CIVIL SERVANTS' DAY OUT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 6

CIVIL SERVANTS' DAY OUT

In other ways, too, the Civil servants had a day out. Their procession lined up at the rear of the Government Buildings shortly after half-pa6t , seven. There were all sorts of fancy costumes, from the young curate (with a copy of a certain publication held to have been indecent, • conspicuous about his person) and the Indian Rajah, to the dainty Pierrette. -.There were tramps, looking much the worse for wear, jockey boys, soldiers (who looked as though they had come through many a battle without a change) of uniform), girls dressed- in khaki, Red Cross nurses, a Father Christmas, and individuals wearing all sorts of masks. "In a motor lorry there waa a concert party, provided with a piano, •which gave " an entertainment at the street corners. The procession wended its way along Lambton-quay, Willissfcree^, Manners-street, and Cuba-street, and stopped a-t nothing in order to extract money from the crowds who lined the streets. The Civil Service procession will be repeated to-night.