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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 20 February 1912, Page 6

The members of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board have been engaged all the morning in looking oyer outstanding accounts, -and about fifty of those have been struck off the books. A fairly large number wore aboard the Toko train this morning, en route to Now Plymouth, where a picnic was held under the auspices of the Huiakamu School Committee. After the arrival of the train it instantly became apparent that all the Huiakama parents and children had in the morning made a dash from the bed' to the now and then from the cow to the train, for they scattered all over the landscape : eagerly .seeking provender both for consumption on the premises and for removal. One lady purchased a large cake, and being afraid the New Plymouth train was on the point of leaving, she left the shop without wrapping it up. On her way back to the-station she enquired if the New Plymouth train bad gone, and was told that it was on the point of leaving. She almost dropped her cake in her astonishment, shouted “Where are my children?” (they had apparently been sent out on ;i se]>arato and distinct foraging expedition), and stampeded for the station. She found that the train had not yet arrived. But, then, no subject is sacrod to the wagstor.