WILD STUDENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 October 1925, Page 5

WILD STUDENTS.

TIGHT AT ELECTION ALL KINDS OF MISSILES. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBHIGT. LONDON, Oct. 25. There was a wild light among Glasgow university students when about a hundred supporters of the Conservative and the Labour candidates at the rectorial election allied themselves and tried to eject the Liberals from the meeting. Many hand-to-hand encounters followed. Some took off their boots and flung them at their opponents amid a din of exploding 'fireworks, while chairs and other furniture were smashed. One student was carried out unconscious. Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Conservative) was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University with 3242 votes. Mr. Chesterton (Liberal) polled 968 and *V Mr. Sidney Webb (Labour) 285. It took a special cleansing staff the , whole week-end to clear the approaches to the university of heaps of garbage. All sorts of missiles had been secretly accumulated in depots in the city and conveyed to the university grounds. It is estimated that twenty thousand unfit eggs and several tons of pcasemeal, flour, soot, ochre, bad herrings and cocl heads were utilised in horse-play. A number of students were injured. One was badly crushed and taken to hospital.