A GAY FROLIC

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1928, Page 4

A GAY FROLIC

VICTORIA COLLIDE STUDENTS. WELLINGTON, June' 8. ■ Capping day has once again come into its own. Buried with due ceremony and with many manifestations of sorrow last year, it was revived today anti the students of the Victoria University College held high carnival in the streets of Wellington. Strange-ly-garbed youths took charge of the city, and a good-humoured crowd thoroughly enjoyed the fun. As in former years the procession was the feature of the celebrations,- and no effort was spared to make it a success. At an early hour those taking part gathered in Abel Smith street and until close on 12 o’clock, motorlorries, motor-ears, old and new, but mostly old, and other means of conveyance wevo being prepared for the

part they had to play in the frolic.

Close on noon the procession moved off. At the head marched the bai\d of the “Sole Saving Army,’’ surely the queerest collection of “musicians” ever assembled. Next came the Royal car with the “Duke” and “Duchess” reclining gracefully in the back seat and with the Commissioner of Police keeping guard in the front. The “Sooner Yer Reform .League” occupied a prominent place with the “Prime Minister” in the centre of a : number of bright pupils from the • “Reform Kindergarten.” Scotland Yard was not forgotten and one lorry bore victims of the third degree uii- . dergoipg various forms of torture. “Ben Hur” and “The Merry Widow” I were accommodated in a. chariot bear- | ing a suspicious resemblance to a milk j cart. The “Kewpie .Club” and the “Garden of Eden” also had their place in the procession, and kerosene tins, jam tins, and an auctioneer’s bell drew attention to the claims of tile Carillon Society upon the public. As the procession wended itway through the principal streets of the city a number of gaily-dressed students appealed to bystanders for subscriptions to the Carillon Fund and the response appeared to -be an excellent one. Shops, hotels, and business places were all visited, and the tramcars bearing people to tlieir homes for the mid-day meal were raided with satisfactory results, Officially the procession came to an end at the Post Office square close on. 1 o’clock, but for some hours afterwards the .students continued their revels in the streets.