COLLEGE GENERATOR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 38, 9 June 1947, Page 3

COLLEGE GENERATOR

BLACKOUT BUSTER A petrol-driven generator which could easily have found its way on to a military scrap-heap has been conscripted to provide power for up to 12 lights for the Massey Agricultural College students’ revue rehehrsals. This has defeated the nightly blackout, and have saved the revue on June 9 from becoming something of a “blackout” also. The plant looked more like a liability when acquired from a sale of war assets; but the students, grasping the significance of the “Fiat Lux” motto, at last cured the engine of its asthmatical cough, built a new switchboard, and arranged for rehearsals for the revue, which this year will consist of a typically-stu-dent version of the Cinderella story and a burlesque on current national and international events. The plant, known as the “Blackout-buster,” may be used also during the pastmidnight hours of the graduation ball, when the whole countryside will be in enforced darkness. The engine, in its more enlightened moods, will cough for six hours while swallowing a gallon of petrol. Graduation Week will commence with a students’ street procession, followed by a three-night revue and an old students’ reunion and annual meeting. The principal speaker at the graduation ceremony on June 13 will be Mr H. E. Blyde, of Taranaki, acting-president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand.