EXCURSIONS.
The raiJivay wne well patronised, no loss than.- three of tho * town Sunday schools holding- their''annual picnic in the co'nntryvyostarday, the'consequence being that;-th.fi' 8.30 out train in tho niorning andv.io in train in the evening were very large trains, the former carrying about 800 passengers, and tlie latter fully a hundred more. "The-ten o'clock out train took about 200 passengers, and .the. .train leaving Belgrove at 4.30 p.m. for town was largely availed of by parents with young children who- desi;-od to return at the earlier hour. /The arrangements made were very satisfactory, tho trains keeping schedule time and there was no hifch of any kind.
The ■ Presbyterian Sunday school and the-^Baptist. Sunday school! picnicked at Wakeneld, the. Church of Christ Sunday ■school at Spring Grove, and the Stoko Methodist Sunday school at Brightwater. /
The Anchor Co.'s Koi ran an excursion to Motuoka. a large nximber of Nolsoniaiis making tlie trip.
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)
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152EXCURSIONS. Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)
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