

Their guts an oiled machine Sputtering smoke—they'll never know

Joys like the Wolverine. T R E V O R PHILSON H U L L

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A South Island Tramp First Prize paper in Offa Podrida, 1906

BY the average New Zealander a walking tour is considered to combine a minimum of pleasure with a

maximum of exertion. Experience has taught us this time and again, and it was really most short-sighted of Bill , as we sat down to breakfast at the Nelson Hotel, to remark, a propos of nothing, that we were just starting off for Christ-church on foot. It was all very well for him to maintain, as he subsequently did, that the size and weight of his tramping boots absolutely demanded a public explanation. As I pointed out, it is better to be misunderstood than to be despised, and the result of his explanation was a separate and distinct attempt at humour from everyone present. But since Bill had owned up I couldn't very well desert him. We told our well-authenticated story of the man who rode from Napier to Rotorua on a bicycle with his wife and two children in a trailer behind, but they evidently thought that he was to be regarded as a shocking example of energy and not as a precedent for us. The more sanguine of the guests thought we might get as far as Belgrove, where the hills begin, and the proprietor told us that the coach left at ten a.m. next day.

On the second day out we reached, after a hard morning's walk, the top of the Hope Saddle. The view from this point is admittedly one of the finest in the South Island. The Hope Saddle is the divide of the range that stretches from east to west across the island, and the road crosses it at an altitude of some 2000 feet. Here a tributary of the Motueka has its source on the one hand, while from the further slopes flows the Hope river, whose waters eventually join the Buller, to reach the ocean at Westport. T o the north the sinuous road over which we had just travelled wound in and out of our sight into the valley beneath. To the south, as far as eye could reach, a magnificent array of sombre, bush-clad peaks shot up here and there from the supporting ranges. The timber was chiefly birch, but the tremendous extent of scene beneath us gave to the successive mountain chains,

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A S O U T H I S L A N D T R A M P by reason of perspective alone, a variety of colouring that redeemed the view from monotony. Mount Owen towered up on the western skyline with its 6000 feet of granite. Nearer to hand was the peak of Mount Hope. The valley of the Rainey River lay beneath us on the east, its further side formed by a lofty range similar to that on which we stood. Through the bush that crowned this range, some miles distant from our own, was a clean-cut gash, scooped out, as it were, by the chisel of some Titan hand. The surveyors had spoilt the symmetry of that range. Their work is typical of the advance of civilization and settlement— of the sacrifice of the aesthetic to the economic.

From the Hope Saddle we walked down into the Buller valley and entered the famous Buller gorge. That night we shared a room in a stuffy little accommodation-house with a charming rabbiter, from whom we acquired a great deal of useful information. He must have been extremely successful in his calling, for he was loud in its praise. W e suggested that the work might be somewhat monotonous, but he said no. He maintained that variety was its greatest charm. " Why , " said he, " you can go up one side of a gully to set your traps, and come down the other, and in the evenin' you can go up the far side first, and come back the way you started ; or you can 'ave a mate, and 'e can go up one side and you go up the other, and meet at the top, or you can 'ire a boy, and 'e can go up one side and you the other. By-and-bye you get enough to buy a pack'orse, and the boy can lead the 'orse up one side, and you go up the other, and load the 'orse at the top. Variety be blowed. Why, with a boy and a pack'orse you can go up one gully and come down a different gully altogether!" W e promised to consider the expediency of substituting rabbit-catching for a College career, and fell asleep as he commenced to detail the per-mutations and combinations possible to a rabbiter with a mate and a boy and a packhorse.

Next morning the lady who kept the Accommodation house told us that we should find the scenery " very gorgey." W e did. The road is for the most part cut out of the rocky cliffs at a height of from 100 to 200 feet above the river, yet so close that it is almost possible to drop a stone into the waters beneath. The opposite cliffs are bush-clad, and back from the cliffs rise range upon range of hills, shrouded in fleeting mist. From the cliffs through which the road is cut, gush at every few steps, crystal-clear streams, with here and

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A S O U T H I S L A N D T R A M P there a tiny waterfall. Each bend in the river opens up new beauties till the road sweeps inland at a break in the cliff, revealing the curious little township of Lyell .

They say that at Lyel l you can walk out of the back door of the Post Office on to the hotel balcony, go downstairs and walk off the verandah on to the roof of the baker's shop. As, however, we were unacquainted with the baker, and did not wish to incur his displeasure in view of the depleted condition of our larder, we thought it wise to enter his presence in a less obtrusive manner, and so took the more circuitous route afforded by the road. But the buildings at Lyel l are certainly perched in the most extraordinary situations that could be imagined. Lyel l is practically dead, though it was a thriving mining centre in the old days. There are some queer old characters there. W e became the cynosure of every eye. Everyone wanted to know where our bikes were, and our answer provoked the usual amount of humour at our expense. One man strongly advised us to discard boots and finish the journey barefoot. His bosom friend, however, scouted the idea, and told us that the great thing was to walk, boots and all, through as many creeks as possible. They became quite heated on the subject, but were pacified when Bill promised to take one's advice and I the other's. Lyel l is not a good place at which to shop. The baker was out of bread, and seemed hurt when we asked for biscuits, curtly referring us to the store ; the store had none, but proffered a tin of jam. W e lunched on this, and walked on.

For two or three days in succession we walked on down the gorge through magnificent scenery. In places the road is actually tunnelled through solid rock. At Hawk's Crag, where a massive buttress of conglomerate projects from the softer rock out into the river, the road has been blasted and hewn out bodily for several chains.

A little further on the gorge come to an abrupt end, and the Buller, increasing enormously in width, becomes a placid, navigable river. The river is crossed by the nine-mile ferry, situated for some obscure reason just six miles from Westport, and nine miles from nowhere, and the road traverses flat uninteresting country till Westport is reached.

After spending a few days in Westport, we went on by sea to Greymouth, and there took to the road again. A long days tramp brought us to Otira, and next day we passed through the Otira gorge.

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A S O U T H I S L A N D T R A M P general scenic effect is made equally impressive by the back-ground of snow clad peaks. After crossing, in a severe snowstorm, the divide between Westland and Canterbury, formed by the northern ranges of the Southern Alps, we walked on through Arthur's Pass into Waimakariri Valley. Here we were much interested in the work of the surveyors. W e distinguished fifteen series of pegs. First there were the common or garden articles in the shape of titree stakes, evidently planted, as Bill remarked, by Captain Cook when blazing the original trail. Then there was a series of fencing posts, which we attributed to the first settler in the district. The surveyors had apparently begun with a line of iron crowbars, which kept pretty well to the bed of the creek. Then some careful official conceived the idea of making three surveys at once, all on different lines, in the hope that one might be adopted. Being of a patriotic turn of mind, he had coloured his pegs red, white and blue. But his ingenuity was unrewarded. Large square posts, along an entirely new line, mark the attempt of the next aspirant. Then the Government must have let budding surveyors galore loose on theOtira survey, and each has taken a different line from all the rest and marked his work by his own particular patent peg. Finally we discovered a lot of squat little pegs, rounded at the top, and were just about to hail the discovery of anew series, when we reflected that these must be the tombstones of surveyors who had died on the job.

The Valley of the pegs opens out at Bealey upon the tussock plain that is typical of the Canterbury uplands. W e stayed a night at Bealey and came across an Otago undergrad, who told us he was about to start a re-survey of the valley. He turned out to be a bosom friend of Solly's. Knowing the country well, he was able, to give us comprehensive directions for a short cut, which was to save ten miles. The search for this shoit cut imparted a considerable amount of animation to what must otherwise have bee i a particularly uninteresting walk. The country was quite flat, and we had to make for a particular gap in the hills on the skyline. As the hillswereabsolutely overflowing with gaps, it was perhaps natural that we should select different ones, particularly as there was no vestige of a track. Finally, however, we discovered a tiny lake of which we had been told, and, following up our directions, came out on the end of a new road which led us into Staircase Gully. This appropriately-named spot is the present terminus of the railway out from Christchurch, and on the morrow we each, as a special con-cession to the other, agreed to finish our walk in the train, and were landed in Christchurch late the same evening.

W e were ragged and begrimed, and very, very tired, but had only quenched for a few short days the longing for the road which, whether consciously felt or not, ever fills the heart of a tramp, sundowner and student alike.

W . E . M O O R E

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Personal Notes

Mr. H. J . D. Mahon and Mr. F. Stuckey have returned from their European travels, and are giving their respective schools the fruits of their wider experience. We hope that they will both be contributors to future issues of the KIWI.

Mr. F. Sinclaire is expected back later in the year. He comes out to take charge of the Unitarian Church at Christchurch.

Visitors to the Tournament included ; Mr. Tukere Te Anga, who has given up College life in favour of a Government billet; he was anxiously awaited, we hear, by the Football authorities ; Mr. R. J. Coates, who sheds his legal light upon the gloom of Dargaville ; Mr. A. C. McMaster, who has come to New Zealand for a holiday, and returns shortly to continue his studies in surgery.

The estate of matrimony seems to have a weird fascination, even for students. That severe philosopher, Mr. Eb Wilson, took the great step last year.

Mr. R. McSporran, who went to Glasgow with a Carnegie scholarship, has succumbed, we learn, to the charms of a Scottish cousin.

Mr. A. R. Gatland has married, and gone to the High School at Stratford ; academically, however, he is still a bachelor.

Last of all, Miss M. B. Pickmere and Mr. A. E. Mulgan have united

their destinies.

To them all, congratulations and good wishes.

The Church has claimed her portion. During this year, Mr. G. B.

Stephenson and Mr. R. A. Macdonald were ordained priests, and Mr. J .

E. Holloway made a deacon

Mr. E. H. Strong was ordained last year, and now holds a curacy in the diocese of Birmingham.

The Rev. C. E. Fox has returned to his Mission work at Norfolk Island.

Miss A. M. D. Dinneen has gone to India as a missionary.

Mr. H. B. Hughes has gone to Dunedin to study for the Baptist

ministry.

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P E R S O N A L N O T E S

Hearty congratulations to Mr. F. P. Worley, who is taking Prof. Brown's place this year in the departments of Chemistry and Physics. It is a high compliment to the College that one of our own graduates should be chosen for this important position, and we wish Mr. Worley every success. This makes three of our own men now on the teaching staff of the College

We welcome, on behalf of the students of the College, Mr. C. F Bourne, formerly Headmaster of the Grammar School, who is lecturing in Classics this year.

The late Mr. Erima H. Northcroft has now become Mr. E . Harvey-Northcroft. We congratulate him on his new dignity, and venture to hope that he will be able to live up to it.

Mr. E. de C. Clarke, President of the Students' Association last year, has been appointed to the Geological Survey Department, and is doing field work somewhere in the Nelson province.

We have a new grudge against the Government. In accordance with its anti-northern policy, it has transferred to Wellington Mr. J . F. Thomp-son. He will be missed at College, both for his social charm and for his skill and experience in College affairs, and it is sad to think that he has gone to enhance the prestige of a rival.

CORRESPONDENCE

T o the E d i t o r of the K I W I ,

Sir,

MAY I congratulate the gentlemen-students in the back rows on their final compliance with the Latin lecturer's request for silence ? Rather tardy congratulations perhaps, but, to tell the truth, it was hard to decide whether or not they intended to take any notice. To congratulation I should like to add sincerest sympathy, for it is undoubtedly hard that a professor or lecturer should reserve the prime right of talking during his own lecture, but unfortunately the Professorial Board was in existence some time before we were, so let us bow to necessity with what grace we may. Would it be too much to remind the said students that even occasional remarks daring lecture may damage the gloss of their new-found reputation ? Let them restrain their ardour until the Capping Ceremony, when the Chan-cellor himself may be interrupted by the most slender-witted undergrad.

I am,

Yours very truly,

ALMA W E L H A M

[We dont know what this means. Is it possible for students of this College to talk in Lecture, and Latin lecture at that ? We offer a prize of sixpence (6d.) for the best telegram (of twelve words or under, including address and signature) explaining it.—ED.]

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Tui na Kauvandra King of the Kauvandra Ranges

A Y E , Sir, all is modern now with the Fijians, and our children look with other eyes ; they see not the

images in the clouds at sunset ; they hear not the voices whispering among the trees,—but to us grey-beards nothing is altered. Sometimes as I sit here on my mats, and sleep assails me, I spring up grasping a phantom spear and strive even unto death with some grim antagonist.

But 'tis of Tui Kauvandra I would speak—of the great chief whose spirit broods o'er yonder silent mountains. 'Tis fifty years now since my father told me the story, and to him and his fathers before him it had been handed down, and so, perchance, 'tis worn and imperfect with the length of years.

In the ages before the dawn there dwelt at Vuya the royal race—few in numbers but great in w a r ; and to the great King's daughter was born a son—lighter of skin, more graceful of limb, prouder in bearing than any of his forbears, and when he grew up none could excel him in throwing the spear, in diving or swimming, in valour or dancing—in all these he stood alone.

Then in an evil hour the great King died and his eldest son succeeded him, and from that time there was rivalry between him and Vuni Valu (King of War) for so they had first named the strange child.

Very many years before this a canoe of strange workman-ship had come drifting to Vuya, and in it lay a woman whose skin was white almost as thine, O white man. Her speech was strange, and her dress was strange, and the King feared her because of her great, wide-staring eyes ; so they set apart a house in the bush and sent two women to tend her. One day the attendants returned with the news of the woman's death, and between them they carried a female child.

And this girl, Andi-kambu-keivuya (Princess who floats above Vuya) was the cause of strife. For when she came of age, the King ordered a feast to be prepared to honour the day when he would take her to wife.

One eventide before the feast, when the Mistress of the Night cast silver glances on the earth, Vuni Valu met the girl in the place where the great chiefs sleep. He watched

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T U I N A K A U V A N D R A her movements as she stepped, graceful as the long river grass, and a fire burned in his breast. Then thus she spake-" King, the sighing of the nuknnuku trees alarms me, and 1 fear the dead may brook it ill that we at this hour come nea< them."

But a wondrous light came into the youth's eyes. " Fear not," he murmured, " for my spirit sees far into the future, and soon I shall go to rule the spirits of those who sleep."

And at that saying she was afraid and made as if to escape. when the King came suddenly upon them; for he had suspected the truth. Vuni Valu fled, for he knew not then of his power. Then the tambua (whale's tooth) was sent to all the peoples, asking for his return, and such a demand, thou knowest, Sir, none dare refuse.

On the day before the great ceremony a huge fire wa< lighted and Vuni Valu was cast therein to expiate his crime. And then upon these who stood by a great fear came ; for the flame shed an unearthly light, and many spirits cried and shook the earth in anger, while the people grovelled in terror, but one bolder than i he rest lifted up his eyes, and behold ! one clad in the colours of sunset rose from the flame and vanished in the sky.

These happenings they told to the King, but he laughed them to scorn, and so they were silenced.

On the morrow all was prepared and the heaps of yams and taro, of mast and vonu, were piled high, like unto chief's houses in size. The warriors danced and fought, the women sang the song of the feast, while the maidens chewed the kava that the chiefs might drink. The bowl was handed round, and from the assembled host the cry "Matha!" (empty) arose, as the King drained his bowl.

But hark 1 What is that cry ? " A ngio ! A ngio ! A shark ! A shark is stranded !" they cry, and the warriors seizing their spears rush to the place, when, behold! the great fish spake, and from out of its mouth came the spirit of Vuni Valu. L o 1 his stature was even that of ten men, and his body shone as flame, while the shark's body changed to stone, as thou mayest see to this day, Sir.

Forward strode the spirit-man towards Andi-kambu-keivuya, while the earth shook beneath his footfall and lightnings shot across the sky.

Then a mad and evil spirit entered into the body of the King, for he lifted his spear and smote the woman. But even as she fell, a rushing flame of fire like to a hurricane blast

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T U I N A K A U V A N D R A surrounded the King, and he vanished from the sight of the multitude.

Then Vuni Valu spake thus—" Fear not, my people, for one shall guard you through the days to come, and when ye pass to the spirit land, ye come to my Kingdom. From henceforth launch not your canoes upon the bodies of slaves, neither bury them alive with the nduru (posts of houses), for 'tis wrong that they should seek my Kingdom thus."

" I go now to the Kauvandra, whither the gods have summoned me to rule those who sleep."

Thus speaking Tui Kauvandra vanished, but even as he disappeared Andi-kambu-keivuya rose and hovered in the heavens above and became even as a wondrous white cloud • Now at eventide the lovers meet ; for the Andi, wearied» sinks slowly to rest upon the bosom of the Kauvandra range and thus they sleep till the dawn whispers them to take up the duties of the day. But, beware, O white man, of wandering amidst those silent mountains when darkness clothes the land, for one hears the spirits whispering among the cliffs and crags, and when the human voice rings out, strange mocking answers come floating back.

C O M P E T I T I O N

C O L L E G E SONG

T ^ H E lack of a College Song has long been felt. Gaudeamus is the common property of all the student world, and it would be a good

thing to have something distinctive for the College. The Editor has pleasure in inviting students to send in lyrics suited to this purpose; they will be submitted to a committee of experts and a prize is offered for the best.

The lyrics need not be written to any special tune ; Dr. Thomas is willing to write special music for the chosen song.

MSS. must reach the Editor by May 31 .

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Clubs and Societies

O F F I C E R S F O R T H E Y E A R

STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION.—President, Mr. S. N. Ziman ; Vice-Presi-dents, Miss M. M. Peacocke, Mr. E . H. Northcroft; Secretary, Mr. W. G. Aldridge ; Treasurer, Mr. B. H. Wyman; Committee, Misses Hay and W. Scott, Messrs D. E . Hansen, A. F . Howarth, and J . F. Thomp-son, with above officers ; Hon. Auditor, Mr. H. G. Palethorpe.

MAGAZINE COMMITTEE.—Mr. P. S. Ardern, Editor; Mr. H. O. T . Hanby, Sub-Editor; Miss S. Wildman, Messrs A. F. Howarth and W. G. Aldridge.

ATHLETIC COMMITTEE.—Messrs A. F. Howarth, D. E . Hansen, L . T. Pickmere, C. E . O'H. Tobin and W. G. Aldridge.

COLLEGE HOUSE COMMITTEE.—Messrs D. E . Hansen and B. H Wyman.

DEBATING SOCIETY.—Hon. President, Prof. A. Jarman; Exec. President, Mr. D. E. Hansen : Vice-Presidents, Miss M. M. Brown, Mr. A. F. Howarth ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. G. S. Clark; Members of Committee, Misses E. D. Haselden and M. C. Hay, Mr. P. S. Ardern.

MUSICAL SOCIETY.—Conductor, Mr. S. K . Phillips; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. A. F. Howarth; Assistant Secretary, Miss Hampson.

CHRISTIAN UNION.—President, Mr. T. V. Gilfillan ; Vice-Presidents, Miss A. F. Ironside, Mr. C. E . O'H. Tobin ; Corresp. Secretary, Miss K . Edgerley; Rec. Secretary, Mr. A. G. Marshall; Treasurer, Mr. P. S. Bridson.

LADIES' COMMON-ROOM CLUB.—President, Mrs. Egerton; Vice. Presidents, Mmes. Jarman, Milnes, Segar, A. P. W. Thomas, W. E . Thomas, Talbot-Tubbs, Walker; Secretary, Miss Peacocke ; Treasurer, Miss Bain ; Committee, Misses Hay, Gibbons and Haselden ; Secretary Tea Club, Miss M. Clarke.

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