SCHOOLS’ PICNIC.
LARGE SPECIAL TRAIN CONVEYS 1000 PASSENGERS. Approximately 1000 children and adults left Hawera at 8.50 o’clock this morning by special train for Moturoa beach, New Plymouth, for the annual picnic of tlie Hawera Main, Hawera High, Tawhiti, and Tokaora Schools. Nineteen carriages filled to capacity conveyed the happy picnic throng. This is the largest size train permitted by the Railway Department. The passengers on the train were in tlie charge of Messrs J. W. Harding and C. H. Brough (chairman and secretary of the Hawera Main School Committee), and associated with them were Messrs F. A. Bates, A. Gray, H. W. Jackson, G. T. Francis (headmasters of the Hawera Main, Hawera High. Tawhiti and Tokaora Schools respectively), and members of the committees and staffs of the various iSk> schools. » The train is due to arrive hack at Hawera at 8.5 o’clock this evening.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 February 1927, Page 4
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145SCHOOLS’ PICNIC. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 February 1927, Page 4
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