Abyssinia!

Haka Party's Effort

"They put us in the foremost pew,

They treat us just lke Standard Two,

Wiki-Wikitoria."

Although some staid members of this city of ours were heard to remark on hearing the beautiful lyric printed above, that if they did treat us like Standard Two it was only becausewe hehaved just like that stage of childhood that usually spends its laboriousdays in that class, the members of the haka party undoubtedly put up a good showing during the Tournament—better by far than that given by the other colleges. This may be said to be due to the superior numbers of the party from our College, but in the actual haka party there were fewer than thirty members on most occasions, and no one will deny that everyone knew the hakas—of which they had a large repertorie—and put them over well.

The credit for this belongs largely to M. J. Mason, the leader of the party and president of the Haeremai Club, but much also must be attributed to the keenness of the individual members.

They got drunk gracefully and sang lustily, if thickly at times. "Smad" extends its hearty congratulations to therowdy element in the College.