LORD JELLICOE'S VISIT.
AUCKLAND ARRANGEMENTS. A BUSY TEN DAYS. Although H.M.s. New Zealand is due to arrive in Auckland on Monday evening next, the festivities will not begin Until Tuesday morning. The oflicial programme provides for the following receptions and other gatherings for Viscount and Lady Jellieoe: — Tuesdr.y, September 2'l, reception by the Harbour Board on the Queen's wharf at 10 a.m.; civic reception at the Town | Hall at 11 a.m.: Victoria League's At Home to Lady Jellieoe in the afternoon; ! and civic At Home in Town Hall in the ] evening. Wednesday, visit of inspection to! Calliope Dock in the morning; unveiling \ of memorial to late Lieut.-C'ommander ] \V. E. Sanders, V.C, at Takapuna, in the ! afternoon; naval and military ball in the i evening. Thursday, garden party by Mission to ! Seamen at Bishopscourt, Parnell, iv the ; n/ternoon. ] Friday, the Admiral and part}- leave ! for Rotorua, returning on Wednesday, October 1. Thursday, October 2, visit to Oneliunga; luncheon at Auckland by the ; Navy League; ball at the Northern Club , in the evening. Friday the New Zealand leaves Auck- ! land. " In addition to the official engagements ' a largo number of entertainments and . sports havp been arranged for the officers and men. When the Admiral's party! will bp absent in Eotorua the officers s remaining on the ship will have no ' dearth of amusements, and arrange- j iricnts including golf, horse racing at Avondnle, trap-shooting, and an evening at the Orphans' Club on Saturday, September 27. SPECTAI.LY FOR THE MEN. j The Jack Tar is generally popular . ashore, and he will find no lack of choice us to what to do with his time when in Auckland. Free trips in tram cars, every morning, entrance to picture theatres, '■ concerts on the wharf and elsewhere, : dance in the Town Hall, smoke concerts, horse races at Avondale, football matches, boxing tournaments, hockey j matches, and a sports gathering in the Domain, are among the arrangements i which have been made for giving the j sailors a good time. -■■- - ■ I
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7
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