EVENTS AT EASTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 948, 15 April 1930, Page 16

EVENTS AT EASTER

MANY ATTRACTIONS IN CITY SERVICES IN CHURCHES Easter comes to Auckland this year just when an almost wintry nip is shaking the enthusiasm of earlymorning risers severely. Even though launch and yachting trips round the llauraki Gulf will be confined to hardier souls —unless a final effort to assert itself is made by summer, and the usual fleets of pleasure craft are allowed to infest the gulf •—Auckland will be extremely well provided with public events in ingNext Saturday and on Easter Monday, the Auckland Racing Club’s autumn meeting takes place, and the Auckland Bowling: Centre begins its annual Easter tournament on Good Friday. Several greens will be engaged. Probably 150 students from Victoria, Canterbury and Otago University colleges will compete with Auckland students in the annual inter-univer-sity contests. These events begin next Saturday, and end on Tuesday. The visitors leave Auckland the following evening. Golfers have an important event in the Auckland provincial championship tournament, to be played at Hamilton on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. These days - will be occupied also by the Maungakiekie Club’s open amateur events at Titirangi. Among the athletic meetings are those at Rotorua, Te Kuiti, Maungakaramea, Owhango and Donnelljy’s Crossing on Easter Saturday, and events at Otorohanga, Te Aroha, Maungatapere and Kaitoke on Easter Monday. For shops and offices, the statutory holidays are Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday. Late night in the City will be on Thursday evening. and bakers and butchers will open their stores until 12 noon on Easter Saturday BANK HOLIDAYS The banks will be closed from Good Friday until Tuesday next week, and the next day, St. George’s Day, will also be a bank holiday. They open on Thursday next week and close on the following day, Anzac Day. The 10 days’ holiday of law offices and the Stock Exchange extends from Thursday evening until Monday, April 2S. Land agency offices will not have a 10 days’ holiday this year; they will be closed from Thursday evening until Wednesday morning. Primary schools close from Thursday afternoon until the morning of Wednesday. At the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court’ office. the vacation begins at 1 p.m. on Thursday. The office resumes on Wednesday, April 23, and the court sittings resume on April 28. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week, the third annual New Zealand legal conference* will be held. Many city churches will conduct special services on Easter morning. There will be other special services on . the Sunday, and evening services will be held on Good Friday. Under the New Zealand Church Fellowship, a society recently formed in Auckland, a procession of witness will be held in Queen Street on Good Friday evening.