QUEEN CARNIVAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2463, 17 May 1915, Page 7

QUEEN CARNIVAL

SUM OF £55,555 AIMED AT.

Willing workers wanted, is the purport of the announcement appearing in our issue of to-day, in connection with the Queen Carnival, which is to be held on June 3, at Newtown Park. By this time everybody knows the object of this big movement, but many people may not yet understand how necessary is their assistance. Already many prominent citizens hare devoted a great deal of time to organising work, but the scheme is so great more volunteer helpers are wanted. The sum of £55,555 is the amount aimed at, and the two chief sources of income consist of the motley secured for votes for Queen of tho Carnival, and from a great harvest sale. Gifts of all kinds are invited. Fifteen Queens are competing, each with live organisations, to stimulate voting in favour of their respective candidates, and as the votes come in and are recorded, the public will watch the results with growing interest. Every member of the community is expected to choose and vote for a > Queen. There are thTee ways in which help can be given: (a) Joining a local committee; (b) working for the crowing of a "Queen of the Carnival"; (c) donating money or goods. There are very few people who cannot assist in one of these directions, to make the movement a complete success. The money required is for providing for our wounded boys and their dependents. The list of casualties is daily growing longer, and if everyone will do their utmost during Queen Carnival week, the siim asked for. will be forthcoming, and we shall be able to repay a little of the debt wo owe to thoso "at the front."

BIG SCHOOL CONCERTS TO BE GIVEN. Messrs. H. G. Hill (chairman), and J. Lewis (secretary), of the Wellington Patriotic Society, waited on a meeting of the Wellington Headmasters' Association at the offices of. the Education Board on Saturday morning to secure their co-operation in connection with the coming Queen Carnival, which promises to be one of the biggest things of the kind Wellington has yet lent its countenance to. After some disoussion* it wa6 decided that the best thing to be done to assist in raising funds in connection wit'h the carnival effort would be to arrange two ihorister school children's concerts to bo held in the Town Hall. The dates Have not so far been arranged, but it is hoped that they will be held early in June. The arrangement of these concerts will take some little time, as it is proposed that onfe of the big features will be a school choir of something like 500 voices, which will rise and fall to the baton of Mr. Robert Parker, in a selection of patriotic _ and other choruses. As it was anticipated that there would not be nearly enough room to accommodate all who might wish to be present at the one concert, it was decided to give a second on a convenient date to be arranged. Rehearsals rt'ill be commenced straight away. MISS SENIOR THE HUTT AND PETONE CANDIDATE. Thsre was plenty of excitement at the Picture Theatre in Petone on Friday evening when the votes were counted to decide which of the six nominees should be selected as the candidate for the Hutt and Petone for the Queen Carnival. Miss Senior, a young employee of the Wellington Woollen Company, polled, no fewer than 30,004 out of over 50,000 votes registered, and so becomes the candidate for the whole of the Hutt Valley and Petone. . Miss Senior's chances must be considered rosy as she will commence her caiii-' paign (which begins to-day) with over 50,000 votes (which cost 2d. each). As there are fifteen candidates in the field interest in the Queen Competition is likely to commence to fizz from today. Every 2d. paid for a vote ticket will mean a little assistance for the boys who are maimed at the front or for their dependents in New Zealand. Such a stimulant should make the vot-

ing brisk from the word "Go" to the last minute.

A boon to Public Speakers, Singers, and Reciters is "NAZOt/. Keeps the throat clear as a bell. Can be taken anywhere. —Advt.

"The Ape and the Man" was the title of an interesting lecture delivered by Mr, H. E. Holland, under tlie auspices of the Wellington branch of the Social Democratic Party at Everybody's Theatre last night. Mr. P. Fraser was in the. chair. In the course of his remarks Mr. Holland stated that there were over 500 muscles in the body, and it was common knowledge to medical students that a number of infants were born with tails. Speaking upon the question of teeth, the lecturer said that it was quite possible for tho future generation to be toothless, taking into account the early decay of teeth ill New Zealand. Touching upon the habits and vices of apes, the speaker said that the monkey showed up in striking Con-

trast to mankind, for instance, once ah ape had become intoxicated with alcohol

he could not be induced to tako it again after having suffered the pains and penalties of his indulgence, which showed an intellectual triumph over his brother man.