A School Visit

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

A School Visit

T AST Thursday week the hockey and Soccer teams of the Wanganui' Technical College paid a visit to the Technical College in Wellington. They arrived at the new railway station at five minutes to six, and after a hurried tea at home we were taken, by our director, to Wellington’s most beautiful theatre, the Majestic. The film was entitled, “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.” 'When the pictures ended at ten-thirty five or six of us had a milk-shake, and then boarded a tram at Courtenay Place, and arrived home somewhere near midnight.

Next morning, Friday, I took my guest over the school, and showed her the college cafeteria. After that a bus was ready to take us sight-seing up Mount Victoria, round Marine Parade, Miramar, Massey’s Memorial, Seatoun, Breaker, Lyall and Island Bays and Happy Valley. The matches, which were played on the Basin Reserve, were very exciting, the Wellington girls’ hockey team winning by seven goals to two, and the Soccer game being drawn—four-all. On Friday evening we held a social in honour of our visitors, _ and had dancing, games and competitions, ending up with supper. On Saturday morning at nine o’clock we paid a visit to the new railway station, and met the architect, Mr. Gray Young, who had designed the building. He showed us over it and gave us a very interesting time. At ten-fifteen the visiting teams’ 1 train left for Wanganui again, and as it drew out they cheered us, hoping that we would pay a return visit, either in basketball. Soccer or hockey, next year.— Pearl o’ the Sea (13), Wellington.