HAMILTON'S DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 9

HAMILTON'S DAY.

« A GREAT TIME." THE PRETTY GIELS. HAMILTON", Wednesday. "Sure we have had a great time" waa tlie constant remark of the visitors on 1 ho Hamilton railway station just before the special left on its return journey, taking tlio American sailors Kick to Auckland. Their time had been very fully occupied fro)Ti the moment of arrival to the last cries of farewell as they moved along the station. The Mayor (Mr. J. R. Fow) met the special train and welcomed tho party, and at the station gates \cere 90 motor cars • and ■-*iive motor buses to take them a run around. Mr. «T, Hodd, of the local A.A.A.. had arrangements well in hand, and Mion the cars were spinning away, sonic around the town, some the suburbs, and other* extended to Matangi. Hautapu. the Narrows, and cv.-m Cambridge and Te Awamntu. All along the route the schools turned out and cheered the visitors. The sailors wore struck by the green fields everywhere,, and evidences of early spring, with the willows already coming into leaf, and said that if it was their own land at the end of winter the place would be bare. At Cambridge morning tea was provided, and Miss Holm, the talented local elocutionist, delighted the visitors with an item. Back in Hamilton luncheon was on in the -Winter Show buildings. Tho motor hall had been turned into a veritable banqueting chamber, and while a hot lunch was par taken of the Waikato Kegimontal Band under Bandmaster Hill, rendered n number of pieces which pleased the "Hobs." After lunch some went with their ho*t« to tlie lattcr'a homes, others wanderer' round the town, did the river and the Like, and a great number marched behind the band to Rugby Park, where the sailors put on a baseball game. The mysteries of this game were rather puzzling to the Hamiltonians; in fuel. they were mo:-c concerned in the man behind the striker, in armour clad. It seemed he must get hurt. And then tlv rapidity with which they can throw tlie ball about was seen when throe men got entangled round two and (lie three wrrc out in about as many seconds. The attitude of the thrower a'so came it' for a good deal of notice, but when the striker and the ball crime into coiUac; '•.-mo it did travel some." A football match was put on. but thi« did not altogether appeal to tlie visitors. "It*B not like our puiliP at all. Why, (Mir players are padded all over, and sure there would be several knocked out." Jlihl so the sailors drifted back to town to buy postals and talk to the girlfl, and on the latter subject they were all agreed "Your girls here are sure tho prettiest, the best we've seen pn our iaiints, and don't you forget it." At 4.30 p.m. tea was put on, and then, with all Hamilton, the boys went to the train, and with cheers and yells they thanked their hosts, and asked one and ~11 to come and visit UiPir ships. And mntliinks there will be one long line o, Zlors ..us week-end from Hamilton to Auckland in, see their friends ot the American navy.