TAUPO SCHOOL PUPILS WILL SEE QUEEN

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 99, 11 December 1953, Page 4

TAUPO SCHOOL PUPILS WILL SEE QUEEN

Detailed information was before the Taupo District High School Committee, at its monthly meeting last week, in connection with arrangements for school children to vislt Rotorua for the Royal Visit. School children, under teachers and other adults, will be gathered in the grounds of the Rotorua High School, between the Old Taupo Road and the railway, and will enter the grounds by the Pukuatua Street entrance. Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh will drive to the school grounds, leaving the Civic Reception at the Motutara Golf Course at 12.15 p.m. and entering the school grounds by the southern entrance from Pereika Street. School children from Taupo and other Taupo Country schools will be allotted an area marked "H" on the right of the Pereiki Street entrance as seen from within the grounds. They will have an uninterrupted view of the Royal Party as it enters and as it drives round the grounds and passes close in front of their position just before leaving the grounds by the same gateway. It is expected that about 190 children from the Taupo School will go to Rotorua. They will go by trucks which will have special

Transport Department licenses for the purpose, and will have seats and canopies. Departure from Taupo will be at 8.30 a.m. arriving at the Pukuatua Street entrance about 10.30 a.m. Buses and cars will not enter the school grounds but may park in a five acre grassed area fronting Pukuatua Streetopposite the school. Adults accompanying the children into the grounds will be restricted to teachers and other adults travelling on the . trucks with the children, with one adult to thirty children. All younger children will be labelled with name and name of their school. Sports gear will be taken so that children may play while awaiting the Royal party's arrival. The Rotorua High School's radio system will be used to broadcast the Civic Reception at the Motutara Golf Course to the children waiting at the school. The Rotorua Parent-Teacher Association is arranging a canteen in the grounds for sale of light refreshments, but all children should take their lunches with them. It is expected to leave the grounds on the return journey to Taupo by 1.30 p.m. During their stay at the school grounds the children will have the use of the whole school area. • - -« ■ -* - - - -4