LEVIN SCHOOL PICNIC.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 December 1917, Page 2

LEVIN SCHOOL PICNIC.

Preparations for tlie :Levin School picnic are going forward' rapidly, and the school committee is meeting with unqualified success in its efforts to secure the support of residents. Trophies and cash for the purchase of prizes, supplies of food, milk and drinks, lollies, offers to do the necessary carting, aire some of the many things for wEidk the committee will have the pleasure of returning thanks later on. The school staff is hard at work trying out tlie youngsters for tlie approaching races and arranging tlie handicapping. It is just as well that the serious part of the year's work is finished for the children are paying more attention to athletics just now than to mathematics. An excellent programme lias been compiled and approved'. It includes handnca.p and championship events. There are Junior and Senior Championships for both hoys and girls, the prizes being medals donated by Mr and Mrf Farland. Mr A. Palmer,and Mr J. Lee. There are handicap races for both boys and girls of each separate year of age up to fourteen years, so that every child ill the scliool will have a chance to earn a prize. In addition there are handicap jumps, and the usual list of extras, including obstacle race, bicycle slow race, egg and spoon race, and a thread-tlie-needle race. A relay race for teams of four boys and also one for teams of four girls will probably attract much attention, as it is drawing a large field of entries and it is hoped to publish a full list of these and tlie heats in each event early next week ; but the taslc of arranging and publishing a list of five 01* six hundred, names is a formidable one. - The committee desires to make quite plain its hope that the parents of tlie children and the public who have so generously, supported the picnic by dlonlations will not faiil to accord the last but not least important act of support by rolling up to see how the children perform.