"DOMINION" STAFF PICNIC.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 438, 22 February 1909, Page 7

"DOMINION" STAFF PICNIC.

•■Oβ. -'Saturday,: members.:ofX-JCub Dominion statfj-.journeyed; to;:Day's,'Bay. to ; .hold:their annual picnic At' the ..bay, '-'a well-arranged sports programme:was got.off >ivery, dose and c-jcuting finishes resulting in ; someof. tbe.races. .'Uie race.pt' the day, ladies' races of course exceptedj was the 60yds., swimming handicap'.' This was .'. won by ; Mr..' G. L, Those who.,were.-not', interested in any way. in; the reports.. found abundance" of;."other amusement,-iin !. cricket .and/other '''games;; The day ■■ was'ihbt, iind the: water cool, so the, uoaoh. proved a- ; great attraction,-num-bers of the older . picnielsers visiting ■ it; Lunoh and .'tea werojaid out ,in : tho pavilion, the lurioli proving so 'good that;-the :times '- for the-subsequent races .were-hardly records; . following is the Mst of the'winners, of the. Various', races:•*- ; . '-.■..■ .:> : % : M_.--%:':■■■ \. ■■

Mechanical Handicap.—A. Aitkon, 1; T. i'arm-11, 2, x Literary and- Commeioial Handicap.— first heat—l' , . Rutiedge, lj J. Brown, 2. Second heaWV. Chapman, 1; A. W. Dunkley, 2. li'inal—F. ltutlcdge, 1; V. Chapman, 2. Dominion ' Handicap.—First heat—-W. Ritohio, 1; V. Chapman, 2; F. Rutiedge,' 3. Second heat—A. M', Dunkley, 1; G. Wills, 2 J J. Brown, 3. Final hoat—Ritchio, lj Chapman, 2; Dunkley, 3. ' Oiico Championship.—W, Ritohie, lj V, Chapman, 2; A. W. iDlinkley, 3, Swimming Race—G, h. Oilmour, 1; D, Boyle, 2; G. Wills, 3, Singlo Ladies' Race.—Miss Mathowson, 1; Mas White, 2; Uhe lVkes, 3. Married Ladies' Raco,—Mrs, Eastwood, 1; Mrs. Koliy, 2, Tho arrangements were excellently carried out by on enorgptic cominitteo, consisting of Messrs. C. "Wilson (chairman),-D. Morgan, A. Aitkcn, W. Crawford, T. Broadbelt, and J. Barry; secretary, Mr. Buckley Joyce. '