Busy painting "collecting boxes" - buckets, boxes, and drums - in the Northampton and District Hospitals guild office, St-Giles's street, Northampton, last night, for the town's carnival parade on June 20, were (from left to right): Mr. R. T. C. Dyer, secretary of the Northampton Carnival Parade committee, and Mr. A. G. Ayris and Mr. A. Course (both committee members).