NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1915, Page 3

NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

PICNICS AT THE SEASIDE. RIFLE SHOOTING MEETING. Splendid weather is promised for the New Year holidays, which will be ushered in with the festivities of New Year's Eve to-night. A general holiday will be observed from to-night until Tuesday morning, when business will be resumed. The holiday arrangements are of an attractive nature. At New Plymouth two big seaside picnics will be held tomorrow—one at the East End and one at Moturoa—and it is expected there will be very many visitors from the country. Special train arrangements have been made to enable people to spend a full day at the seaside, and the organisers of each picnic are sparing no effort to provide a full day's interesting sport on the sands. The races at Stratford on New Year's Day and January 3 will, no doubt, receive splendid support from all parts of the district, while the Sunday between race days can be pleasantly spent by a visit to Ngaere Gardens, where a sacred concert will be given by the Wanganui Garrison Band. Bowlers will be catered for on New Year's Day and January 3 by a tournament at New Plymouth. On Monday a rifle shooting meeting will be held at the Rewa Rewa rifle range, New Plymouth, and an attractive programme has been drawn up. Good entries have been received and the events are: Grouping, 100 yards, secondclass figure target, five rounds; snap shooting, 200 yards, five rounds, target figure three (head and shoulders), six rounds exposure; application, 200 yards, second-class figure target, five rounds; application, 500 yards, first-class figure target, seven rounds, optional sighter; championship COO yards, first-class figure target, seven rounds, optional sighter.. All the competitions are open to territorials, rifle clubs, and senior cadets. Riflemen are notified that the range will be closed for practice from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to-day and to-morrow.