FREAK PARTY.
UNDERGRADS IN A SEWER. Mr. gugli Speaight, the leading spirit in the recent flight of the Oxford Ballooii UiiiOii, Wits th(! host iil d freak party held at Oxford, when a number of Uiidergradiiates toUr'ed the City seWeri in canoes. The ittvitatiofls seiit 6ut by Mr. Speaight stipulated that his gUests should Wear nautical dress. The party indudcd Mr» i J etet the .Oxford RUgby blue; -Mr. At Et&jjkiiisorij of the editorial stafl; ol the undergraduate newspaper; [t The isis";'and Mr. Wall; chairman of the Charles Fox Association. ' They entered the city sewers at a point in Ea&t Oxfcn'dj ahd by the aid of eledtHe toi'chee foiilid thfeif Way Uhder thfe centre Of the city aftd emerged at a point SOUth of Carfax, Where the eeWei- joins the KiVei' Thames. 3ix Caftofeg were Used to fioiivfey the party, aiid one was wrecked lit an attempt to negotiate ah iron gate into the Thames, and the occupants were tlirbwn into the stream, but rescued.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 3
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