STRATFORD A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 80, 1 April 1912, Page 4

STRATFORD A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

THE EASTER GYMKHANA. OVERHEAR]) CONVERSATION . Darby: "Joan, my dear, I think we will go" and, see the gymkhana on Easter Muriday." Joan : M Go and see the Jim Karner? Why, is m the daddy of all of that name in the world? I don't think I know him? r.uyhow, although the name seems very.familiar to me. Where does he IrW?" Darby: "iloan, you old goose, it isn't a man at all, it's the greatest novelty spoHs ever held in Taranaki. Horses, motor cars, inanagerie animals, and"! don't know wnat not. You musi have seen it in the papers?" Joan: "Well, well, well, dearie mo. So that is ; what that awful name means. T'have seen it in the papers and I have been wondering for a long time' 'what it meant. I feared' to ask ycu what it meant, because it .might respectable." Darby'* Respectable? Ha, ha, ha, ha, you fig! make me laugh. The name coniea from India, and is as respectable as any Indian nabob." Joan: '.'Very well, we will certainly go, but things do move sudden these times, ak my dear old mother said when the 'bnrglftr stole the silver tea pot 'imx had been in our family for generations.

It is only,.natural that when a public holid'-'y, ,is in sight, people look about ,to decide the best means of spending such a holiday and make' preparation's accordingly some little/ The next public lioliday : that ; is being looked foi-ward 1 to as ' a , dajy, ,of Jreen enjoyment, by young : ' u and a week away, Easter....:.!. 1 Monday,' when '-the,great sports, meetr, ~, ing that been so much"'before''" the publ'Cjlor some time will eventuate. Tho'rp who have not yet made up t t lieir;mi'(i'ds where to spend Easter Monday should do so quickly, and decide to attend this great novelty fixture. Admission to the grounds is fixed at tiro 1 very low price of one shilling', and excursion trains will run from 'Xew ■Plymouth, Hawera, and'Te Wera.' : ! il <: