VISIT TO EXHIBITION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21559, 23 January 1940, Page 8

VISIT TO EXHIBITION

PARTY FROM BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL A party of 29 boys from the Timaru Boys’ High School, under the control of Mr D. S. Kemshed, left by yesterday’s express for Wellington for a visit to the Centennial Exhibition. The party, which has been organised under the auspices of the Group Travel Association, will be billeted at Rongotai College. Very complete arrangements have been made for the party to inspect the Exhibition. In addition there will be a launch trip on Wellington harbour and a sightseeing motor tour round the suburbs and the main attractions of Wellington. A feature of the tour will be a visit to the Art Gallery, where the party will be given a description of i the main works of art. Before leaving, Mr Kemshed said that a tour such as he had organised would be of considerable educational value to the boys, and that the development of travel along the lines | as commenced by the Group Travel I movement had considerable room for ' j expansion. The boys, said Mr Kemj shed, were all very enthusiastic about the trip and were looking forward to i their five days’ visit to Wellington. I The party will return to Timaru on , I Sunday. ’ JUVENILE’S GOOD FORTUNE 1 ’ By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, January 22. As announced at the presentation of j I a radio set to the millionth visitor to i the Exhibition £5 will be given to each hundred-thousandth to enter. Saturday’s attendance was 26,286, leaving the total only a few hundreds short of 1,100,000. At 10.17 this morning Robbie Marchant, a freckled 11-year-old boy from Mangonui School, North Auck- ? land, one of a party of 600 which is c touring the Exhibition, to-day walked f through the turnstiles and won £5 for !• the first 100,00 th visitor to the Exhij bition of the second million.