DUKE AT DUNEDIN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 18 March 1927, Page 6

DUKE AT DUNEDIN

SPLENDID r.

Per ’Pze.m ABBOOIfttiOB.

. . DUNEDIN. Thursday. A great crowd widen assembled in Dunedin streets last evening waited for hours in' the cold wind tor

the coming of the Duke. His route to the Fenihill ( luh <• was a long one and there was contiunous cheering all, the way. People :• were most orderly nowhere’’was there any attempt'itp break the line. ■ but after the Duke had reached bis destination the street traffic gqfrhjjjifd a hopeless tangle. This was mainly owing to the inconsiderate eon duct of a large number of private car owners, who honked their way dangerously through the great press or \ pedestrian traffic. The illuminations here, are‘oft an extensive scale. extending along i, Princess Street, and through the Octagon where they are' most beautiful, .’.to far down George Street. Th© Streets were jtlironged , for two hours after the Duke the club, and many .popple...were late in , getting home, j. - i'll Early in the evening, excitement was • caused by a spectacular fire , which destroyed tha old Oho raj Hall which was now busecl •$ e'mhing factory hy Bntterworth.-,brothers. To-day there is tlriglit sunshine , with a keen s-mthbulvl breeze,-i./ )•; At Logan Park the Girl Guides made a, fine disnbu- as ther marched , past and the "Wolf Oohs gave their '■% grand bowl. The Scout Dominion haka

gave their

AT THE UNIVERSITY

At the every student was (present the Duke received a rousing: welcome, which dirt full credit 'to. pf ; the first" University College m New landThe students s.ao^^yjth-mid' effect and volume of.‘sown the college au■them. and roused enthusiasm by the vigor with which they performed a haka.

The Chancellor, Air T. K. Sidey, conducted the OnlvS through ,th#Varions departments oKtho University. In the Physical Science Laboratory Professor Jack, for the time being assuming the vole of magician greatly interested the Duke and his staff in a number . physical experiments- *' • The Duke fully intone spirit of the eufeft-fofitnent for such it really was, and the formance was half fthishcd ’ho Tfftrgningly told the J&pfp&sor it was a good thing not seeing those things after*^|(ner. The .students, me®and woroppt, including the Domett Science,- guTs gave the Duke anoffrer rousing wol-' come as he left the varsity for Pernhill: