A GAY FROLIC.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 9 June 1928, Page 16

A GAY FROLIC.

VICTORIA COLLEGE STUDENTS. [THE PBESS Special Service.] 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 to-day and the students of the Victoria University College held high carnival in the street, of Wellington. Strangelyaarbed youths took charge of the citj, °nd a good-humoured crowd thoroughly e ioyecl 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 m AW Smith street and until close on lj o'clock, motor-lorries, motor-cars, old and new, but mostly old and other means of conveyance were being prepared for the part they had to play in the frolic. . , Close on noon the procession moved off At the head marched the band ot the "Sole Saving Army,", surely the queerest collection of "musicians ever assembled. Next came the Roya car with the "Duke"; and "Duchess reclining; gracefully in the back seat and with the Commissioner of Police keepin" guard in the front. The "Sooner Yer Reform League" occupied a prominent place with the "Prime Minister" in the centre of a number of brirfit pupils from the "Reform Kindergarten." Scotland Yard was not forgotten and one lorry bore victims of the 3 third degree undergoing various forms of torture. "Ben Hur" and "The Merry Widow" were accommodated in a chariot bearing a suspicious resemblance to a milk cart The "Kewpie CM)"' '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 the Carillon Society upon the public As the procession wended its wav 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. Simps, hotels, and business places were all visited, and' the tramcars bearing people to their 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.