EASTER HOLIDAYS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 169, 12 April 1933, Page 11

EASTER HOLIDAYS

Wide Variety of Sporting Attractions SUMMER & WINTER EVENTS Holidaymakers will have the choice of a wide variety of outdoor attractions during the coming week-end. As usually happens at Easter, summer and winter sports will overlap and footballers and cricketers, golfers,, tennis players, yachtsmen, and athletes will all be well catered for. Those who prefer to get away from the city should have no difficulty in finding plenty to amuse them. The Rangatira will make one of the popular excursions to Picton on Easter Monday, leaving Wellington at 8 a.m. and returning about 5 p.m. There will be racing at Feilding on Saturday and Monday, at Hastings on Saturday, and at Waipukurau on Monday. A yachting regatta will be held at Paremata, and the attractive programme will extend over the four days, Good Friday to Monday. Another yachting attraction will be the race for the Titahi Cup, which will be held at Titahi Bay on either Saturday or Monday. The Te Horo Sports Club will hold an athletic meeting on Monday, and the Easter tournament at the Shandon Golf Club will last from Saturday till Monday. Undergraduates will find their chief interest centred much further afield—at Auckland, where the twenty-ninth annual inter-university tournamen twill take place. Much nearer home will be the big carnival to be held at Eastbourne. Tomorrow evening will be full of fun for all who join the “pirate ship,” which will leave the Eastbourne ferry wharf at 8 p.m. for a harbour cruise. All through the carnival there will be dances and concerts, and a constant rbund of gaiety for young and old. In the city itself there will be plenty to interest and entertain. “Navy Week” begins to-day, and will continue until April 20. Special displays will be given by the warships in port, and the public will have a splendid opportunity of seeing the service at work. Sea Scouts will hold a regatta in the harbour on Saturday, and in' conjunction with it the annual contest for the Mercantile Marine Cup among such shipping as is in port at the. time will be held. The cup will be competed for by crews of eight in lifeboats. A Soccer match will be played between the North and South Islands at Wellington on Saturday, and on Monday there, will be a match between Auckland and Wellington.

A number of friendly Rugby games will be played on Saturday. At Athletic Park the Wellington club will play the Christchurch club at 2 p.m. At 3.15 the Miramar club will play Gladstone (Wairarapa) and Oriential will play Kalerau (Wanganui). The Petone club will play Carterton at Petone, and Eastbourne will meet Greytown at Eastbourne.

Tennis enthusiasts will find ample interest in the Wellington Lawn .Tennis Association’s Easter tournament, which will begin on Friday at Miramar and continue on Saturday and Monday. ■ A school jubilee to be celebrated at Easter is that of the Petone Central School, which has just completed its fiftieth year. The programme will include a welcome by the Mayor of Petone, Mr. D. McKenzie, and a social and dance on Saturday. Easter. Monday will be devoted to a parade and sports events at the Petone Recreation Ground. '

The Wellington corporation tramway and bus services will run to a special time-table on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Details are advertised elsewhere in this issue.