SCHOOLS TRIP TO DUNEDIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1926, Page 1

SCHOOLS TRIP TO DUNEDIN.

Al FETING OF FX ECFTIY F. The executive in connection with the above met at the County Chambers at II a.in. on Saturday. Present: Mr T. W. Duff (chair), -Miss Wallace, Mrs Manson. Messrs Sweuey, Partridge and Evans. Arrangements for the excursion trip were reported to he progressing satisfactorily. Railway transport had been arranged and Mr C. Kirk was ai ranging as to billeting at Christchurch. Tlte manager of the Education Court at the Exhibition had been notified the first party would leave next Saturday and arrive in Dunedin on Monday afternoon. Mr Partridge, Rector ot the State School, handed in Hie names of 4A scholars proceeding next Saturday and stated lie would be in charge <>l the party and would he assisted hv Miss Wallace fin charge of the girls) and Mt-.s Reiilingion and Mrs Dale. He proposed filling - 1 meeting ot parents, for next Thur-day afternoon to ex plain all particulars and the discipline r„ he carried out. The requirements lor each child would he notified M 'he parents also. Mrs Manson reported in regard lo the country scholars: excursion, ike following Saturday tllllh insl.). With the ptnids from Matainui and Wadio the eomnlement for the trip would he maile up. Ah' Chitreh. headmaster of Mptnintti school Mould lie in charge of Hie !tovs and Mrs Manson assisted by Mrs Drummond in Hiarge ol the girls.

’l'liore is room for another teacher to „,in this party, which will include pupils from Kanieri. Kokatahi. Woodstoe!;. Statford. Awatima. Ruatapu. Matainui and Wailio Gorge. ll was stated no additional applications had been received, bni a third party could he made up lor the 20th March, providing not less than twenty names were given in by the 10th inst. The assistant e given by Mr Craw,

slnt.ionma.stcr. was referred to appreciatively.

Various details of the tour were dismissed I.V Hie teachers present, and

agreed niton. |(efore the meeting concluded, Mr Partridge, on behalf of the schools moved a vote of thanks to the Progress League lor taking the initiative in organising the trip, and making the arrangements so quickly. Mr Swenci seconded. ('arried. RACK FROM THE EX HI BITIO.V. Tired, with faces grimy with smoko and dust, hut extremely happy, the children of the two Lyttelton State schools and the Convent School, who left with, the schools party on Monday Co I- the Exhibition, arrived Kick m Lyttelton last Friday evening at •>. From the accounts given by the children they had a most wonderful time, which even the rain did not mar. T he Lyttelton hoys were accommodate!, in the Runts Hall, in Rurlinglon streoi. Their beds were clean sacks lilled with fresh, dry straw, two sacks sewn together constituting cat'll mattress. They had any amount of good food, while they wore away, three hot meals a day at the main restaurant at thi' Exhibition and a supper of cocoa and biscuits at night. Each morning thrv visited the tepid baths nearby.

which were free to the visiting children. On Wednesday they had a trip around the harbour by steam launch, calling at. Poriohello and Fort Chalmers. While on the trip they saw the final race f ; »r i-u- Sanders Cup Ail Ik-.- oreuwn merits a.uT.'d without a hitch, amt tin- a.r. : cr-,1,1 j s due l,t (lie teachers who were in , bn, ... of tbe Lyttelton parly, and non, which teas responsible for the :t r rti ngcmeti t - a l Dunedin.