STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 8

STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

"FLAGRANT VULGARITIES." j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) (IHRICTOIRTROH, Thursday. The students' procession yesterday was in reality a rather "dud" affair, but it has called forth the following editorial comment in the Christchurch "Star": "Only a blind man could have failed to be disgusted with many of the vulgarities that were flagrantly exhibited in the students' procession yesterday. These vulgar set pieces are an evidence of very scanty brains or wit, and any respectable sign writer would certainly decline to execute them if he were obliged to put his name to the effort. As a matter of fact the students rely on the disguise afforded by fancy costumes and painted faces to "get away" with a lot of indecent nonsense that they would certainly not dare to be associated with individually in the minds of decent citizens, or even their own circle of friends. The time haa come when an effort should be made by the more decent members in the large, and we fear, motley body of students, to impose a strict censorship on the dirtyminded elements of their number, and if the reform cannot come from within, the police or college authorities will have to take a hand." The feud between this newspaper office and the students is one of standing, and has resulted in editor's being burned in effigy and similar demonstrations before to-day.