COLLEGE STUDENTS’ RAG

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 7

COLLEGE STUDENTS’ RAG

LI IS KXCIiIXJiiNC-Y IS H.KLD IT. Claimin'): the traditional privilege of undei graduates to depart from the pre- < ision (official programmes, students ) f Massey College on Tuesday held up Then excellencies Lord and Larv L'.etiis’ne at the Kitzherbcil bridge and extended in their own way an entirely • nofficial. hut nevertheless hearty welcome. A guard l of honour wall formed, the students shouldering mhos, cy-adcis, shovels and other agricultural implements. They presented 'arms as His Exee'dencv loft his car in response to a request- that knew no denying. A trumpeter sounded “Come to the' Cookhouse ’Door” much to the amusement of the assembed throng. There followed a haka and after the reading of an address of welcome, a rope was attached to the official car and to the accompaniment of song and preceded 1»v a standard hearer, gaudily decorated ‘‘old bay mare" and "a- lizzie" that had ween "'••re serviceable days. Their Excel fan- ■ ■ ir-s were towed to the (college gates. ] Tlj? official ban nor of the'party. I>y lb"] wav, consisted of a. sheepskin stretched Upon a. hayfork with' a mangel-wurzel on each prong for a head-piece. When sneaking, to the students later - His- 1 Excellency, who hind taken the “rag” in good part, recalled that when the Rovnl Agricultural College. England. was celebrating its jubilee, he. as a student, had taken part in a similar we'u'Mne to the late King Edward. 1 -i'l'.dtural students were distinctive hi their welcomes (laughter!.