FREAK PARTY
UNDERGRADS IN A SEWER
Mr Hugh Speaight, the leading spiiit in die recent flight of the Oxford Balloon Union, was the host in a freak party held al Oxford, when a number of undergraduates toured the city sewers in canoes. The invitations sent out' by Mr Speaight stipulated that his guests should wear nautical dress.
The 'putty included Mr Peter Howard, the Oxford Rugby blue; Mr A. Hopkinson, of the editorial staff of the undergraduate newspaper, “The Isis”; and Mr Wall, chairman of the Charles Fox Association.
They entered the city sewers at a point in East Oxford, and by the aid of electrio torches found their way under the centre of the city and emerged at a point 'south of Carfax, where the sewer joins the River Thames.
Six canoes were used to convey the party, and one was wrecked in an attempt to negotiate an iron gate into the Thames, and the occupants were thrown into the stream, but rescued.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1930, Page 9
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