THE CONTINENTAL SUNDAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 8

THE CONTINENTAL SUNDAY.

WHAT THEY, DO: AT. AUCKLAND. ; (By Telegraph,—Special CorrceDondent.) . Auckland, January-20. • Some comment las been made lately ,011 Sunday picnics, the .habit of subur-. ban residents-working in- gardens, etc.. and the Methodist Synod has-been concerned about it; If it be wicked •to picilio on-Sunday,/Auckland.must.be the wickedest: place in the Dominion, it has the nearest' approach to the Continental Sunday 'in all. New Zealand, and is making .the sacred day more Continental' than ever this season. At,, an. early hour - any' Sunday morning onemay see dozens o£. private picnic parties, starting out by drag or motorcar for Henderson-' -.Valley, : the Waitakere Ranges, Nihotapu Falls, Hunua Falls, and other resorts, or < by, boat for gulf .resorts;; Then,.the. ferry steamers ply a ,brisk.: trade,, carrying, excursionists to, ■Takapuna, J St. , Heliers, R<mgitoto,. 'Ri.verhead, Motutapu,. and. other place's, ■and these excursions are regular insti-' /tutions,. ..regularly ..advertised. .Fishing jjarties' by.'ftteyscofe 'go. by motor-boat. .Or yaclit.:itOj.various parts of Hauraki' '.Glilf,and) bathers .of. "bb'th spxes.may bo seen.on any of the bcaches.. It is not toQ-'rniich to say that many .thousands, of Auoklanders' go. on pleasure, trips on Sundays. No one seems-to take'.much, notice and that, /is;what, astonishes southern, visitors, . .