THE COMING CARNIVAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 6

THE COMING CARNIVAL.

It is probable that a great many citizens have not yet fully realised that the coming Easter Carnival gives promise of being a really big thing—the biggest of its kind ever attempted here. The arrangements are now being pressed forward with great enthusiasm, and the programme prepared is one which should cater for all tastes and provide abundant entertainment l both for visitors from the country and for residents in the city and suburbs. The main features of the different days' and nights' proceedings have been set out from time to time in our news columns, and visitors who propose to spend the Easter vacation in the city should have no cause to complain of time hanging idly on their hands. Those who are working for the success of the Carnival have no private ends to serve. They arc public-spirited citizens actuated by the worthy desire to do something for the good of the city in which they have made their homes. They hope to raise a substantial sum for the beautifying of tho city, and have every prospect of achieving their purpose. Apart from the immediate benefit which may be expected to accrue from 'their efforts, however, the example they have set of public spirit and generous disinterested service cannot- fail to have a stimulating and inspiring cffect which should bear fruit in the future. Wellington has been backward in public movements of this nature —it has been content in tho past t-o move along in a groove, leaving to the Municipal Council and semi-private organisations the. task of adding to the attractiveness of the city as a place of residence or as a centre in which to spend a pleasant holiday. The present movement, originated and being carried out by citizens, is <a, departure, and one which should lie appreciated and cr.couragcd by tho public lending it- the support of their patronage, and, wherever possible, personal assistance. Given fine weather, the Easter Carnival of 1913 should fully justify its promoters and those who have so generously given their time to the heavy, work of ; planning and organising the varied and novel programme arranged for the occasion. It will itlso, we trust, prove an incentive to future efforts of a similar kind.