STUDENT REVELS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22449, 19 June 1936, Page 10

STUDENT REVELS

CITY PROCESSION

UNIVERSITY HUMOUR VARIETY OF EXHIBITS CROWD APPRECIATES FUN Topical humour as interpreted by tho undergraduate was presented with zest and liberality in tho city early yesterday afternoon, when students of Auckland University College hold their first procession for many years. It was a good procession, even although it was spiced occasionally with several slightly purple patches, and Auckland appeared to enjoy the fun. Auckland watched from every vantage point; from tip-too on tho pavement, from verandahs and balconies, and from roofs and eighth-floor windows. It was a successful procession, also, from the point.of view of the Mayor's Cripplccf Children's Fund, About 150 women students, assisted by members of tho procession, spent a persistent two hours, pushing "handles" and col-lection-boxes under chins and demanding largesse from tho public. The largesse, consisting of all manner of coins, exceeded £l6O, which will be handed to tho Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis An Amazing Band Marching to tho strains and wheezes of an amazing band, which consisted of a piano, a cornet, a saxophone and a very defective trombone, tho procession was led by infantry of "Haile Selassie" and a gentleman named Vaselini. Strangely enough, tho Governor of Rangitoto was mixed up with the proceedings, and ho cut a dashing figure on his charger, which, however, was a disappointingly sedate old, grey mare. The first of about 20 floats appeared to bo carrying the commissariat of both armies, for it was dry work, and hitched on behind was a cannon that was probably obsolete in tho days of Ilono Heke. Then came Hoojah, the pink elephant, a triumph of the taxidermist's art, complete with trunk, cork-tipped or plain. Following several wan - looking "roads" scholars came a massive structure composed of a variety of "boards" and "Brimstone's bricks." Here was expounded tho Government's housing "dream," and a passionate appeal was made for "Fair rents for fowlhouses." It was apparent that many a feminine wardrobe had been ransacked to provide the costuming for Hellstree Studios' latest spectacle, "The Four Narks Brothers." Tho film element was strong, for a second float, on which was mounted a wicked-looking guillotine, proclaimed the box-office value of "A Tale of Two Cissies." The Dionne Quintuplets Tho Dionne Quintuplets were inevitable. Under a gigantic slogan, "Be Heir Minded." came a quaint little procession consisting of five babies, five nurses, aud five wheelbarrows. The babies,' of course, were in the wheelbarrows, they were large, and they gave every evidence of growing larger, judging from the copious luncheon they freely partook of from roomy oottles. Considering their largeness, one sympathised with their nurses as they propelled them along the uppor flights of Queen Street. Pertinent comments on some of Auckland's civic projects were contained in the spirit and the form of exhibits on following displays. Investors were invited to "sink their dough in the harbour tunnel," where it would be "well, sunk," and the efficacy of the Municipal Milk Council was doubtful, if its product had been the food for a certain baby on exhibition. It also was patent that students have little pride in tho architectural features of their engineering school. Response to Appeal Appreciated Amazing skill was shown by an operating surgeon on a float that exhorted doctors to join the Medicos' Union and use, or get, "guaranteed slicers." Professor Sewell's "Slanguage Campaign" came in for attention, and. of course, there was something about those B stations. After traversing Queen Street, Karangahapo Road and Symonds Street, jamming traffic at every intersection, the procession assembled in Quay Street. There, undaunted by passing motor-cars and railway engines, "Haile Selassie" and Mr. Vaselini had some words about the ownership of Rangitoto. several songs were rendered, and a number of "honours" were conferred. At the conclusion, tho president of the Students' Aisociation, Mr. J. D. Lewis, thanked the public for their response to the Crippled Children's Fund appeal