GERALDINE PICNIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10053, 12 February 1927, Page 3

GERALDINE PICNIC.

AN INEVITABLE' POSTPONEMENT -Great disappointment was felt at Geraldine on Thursday morning, when the clouds which had been gathering during the previous night came down in heavy showers as the time for boarding the lorries, which ■were to transport the school children to Orari, on the first stage of their journey to Caroline Bay, approached. The rain came on harder than ever, and the School Committee had reluctantly to declare the picnic off for the day. It was fell that the responsibility of packing the lorries with children in the rain was too great to be undertaken, foi even if the rain stopped, the children would have got a wetting to start off with. As things turned out the weather was flue, though cloudy not a good picnic day, but a possible one; and people generally agreed that the decision not to go on with the picnic was a wise one under the circumstances. It was decided, to hold school sports in the Domain on Friday afternoon, and to postpone the actual picnic for a week. The tickets already sold yviil ho accepted by the Railway Department for the ordinary 8.15 train from Orari next Thursday. Further adult tickets ■will he obtainable up to Tuesday next-.