Inter-Fac Sports

The most enjoyable picnic sports meeting of the year will be held on Saturday, March 17, when the inter-faculty sports will take place at Kelburn Park. The meeting is an all day one. but the main events, including a men's mufti race, and for the first time, women's athletics, will be run during the afternoon. No charge will be made for admission, and every able-bodied student is expected to enter for at least one event. Be There!

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Lyell Holmes, for the students, said how glad they were to get the opportunity of meeting V.U.C. students. At other colleges they did not come into contact with the student body. As an old V.U.C. man himself (1939) he said the luncheon was the best meal he had ever eaten in the cafeteria, and later we saw the C.U.C. Cafeteria Controller getting the dinkum oil from Mrs. Shillson. Lyell was stage manager and was kept fairly busy finding "props" for the first night, since the shortage of freight space meant their two and a half tons of equipment was late arriving from Auckland.

The C.U.C. players had another opportunity to meet students at a dance put on for them on the following Sunday in the gymnasium. Here there was a very convivial spirit abroad, and we found that the exalted literary atmosphere arising from their close association with Shakespeare did not prevent their enjoying simple student pleasures. We heard whispers of earlier parties, of vodka and such, and we felt that Wellington had done its best to make them feel at home.

It is worth mentioning that those of us who went along enjoyed "Hamlet" and "Othello" modern dress or no.