TWELVE PICNICS ON SATURDAY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 14

TWELVE PICNICS ON SATURDAY

ABOUT 3000 PERSONS LEAVE CITY Another.busy day was experienced at the Christchurch Vailway station on Saturday, when seven special trains were run to cater for 12 picnic excursions and the race meeting at Motukarara. Between 8.35, the time of the departure of the south express, and 11.5, when the second and last tram left for the race meeting, probably more than 3000 persons left the city. A total of 650 persons travelled on the south express, while the West Coast express took about 300, which Is a larger number than usual. Threq hundred and fifty persons left for the picnic of Whitcombe and Tombs,-Ltd, at Leeston, and other excursions' were the Heathcote School (175) to’ Southbridge, Booth, Macdoncld, Ltd. (120) to Stewart’s Gully, Durham Street Methodist Sunday School (60) to Stewart's Gully, St. Giles’s Sunday School (175) from Papanui to Kaiapoi, Woolston Methodist Sunday School (130) to Stewart’s Gully, Vale and Company (160) to Lyttelton, Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ltd. (140) to - Lyttelton, Kaiapoi Methodist Sunday School (150) to Riqcarton, Ashley Women s Institute to Christchurch. The R&kaia United Friendly Society and tire Lyndhurst School joined a special train which picked .up passengers at Dunsandel, Methven and Ashburton on its way to Timaru. Because of the cold weather yesterday, only about 200 persons travelled on the excursion-train to Lyttelton. The usual number is about 700.