ASHBURTON.
i Tha railway men at Aehbortoa were boey
yesterday driving in iron staadwrcb, end erecting barricades at the station, in order to keep the pohlio off the platform and railway line during the «t»ppage of the Royal train on Tueskyv The work of erecting a covered platform at the main entrance to the station was also being pushed on. Efforts are being made to complete the outside of the new poet office, and to remove the whole of the scaffolding and hoarding before the arrival of the Royal visitors. The chaMten vho will h&r* the honour of singing tfoe National Anthem before their Royal Highnesses wiß be from the Borough and ARerbon Schools, the Hampstead School, th« High, School,.the Convent Schools, and the Tinvrald Schools. The distant country school children have also been invited. Owing to the inclemency of the weather on Thursday and yesterday, the intended pift>lic rehearsal had to be abandoned. The head master of the Hampstead School, Mr Brock, jua., and iis assistants, paraded the children of that school in spite of the inclement weather, and they rehearsed the singing of "God Save the King."
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10998, 22 June 1901, Page 9
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ASHBURTON.
Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10998, 22 June 1901, Page 9
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