WAITARA COMBINED PICNIC

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 9

WAITARA COMBINED PICNIC

MOVE BY' FREEZING WORKERS. With a 'view to arranging a com* bined picnic of Waitara citizens the Waitara Freezing Workers’ Union on Tuesday night'convened a meeting at which were present representatives of the Retailers’ Association and the con- • vent school. As the school committee would not meet until February 9, no delegate / from it would be attending the meeting, wrote the chairman (Mr. W. B. Glasgow). The master would be fully discussed at the next meeting. _ A holiday would be granted for the picnic if it were decided to hold one, but' as it was not a school picnic the school staff could not be asked to assist. If the picnic proved successful and next year' took the nature of a town picnic the school committee might abandon its own picnic. Owing to the withdrawal of Government subsidies, the school picnic itself might have to be abandoned this year. , , It was considered the school com- ! mittee should have been represented at the meeting. It was pointed out that, what the union wanted was a •combined management committee on which •both schools, the business people and the freezing workers would be reP The delegates from the ■ Retailers Association favoured co-operating in the picnic, and stated that -a meeting was to be held with a view to providing some financial assistance. The school committee is to be asked to reconsider the matter, arid to appoint representatives to attend another ineeting on February 10. The date of the picnic was fixed tentatively for March 12. ’ The secretary said he had made enquiries concerning picnic facilities at Stratford and Ngaere. He was, instructed to obtain further information from Eltham and particulars of railway fares. ' It was decided to open a voluntary contribution list for freezing works employees and a sports committee was j also set up, with power to add.