A BUSY EASTER
WANGANUI LOOKING FORWARD MANY VISITORS WILL BE HEBE Wanganui is to experience the busiest Easter for years this year. Easter Saturday falls on April II and Easter Monday on April 13. Visitors from afar will be visiting Wanganui. Firstly, it is anticipate'! that the annual festivities organised by the Collegiate School will draw patroilage from old boys and their friends to a much larger extent even than last year, when the number were greatly swelled. The usual competitive games between old boys and the present school will take place; there will be the usual happy reunions, culminating in Hie glorious Old Boys' Ball, one of the great social events of the year on this const. Highland pipe bands, 18 of them in fact, will be assembling here to compete in the New Zealand I’ipe Band Championship. Jn addition to that rowing crews from Otago, Auckland. Marlborough, Canterbury, Wellington, Southland and Hawke’s Bay will be visiting the river on Easter Saturday in an effort to wrest the llallybnrton Cup from the Wanganui rowing eight. This is the most valuable trophy of its kind in the Dominion. Everything suggests that Hie Easier just ahead will be the busiest this city has experienced for over 26 years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 8
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207A BUSY EASTER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 8
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