THE HOLIDAY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 161, 3 April 1920, Page 8

THE HOLIDAY

INTER-UNIVEHSITY . TOURNAMENT. li the weather experienced yesterday (Good Friday) be any criterion as to the meteorological conditions for Easter many hearts will rejoice, for it was veritably a pearl of days. ,There .ire many events of interest 'scheduled for the holidays which will interest a very largo section of the community. Perhaps the chief event will be the annual inter-university tournament, which includes all manner of athletic events. There will be a tennis-• tournament' on the Wellington Club's courts in Palmer Street to-day, and tho debating contest for the Jo.ynt Scroll will take place in Hie Concert Chamber this evening, w;Tn Professor Hunter in tiie chair, and tho Rev. S. Robertson Orr and Messrs. ,T, P. Firth and M. Myers as judges. The subject of Hip debate will be the .representation of British Dominions on Hieleague.of Nations. , , On Monday the athletic champion, ships in connection with the New Zcmland University will be decided on the Basin Reserve- There will also be an inter-island cricket match, and in tho erenin" n boxing tournament at ilie Town Hall. Other attractions to-day will !> the Wellington Rowing Association's on the harbour, which will commence ,■:( 11 a.m.; a Rugby game between the local Poneke Club and th(, Pirate CI'A tot: Palmr-r-;ton Xorfh) at the AtliMie Park th.is afternoon,'the junior representative erii'ket match; Wellington v. 'Canterbury,. and thfc Wellington Golf Club's tournament at nerctnunga, which w.li commence this i&nvuinj ons of the mo»t penuln'- provincial meetings is that held at TsmV'j"nikau which is sure to attract large numbers bo'h to-day and on Monday. Harbour excursions will be run to Rona Bay and Day's Bay to-day. tomorrow, and 011 Monday, and the +''am service, which will be severely restricted to-dnv (there will be no service through the city at all) will be fully resumed .on Monday. There will be plenty of evening amusements. "Possum Paddock" will be staged for the first time in New Zealand at the Grand .Opera Rouse this evening. New prog"ammes of interesting pictures will be shown -at the King's Empresv and Everybody's Theatres. Among the Easter holiday attractions for the nublic is a sports carnival at the popular seaside resort—Plimmerton