QUEEN CARNIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1940, Page 9

QUEEN CARNIVAL.

SICK AND WOUNDED. FUND STEADILY GROWS. SOUTH QUEEN IN LEAD. ' Further contributions to the Sick and Wounded Fund have brought the total to £01,001. The Queen of the South, Mrs. Gordon Mathews, is in. the lead, with the Commercial Travellers' Queen, Mies H. Puidoni, in second place.

The latest voting figures are:—South, 873,330; Commercial Travellers, 737,889; Air, 541,421; East, 524,829; Public Service, 518,831; Sea, 432,235; North, 420,057; Sports, 397,047; Soldiers, 227.028; Maori, 209,212.

A crowd of about . 20,000 people gathered at Eden Park yeiterday afternoon, when the massed bands' display was given in perfect weather in aid of the Sick and Wounded Fund. Eleven bands assembled in the parade, and marched round.the main enclosure, where the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Erneet Davis, took the salute. The bands marched in separate divisions to the terrace side of the ground, and then marched towards the stands as one unit, forming a square. A musical programme, which included hymns, was then given. Under the direction of the president of the Wellington Bands' Association, Mr. Gladstone Hill, the bands made a spectacular octagonal serpentine march, the completion of an intricate manoeuvre being loudly applauded. The programme, which had not previously been rehearsed, was carried out in a most successful way, and the spectators were generous in their a-pplauee to all the bands taking' part in a notable display.

Preparations are being made on a big scale for a procession and street appeal in the city next Friday, when a big feature will be a barrow parade, on the lines of one recently staged in Ohristchurch, where the effort resulted in £3000 being added to the Sick and Wounded Fund. Auckland plans for the barrow parade are being made by the organisation I assisting the Sports Queen, Miee Joy Asquith. Those taking part will be asked to produce a barrow, decorate it, fill it with marketable gooda or produce to bring an average return of £2, and wheel it in the procession. Cash prizes will be allocated for the different classifications of barrows. The event will have many x?ovel and entertaining features. Chairmen of. various Auck-

land sporting organisations have agreed to push a barrow, and other

prominent citizens are to be invited to take an individual part. Both primary school and secondary school pupils will also a-ssist. The barrow parade will follow the main process-ion through the city, and is expected to be one of the outstanding efforte to swell the funds.

In addition to the victory fair, which the women's committee of the Navv league is organising at the Town Hall for Friday next in aid of the Sea Queen, tlie Navy League is combining with the Overseas League, and the Australian Club, in a bridge party to be held at the Overseas League rooms, Queen's Arcade, next Wednesday evening. The proceeds will go to the Sea Queen's fund.

To-morrow evening, and on the two following evenings, a vaudeville entertainment will be presented at His Majesty's Theatre, under the direction of the commercial travellers' organisation, to assist the funds.

A ball to assist the Maori Queen, Miss Raniai Te Miha, will be held at the Town Hall to-morrow evening.