EASTER HOLIDAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1931, Page 11

EASTER HOLIDAYS

MANY ATTRACTIONS

RACES AND SPORTS

A sine qua non for really successful Easter holidays is good weather, but unfortunately Easter this year has apparently missed a fine weather spell, and tho outlook at present is not very promising. Nevertheless, tho weather may not turn out to be quite as bad as expected, and, however bad the- prospects, many will not be deterred from carrying out their programme. Shops will be closed to-morrow (Good Friday) and on Easter Monday. The banks will shut from to-morrow until "Wednesday morning. Law holidays extend from to-morrow until Monday week, 13th April, and the school holidays are from this afternoon until Wednesday morning next, To-morrow, Sunday tram services with Sunday fares operate from, midday, and special services which are advertised elsewhere will run in the morning. On Easter Monday tho trams resume the ordinary services, with specials on all lines as required. Tho Railway Department also advertises a. special service for the holidays, and intending travellers by rail would do well to make themselv-es acquainted with the alterations in the time-tables. Racing is always one of the chief Easter holiday attractions, and Wellington patrons of the turf will have the choice of Tauherenikau, Feilding, and Waipukurau, with trots at Hawera. With tho exception of Waipukurau, where Monday is the only day, races take place on both Saturday and. Monday. In Wellington at Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon there will be three Rugby matches, betwoten Hui Mai (Horowhemia) and Athletic, Miramar and Gladstone (Wairarapa), and Oriental and Kaierau (Wanganui). The chief cricket match will' bo the one between the Hastings team and a Wellington junior team at the Basin Reserve. This match will be continued on Monday. Golfers will have a choice of tournaments. The "Wellington provincial golf championships start at Heretaunga on Saturday, and other clubs are ■■ staging Easter competitions. The Easter tennis tournament begins at Miramar to-morrow, and bowlers are catered for in the Eastern Suburbs ana Hutt Valley tournaments. . Easter attractions include the Paremata Boating Club's annual regatta at which nearly fifty centreboard' boats and outboard'craft will be competing. Several provincial championships will bo decided.- The programme extends over" four days, Good Friday to Easter Monday inclusive. To-morrow' evening the performance of "The Messiah," to be given by the Royal Wellington Choral Union in the Town Hall, should prove to be a great attraction, especially as the ..proceeds so to the earthquake- relief funds. If the weather is kind the various bays and picnic haunts 'should be well patronised." On Easter Monday the New Zealanders' Association will be at Day's Bay. On the same day, weather permitting, the Wahine will leave_ at 8 a.m. for Picton, and exeursiomsts will have time to go to Blenheim and other spots in the Marlborough Bounds before returning to Wellington. Ine Wahine is to leave Pieton at 2 p.m. on the return journey, arriving back m Wellington about 5 p.m.