THE EVENT OF THE YEAH! '§ REAL F!RBT DAY OUT. xRAi AND r.ti'jji (In Aid of>the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade.) THURSDAY, MARCH 12. A Day of Fun. Forget your Business for the Day and Enjoy Yourselves. • ENDLESS COMPETITIONS AXI) SIDE SHOWS. MOOTER BABY" SHOW. AGES—I to 3 months, 3 to 6 months, 6 to 9 months, and 9to 12 months; Entry fee Is. First-class Trophies. GRAND TUG OF WAR. Five Men Aside. Entry 1s per man.—First prize £5. GRAMD MARCH AMD MAYPOLE DANCE Bv the Stratford School Children. PROGRAMME
Sack RaC8 —Entry Is. Trophy os, and 2s (id. Motor Cycle Slow Race —Entry Is (xl. Trophy I tin benzine, 2nd sparking plug. 220Yci3 Poster Race —Entry Is. Trophy value 7s (3d and ss. Apple' Race for Cyclists— Entry Is. Ist Trophy value 7s 6d, 2ml 4s. Obstacle and Poster Race for Motorists (for motor cycles).—Entry Is. Trophy value 7s (3d and Is. Human Wheelbarrow Race (50yds)— Entry Is. Trophy value 5s and 2s (id. ' \ Married Ladies' Race— Entry \free. Trophy valued 7s (id. TracJasmen's Handicap— Entry Is. Trophy value ss. Hunters' Jumping Competition (open) Each horse not to carry less than 12st. over such jumps as the Stewards shall decide. First prize, five guinea cup; 2nd, Mr A. .1. Davey's trophy, value £1 Is. Entry 7s (id. Maiden ' Hunters' Competition.— Open to all horses that have not won a jumping or steeplechase competition, each horse to carry not. less than list, over such jumps as the Stewards shall decide. First prize, cup value £3 3s; 2nd, Mr E. Mason's trophy, value £1 Is. Apple Bobbing Race for Horses.— Ride 100yds, dismount, .pick up apple out' of water by mouth, remount, and ride 50yds. Entry 2s. First prize, trophy, value £] Is. Wrestling on Horseback. —Rntry Is. Tropliv value 5s and 2s (id. Bun and' Ginger Beer Race (lor Cadets)—Entry (id. Trophy value os and 2s 6d. Tug-of-War on Hcrsaback (I a-side, for Mounted Territorials)— Entry Is per man. Trophy value £l. 25Yds Apple Race —Entry Is. Trophy 5s and 2s. Veterans' Race— Entry Is. trophy value 10s.
Races for the Children throughout the day. Hosts of toys. Ladies' Nail-driving and Sawing Competitions. Amusement Tents, Jack Johnsons, Riding the Barrel. Special engagement of Madam Vorclini, direct from Auckland and St. Louis Exhihitions tho great palmist and phrenologist. Come and got your head read. Motor Railway, Donkey Rides. Lolly, Ice cream, Soft drinks. Flower Fruit and Doll Stalls, Fairy Wells, Pillow fights and Turk's heads, Etc. S PARADE AT 3 p.m. GRAND TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION, CONGERT and DANGE in th? Town Hall in Evening. Entries for events clfsse at Mr Moon's Shoo on Saturday! Ntarsh 7th, at 6 p.m. £1 is If vou catoh the Man with the Magic Thumh. * CEO. J. BRADLEY, Hon. Secretary.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1914, Page 8
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