STUDENTS’ DANCES AT WELLINGTON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 8

STUDENTS’ DANCES AT WELLINGTON

* PROFESSORIAL BOARD APPOINTS COMMISSIONAIRE ITHE PRESS Special Service*! WELLINGTON, June 18. Having recently expressed its disapproval of an exhibit in the capping procession, fined one student and banned the procession in future, the Professorial Board of Victoria University College, Wellington, has been devoting some attention lately to the conduct of student dances. A long-stand-ing regulation prohibiting the consumption of liquor at dances has been reaffirmed, and a commissionaire • has been appointed to attend gatherings, and to pay particular attention to what goes on in motor-cars parked in the college grounds. ■ ’ The question arose, it is stated, after gatherings at the annual New Zealand Inter-University College tournament at Easter, An official of the college is said to have recovered a considerable sum on bottles found about the grounds afterward. This was brought to the notice of the Professorial Board, which has decided to assume direct responsibility for the oversight of dances, a function formerly left in the hands of the Students’ Association. The commissionaire appointed by the board has been at one dance to date and as he was in uniform, he was a marked object of interest and curiosity among students. Another part of his work is to superintend the parking of cars in the college grounds. At this dance, however, his duties were not onerous, as there were few cars present.