CITIZENS' CARNIVAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 6

CITIZENS' CARNIVAL.

One o£ the features of the Easter Carnival will be the appearance for the first time in this city of tho Ponsonby Boys' Drum and Fifo Band, who are- to take a leading part of tho programme at Newtown Park; The performers, numbering 40, will arrive from Aucklandon Good Friday morning, and arrangements bto being made by the carnival committee for billeting and looking after the boys during their stay. The headquarters of the. band will be at the Boys' Institute, Arthur Street, and any citizens who would be willing to billet one or moro boys are invited to communicate with Mr. W. J. Bennett, director of the Boys' Institute. The carnival will open at Newtown Park early 011 the Saturday morning following Good l-'riday with the inter-college tournament, and a varied programme by upwards of 1000 performers will follow on after the tourney, and again on Easter Monday. On Sunday the massed bands will givea programme of sacred music in the afternoon. The Side-Shows Committee have arranged for twenty shows, which aro both novel and interesting. Their main concern has been to get away from the beaten track. Among the more novel attractions in this department will be a complete working model of tho wireless .telegraph and tho new automatic telephone, which have been lent by the Post and Telegraph Department, Punch and Judy, Jack Johnson, Aunt Sallys, hoopla. box ball; numerous guessing competitions will be held, including fat sheep, seeds in water melon, number of peas in bottle, and also the weight of three sacks of coal, etc. A Punch and Judy show will be an additional attraction, as will also a bevy of fortune-tellers, some twenty automatic slot machines, and a shooting giillery for sportsmen. - A golf-putting competition is being conducted by the Jiiramar Golf Club.