DTHE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 12

DTHE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

AUCKLAND CELEBRATIONS.

ANNIVERSARY PICNIC. The seventeenth anniversary of the foundation of tho Chineso Republic was celebrated in Auckland yesterday by the whole Chinese community. All shops and places of business were closed for tho day and a largely-attonded picnic was held at the homo of Mr. J. Knight, at Fcrndale. An Association football match was also played at Bland ford Park between a Chineso team and a team representing Kents, Limited, in the afternoon, a draw resulting. Nearly 600 Chineso attended tho picnic, all shades of political opinion being represented. Tho holiday-makers assembled at tho Civic Square, where an interested crowd watched them lcavo in 16 charabancs and a number of private motor-cars. When the party reached Ferndalo the weather was sufficiently fine to allotf a programme of sports events to be com: nienced, but after four races had beon decided the sports had to bo abandoned for tho day. It had also been intended to hold a series of humorous competitions, but as the party was kept indoors most, of fho time, theso were not proceeded with. It is hoped by tho committee to hold a second picnic, either on Now Year's Day or on tho first Sunday of next year, when the remainder of tho trophies will bo competed for.