THE NORTHLAND CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 9

THE NORTHLAND CHILDREN

After a splendid week of great*enjoyinent, the party of 700 children from Northland are starting today on the-long journey to their homes in the Far North

In the course of their stay, there is little that these bright youngsters have left unseen. Every nook and cranny of the big fair has been probed and explored, and,there is nothing among the multitude of free attractions in the cdurts that has not claimed their attention.

■ With•'the unrestrained enthusiasm of yputh. they, have done the Exhibition as few adults have been able to do, even those who live in the city and visit, Rbngotai frequently.

• Yesterday morning several parties of the children visited certain industrial cpncems in -and around the city, and they spent the afternoon and part of the evehing at the Exhibition.

~ln a final "whoopee" on Playland the youngsters freely used the free passes provided for them by their sponsors, and at 5 p.m. the concert party broadcast from the Exhibition station—much to the edification of a large number of visitors outside the studio. The Northland song, a chorus specially composed for the excursion party, was a feature of the programme. X.ed by Miss Joan HQdsell, the concert party has a wide repertoire Of choruses, hakas, elocutionary, and musical items. .