Capping Capers

The Minister of Labour, Mr Shand, judged the Procesh floats. First prize of $100 went to an incontinent camel, built by Fielden Taylor Boy's Hostel. Second was a cardboard Negro "riot" car, proclaiming to be bomb-proof, fire-proof, and Negro-proof. Signs alleged the machine was "manufactured in Alabama by slave labour".

Other notable floats included a 50-legged dragon, which raised understandable excitement in the crowd with its carbon-dioxide breathing fumes.

Floats depicted the Wahine tragedy, student accommodation, drinking hours, the characteristic insufficiency of Government departments, the Hannah Playhouse, Bonnie and Clyde, and peanut butler.