PEACE CELEBRATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16797, 29 March 1919, Page 9

PEACE CELEBRATIONS

PLEASANT POINT'S PLANS. .Tile iirsfc meeting of tlie Pleasant' X oint ; Peace Celebration Committee was held in the Technical School on Wed- ; nesday evening, Mr 'jl Maze; r in th* . chair. There was a large attendance ol members. The ladies of the district had bgen invited to attend and form a committee, and about" thirty turned up, , enabling a strong working committee I to be loimed, ail present agreeing ta I act:7. •After discussion it was decided that two days' • celebrations would bo enough , for Pleasant Point to undertake, and the following . programme was agreed upon. ' " ' 1. Sunday—Com,bihed open air' - service at ; the School' at 2'.3op'.hi. " ■Monday—Free. ; . Tuesday—Procession including returned soldiers, school children with flags;,--tradespeople's : fifcnoutsj "decorated vehicles of all descriptions, traclon engine with trucks, ete.y to leave | the school grounds in the forenoon and j inarch- via .the main road to the Park. { where- a-sports meeting (admission free) ' ; will be held, with events ; for children I and adults. Tea will be provided free ;on the grounds but everyone to be . asked -to bring their own cup and a. i basket.' ■ • : | A strong committee has been formed to arrange a sports programme- At night a -Peace Celebration Ball will be A held, which it is expected,will surpass A •anything of its kind ever held 'in the M district. The best of music will be proivided and the catering will ha on ' --i liberal scale. ' . The following sub-committees w>re ' appointed, • with officers ex ofheio- in each '. case Open-air service. J.lev. Hanson and Mr Bishop. Sports,' Messrs ■ J. Wright, Corlett, ■ Curson, .....Bishop, V Stewart and Lawrenson, with the menu » bers of the local -Caledonian i-Societv. « Procession—Messrs Wickes, DwlEmorc. Knox, Crozier, ■ Cursbif 'Browii: ami i Sounders, Mesdames Mn'ze,'Dunn, 0- )llin»re, Batchelor, Davidson and Miss Geaney. Ball—Messrs Curson, ;Corlet|; Wright, Wickes, Brown, Mr-Maze' Lawrenson,' Mesdames Dollimore, *'<3roi zier, Batcnelor, Dunn, Bishop,' Mazo, and Misses Geaney, Neilson, Maze ami Darcy. : The following collectors were appointed : —To tar a —Messrs Lawrenson and Wright. Levels Valley, Downs - and ;Suth erl arids—Messrs Saunders and : Bishop. Kerrytown—Miss M. Cart wright. Town—Misses A. Neilson, Agnew and Saunders. , If wet it. was decided to. holdHhe' functions -at' the school. • i