NAPIER JUBILEE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 289, 17 November 1924, Page 4

NAPIER JUBILEE.

CHILDREN’S SPORTS PRO GRAMME.

Considerable interest is being taken in the children’s part of the Napier Borough Jubilee celebrations by the Celebrations Committee, and it is evident from the excellent arrangements made that the jubilee will live long in the memory of Napier’s younger generation. The Thirty Thousand Club will hold primary school children’s sports on the Parade on the Wednesday morning, and in the afternoon a procession of 1200 children from all the Napier primary schools will march from the Technical School to McLean Park, accompanied by four bands. At the park the children will put on a display of marching and physical drill, under Mr Pirie, physical drill instructor for the district, ending up with the formation of the living letters “Napier Jubilee.” The Hukarere School girls will giro an exhibition of poi dancing and will sing native songs, and the pupils of the Technical School will give a display of drill. In addition to the drilling and marching there will over a hundred children dancing under thw direction of Madame Bligh. On Thursday and Friday afternoons the Thirty Thousand Club will con-f tinue the primary school children’s events and there will be a distribution or sweets.