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Kōrero: Parades and protest marches

Procesh

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Procesh

The annual ‘procesh’ or capping parades organised by university students were an opportunity to engage in high jinks, bawdiness and cross-dressing. This is the ‘Queen of Sheba’, a participant in the 1928 Victoria College parade in Wellington. His skirt appears to be made from a New Zealand Truth newspaper.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-0164-1/2; G

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ben Schrader, Parades and protest marches – Parades, 1890 to 1950, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21081/procesh (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.