CIVIL SERVICE PICNICS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 4

CIVIL SERVICE PICNICS.

:'; FRITTING OFFICE STAFF, ; _ '■ "iW' staff of'&o doVeriimcnt I'riiiETi^ 1 Office held their' annual picnic ycstcjv Uayy and, favoured ■by tho pfonssht : weaiittir, spent 1 *- a very o.tijoyablo day< 111 past, years tho jj-iciiie lias boon held at Day's Bay, but this time the place ; SGiCcttid was Maidstaie Park, tipper I Huitj and tho ehaiige was greatly appreciated, Ifully live hundred people left Lanibtoii Station for Upper Mutl ■ by the 9.80 train s and subsequent trains took out anottar hundred, so that the total assemblage' Oh tho ground ruta}--bored over six; hundred.. Tho various' sporting events were got off in-good-, time, and dancin* on the green and other diversions wero also enjoyed. • A telegfam v/ns received front tho Hon. V. M. B. fisher (Minister in Chitrgo^of 1 the Goyeriinipnt J'rintinfi Officfe) regretting his inability, to be presentj and wishing tho company a pleasant dsiy. Prices woii in the sporting events were presented by the Gaverii'hj.tnti Printer,. (Mr. John Maeka.y) just before tho picnickers - loft for ho*titO> A return to town was mado at 7 p.m. POST AND TELEGRAPH STAFF. The amitta-l picnic of this Post and Telegraph Department, held at Bay's. Bay ' yesterday, was carried out very STietiijssfiiily. . Nearly 400 -ivcro present,, awl the putiffg was enjoyed by everyone. Tho sports resulted as I&'IoW:— Ladies' racos.—Hisses Dud-di-, 1; Knight, 2. 100 •yards-Griffiths, 1; j Ma-sviJ. 320*yards—Donnelly, 1; Griffiths, 2. SO yards awiiiimiiig Jiandicap— jlr. Htiitl. Gray. Thread-thc-necdle race—Miss liniglit, 1, Potato race —Ji. Doiwelly, i. AV'hcelbarroff "race—Messrs. Grifliths and Babb. Sack race—Beiclj 1; Little., 2. :LUij), step, and jump—Wilkinson, 3Sft. llin,, 1. teams relay race—Secretary'? ojHee (Mr. Wilson,'-captain), !• A number of children's races were also included in tho pi-ogramnio. During tho nfteroomi the' JHo-n. % H. Khudcs (Postmaster-General); , aceompaii-. Tca by tT5e secretary ol the i")epa.rt*ment (Jlr. W....R. Morris), visited t'lie grounds. The prices Won for .the- various competitions during the day wero pre- ! sented on the boat du.ri.ug the return I trip by tho assistant secretary, ilt. ! Pall. ' . . , ,