A JUVENILE JAUNT TO GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5199, 5 December 1895, Page 2

A JUVENILE JAUNT TO GREYTOWN.

Til U TEHHACE SCHOOL ON TOUR

From Our Oien Correspondent,

Wkuixgiox, Thursday, Yesterday, to keep myself in touch with things bucolic, I look a run up to Greytown on the special excursion train chartered by The Terrace School. Between four and live hundred made the trip, the majority of course being the school children themselves, and the remainder their teachers, parents, friends, and a few of tho committee -Messrs Van Staveren (chairman), ,1. E. Evans (secretary), George llee, Geddes and Woods. Mr T. E. Donne, the Traffic Manager, also accompanied the excursionists, and saw that every care was taken of the youthful travellers. There ivas ample accommodation provided, and the train of ten cars was just pleasantly tilled.

; The Greytown School having been , granted a special holiday, Air Flux, r the headmaster, thoughtfully met , the visitors at the railway station, , and directed them to the village—iu • case they should overlook it. I Each child brought his own 1 " tiickei>" and as no formal or com- ' billed plan of spending tho day had [ keen considered necessary, everyone had a pleasant choico before him. Soiuo rambled about the township, others strolled through the pretty i Papawai Bush, and still others made I an expedition to tho Maori Pah. There was, also, I believe, a cricket- • match for tho boys. With nearly 1 live hundred persons scattered along ' its length, Main-street-, Groytown, presented a very animated appearance, it is needless to say, On tho journey up, it'was amusing to hear the playful " chaff " and somewhat derisive yells which were bestowed'upon the several solitary children, who, at almost every wayside statipn stoo.d wistfully watching the tf'ain pass'by. '" Whose menagerie do ygu belong to?" " Did you face at a sale ?"—■ anil such-like wpre the playful enquiries.. Only one boy proved equal to |hp sifcptiqn. jlo mis i(t fotqiio, and as tho jeers from the slowly passing train mot his oar, bo comtemptuously raised his hand to his face and significantly extending his fingers, maintained what is called a " long-nose," until tho very last car had gone by. The children of tho Terrace School are a lino healthy-looking lot, a result mainly due to tho Committee paying some attention to physical ami siinitary education, as well as to tho ordinary scholastic curriculum. Some day, 'they'll ''bo "splendid 'men and women. In the lnciintinie, tli'ey are a i|andspme, happy crop of exceedingly well-behaved' yflungsters. ■ excursion trains, eypn at the low prices they rui) at (3s ijd for adults, and Is (id for children) pay the Railway Department well enough. Yesterday's fares, for instance, must have totalled up about £4O, and the train could not possibly have cost £2O. Fifty per cent., nowadays, is a very fair profit. Of course, to mako the'thing remunerative at such cheap rates, it would be reasonable to insist upon a large number travelling together, I whereby it might be necessary to , small schools combine, Yestordfiy proved »; perfect day for The Terrace School's outing. Certainly a drilling rain had set .in when'tho party reached Wellington at' nine o'clock- in the ovoning, but it was theft too late to do rtny- liaVm to ' anybody, >. ■ i 1