THE HOLIDAY.
ANNIVERSARY T>AY. Ycsfcarday wan the sixty-fifth anniyor. Kitrj - of Wellington, n'mi it was obsorrod as a general holiday. 'Hio sun shone warmly from a clandlcns sky, A northerly breeze fmdicmxl a little in the afternoon. Crrr.vds of people went to the Wellington llaeing Hub's meeting at Trentham, to wy>«i<le r<sorts, anti ■to picnicking places in the suburbs and adjacent country places. The Governwont railway officials report that 30.000 peoplo were handltxt an the lino yesterday (counting the out and imvard journeys of half that number). Of threw, ris thous.ind wore conveyed from Wellington and suburb* to the races at Trenthiun, six hundred were from the Wninirapa. and nbont throe thonmnd five hundm! were conveycvl from the city to country stations. On the Wellington and -Mnnuwatu line two ihonnand oxcunshmints were dropped Ixihreen the city and Pa<»kakarihi. and five hnmlred truve’lctl to stations Ih>yond that point. 'Hie tramway traffic vmi very heavy througliout the day. particularly on the Island Bay section, and on the arrival of trains. There was a rdgafcta at Kvans Bay, and land and water sports at Sertoun.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5804, 23 January 1906, Page 7
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