ANNIVERSARY DAY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 2

ANNIVERSARY DAY

Holiday Sports Programme MANY ATTRACTIONS I ' A widely-diversified sports programme has been arranged for to-day’s Anniversary Day holiday. The first day of the Wellington Racing Club's summer meeting will doubtless attract many thousands to Trentham racecourse. . The Wahine’s excursion to Picton should be well patronised, as, in addition to launch trips to many of the beautiful bays in the Sounds, the excursionists will be afforded an opportunity of seeing the New Zealand speed-boat championship regatta for the coveted Masport Cup. The combined College Old Boys’ Club will hold an athletic meeting on the Wellington College ground, commencing at 2 p.m. Cricket matches will be played at the Basin Reserve and on Kilbirnie Recreation Ground, and the Wellington Ladies’ Cricket Association will also hold a trial match on the latter ground. The Early Settlers’ Association will hold their time-honoured reunion in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Clyde Quay, commencing at 2.30 p.m. Other attractions will be a yachting regatta on the harbour, and rifle shooting on the Trentham range. A small piano with 69 keys instead of 85 has been constructed by a German pianoforte maker, who has been encouraged after the general slump in sales for years past by a demend for instruments to fit the home of to-day. It is declared that everything expected of an ordinary performer; not a concert virtuoso, can be accomplished on this new “baby” piano, the interior construction of which is exactly the same as that of the orinary cabinet size. The wires are thicker, and there are less of them, but all the usual interior arrangements of an ordinary piano have been adapted to fit the compromise with the size of homes and the capacity of pockets in «Germany to-day. The price, calculated at par, is £23.