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Summer Times Summer Times activities are well under way as city shoppers and workers are entertained during their lunchtimes in Cathedral Square.
Tomorrow the two-hour entertainment will be in Victoria Square. On Friday it returns to Cathedral Square. The programme stops during the Christmas period, but dress up in carnival
gear for the New Year’s Mardi Gras which begins in Hagley Park, at 9.30 p.m. On New Year’s Day there will be a rock concert in the park, featuring top local bands. The rock concert is from 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
Summer Times entertainment will continue in Christchurch until February 16. For enquiries ring 65898, 65-893, or 791-660, ext. 870. Halley's Comet Detailed information about Halley’s Comet, and comet posters, will be available in all schools next term. BP Oil New Zealand, Ltd, have produced a resource kit for schools, which will be distributed early next year. A free observation log for young people to record their own sightings of the comet will soon be in all BP service stations. Fitness Sessions The Christchurch Youth Centre will be offering free,
keep-fit-to-music sessions three times a week during January. Although final details about the sessions have not been organised, the youth centre is confident they will begin within the first few weeks of January, and run for about two weeks. Girl Guide Camp Seven Canterbury Girl Guides and one leader will leave for Brisbane on January 2 to attend an international Girl Guide camp. The Canterbury girls will join 42 other New Zealand guides taking part in the camp from January 3 to 11. Canoeing, water sliding, dancing, rafting and craft activities are included in the week-long camp which is expected to have about 5000 participants.
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