EASTER MONDAY EXCURSION TO PICTON.
A trip combining a whiff of salt sea air with the lovely scenery of Tory Channel and Queen Charlotte Sound will be made by the Wahine on Easter Monday, on a one-day excursion to Picton. Departure from Wellington will be taken at 8 a.m.; An hour and a half after clearing the Heads the"big turbine steamer should be well within the1 calm waters- of Tory; Channel, and Picton should be reached' aboiit quarter to eleven. For; thoseI,who want to go ' on td Blenheim1 a special train will leave Picton after the Wahine's arrival, and will get back to the port before she leaves again. There will also be special launches from Picton to several of the beauty spots in Queen Charlotte Sound, where lunch or hot water may be obtained. Many of the ■ passengers will no doubt prefer just to picnic or to explore the surroundings of the pretty little Sounds port. The return trip will be. made in tho. afternoon, the Wahine leaving . Picton shortly after 2 and arriving back' in .Wellington about 5 o'clock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 4
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181EASTER MONDAY EXCURSION TO PICTON. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 4
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