TRADES PICNIC.
[to the editor.] Sir, —There is a rumour to the effect that the Trades Picnic, this year, is to take the form of a trip to Christchurch, which seems to be an unfair arrangement. This-picnic is to give employees and the school children a day out, but if the above programme is carried out, a certain section of the younger employees will have a good' time, while most of the mothers and children will be left behind, being unable to travel so far, and arrange a night’s board in the City of the Plains. . Surely, Sir, this is a selfish form in which to get up a picnic, and what a picnic! If the object of the above programme is to meet Cbristchur.it friends, why not make it a day at Otira, and let the trains from both sides meet there? We want a real trades’ picnic, not a train journey.—Yours, etc., -EMPLOYEE. s When the above letter was referred to Mr H. Hope, secretary of the Trades’ Picnic Committee, he stated that Christchurch had not been discussed in the selection of a suitable location, and he could not account for the rumours. .The picnic had' been arranged to take place at Te Kinga, on February 29.—Ed. “Star.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 February 1936, Page 5
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