STUDENTS’ DAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3618, 17 July 1923, Page 41

STUDENTS’ DAY.

THE CARNIVAL PROCESSION. The annual students’ procession in connection with the capping celebrations took place in Dunedin on 'i hursaav. avid as usual, aroused Ihe keen interest of the public. The main street from Frederick street to Mans© street was well lined with amused spectators, and rhe small boys and girls particularly watched the turn-out with the liveliest satisfaction. The procession proceeded along George and Princes streets to Manse street, thence through Manse street, down High street, and back to the Town Hall, where the ceremony of granting the freedom of the city to the students was c trreid out. The procession was not carried out on such boisterous lines as usual. It was headed by four fearsome-looking horsemen. These represented the four horsemen of the Apocalypse —War. Famine, Pestilence, and Death—"and the idea was well carried through. A number of huntsmen, wearing variegated colours, rode next, and the Duke of York and his bride, with a bodyguard, followed. It was a gracious Duke, most lavish in his acknowledgments, but a? the bride was heavily veiled it was impossible to discover whether -lie was of the orthodox blushing description or not. Ii should not hurt the lady’s susceptibilities, however, if it is stated that a grin of sufficient broadness to penetrate, so to sneak, the barrier of the veil was now and again visible. A weirdly-cost limed jazz band next caught the eve, and lorries in which a fire brigade, the three-mile prohibition law in America, and the Tutankhamen discoveries were caricatured also held the amused attendance of the spectators. One of the best tilings in. the procession was a huge covored-iii lorry, with burlesque labour-saving appliances. This was the students’ offering to the solution of the housing problem. “Nozark”—a skit on the recent wet weather experienced in Dunedin —was well worked out. and a striking burlesque was pieserited on the brewery combine. The occupants of the motor-car in this burlesque were circled with huge motor-tyre lubes, after the style of a well-known advertisement. A dancing saloon with the occupants claming to the strains of ihe music of a. piano, and vehicle? carrying Chinese bandits. members of the league of Nations, and of the Bloatery < lab were also in evidence. A group of human penguins attracted general attention. A number of other minor features were included. On the return to the Town Hall the freedom conferring ceremony was followed with great interest by a large crowd, and after the Duke* of 3 ork had spoken a few words to his loyal subjects the spectators dispersed. _ The students spent the remainder of the day in wandering about (lie streets. Some of'them had adopted Spartan costumes, and they must have suffered severely from the cold, drizzling rain which fell during the afternoon.