AT THE SEASIDE

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1916, Page 4

AT THE SEASIDE

STRATFORD PICNIC. Stratford "bit" East End jfcsterdaV in full force. To call the outing a "school picnic" is somewhat of a misnomer, as Stratford shuts up one day a year and comes to the seaside. The occasion is recognised as Stratford's visiting day, and East Endcrs can bo quite proud of the fact that the holiday has been for years past spout on thpii' beautiful beach. Favored by one of the best days that Nature could bestow, hundreds of children and adults emptied out of the "special" in the morning, and were soon disporting themselves in the breakers, after, perhaps, a cup of tea got ready Iby Mr. Harry Kivell, the indispensable .man of all Stratford school picnic days. The swings and other means of amusement were fully occupied throughout tho day, and to say that "Paddy's donkeys" are tired out only goes to show that the kiddies had full enjoyment. In the afternoon the crowd was augmented considerably by New Plymouth people, and quite a gav scene was presented until the last train left, at 5.30—fu1l of happy people with what are now pleasant recollections' of the 1910 picnic. "But won't there be some sore burnt backs on the kiddies to-night," was one parent's remark, as he gathered up the tea things; "but what do the kids care? Isn't there the train ride before them?"