NORTHLAND CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8

NORTHLAND CHILDREN

A BIG EXCURSION

660 ARRIVING TOMORROW

Wellington, its show places, and the Exhibition will be invaded tomorrow by a party of 660 children and officers in charge from Whangarei. They will stay a week. The trip was arranged by the Kupe Club of Whangarei, and will cost £3000. which has been subscribed in the district largely through the efforts of the "Northern Advocate." The Health Department and the Wellington Education Board have assisted the trip in various ways, and the board will billet the children at several schools. The special train which is bringing them from Whangarei will arrive at 10 58 a.m. A special train will take them home at 3.42 p.m. on January 26. The children will be accompanied by the Mayor and Mayoress of Whangarei, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. No set programme of entertain-, ment by the city has yet been laid out. but the Mayor of Wellington. Mr. T. G. A. Hislop, will meet the party

at *ie King's Theatre on Sunday night at 8 o'clock, when the programme will be discussed after the wishes of the visitors have been ascertained. The invasion of the Exhibition will probably not be before Tuesday.

The party includes many Maori children of all ages, some from the outermost districts of Northland, and the experience will be particularly exciting for the backblocks children. The children of the party have helped to raise the money for the excursion in many ways, by wood-chopping and other work.

The girls and women are being billeted at the Newtown School, where the* whole of the old and new buildings are being used. The boys and men are to be accommodated at the South Wellington and Berhampore S hools.