FUN AND FROLIC

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 10

FUN AND FROLIC

STUDENTS AT LARGE

CAPPING DAY PROCESSION

University students are holding high carnival to-day. Capping Day is too important an event to be dismissed in any prosaic fashion. Speeches and the presentation of degrees areall very well in. their place, but the students crave for something more than tnat and they see they get it. For many years one of the oustauding events in the -proper celebration of Capping Day has been the procession through the streets of Wellington; and' for a couple of houi-s to-day the students, strangely clothed, took charge of the main streets and made merry at the expense of all and sundry. ; TKe procession this year was not as ambitious as the efforts of previous years, but it provided entertainment for the citizens who lined the principal streets,' and in that it achieved its main purpose. Reading the procession were two gaily-dressed students doing their best to retain a rather uncertain seat upon a crazy motor-cycle, which threatened at any moment to collapse. Then followed a band of "unemployed musicians" discoursing anything but sweet music, and serving to introduce a representation of Their Excellencies .Lord and Lady Bledisloe, who bowed graciously to the multitude in approved Vice-Regal manner. In t.iio main procession there were many topical representations, all of them quite -well executed. , There were a _number of Samoan belles, a- dental clinic in full operation, a darktown fire brigade (the members of which showered onlookers liberally), a representation of the Sar-ron-Douovan fight, the "smcllies" (a close relation of the "talkies'"), and a flying police squad. :

After traversing u he principal streets, the- procession : proceeded to tho Post Office square, where the students provided hilarious entertainment for a large crowd of onlookers.

UNDERGRADUATES' SUPPER.

The annual supper of the undergraduates of Victoria University was held last evening, over 300 being present. The chair was occupied by Professor Rankine Brown, chairman of the Professorial Board. Among thoie present were Professor Murphy and Mr. yon Zedlitz. The health of tho. undergraduates was proposed by Mr. M'Carthy, and responded to by Mr. Bishop. Items were ■ given by . Mr. Doug. Edwards and the Ilaerernai Club, and all joined in singing the '^Victoria College Song, "Gaudeanius," and "Absent Friends^'* iii response to a.toast by Mr. Boilings. After the supper tho students adjourned to Victoria College, where a dance was held. ■