PRATERS AT PLAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 2

PRATERS AT PLAY.

Tho Government printers held th&ir annual picnic at Day's Bay this week in ideal weather, and the 600 and more who were there spent a most enjoyable day. Winners of sports events ore :—: — Quoits — A. Jackson 1, A. Little 2. Office Boys' Handicap — Tullett 1, Grindrod 2. Government Printing Office Handicap — Lowry 1, Pulley 2, Sullivan 3. Journeymen's Handicap — Gosuey 1, Fleming 2. Ofdce Girls' Race — Miss Workman 1. Miss Anderson 2. Hop, Step, and Jump— Kerr 1, Patrick 2. ; Office Ladies' Kace— Miss Murray 1, 1 Miss Griffin 2. Swimming Handicap — Campbell 1, 0. Jacobson 2. Overseers' Dash — Swain 1, Barns 2. Office Men's Handicap— M'Caull 1, Newtli 2. Relay Race (four from each floor) — Second floor (E, MoHatt's team), 1. Mairicd Ladies' Race — Mi\ Richardson 1, Mrs. Gamble 2. Egg-and-Spoon Bace — J. Morfatt 1, E. Moffalt 2. Diving Competition—Smith 1, Campbell 2. The tug-o'-war was won by the ground floor. The prizes were pressntsd to the successful competitors by the Government Printer, Mr. J. Mackay. The Picnic Cominittee i acknowledge receipt of trophies from Messrs. Cowan "and Sons, Storer, Meek, and Co., Spicer and Sons, P. Hayman and Co., E. W. Mills and Co., Jamc-s Smith and Sons (New House), F. M'Parland, and W. Bedell. The annual cricket match between the Public Works Department and the Government printers resulted in a draw, the former scoring 260 as against 165 by the latter, who had three wickets to fall when stumps were drawn.