SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8356, 11 February 1907, Page 6

SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THE EXHIBITION.

PROPOSED WAIRARAPA SCHOOL GIRLS' EXCURSION. Mr J. C. Adams, Director of Excursions in connection with the New Zealand Exhibition, arrived in Masterton on Saturday morning, and conferred with the headmasters of the schools in the Wairarapa and members of the Masterton School Committee, in the Masterton Borough Council Chambers, with reference to arranging for excursions of school girls to the Exhibition at the same rates as the school cadets. Mr R. Brown occupied the chair, and there were also present:—Messrs W. H. Jackson and A. B. Charters (Masterton), A. N. BurnsJ (Carterton), Parkinson (Greytown) and W. Gillespie, E. H. Waddington and C. Perry (School Committee). Mr Adams, during the course of his explanation regarding the excursions, said that for school parties who desired to regain at the' Exhibition for a longer period than one day, the railway fares would be 2s per 100 miles for children and 4s per 100 miles for teachers'" in charge of the children. A certain number of adults, chosen by the school committees, who would also be in charge of, the children, would be carried over the railways at the rate of 4s per 100 miles. The regulation under which tickets were issued to school parties provided that 10 per cent, of the school children, who were unable to pay thenfares, could travel free on the certificate of the teacher. That concession applied only to railway fares and not to the other charges in connection with the trijj. He went on to state that the Union Company were prepared to carry boys only in numbers of not less than 100 or not more than 300 at a time, exclusive of their teachers, for 12s return. The Company was not prepared, to carry girls under those conditions, and if they were carried at all, special arrangements would have to be made for them. He added that he would telegraph to the LTnion Company asking them what arrangements they would make to take a party of girls from the Wairarapa to the Exhibition. Special accommodation, which Mr Adams said was very good, had been prepared in Christchurch for school parties at the rate of 2s per day for children and 4s per day for adults. Children would be admitted to the Exhibition for 3d each day, while substantial reductions had also been made in the charges for admission to all the side shows and other portions of the Exhibition. After a brief discussion Messrs R. Brown, W. H. Jackson, and A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., were appointed a committee to endeavour to arrange for an excursion of girls from the Wairarapa at the cheap rates to the Exhibition, at the same time as the cadets visit the Exhibition. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Adams and- the meeting adjourned.