Students Patrol To Cut Magazine Sales

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 22

Students Patrol To Cut Magazine Sales

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 18. Auckland University students today patrolled Queen Street, asking traffic officers and owners of shops to move on Massey University students selling their capping magazine.

Yesterday, the Auckland City Council reversed a decision to give Massey students permission to sell on the streets today, after Auckland students informed it of an inter-university territorial agreement. The City Council’s traffic superintendent (Mr N. A. Lake) said his staff, on seeing sellers in the streets, took their names and addresses and advised them not to continue selling. The Massey sellers kept on the move because they feared 200 engineering students were coming into the city from Ardmore. About 25 Massey sellers were in Auckland, with 10,000 magazines, but most avoided the central city and went to suburbs and as far north as Whangarei. This afternoon only a group of three and one single Massey sellers were in Queen Street. They continued to play hide and seek with Auckland students. The Massey students said sales picked up at lunch-time and they were each selling about 60 an hour. Most shops approached by 'the Auckland students agreed

not to give the Massey students permission to sell from their doorways, but a few managers thought they were doing “no harm”. Auckland students staged a stunt at Mangere Airport this morning, when two men in dark suits and dark glasses stepped off a small aircraft, to be welcomed by bannerwaving students as “vermincontrol expeits to stamp out the Massey pest”.