FUN AT A MEETING.

Shannon News, 3 April 1928, Page 2

FUN AT A MEETING.

STUDENTS RUN WILD.

With their usual cheerful disregard of formalities, the undergraduates of Canterbury College made the annual meeting of the Students’ Association last week an exceedingly lively affair (states the Christchurch Sun). Business, during the first hour, was conducted under such little handicaps as rowdy choruses and “countings out,” while flour bombs and other missiles hurtled about.

The meeting was attended by about 200 students, including 50 women, who found seats for themselves in the body of the building—the gymnasium—more or less out of the danger area. ,, Uproar began with the arrival of the official party on the platform. The chairman’s opening remarks, which were inaudible, synchronised with the release, by a clever arrangement, ef a bucket of water suspended from the roof above his head. He was swamped, but not silenced.

Order had not yet been restored when about 40 students paraded the hall in single file, finishing their march on the platform, -where they attemped to sing a song, but were stopped unceremoniously by an unappreciative audience.

The secretary, persevering amid the din, is said to have read the annual report, which the students cheerfully adopted without hearing. Whenever a motion was put, the assembly shouted "Ayef” enthusiastically, following this assent immediately with a louder —if possible—roar of "No!” However, the chairman was used to this sort of thing, and took the motions as carried.

Splashes of white, from "exploded” flour bombs, hurled with more vigour than accuracy, were plentifully spattered about, but the atmosphere was becoming calmer when r |he roof suddenly belched forth a shower of peas, nuts, more flour, and other articles, and there was an uproar from a body of students upstairs. For a considerable time the hall resembled the Tower of Babel during an indignation meeting, if they ever had one there. Bealising that the time had eome for sterner measures, the chairman adjourned the meeting for 15 minutes, and two students were forcibly ejected. Means were taken to deal with the suppliers of assorted manna from on high.

The rowdy element then decamped in a body, and when the meeting resumed business went on in a more or less peaceful "way.