ST. PATRICK'S PICNIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1932, Page 10

ST. PATRICK'S PICNIC

OUTING AT TE KINGA. The annual St. Patrick’s picnic was held yesterday, at Te Kinga. Weather conditions were ideal and the crowd of over 800 who attended spent an efijovable day. A lengthy programme of sports, including many amusing, novelty events added much to the enjoyment of the day. Results of the events were: — Boys under 12.—Gerald Kennedy 1, Tom Power 2. Girls under 12. Jean Becker 1, Jessie Quinlan 2. Boys under 13—Gerald Kennedy 1 ( Ossie Buckman 2. Girls under 13—Mary Close 1, D. Callan 2. Boys under 14—A. Heaphy 1, G. Kennedy 2. Girls under 14—D. Callan 1, P. McGrath 2. Boys’ Championship, under 15—A. Heaphy (H.B. trophy) 1, O. Buckman

(H.B. Trophy) 2. Girls’ Championship, under 15—A. Lees (B. Dixon’s trophy) 1, M. Pfeifer 2. Girls under 15—M. Pfeifer (Aitken and Peter’s trophy) 1. 1 Boys’ three legged race—Heaphy and Buckman 1, Brown and Heffernan 2. . Girls’ three-legged race —Misses Callan and Lee 1, Misses Phibbs and Carter 2. Bovs’ Secondary School Champion-ship.’-O. Buckman (Truman’s trophy) 1, E. Brown (Truman’s trophy) 2. School Relay Race—Convent A. 1, Convent B._ 2. Men’s 100 yards race. —First heat: Pollock 1, O’Connell 2, Durning 3. Second heat: Father O’Gorman 1, R. Crase 2, T. Duffy 3. Final:. Father O’Gorman 1, R. Pollock 2, C.-Durning 3Boys’ Potato* Race. —E. Blake 1. , Skipping Relay.—St. Mary’s A. 1, ■St. Patrick’s A. 2, St. Mary’s B. 3. Hop, step and jump.—C. O’Connor 1, C. Durning 2. Boys Tunnel Ball—A. Heaphy’steam ’ Girls’ Relay Race.—St. Mary’s A. 1, St. Pat’s A. 2.* \ Boys’ Relay.—M. Kennedy’s team 1, A. Heaphy’s team 2. Baby Show. —Under 18 months. Mesdames Austin and Williams, judges: Raby Robertson (Thorpy’s trophy) 1, Baby Knapp (Thorpy’s trophy) 2. Girls’ Overhead Ball—St. Marys A. 1, St. Mary’s B. 2, St. Pat’s B. 3. Girls’ Hopping Power 1, Edna Rohloff -2. Cigarette Race—R. Crooks and Miss Marshall (Economic and Tim Sinnott’s trophies) 1, Hurst and Miss O’Brien 2. Mixed three-legged race.—J. Duffy and Mrs Austin 1, Grogan and Miss Brown 2.

Girls’ three-legged race. —Lucy Duffy and Claire Warwick 1. K. Phibbs and F. Carter 2.

Married Ladies’ Race. —Mrs Austin (Boucher’s trophy) 1, Mrs Fenton 2, Mrs Anderson 3. Committeemen’s Race. —J. Duffy 1, R. Crooks 2, M. Kelly 3. Ladies’ three-legged race. —Misses Lee and Power 1, Misses Keating and Clayton 2. Guessing competition (John Deere’s trophy).—Miss Cecelia Keating. Married Ladies’ Committee Race. — Mrs Grogan and Mrs Pollock (dead heat) 1. (Mr G. Webster’s trophy).