LABOUR WEEK END

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26909, 22 October 1948, Page 4

LABOUR WEEK END

MANY TRAVELLERS VARIETY OF SPORTING ATTRACTIONS ~ Labour Day week-end, the longest holiday before Christmas, has become associated with shopping problems in the minds of housewives in Dunedin. Grocers’, bread and butchers’ shops will close to-night for three days, together with most other retailers’ establishments. As a result, housewives will have to buy enough provisions today to last over the holiday period. As usual, large numbers of people will leave the city for a short holiday in the country and at tourist and seaside resorts. The Government Tourist Office and the railway booking office in Dunedin have had a busy time issuing tickets and answering inquiries about trips. Central Otago is again popular, and accommodation at the Hermitage and Te Anau was booked out early. The same, position obtained in respect to the hostels at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. Owing to heavy bookings, special trains will be run over the week-end. Together with the usual express from Christchurch to Invercargill, a special train will go south to-night. There will be a special train from Palmerston to Dunedin on Monday, amving here at 7 p.m., to bring back people who will spend the holiday at cribs at the seaside. A train will leave Invercargill at 6.40 p.m. on Monday for Dunedin and Christchurch to bring back holiday-makers from the south, and a train will arrive here early on Tuesday morning from Christchurch. Another will take Invercargill people back on Monday, leaving here at 5.45 p.m., and a train from Invercargill will reach Dunedin at 10.7 .p.m. on Monday. All these trains are heavily booked. Many motorists will be taking ad- , vantage of the holiday to leave Dunedin, and others will be making a visit to the city. As a result, there will be a great amount of ti-affic on the roads, and the. Automobile Association of Otago has requested that they should drive carefully and observe the courtesies of the road. Advice nas been received by the association from petrol resellers that the hours for the sale of petrol over the week-end and on Monday will be: To-day—Stations will be open from 7.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. To-morrow and Sunday—Week-end emergency stations will be open at the usual hours. Monday—Stations open from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

There is a wide variety of sports .entertainment offering over the holiday period. The opening of the new * cricket season was to be held to-mor-.row, but has been cancelled. There - .will be no matches, but clubs will hold . their own practices. The yachting season will start with races-at Macandrew Bay held by the North-East Harbour Club, which will also launch three new Primer class boats. The races begin at 2 p.m. One of the major events to-morrow will be the races at Gore, and atTim- ■ '-aru the A. and P. Society will hold its annual show. At Alexandra, the Gun Club will hold an Open Championship Match for £IOO. A popular attraction in the city to-morrow afternoon i - will be the motor cycle grass track • races at Tahuna Park. On the more serious side, the Ala- . mein Day service will be held at the Cenotapoh in the Queen’s Gardens at , .10.30 a.m. to-morrow. ; On Sunday, few attractions are off erring apart from the massed pipe bands’ display at the Caledonian Ground. The bands, which number 10, and include some from Southland, will march to the ground from the Queen’s Gardens in massed formation, leaving there at 1.30 p.m. On Monday there are two race meetings—one at Oamaru and the other the second day of the Gore meeting. Gardeners will see in the long weekend a glorious opportunity to get their ■ planting done, and will be looking forward hopefully to some, good weather. Sporting organisations in general, most of which are about to start their summer activities in earnest, will have the same thought.