CARNIVAL WEEK

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 4

CARNIVAL WEEK

RECORD ATTENDANCE EXPECTED MANY ATTRACTIONS PROVIDED From Boxing Day to New Year, the beach carnival at Caroline Bay, Timaru, will take place. Successful though such carnivals have been in the past, there is good reason to believe that the carnival of 1938-39 may constitute a record.

There has been abnormally heavy booking by visitors, who will fill practically all available accommodation at hotels and boarding-houses, and others again have merely booked bed and breakfast during their stay in Timaru. In addition, there has been a heavy booking of furnished houses, the owners of which have taken the opportunity of going away for a holiday. The carnival, which is in the capable hands of the Caroline Bay Association, will be found to be equally as good as its predecessors, and it is certain that it will attract much attention, morning, noon and night. Among the amusement devices are a ferris wheel, dodgems, chair o’ plane, water chute, merry-go-round, scoota boats, and a great variety of side-shows, conducted by voluntary helpers of the association. A concert party from Dunedin will provide entertainment at the sound pavilion, many novel turns being provided. A dance will also be held nightly. For bowlers, of whom a large number is expected, the big attraction will be the South Canterbury Centre’s Christmas tournament, which will start on Monday with rinks play, followed later in the week by pairs and singles competitions. Better support has been promised the tournament this year than for some time past, and some keen play is anticipated. The Maori Park courts are in excellent condition at present, in spite of the w’ettings they have recently received, and should conditions improve, the courts are expected to be satisfactory for the South Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s annual tournament, which will start on December 31. The Timaru Caledonian sports will be held on New Year’s Day. The Waimate Caledonian Society will hold, sports on Boxing Day at Victoria Park, Waimate. Athletes from various parts of the Dominion are expected to attend the athletic school, which will be conducted by the South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Sub-Centre, the director being the American coach. A. L. Fitch. The athletes will be accommodated in t’ 2 Waimataitai School buildings, and use will be made of the cinder track at Ashbury Park. The school will be officially opened on Tuesday morning.

COUNTRY EDUCATION RESIDENT TUTOR FOR WAIMATE Advice has been received in Waimate from the Dominion organiser of the Association for Country Education that because of the enthusiasm shown for the proposal to establish a branch of the association in the Waimate district. Miss H. Hayes has been appointed resident tutor for the district. Miss Hayes will take up her duties early in 1939. PERSONAL NOTES WAIMATE Miss Gladys Palmer has been appointed organist of St. Augustine's Church, in succession to Mr C. Stanford, who has resigned. Miss Palmer will take up her duties at the beginning of February. Mr and Mrs Harold Cordery. of Christchurch, will be the guests of Mr and Mrs Owen Rogers, Mill road, for the Christmas holidays. Mrs Cordery is a well-known Christchurch soprano, and will give solos at the evening service at St. Augustine’s Church on Sunday. Mr Allan Shackleton, son of Mr and Mrs G. J. Shackleton, who is engineering instructor at the Gisborne High School, with his wife and two children, are spending the holidays in Waimate. Messrs B. T. O’Malley and J. M. Dive, Wellington, are the guests of Mr and Mrs M. E. Tavendale, Rhodes street. Miss Phyllis Dyer, Mosglel, is the guest of Miss Joyce Wright, Mill road. Mr R. S. Eddy, Wellington, is spending a holiday in Waimate. Mr W. S O’Sullivan, of the State Forest Service, Tapanui, was the guest of his sister, Mrs J. Corrigan, “Linkwood,” Hook, on his way to his home at Hororata. Miss P. Stapleton, Wellington, arrived in Waimate yesterday to spend Christmas with her parents. Mr T. A. Ruane, of Wellington, is spending the Christmas vacation with his relatives at Glenavy. Mr and Mrs W. D. Paterson and Miss Nolean Lyall will leave Waimate to-day to spend Christmas with Mrs S. T. Marryatt, Dunedin. Messrs A. R. Cochrane, G. O. Balfour, W. J. Rendall, and C. W. Thomas, Wellington, will spend the Christmas holidays in Waimate and surrounding districts.

TEMUKA Mr and Mrs J. Baker and their two children, of Waipara, and Miss Peggy Austin, of Wellington, are spending Christmas with Mrs C. L. Austin, of “Park Gate,” Temuka. Mr and Mrs J. Curry, of John street, Temuka, left yesterday for a tour of the Nelson district. Mr J. Daly, of John street, will spend a holiday on the West Coast next week. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE WASHDYKE A meeting of the Washdyke Institute was held, at which Mrs W. Kellahan presided . Mrs Blay gave the golden thread talk on the country library. Arrangements were made for the picnic to be held for the children of members on December 10. Competitions resulted as follows: Pickles, Mrs J. King 1, Mrs McDufl 2; junior. Miss Pearce 1; pullovers, Mrs McDuff 1, Mrs W. Kellahan 2; bloom, Mrs W. Kellahan 1; junior, Miss E. Pearce 1. The hostesses were Mesdames Hogg, Harris, J. Harris, and Anderson.