PHILANTHROPIC.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2013, 21 March 1914, Page 14

PHILANTHROPIC.

AN OUTIKG FOR CHILDREN. ■ Some sixty radiant-faeed children sped through the city yesterday morning in motor-cars, bound for a day's Outing In the Hutt Valley, Faces beaming with good spirits peeped oyer tho sides of cars to oyo less fflrtiinate as, they hurried to a day's tefl. These children—most of them orp.baiis*-ffer© inmates of th» Salvation Army's Children's Home, and they were bound 'for a jaunt fa? away front asphalt yawls, ohini.ney p«ts, and the likes. It was by the generosity of some nine owners of cars that the frere enabled to have this clay of picnie pleasure in the year. ' Mr. W. H. P. Barber was the originator of the idea. For some years it was his ear alone that conveyed the children away from the smoke flnd bustle of town, but, last year, he enlisted other cars to tho cause, aiid, yps* tcrday, nine motors lined up outside the home. Far away up the Hutt Val!ley sped.tho cars with their freights of i. childish happiness, and, eventually,, tire | Moonshinei Bridge was reached. There '■ tho children sported for some hours in vratramHielleil freedom, In the afternoo'u, however, a drizzling rain st>t in ; but perhaps this only enhanced the pleasure of tho return journey homo) for what child but woujd \ revel fe watching the rain patter down, when covered in tho shelter of a motor-car P The party reaohexl home about 4 o'clock, possibly to talk for weeks to come of the wonderful ride. Tho following were ttio owners of the cars:—Messrs. W. H. P. Barber, C. M. Luke. - Naismith, F. Tow-nsend, F. T. Moore, F. Rowe, — Ross, and 'O..Smith. Messrs. Woflber and Co. and T. Rowell supplied cakes for the children,