HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 June 1927, Page 5

HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS.

KING’S BIRTHDAY FEATURES.

VARIED SPORTS PROGRAMMES,

Followers of athletic sport in the province will be catered for to-morrow with the usual attractive programmes which mark the annual observance or tiie King’s Birthday. Rugby, the most popular of winter games, will be featured with due prominence. While the Taranaki representatives are to proceed to Wanganui to contest the annual opening gam©, and the Hawera Thirds play at Aramoho for the Bartlett cup, several interesting exhibitions of the game, will be r .i v eil within the province. Seven-a-side tourneys at Patea for the cup given.by Mr W. R. Morse, and at New Plymouth for the Dewar tshield, should attract many followers, and at Hawera, Post and Telegraph officials, representing North and South Taranaki, are to meet in junior and senior games on the schoolground, while, as a cur-tain-raiser to the Association representative game on the Showgrounds, a Rugby game has been arranged between the Hawera and New Plymouth Atbeltie Clubs. The Association football fixture is the annual one between ifchei Wanganui and Taranaki elevens, and a keen struggle is expected. The Hawera Pipe Band will give 'selections during the afternoon. In .the evening there will be a smoke concert, with an attractive programme. The lady hockey players of Hawera have held their annual tourney for several years, and it grows in popularity with each successive meeting. This ye air’s, entries include inepreseirtatives of most parts of the province, and. , the resujjt of the meeting should sustain . its reputation. The trophy is the cup ■ given by one of Taranaki’s most prominent supporters of the game, Mir S. J. Oatran. of Hawera. In addition, a Wanganui men’s team will come here to play the local team. Golf is well catered for, Hawera having a. visit frorp a strong Eltham men’s contingent, while the Hawiera ladies' are sending a team to Eltham, New Plymouth hold a one-day, tourney. The Boy Scouts are . having an' intertroop sports meeting at Turuturumokai, beginning at 10.30 a.m. The judge will be Major Sandfdrd, All Scouts and Cubs parade at Scouts Hall at 9.30 a.m.

Rifle shooting is also provided for by the meeting at Patea, which is expected to draw many of the best shots of the coast.

Fair hags of ducks and quail and a few pheasants are still being 'secured, and no doubt a large number of sportsmen will be out with dog *nd gun scouring the country.