PICNIC TO "THE MOUNT"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 915, 7 March 1930, Page 11

PICNIC TO "THE MOUNT"

TE PUKE AND PAPAMOA SCHOOLS From Our Oxen Correspondent TE PUKE, Thursday. A lowering sky and threatening rain did not appear to dampen the ardour of some 400 children and 200 adults from To Puke and Papamoa, who travelled by train yesterdav to The Mount, where the school picnic was held. An energetic committee', consisting of the headmasters and staffs of Te Puke and Papamoa schools, together with the respective school committeemen. carried out the arrangements for

the day. and by their combined efforts made the picnic a great success. A sports programme was run off in the afternoon, the results of which are as follow: Boys’ race (S to :• ; . . : Gavan Cooney 1. Blythe Werahia 2, Jeff Danvers 3. Girls’ race (8 to 9), 50yds: Mavis McKenzie, 1; Joyce Courtenay. 2; Audrey Maunders, 3. Boys’ race (9 to 10). ,50yds: Jack Sharp, 1; Jack Stewart. 2; Jack McKenzie, 3. Girls race (9 to 10), 50yds: Nora Swinburne. 1: Mavis McKenzie, 2; Phyllis Garforth. 3. Boys’ race (10 to 11), 75yds: Jim McKenzie, 1; Fred Garforth, 2; Jack Phare, 3. Girls’ race (10 to 11). 75yds: Annie MoPhee. 1: Mavis McKenzie, 2; Win Downs. 3. Boys’ race (11 to 12). 75yds: Russell Baker and Don. McPhee, dead-heat; Lance Jones, 3. Girls’ race (11 to 12), 75yds: Eileen Robertson, 1; Desrav Riddell, 2; Pat O'Driscoll and Iris Sherrett, deadheat, 3. Boys’ race <l2 to 13). 100yds: Owen Whyman, 1; Charlie Jackson, 2; Max Hay, 3. Girls’ race (12 to 13). 100 yds: Mary Donovan. 1; Helen Grant, 2; Joan Martyn, 3. Boys’ race (13 to 14), 100yds: Eugene Donovan, 1: Frank Dyer, 2; Wallace McKenzie, 3. Girls’ race (13 to 14), 100yds: Lily Ngata, 1: Marjorie McPike, 2; Edna Diprose, 3. Boys’ race (14 to 15), 100yds: Colin Howell. 1; Frank O’Driscoll, 2: Dick Kenny, 3. Girls’ race (14 to 15), 100yds: Ivy Webb. 1; Betty Johnston, 2; Diana Baker, 3. Boys’ race, 220yds: Colin Hovel, 1: Eugene Donovan, 2; Frank O’D Young women’s race. 100yds: Joy Diprose, 1; Mvrtle Brown, 2; Pauline Jackson, 3. Three-legged race: Eric Gilmore and Wallace McKenzie, 1; Lindsay Howard and Vurley McKenzie, 2. Girls’ threelegged race: Iris Sherrett, and Helen Grant, 1; Desray Riddell and Marjorie McPike, 2. Three-legged race, over 13 years: Graham Bennett and Walter Ryburn, 1; Fred Abbott and Ross McNaughton, 2. Girls, over 13: Lily Ngata arid Dorothy Cliffe. 1; Edna Diprose and Tessie Cooney, 2. ’Boys’ race, 440yds: Ben Smith, 1; Colin Howell, 2: Frank O’Driscoll, 3. Girls’ relay (over 13): Eileen Robertson, Iris Sherrett. Mary Donovan, Helen Grant, 1; (over 13), Diana Baker, Ivy Webb. Betty Johnston. Patty Jackson, 1. . Junior boys’ relay: Jim McKenzie, Fred Garforth, Wallace McKenzie, Dave McFarlane, 1. Senior boys: Ben Smith, Eugene Donovan, Frank Dyer, Frank O’Driscoll, 1. Old boys’ race: Mr. J. McNaughton. 1: Mr. F. Donovan. 2; Air. C. McNaughton. 3. Old girls’ race: M iss Paulin-- Jacks..n. - Brown, 2; Miss Joy Diprose, 3. Married men’s race: Mr. W. H. Werahia, 1; Air. H. Dare, 2; Mr. G. Crowley, 3. Married women’s race: Mrs. Murphy, 1: Mrs. Werahia, 2; Mrs. Evans, 3.. Committeemen’s race: Mr. E. Ward, 1; Mr. J. Courtenay, 2; Mr. I. Barrow, 3.