ST. PETER’S MISSION
CHRISTMAS CAMPS AT FOXTON.
Each year St, Peter’s Mission, Wellington, hilds a boys’ camp, and on Monday 280 boys of all ages and sizes will leave Wellington for Foxton to spend twelve days in camp. The Foxton Racing Club lias placed its property at the disposal of the boys, who will be housed in the various buildings. Rev. T. Fielden Taylor will be in charge of the camp, and ho will be ably assisted by a large staff, trained by himself in previous camps, and by boys from Christ’s College, Christchurch, and Wanganui Collegiate School, who really come to the camps to be educated in social service. The campers come from all the poorer quarters of Wellington and suburbs, and but for this outing would never see the country.
In addition to the camp at Poxton, the mission is taking 52 girls to Ashhurst, where again tlie Racing Club has placed its property at their disposal; and twenty little children to Paraparaumu, where a cottage has been rented for two weeks. Altogether 350 children will be in the country.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3734, 24 December 1927, Page 2
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182ST. PETER’S MISSION Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3734, 24 December 1927, Page 2
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