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No 3 : February 4, 1961

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Thousands Came - to the Mardi Gras

Highlight of the holiday carnival programme was the Nelson Jaycee's main effort, the Mardi Gras. For the previously uninitiated, this was something to remember. Thousands of diversely-clothed holiday makers and Nelsonians bent on living it up, made whoopee until midnight in Trafalgar Street. Climax was the launching into space of New Zealand's first manned rocket ship. Only the vagaries of the breeze spoilt what otherwise was a completely successful launching. Needless to say, a wonderful night was had by all.

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The squeaker brigade

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Blast off, or, as the Jaycees were heard to mutter, "blast that wind"

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A group of happy revellers give their feet a treat

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A couple of swell heads

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The height of elegance

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Where did you get that hat?

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Where's that ambulance?

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Ben Hur, alias Ces Collins, and his slaves, including a couple of lovely maidens, one of whom, Janine Donnelly, is shown here.

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Two open mouths - Jim Vercoe as he does his fire-eating, and an awestruck bandsman.

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Three of The Bottles - five years' supply in each of them

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How!

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The character with the umbrella called in on the way home from the races

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The chain gang

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How do you do?

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