KING’S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21966, 15 December 1936, Page 10

KING’S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY

MANY WEEK-END CAMPING

PARTIES

CITY STREETS PROVIDE

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Although another King’s Birthday holiday descended upon Christchurch with little warning, the people were not slow to take advantage of the fine weather which continued throughout the long weekend. Many cars left the city on Friday and Saturday laden with camping gear, and the mam roads to the beaches and other picnic resorts carried a large .volume of traffic. Sports bodies had been caught somewhat unprepared for yesterday’s holiday, and there was consequently little organised sport m the city. Advantage of the occasion was taken by the Canterbury Cricket Association to play matches in all grades, thus compensating to some extent for two days lost earlier in the season through wet weather. Tennis players found themselves adequately catered for at the various clubs in the city and suburbs, and an open golf tournament was arranged and held by the Waimain Beach Golf Club. The beaches were particularly well patronised by the public, all the beaches from Sumner to Waikuku and Leithfield being thronged throughout the week-end. At Leithfield there was an added attraction in the seventy-second anniversary celebrations of the Leithfield School, which were concluded yesterday with a procession, sports meeting, and reunion ball. The fine weather attracted many bathers to the water on both rivers and beaches. For those who did not leave the citv the formal proclamation of the new King provided an attraction yesterday afternoon, when there was a good muster of the public :n front of the City Council Chambers. Picture theatres in the city were also well patronised in the afternoon and evening, a large number of country residents taking the opportunity of having a day in the city. For the rest, close inspection of the Christmas shop-window displays seemed to provide a great attraction. Throughout yesterday the streets were well filled with pedestrians who spent a considerable time in front of the displays of the various business houses.