BACK TO WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 1

BACK TO WORK

All City Content After Perfect Holiday SUMMER’S DEPARTURE As though mindful that the last holiday of the 1928-29 summer had come and that no more oppor- ' tunlties for communal picnicking or family excursions were to be had ft>r many months, Aucklanders in their thousands responded yesterday to the invitation of a brilliant Easter Monday. TT seemed as though everything that had wheels or propellers was called into service for the transport of the crowds bent on getting out of the city for the freer air of the beaches and the country, or the animation of the racecourse. Even when the morning sun was yet low the city began to move and toward nine o’clock the people were about the streets in their multitudes. Every highway carried an unaccustomed volume of traffic. Ferries and launches handled the ceaseless flow of people who find delight on the water and the beaches.

If the air was nippy the sea was found to be a little more so by the hardened few who ventured to swim. Most, therefore, were content to lounge about on the sand. Every kind of sport had Its devotees. Bowling and tennis tourneys claimed their hundreds and Ellerslie its thousands. The first football match of the new season took place at Blandford Park. The Zoological Park was particularly well patronised. To-day most of the city went back to work. Members of the legal profession and the Stock Exchange have another week, and the banks re-open for business to-morrow. Perhaps most regretful of all will be the youth of Auckland, who will begin school again to-morrow morning.