School Visit to Dunedin

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6219, 9 December 1914, Page 3

School Visit to Dunedin

Oil Triday altemoou a party consoling of oW pupils and iour teacherd horn tiii! Tawrenee Uistrict High School left by tram lor Uunedin 10 spend the week-end as the guests ol the pupils of the Albany direct school. The teachers in charge oi the parly were Messrs Jones Rector j ana Darton i.hrsi assistant), and ALisses iirosvn (mistress), 'icnnings .;jy assistant) and Goruon \pupil teacher). On um\al at Jjunediu the : party was met by Alessrs liennie and JiCLaren, ol Albany direct bchooi, tiie dchool Hand, and Llie pupils 01 tlie senooi wno iiad undertaken to act as hosts and hostesses. The billeting arrangements were 'in the hanus oi Aiessts McLaren and Datum wno soon had Hie visiting pariy nitrouueed to thoir hosts, Un daturdav morning a procession eonbisung oi the .Lawrence and Albany street pupils, headed \by tne. Albany :>treei ijand, marched to \U'ignt s 1-iaucry establishment, wnere unuex Uie guidance , oi Air Alexander ungju, tney were shown the various pLoei: r -s»es ol break-maiiing. Notice

particularly was taiang oi the iaci mai tliui'c was very lutie handling oi tue inamriul by liio wonuucu, inu ctunes doing practically all tiie wort oi weigning, roiling, anu snapiug ol Hie loaves. 1 lie pi'ucussiou ii''XL visited the Brusn bo. s lactory ill Cumberland struct,, where the various oi brush-making were siiown by ill' It. unliams. On leaving each oi the visitors received a present oi a small brush as a souvenir oi the visit, 'ilie aerated waters factory oi Messrs ihoinpson and Co. were next visited, and here again every kindness was shown the party, Air George Thompson took ilie party through the worts, having lirst oi all assauged the thirst oi the visitors by a copious supply oi lemonade, &e. liach visitor also received a bottle oi raspberry vinegar and pictorial calendar to take home. On ■Saturday evening the party assembled at the Tire Brigade Station where Superintendent Napier, uiter having explained the uses oi the various parts oi the plant, gave an exhibition of the promptness with which a lire alarm is answered. The visitors were greatly astonished at the rapidity with which the motor lire engines were run out and the cleverness of the two horses who at .the signal galloped to their places .at the jpole and were harnessed ill an incredibly short time. Sunday was spent quietly. On Aionday the party were the guests of the Albany Street School in an excursion by tile ferry steamer Wairoka. I'ort Chalmers was .visited and the party landed for lunch at Tortobello. The day was line though rather breezy but on arrival back at the wharf one and all expressed tlieir sense of the pleasure ihey had received on this trip. The. party entrained for Lawrence at -L.:!0 and arrived home safely at 5.50, having enjoyed their outing as children only can. The special thanks of the party are due to Messrs licnmie (headmaster) McLaren (first assistant),, and J. 11. Wilkinson (Chairman of Committee) who each and all did their utmost to make the visitors happy, and j the Lawrence pupils will for many years to come remember the splendid trip from which they have just returned.