SATURDAY'S PICNICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 7

SATURDAY'S PICNICS.

CROWDS LEAVE THE CITY. Just on 3450 people spent Saturday at the various picnic resorts in Canterbury, and several special trains were commissioned to carry them to their destinations. Traffic was particularly heavy oil the Lyttelton line, special trains being run to take spectators to the Sanders Cup races. The list of picnio parties, the resorts visited, and the numbers which travelled are as follows: —Crown Boot Factory, Lyttelton, 50; Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 600, f r ?P' Christchurch to Aaliburton and ouO from Kaiapoi to Ashburton, two trains; Bunting's Brush Factory, Lyttelton, 150; Pavnter and Hamilton, Oxford, 2-50: A. ,T. White, Ltd.. Oxford, 2GO; Addtngton Workshops, Leeston, <00; Vacuum Oil Co.. Ltd.. Stewart's Gully, 43 (ordinary train): Scott ®'[ os ' ■ ~ ton, 250; Aulscbrook's Bfcfiiit Factory, Little River. TOO.

As thfre r»ve ron'.pnrativelv few from Christclmrcli in camp at Bt«rnhani at the present tirtie, mo«t of them ncittß from other re.rtrcs, only 100 people tooU the soecial train visitors, wliiMi left for the camp at 1.40 p.m. yesterday and returned at b.u> P-in- " », t<v» Leaiing Lyttelton at '. members of the Royal Antedelnvian Order of Buffaloes journeyed to Motukarara for their annual picnic, about 100 joining the tram at Chnstchurch.