SHOWER OF BALLOONS
NOVELTY STUNT IN QUEEN STREET COLOURFUL SCENE Sailing, eddying and gyrating in the breeze hundreds of multi-coloured balloons floated down toward hundreds of people, who with upturned faces lined Queen Street at 12.45 o’clock this afternoon. Clem Dawe, Eric Edgley and Miss Betty Eley of the /‘Love Lies” Company put over a novelty stunt that appealed to Aucklanders —the prospect of getting something for nothing. From the top of Lewis Eacly’s building the trio released 700 balloons, each with a packet attached advertising the show. Some of them contained passes for the musical comedy company’s performance. IMen and- girls rushed into the street to grasp the falling balloons, while others clambered through windows in quest of others that alighted on verandahs. Some of the balloons, which were filled with gas, sailed at a great height over the city and by 1.30 one had landed at Takapuna.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 10
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