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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Act II.—Daihape (on the Main Trunk Railway)

Act II.—Daihape (on the Main Trunk Railway)

Opening Chorus.

Be the season what it may,
We are armed against the fray,
Our fights are fought in realms of sport, Our all is sport.
Be the contest what you will,
We aspire to crown the hill
That gives us vict'ry sweetest when 'tis dearest bought.
Sport we wage,
For 'tis our heritage,
For Waterloo was won upon the fields of play;
Be ours the name
To ever play the game,
With nought to gain beyond the pride to win the day.
When summer days are long,
On the playing fields we throng;
When fortunes rise unto the skies, We feel true joy.
But when our fortunes fall,
With backs against the wall,
Let's suffer then our foe's success without annoy.

In youth or mellowed age,
Spring's warmth or winter's rage,
Our blood runs fast with lines there cast, Where sport is king.
Our haunts the open fields,

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You will find "Lucy" all right.

For the joy that action yields,
When summer suns with piercing ray their pleasance bring.
When winter's here
With faded leaves and sere,
The leathern sphere is hot pursued with nerve and vein.
But gain or loss,
They've steer'd the truest course,
Who've fought the fight for love of sport with nought to gain.
As when hunting in the field,
When your rod or gun ye wield,
Your pleasure's most, you're joyful most With aim that's true;
So your ev'ry sense should thrill,
Your heart with gladness fill,
Whene'er your sport be honest, clean, untainted, true.

Duet-Adam and Watt-Buncombe.

Adam : Once to an isle in the blue Pacific
One little cuckoo came,
Watt-Buncombe: On that isle there lived in peace
A kiwi happy and tame.
Adam : The cuckoo was won by that island's charm
So he telegraphed home to his mate,
Watt-Buncombe : And they took the kiwi's nest in the cabbage palm
And the little bird left to his fate.

Both : What a pair of cheeky little cuckoos,
Theirs was a very selfish act,
When they seized the little island
For to settle there in style and
Poor little kiwi sacked;
Yes it really was a very bad act.

Adam : Long years after on that isle a statesman
Thought of a very good plan.
Watt-Buncombe; I've not yet heard of a politician thinking
I suppose that here they can.
Adam : Said he, "In the stead of the old bullock dray
Let us have the Iron Horse."
Watt-Buncombe : So a Main Trunk line was begun one day
To be finished in a year, of course.

Both : What a very clever politician
His was a very happy plan.
All the loafers get enjoyment,
For it gives them such employment
As only state jobs can;
Yes, it really was a very good plan.

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Smoke "Lucy Hinton" Tobacco.

Watt-Buncombe: Paid by the state, your politicians
Evidently cut a dash.
Adam : After talking rot, they sleepily at midnight
Allocate the public cash.
Watt-Buncombe : As for Public Works I believe that the load
Of temptation on a man is hard,
Adam: Each takes home a bridge or a road
To decorate his own back yard.
Both : What a lot of stupid politicians,
Theirs is a very silly plan;
Though a politician never
Is imbursed for being clever,
If he to think began
It would really be a very good plan.

Enter Dr. Phin Leigh.

Solo—Dr. Phin Leigh.

As an undergrad I always had
A brain so very clever,
That bye and bye, I thought I'd try
To lease it out for ever.
I was of the horde supporting Ward
And this is what he me told:
"Your brain's too good for a lease but could
You let me have the freehold,"
And now my pals the Liberals
Lay claim to all I've uttered,
And their claim is sound since I have found
Which side my bread is buttered.

The Savage horde they made me lord,
And arrayed me in resplendence :
At the College here they made me chair
To reward my non-attendance.
Though from rowdy boys I object to noise
Who blow with horn and squeaker.
In the footlight's glare on the platform here,
I'd pass for a first class speaker.
To reward my work he should not shirk,
In the Premier's ear I dinned oh!
So a scheme he hatched to leave unlatched
The Legislative window.

With the country's pile I live in style
As a brainy lawyer should do,
But I don't forget my friends as yet
As a vulgar person would do.
So I went and saw a Prof. of Law
A very handy craftsman,

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You will find "Lucy" all right.

I might do worse with the country's purse
Than make him Crown Law Draftsman.
My brain it teems with endless schemes
To socialise opinion,
And when that's found I shall be crowned
The King of this Dominion.

Chorus

Oh ! you may have heard before
Of a certain windy mound
With the houses perched on cliffs
On the minimum of ground;
Where the streetways are so wide
Two can walk them side by side,
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand.
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand.

The Empire City see
Upon the hills beside the sea,
Though you search you cannot get a
City site that's any better
Than the site on Lambton Quay.
No Christchurch plains for me,
The ocean's wave I love to see,
Though Auckland may be Eden,
And Paradise Dunedin,
Yet Wellington will do for me.

Oh ! the mob that there abide,
Cosmopolitan they are,
Though they nearly all are Chows,
Or are members of the Bar;
Though they've lost their Lead in art,
Grabbing money on the mart,
They're the first and foremost people in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand,
They're the first and foremost people in New Zealand.

The Empire City see, &c,

In the month of April last,
They were Achin' for a Mayor,
And though Duthie Fished for votes,
His lopsided ways were clear.
Oh ! the leading lights so shine
That the natives all opine
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand,
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand.

The Empire City see, &c.