Holiday Pastimes of Young New Zealand

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

Holiday Pastimes of Young New Zealand

> "T ~ ITH six or eight weeks of holiday ahead—- A modern form of fun, but one which daily increases j % 1 i MA/ days untrammelled by thoughts of study or of its following, is that of model aeroplane construction and :j | | | that dragon, the examination bogy—young flying. Cirls as n>ell as boys are answering to the lure of \ 1 1 j: V | New Zealand is free to plan days of fun and making miniature ships of the air, sharing with them I; 1 | ! ■ ■ jollity. th e air-mindedness which is becoming part of the national ;! § I J r- • T 7' 7 T 1 outlook. { 1 1 Expensive holidays to distant towns Will not be so X J 1 | ! : common this Christmas, and thousands of girls and boys A the days gone by there was a clear line of j § | j will have to be content with backyard fun, interspersed division between boys' activities and those in which :> § | j' with occasional all-day outings to bush and beach. £' r ' s were permitted to participate. To-day, however, £ | I ; _ girlhood sports are no longer girlish, and Miss New | | !; B ul whether it be inland or on the sea beach, at Zealand has earned for herself an honourable position in ;! | § j, home or in a strange town, our favourite pastimes will be most field activities which yesterday were exclusively the ! I 1 i enjoyed no whit the less; the fun of a day in the country province of boydom. :| I | } is no greater than a scratch match with pals, even though ' 1 1 i. the willow is a shaped paling from a handy fence. At From the Cape to the Bluff, holiday pastimes of young :| 1 | 5 Cornwall Park Utile girls and boys can play with the New Zealand will vary only to suit location and numbers, > 1 | j lambs even as the happy pair in the picture above, whilst and when school bells ring again all will grumble as of j jj 1 !; most harbour beaches provide canoes for holiday-makers. yore—for it is the way of youth. ;j | -Tun,!,,linn I II milium mil mum iiiutui inn mum