CARNIVAL OPENING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 16 November 1928, Page 11

CARNIVAL OPENING

TRANSPORTATION PAGEANT ON" SATURDAY WEEK On Saturday week, 24th November, the Art Gallery and Museum Fund Carnival will be officially opened by the Transportation Pageant through the city to Newtown Park, commencing at 2 p.m. Tho pageant will cover every form of transportation from the original log sled—or one like it anyhow—to tho latest automobile production do luxe, with a representative display by tho New Zealand Railway Department, and, to bring transportation right up to date, a couple of Government aeroplanes overhead. In order to bring out the advances made in each age and system of transport, tho old and the new will generally be grouped together,' old high-wheeler cycles and latest racing models, the first old "onelunger" in Wellington and tho latest eight-cylindered limousine, and so on. The Firo Brigade, the Free Ambulance, the Harbour Board, Army detachments, the. City Tramways and Corporation Departments, St. John Ambulance and tho Red Cross, Boy and Girl Scouts j and Guides, and many other like organisations will round off the general procession. Another very strong department will be the display of .tradesmen's vehicles. j Many of those taking part are going to no end of trouble to make their vehicles thoroughly spectacular, and all will be gaily decked up. Cleopatra (Miss Tiora Meadows), and her maids of honour, in a cleverly designed and really brilliant "Nile barge," will lead the pageant. All the city bands have offered their services, and generally the procession should bo a great success. A first-rate programme of entertainment will be given at Nowtown Park, including an exhibition of military drill, quickstep marching by the Tramways, Band, Scottish dancing by the pupils of Miss Phyllis M'Millan and dancing by Miss Cresswoll Vaughan's pupils, sports events, and, as a finale, a. massed bands'display.