TO-DAY'S CARNIVAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 6

TO-DAY'S CARNIVAL

THE PARADE REPEATED AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE FURTHER FESTIVITIES AT NEWTOWN PARK. Dull, grey weaher ushered in to-day's Carnival celebrations. The atmosphere was raw, but there was consolation in knowing that the weather "might have been worse." Had rain actually fallen, it must have had a very depressing effect. Instead of the great turr/but again witnessed to-day, it would have been a damp, bedraggled procession that wended its way to Newtown. Park. Also it would have meant much of'love's labour lost. But Wellington has be§n fortunate with regard to the eleVnenta since the Carnival began, considering the heavy rain that had fallen on'and off for days prior to the Carnival. Even the clerk of the weathei", who is not generally amenable to reason, seems to have realised the worthy object for which the celebrations have been organised, and to have stayed his hand. In the afternoon, the sun again put in an appearance Just,after 1 o'clock crowds of people began to flock to the thoroughfares along , which the procession was to pass. I Thursday's magnificent spectacle had whetted their appetite, and, like Oliver i Twist, they wanted more. Again there | was all the noisy clamour of the Car- j nival. Paraders in fancy dress (almost always with the inevitable collectionboxes), decorated motor-cars and lorries, and various vehicles in giddy attire, made their way to the place of rendez- j vous at Government Buildings, and. with ' a minimum of fuss, fell into line. Many of those taking part had, by the experience of the past few days, got the procession habit, so to speak, and greatly facilitated the work of the Chief Marshal (Major Corrigan), Deputy-Marshal Jamer. Dykes, and the other responsible officials. As on Thursday, there was a minimum of delay at the starting post, and about a quarter of an hour after the advertised time of starting the_ procession, headed by the sth Regiment Band, playing music on the march, swung round into Lambton-quay from Bunny-street, and was soon well under way. There was no limit to the enthusiasm aroused among tho onlookers, and silver and copper, coins fell freely from the people in elevated positions on verandahs and balconies. MAGNIFICENT DISPLAYS. Many of the pleasing displays of Thursday were again features of the procession. H.M.S. New Zealand, 'now a fairly familiar object in the streets of Wellington, towered high above the other, exhibits, and a perky little submarine looked far more death-dealing and dangerous than it really was. It nosed its way carefully and harmlessly along the route and caused not the slightest consernation among the spectators. Other beautiful displays by tho Queen candidates' committees, including the Combined Drapers, the Commercial Travellers, the 'Hutt Valley, were there, and were again the them© of much admiration. Mention, too, must be made of the Japanese pagoda. Other well-remem-bered features were also there. Dainty lassies in dainty dresses shook their money-boxes appealingly in the faces of the people who thronged the route, and in fcpite of the heavy recruiting for the fund during the past few days their appeals were often not in vain. All the success of Thursday's parade W^as repeated, although the procession was not so long, and once more the promoters of the Carnival project have every reason to( congratulate themselves.