TRANSPORTATION PAGEANT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 12

TRANSPORTATION PAGEANT

* ANCIENT AND MODERN MODES TO-MORROW’S PROCESSION To-morrow the public of Wellington will have a novelty entertainment provided for them by the committee supporting the candidature of “Queen Cleopatra.” A transportation pageant, featuring ancient and modern modes of transport, will proceed from Waterloo Quay through the main streets to Newtown Park, where a novelty entertainment will be staged. .“Cleopatra” and her maids-of-honour in a Nile barge will be a special feature of the procession, which assembles at 1.30 p.m. ' The Railways Department is to stage a special display, which will include primitive and modern features of railway transport, and that display alone will comprise ten vehicles. The Wellington Motor Traders’ Association will display early model cars, which were designed for mobility rather than comfort, in contrast with the latest de luxe models. The City Council display will include motor vehicles and prize horses. The Master Carriers’ Association’s section will comprise advertising displays by business firms. The Free Ambulance will have a display, as also will the Fire Brigade, St. John Ambulance, and numerous other organisations. Several bands, the Artillery, Mounted Rifles, Army Service Corps, Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, and Ixion Motor Cycle Club, will also be taking part. It. is stated that the pageant will be staged on a greater and more spectacular scale than ever before attempted in the Dominion, and will comprise some 150 to 200 vehicles. The procession will cover probably a mile to a mile and a half in length. Special precautions are being made to control the crowds which are expected to assemble to view the procession, and follow it to Newtown Park. Tram traffic will be diverted as far as practicable from the route of the. procession, and the Police Department is making special arrangements to regulate traffic. Between 11 a.m. and 12 uOon, aeroplanes will circle the city and suburbs, dropping pamphlets numbered consecutively from Ito 20.00(1. The public are requested- to collect these as a prize is being awarded to each person returning to the Cariiival Office pamphlets numbered 1000, 2000, and each successive thousands up to 20,000. An advertisement relating to the pageant appearse elsewhere in this issue. The order of procession will be as follows:—■

The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. G. A. Troup) and eity councillors. Chief marshal, Mr. L. S. Drake. Coaehbuilders and City Council: Assemble at Bunny Street. Marshal, Mr. J. Hunt; Tramways Municipal Band; Standard Motor Bodies. Ltd.. 1 prehistoric vehicle; Munt, Cottrell, Neilsen and Co., 1 timber wagon. 1 sledge, 1 scandy wagon ; Rouse, Black and Son, 1 rickshaw, 1 governess cart ; S. M. Sharp, 116 Holloway Road, 1 hansom cab; R. Hannah and Co.. 1 horse lorry; Wellington City Council, engineers’ department, 3 horse- vehicles (each 2 horses), 3 horse vehicle (each 1 horse), 35 horses; milk department, 3 horse vehicles. Military > Assemble at'Waterloo Quay, west side, north of Bunny Street. Marshal. Captain P. Hazeldon. Wellington Artillery Band ; 1 IS-pgunder, - 6-horse team; 1 general service wagon, 2-horse team; 1 general service wagon. 2-horse team; 1 cooker, 2-horse team; 1 ambulance, 2-horse team: 1 pontoon, 4-horse team ; 1 mess cart, 2-horse team ; 1 water cart, 1 horse; 1 6in. howitzer, tractor hauled ; 1 mounted N.C.O. in charge. Motor Traders: Assemble at Waterloo Quay, east side, north of Bunny Street. Marshals, Col. H. E. Avery and Mr. D. H. Edgar. No band. Adams, Ltd., 5 cars; Ford Sales and Service, Ltd., 6 cars; Campbell Motors, Ltd., 3 cars; Dominion Motors and Maoriland Motors, 5 ears; General Motor, N.Z., Ltd., 8 cars and 2 trucks; Commerce Motors, Ltd., 1 truck: Canadian Knight and Whippet Motor Co., 3 cars; Todd. Motor Co., 3 cars; Nash N.Z. Motors, Ltd,, 3 cars; Trucks, Ltd., 1 truck; Magnus Motors, Ltd.. 3 cars; E. Reynolds and Co., 1 car and 1 truck; Combined Buyers, Ltd., 2 ears; Cycle and Motor Supplies, Ltd., 2 cars and 2 trucks.

Motor-cycle and Cycle Section.---As-semble at Waterloo Quay, east side, south of Bunny Street. Marshall, Captain A. V. IL Munro; Jupp’s Silver Band; Sutherland and Rankine, 2 motor-cycles; Rodgers and Hall, 4 motor-cycles; E. Rosenberg and Co., 3 motor-cycles; Ixion Motor cycle Club, 20 motor-cycles; Cyclist Touring Club, 20 cycles; Wellington Automobile Club, 1 cycle patrol, followed by Queen Cleopatra, and her Maids of Honour. St. John Ambulance, 1 truck; Red Cross Society, 1 truck; Sea Scouts. 1 truck; Boy Scouts, 1 truck.

Petrol and Oils. —Assemble at Customhouse Quay, west side, soutli of Bunny Street. Marshall, Mr. F. W. Lowery; no band; Shell Co., of N.Z., Ltd., 3 tanks; Atlantic Union Oil Co., 3 tanks; Vacuum Oil Co., 1 tank; Texas Oil Co., 1 tank; A. S. Paterson and Co., 2 tanks; Robertson Bros., 1 truck; W. T. Johnson and Co., 1 truck. Merchants and Traders.—Assemble at Featherston Street, yvest side, south of Bunny Street. Marshall, Mr. J. Munt; Wellington Boys’ Institute Band; Standard Motor Bodies, 1 truck; Munt, Cottrell, Neilsen, and Co., 3 cars: Michelin Tyre Co., 1 truck ; J. J. Curtis and Co., 2 trucks; Munt, Cottrell, and Co., 4 trucks; N.Z. Express Co., 1 pantechnicon; Odlins, Ltd., 1 timber carrier; Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., 1 truck; Winstone's Ltd.. 1 truck; Electrolux, Ltd., 1 truck; T. Brown, Ltd., 1 truck; Taubman’s (N.Z.), Ltd., 1 truck; Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., 1 truck; Bond’s Hosiery Mills, Ltd.. 1 truck; John Chambers and Son, Ltd., 1 truck; Lewis Berger and Son, (Aust.), Ltd., 1 truck; Metro-Goldwyu-MayCr, 2 trucks; C.O. Products.. Ltd., 1 truck; E. T. Taylor and Co., 1 truck and 1 van. New Zealand Railways.—Assemble at Stout Street, west side. Marshall, Mr. W. J. Thompson. No band; 10 Local Bodies. —Assemble at Stout Street, east side. Marshalls, Messrs. W. I. J. Blyth, and L. A. Whittaker. No band; Wellington Harbour Board, 4 tractors; Free Ambulance, 2 vehicles; Bell Bus Co., 2 buses; Tramways Department 2 buses; Tramways Department, 1 truck; Black and White Cabs, 1 car; Black and White Cabs, 1 express; A. Barnes, 1 taxi car; Wellington City Council, Engineers’ Department, 2 refuse trucks, 1 mechanical sweeper; Wellington City Council, Milk Department. 2 trucks; Wellington City Council, Fire Brigade, 4 vehicles.