PLEASURES FOR NEW YEAR

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 14

PLEASURES FOR NEW YEAR

VARIETY OF ENJOYMENTS STRATFORD RACES AND BOWLS. FOUR PICNICS ON THE BEACHES. » ■ After this evening 1920 will have joined all the other years packed away, filed and indexed, no doubt, by Father Time. There may be a passing shade of regret—quite useless—pure regret at the disappearance of another good slice of life or a sort of miserable regret that auch a long time has gone by with so little done. The moody will be left to siidi over it. The majority of Taranaki peoule will greet 1930 with a smile and join' their friends in the pleasures of the season. With racing,, bowls, beach picnics, gala days and dances there is as fine a variety of pleasures this New Year in the province as the most ardent holiday-maker could wish to sec. On New Year’s Eve the fun in the streets is even faster than at Christmas. Each one has an open cheque to draw on the Bank of Enjoyment. At Kawaroa Park the New Plymouth Boys’ High School Old Boys’ Football Club •wifi see the New Year: in with its annual dance. At: the Post Office, as the clock strikes 12 the pipers will accompany the crowd in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” . On New Year’s Day the annual meeting, of the Stratford Racing Chib will open. A great deal.more accommodation is given by the partially completed new grandstand, and extra ground has been teased for the parking of cars. Luncheon and afternoon tea-rooms are provided underneath the new building. The meet•ing will continue on Thursday. , A strong team of Taranaki cricketers on New Year’s Day will begin its match for the. Hawke Cup against Manawatu at .Palmerston North, and, win or lose, will • have the best wishes of the province. - . . ' ■

. ;The New Year tournament of the Taranaki Bowling' Centre will begin on New- Year’s Day - in New Plymouth on the 'Fitzroy; Vogeltown and West End greens'. Forty ■ ririka drawn from ten clubs have entered, and only good weather, is needed'for a very jolly tournament. At Ngainotu beach everything is arranged for the picnic and regatta on New Year’s Day. There will be speed-boat races, rowing races, races for children and a large number of side-shows. The Wairuna will be in port, and it is hoped that the Port Darwin will arrive during the day. Parking space is arranged for over 1500 cars. In the evening a regatta dance will be held in the Workers’ Social Hall.

, Ufenui beach, one of the most delightful beaches in Taranaki, will be crowded on New Year’s Day for the annual picnic and gala, and the Caledonian Society’s picnic will be held on the same day* at the Huatoki Domain. With the weather settled ht last the campers are enjoying their holidays fully. At the Belt Road camping ground there were several hundred people during the week-end. Yesterday there were still ovr 30 parties at the site, and the New Year will see still more motoring visitors.

On Thursday the chief event will be the beach gala day of the Fitzroy Seaside Park Society. Care has been taken to give every facility for picnic parties, and for the children* there is a full programme of exciting contests. Highland dancing will be one of the notable attractions for the day.