DUNEDIN'S TAPLEY

NZ Truth, Issue 1126, 30 June 1927, Page 4

DUNEDIN'S TAPLEY

IT would seem that on his arrival at Otago 'Varsity, the veriest "fresher"

considers it • his duty and the heighth of good form to instal himself as a publicity agent for H. L. Tapley, member for Dunedin North.

For the entire University — from Chancellor to charlady — realises that the annual capping carnival, without songs' extolling Tapley, youths dressed up to look like Tapley and farces m which the heroine falls — as the curtain descends—into the H L TAPLEY arms of Tapley, would be a pretty poor capping.

Indeed, it is impossible to imagine a capping carnival m which the name of Tapley does not occur at least eighty times.

No matter how few are chosen to have songs written m their honor, those few will always include Tapley. Should he attend the show-r-and he invariably does — he has, to listen to lusty lads with fog-horn voices bawling out alleged songs, the words of which would make a libel action a most profitable S'en'ture.

Yet the worthy member for Dunedin North does not mind m the least. He knows, the students and realises that his own good nature is responsible for their vocal atrocities.

So he drapes himself over an orches-tral-stall seat and prepares for a joyous evening.