DEPARTMENTAL PICNIC
The staff of the State 'Advances Office held their annual picnic at Lay's Bay on Friday last. Cricket and sports were the order of the day: Single men defeated the married men at cricket. The other results were as follow:— Boot and barrel race, Shaw, 1; Aston, 2 100 yards, Ballauce, 1; Douglas, 2. 220 yards "Has Been's," Christie, 1 • Aidd, 2. Throwing the cricket ball, F. Shaw. Married women's race, Mrs. Collins, 1; Mrs. Wood, 2. Single Women's race, Miss 31. Kigg, 1. At the instance of Colonel Hiley, general manager of New Zealand Railways, Mr. H. M'Kcowcn represented the '.Railway, Department, and assisted in the conduct of the sports programme.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160201.2.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
114DEPARTMENTAL PICNIC Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in