TIMARU CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS
MONSTER CHILDREN’S PICNIC ( Per Pro** Association.) TIMARU, April 10. I The Timaru centennial celebrations I concluded to-day with a monster i children’s picnic. Upwards of 4000 ■ children from primary and secondary; schools were entertained on the show-' grounds, the function being an out- ‘ standing success. During the afternoon the primary children gave a spectacular display of forming a relief map of the Dominion, the outline being built up according • to outstanding dates of colonisation. and the effect being most striking. Transport and catering arrange- : ments for feeding the'children worked ' without a hitch, luncheon made up in i parcels being distributed in 13 minutes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 85, 12 April 1940, Page 7
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