HEW YEAR HOLIDAY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 5

HEW YEAR HOLIDAY

ATTRACTIONS FOR MASTfc, • , TON. The meteorological' ccnditionsi, at the tiime of writing, are anything* but promrilsting Sot the New Year holiday on Monday next. The wind changed to the south yesterday morning, bringing with it. a'cold southeaster. There are ' hopes, however, that tlhiis will 1 have exhausted iteelff before Monday. The chief attraction for Ma&terton. iante on. New Year's Day will l be the Caledonian Society s .sports, to be held om the Park Oval. The arrangements' for the gathering are al complete, and, should t'he elements! prove favoiwabife, a record attendance is> expected. Spllenidid entries have beeni received for all! tlhe pedestrian and cycling events, and some of tlfe most promnmJeiiit athletes in tihe DomMoai. wt'fiL' be competing. The sports. commence at' 10.30 a.m., sharp. Tn the evemitng, a grand Scotch, concert will be held in the Town Ha®. The. sporting fraternity will be.ca.tored for at Tauhen-eaiikau, wßiere the secondrdlay'*! races- of tlhe Wairaa-apa Racing duib will be held. The military tbuimament at Palimerston North will probably attract a niiimitoaT of visitors' from thfe district. Several! picnics will be held in. and aroumd Masterton. . .