OLD YEAR DIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 6

OLD YEAR DIES

SCENE IN THE AVENUE I-lAFFY, CAREFREE CROWD Toe year .1935 died in much the same way .is all years die, in an atmosphere" ot full and frolic round the town clock. A largo crowd paraded Victoria Avenue during the evening, an.l many more attended the midnight mniiaccs promoted by the city picture theatres, where streamers signalled the I midnight hour. W:tli customary beotch enthusiasm, the Wanganui Highland ripe Band enlivened proceedings by marching up and down the main thoroughfare and playing at various points cn route. At midnight to the accompaniment ot looters whistles, bells, and tile strains of “AMd Lang Syne,” a crowd, corm posed maiiiiv of lite younger people M the citv raw the old year out ano the new vea> in. Two honrs after I midnight "the Avenue, bestrewn wt ■ confeici and rme, was left to itself (>cca.donal revellers, homeward b.mnn from dances or other places of entertainment, passed that way. Just a- ' the streaks of dawn were rising in the 'east a gill’s voice a, "i a ' Jo . vs wcre ’ heard singing from the town bridge— Oil, sweet of life, at last I I’ve found you s ' I So did 1936 appeal to hearts t 0... 1 were voting and hearts that were gav! ; I Older "people were then slumbering the J j sleep of the just. —w t— ——