SECRETARY'S EXIT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 7

SECRETARY'S EXIT

ABDUCTION SUSPECTED ROWDY PROCEEDINGS CHRISTCHERCir, Aug. 12. Abduction was suspected when the secretary mysteriously disappeared at a tumultous meeting of tho students of Canterbury' College, last evening. A few seconds previously, the lights were turned out. The proceedings were made farcical by the antics of the minority and when a woman student rose to put a motion she was greeted by the singing of “Daisy, Daisy.” This was sung in the dark with spot lights on the heroine. It. was during the uproar that tho exit of the secretary occurred. The meeting opened tumultuously with a storm of paper darts, peanuts, and bags of flour. The president, Mr 11. M. Thomson, was greeted with a volley of missiles and terrific cheering. The minutes wore read amidst a babel of noise of whistling, songs and cheering. No words were audible until the selection of Rhodes scholars by the students was mentioned, and there was silence while two names were mentioned. The next bombardment consisted of streamers. Some of these were resurrected from the front under cover of a map, whit’ll suffered damage when a bag of flour went through it. The balancesheet was read in the intervals of songs about beer and other beverages. Free Fights. The first motion was moved by a gentleman in a fencing visor. (During the discussion, some free fights took place in tho background. The first motion was carried, and proceedings de vcloped into a flour fight in the dark. The executive next removed some turbulent spirits in dungarees. The whole trouble was due to a minority. The majority had to suffer for the work of this section. Motions were put through without any possibility of discussion, and without more than a dozen people even knowing what they were about. This was disappointing, in that vital questions of policy were decided by people who did not realise the importance of their decisions.