STUDENTS CELEBRATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 13

STUDENTS CELEBRATE

LIVELY SCENES GOOD-BYE TO VISITORS I Following a crowded week of sport and hectic gaiety. Auckland University students and representatives from the southern centres concluded students’ week in appropriate manner yesterday. A mock civic reception, set down for the morning’s programme, proved a very interesting if rather impromptu business. An individual styling himself “George Bailed-out, chief magistreat of the “city,” did the honours. Degrees of various kinds were generously distributed, and an address of welcome, delivered in an imitation of the Auckland College president’s wellknown Scottish accent, exhorted the visitors to become good Rotarians, and in the meantime enjoy to the full the pleasures that Auckland so lavishly offered. The offer was at once accepted. the “mayor” standing aloof from subsequent proceedings by using a tumbler which he extracted from his hip pocket in preference to the loving cup handed round. A bright and very descriptive little number, set to a well-known Salvation Army tune, and in the singing of which the whole gathering enthusiastically participated, brought the reception to a close. The departure of the visitors by the second express in the evening was a very lively affair. Hakas. war dances and miniature pitched battles between the rival universities, kept proceedings moving at a merry pace. Fond farewells between fair Southern representatives and male students were promiscuously indulged in, and at times not without considerable interruption, on the part of well-meaning iriends desiring to do everything in their power to assist. SECURING THE SHIELD Auckland and Otago having tied for the boxing shield, the question as to who should hold the coveted trophy for the first six months was a matter for a friendly dispute. Acting on the issumption that possession is nine points of the law, Otago had already secured th) shield, taking possession of it at the tournament ball on Tuesday evening, and the appearance of an htago man on the station with the shield under Tiis arm was not allowed to go unchallenged. Following an indecisive conflict, arbitration was finally resorted to, but weight of numbers told the tale, and Auckland secured the honour of holding the shield for the first six months.

Cheering, singing and rival hakas contributed to the pandemonium of *ound as the train pulled out, when local students repaired townward bent on further celebrating their first victory in the contest for the tournament shield.