H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 April 1913, Page 4

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

THE WAIEARAPA EXCURSION. - Mr 11. Brown, Chairman of the Masterton District High School Committee, received the following communication yesterday afternoon.from the Railway Department, with reference to the proposed school excursion to Wellington, in order to give school, children .an opportunity of visiting the battleship New Zealand:— ' "An excursion train for school children, teachers and committeemen only, will travel to and from Wellington on April 21st, starting from Hukanui at (5.5 a.m., stopping at Eketahuna 7.10, Mangamahoe 7.30, Mauriceville 7.4 G. Opaki 8.10, and Masterton 8.45, arriving at Wellington at 12.5" p.m. The train will leave Wellington at 5.23 p.'m., arriving at Masterton at 9.30, Opaki 9.57, Mauriceville 10.15, Mangamahoe 10.30, Fketahuna. 10.50, and Hukanui 11.5. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued to members of the public, to be available'by ordinary trains only. The Department estimates that the approximate number of children, teachers and committeemen travelling by the excursion train will be. as follows: —Masterton, children GOO (teachers and committeemen not given); Mauriceville, children 27, teachers 2, committee-men 7; Mangamahoe, 20, 2, 7; Eketahuna GO, 12, 20; Hukanui 10, 12."