THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 10

THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.

MANY OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS

BOWLING, TENNIS AND RACING AUCKLAND GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. As" usual a comprehensive programme of outdoor attractions has been arranged for the Easter holidays but the weather conditions at present are far from promising. However, the holiday-maker is naturally cheerful, and it is to be hoped that he will he able to watch his horse winning or losing, his bowl slowing up on a dead green, or his spotless picnic attire being temporarily ruined by mud with the knowledge that he is at least lucky in having a break of a few days from the routine of office. A close holiday will be observed tomorrow, Good Friday. Special services will be held in tho churches of all denominations ai-d at many of them music and anthems, associated from time immemorial with the season, will bo rendered. The principal outdoor to-morrow will bo the Easter bowling tournament which will continue over the holidays, a representative cricket match at Eden Park between an Auckland team and an eleven chosen from the minor associations within tho district, and the annual tourney of the Birkenhead-North-cote Tennis Club. The cricket match will be concluded on Saturday and the tennis tourney will continue over the holidays. Tho city tramways will again follow last year's innovation and the trams will run all day. Buses will also be on the road, and the ferry companies will run their Sunday time-tables. Saturday will mark the opening of the Auckland Racing Club's Autumn Meeting at Ellerslio This event has of past years made Auckland a racegoer's Mecca at Easter and it will be a pity if the large number of Southern and country visitors arc disappointed by rain this year. Tho Auckland Provincial golf championship tournament will open at the Middlemore links. Excellent entries have been obtained and some good play is anticipated. A tournament will also bo commenced at the Titirangi course. The St. John Ambulance Association's competitions will be held at the Domain. A military tourney by the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, which is in camp at the Showgrounds, Epsom, and the Onetangi regatta will also be held. Monday's programme includes the continuation of the golf championship, and the conclusion of the Auckland Racing Club's meeting. Numerous athletic sports meetings have been arranged in places round Auckland and there will be the usual largo number of harbour excursions. Theatres throughout the city will stage special programmes over the holidays but none will be open to-morrow. Practically all shops will be closed for the four consecutive days, but the butchers' and bakers' establishments will be open on Saturday morning to meet demands for the week-end. Shops in / the city and suburbs will open late this evening and a busy time is expected. Banks and insurance offices will be closed until Wednesday morning. Legal offices will not reopen until Monday, April 12. The primary schools will be closed tomorrow and on Monday, but an extra day's holiday will be added to-day when the annual sports of the Primary Schools Athletic Association will be held. The secondary schools will resume on Wednesday morning. THE WEATHER PROSPECTS. OUTLOOK NOT FAVOURABLE. Tho general outlook for tho Easter holidays is for unsettled weather, states Mr. H. M. Vincent, the Herald's special observer. A temporary improvement in the present conditions is expected before to-morrow, but tho distribution of atmospheric pressure denotes further stormy weather, with rain, to follow. Disturbances are located both to the north-west and southward of the Dominion, and further easterly conditions are indicated, with a brief interval of south-westerly winds intervening. Although unsettled weather is likely to predominate during the holidays, the weather on Easter Sunday and Monday should be mainly fine. Indications point to April being generally wet and stormy, with a succession of easterly to northerly gales, as tropical influences now control conditions throughout Australia and New Zealand. The Dominion is affected by tho southern edges of these disturbances, the centres usually passing by the northward.