STEADY rain on SATURDAY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 7

STEADY rain on SATURDAY

(leek-End Sports Affected

<js e wettest Easter week-end in jfjstchurch for several years the cancellation of many ports fixtures and other outevents and brought discomto hundreds of Bible class anpers on Saturday. Xany trotting enthusiasts, howuer. defied the heavy rain to a tch the New Zealand Metrojlstan Trotting Club’s Easter meting at Addington, which has been held in worse condiyjos. AU the stands were well cjed. but there was a noticeable pcence of snectators lining the gL The track was a river of and the drivers’ colours soon almost unrecognisable. Other less enthusiastic supporters of trotting preferred to £ow the sport from the comfort j/ their fireside after placing their at city and suburban Totaliptor Agency Board offices. The office in Worcester street ns kept very busy during the jcrning. punters queuing from counters into the streets. The first day of the Canterhory Lawn Tennis Association's faster tournament was postponed fll today because of the heavy fain and the condition of the purts* practices which were to have tieen held by other sports clubs rere cancelled. Scout and guide gymkhanas which were to have teen held at Waiau, and the Omihi-Scargill Young Farmers’ Club's gymkhana were also post--r.sd. Theatres Filled Christchurch cinemas were well patronised in the afternoon, and sany persons hoping to attend •ie Christchurch Operatic Society’s matinee performance of -Wedding in Paris” at the Theatre gcyal were turned away. Between 9 a.m. on Saturday and f ajn. yesterday, 38in of rain was recorded at the Weather Ofice, Harewood, and at the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch J7in was recorded in the same period. After some rain early yesterday morning the weather cleared pd remained fine for the rest of ±e day. Today’s forecast is for fair weather, with light, variable finds.