EASTER FESTIVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 624, 28 March 1929, Page 18

EASTER FESTIVITIES

MANY HOLIDAY SPORTS ; FIXTURES SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICES ! Aucklanders this evening will don j again for four days something of the J recent Christmas holiday feeling in j celebration of Easter to answer the call < of a multiplicity of sporting attractions ; harbour excursions and other fixtures. J The weekly late shopping night in ! the city will be observed this evening atfer which all grocers, drapers, mercers, etc., will be closed till Tuesday morning. The only exception will be ! butchers and bakers, which will reopen on Saturday morning. The banks will be closed till "Wednesday, and the legal profession and land agents till Monday, April 8. The. primary schools in the city are holding their annual sports meeting at the Domain to-day, and the schools will reopen again on Wednesday morning. The secondary schools are observing the same holidays. The Auckland Harbour Board’s offices and wharves will be closed tomorrow and on Easter Monday. EASTER SERVICES Special Easter services will be held by all denominations to-morrow. Good Friday, and on Sunday. His Grace the Archbishop of New Zealand, Dr. Averill, will preach at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. The chief Presbyterian service will be held in St. Andrew’s, Symotvls Street, at 11 a.m. to-morrow, when the Rev. I. E. Bertram. M.A., will conduct the service. Mass of the Presanctified will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow also. Services will be held by the Congregationalists, the Methodists, and the Salvation Army. A number of Bible Class camps are to be held over the Easter week-end. The Auckland district Presbyterian Young Men’s Union will be under canvas at Hunua, and the Young Women are gathering at Pukekohe. The Methodist Young Women’s Bible classes of New Zealand will be in camp at Wesley College, Paerata. There will also be the annual interdenominational gathering at Ngaruawahia. SPORTING ATTRACTIONS The leading sporting attraction will be the races at Ellerslie on Saturday and Monday, while other meetings will be held in different parts of the Dominion. The races at Ellerslie will be the only meeting in the Auckland Province during the Easter period. A large number of excursions has been arranged by the Railways Department, which is running many . special trains during the holiday period. One of the most popular will be the excursion train which will leave at 10.20 this evening for Rotorua, while this train will also run on Monday, leaving at 10 p.m. This evening trains will run to Tauranga at 10 o’clock and to Opua at 8.15 o’clock. Many people will avail themselves of the last opportunity this season of spending an extended week-end at the various seaside resorts, to which many . launch and steamer excursions have been arranged. CRICKET, BOWLS, GOLF Three cricket matches will be played at Eden Park during the week-end, the

chief of which is the Auckland-Victoria University College match on Friday, Saturday and Monday. Several Auckland teams will be on tour in the province. The annual Easter tournament of the Auckland Bowling Centre has drawn large entries, and most city and suburban greens w'ill be engaged. The chief golf fixture is the Auckland provincial championship, which is to be played for the first time at Titirangi. The qualifying round will be played on Saturday, 16 players to qualify, and the tourney will conclude on Tuesday. A number of past champions will compete. Yachtsmen will be engaged in the ocean rac§ to Coromandel, which will commence from King’s Wharf this evening. On arrival of boats at Woolshed Bay a regatta will be held. Tennis enthusiasts will be catered for by two tournaments, one promoted by the Birkenhead and Northcote Club and the other held at Thames Valley. Another sporting attraction will be the opening of the deer-shooting season on Monday. On Saturday sports are to be held at Warkworth, Te Kuiti, Te Poi and Paparoa, while on Monday athletic gatherings will take place at Te Aroha. Ngongotaha, Kerepeehi and Maungatapere. During the Easter vacation parties from the Alpine Sports Club will visit National Park and Mercurv Bay.