"CHILDREN'S DAY"
To-morrow is "Children's Day," when members of the Wellington Automobile Club take the children of the various local institutions for an afternoon's outittß, and the club gives each child a packet of sweets and a toy. Some 700 children are to be taken out, in about 170 cars, the institutions from which the children come being two Presbyterian boys' schools, one Presbyterian girls' school, tho Levin Memorial Home for Boys, the Government Receiving Home, the Victoria Hospital for Children, St. Mary's Home, Karori, the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, the Nai Nai Orphanage, Lower Hutt, the Anglican Boys' Home, Lower Hutt, and St. Joseph's Orphanage, Upper Hutt. The motor-car drivers pick up the children at the various institutions shortly after mid-day, and then parade with them on Jervois quay, after which each owner acts as host, or hostess, to the children in his or her car, taking them for an outing wherever they please, entertaining them in any way they like, and returning them to tiioir respective institutions at B p.m.' ■ ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 11
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