ST. PETER’S CHURCH FAIR
PROCEEDS TOTAL £5OO Several hundred persons visited the annual fair of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Upper Riccarton, held in the church grounds on Saturday afternoon. Proceeds from the fair, which totalled £5OO, will be devoted to the church’s general purposes account. Marquees erected in the grounds contained stalls for cut flowers and plants, work, sweets, cakes, variety, produce, refreshments and side shows. Hay rides, ponv rides and an exhibition of toy trains catered for children. There was also a display by girls of Buckett’s Gymnasium and the Christchurch Municipal Band was in attendance.
Those present saw the foundations of the new parish hall which is being erected in the church grounds. The fair was organised by a committee under the chairmanship of the Rev. H. G. Norris.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27186, 2 November 1953, Page 2
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