Ladies' Hockey Club Picnic.

The members of the Ladies' Hockey Club may not be the best exponents of the game in the province, but they are the keenest "sports," and have a fine sense of what is due from them in alleviation the leisure moments of their fellow-students. November 30th, 1906, was chosen as the day for their Annual Picnic, and was in every way worthy of the great occasion. The vague feeling of unrest which seemed to possess the large crowd of students gathered at the Government Buildings was quickly dispelled by the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Brook and binoculars on a huge commissariat wagon, and a procession of six drages was soon en route for Trentham, where Mr. Barton's beautiful grounds had been kindly placed at the disposal of the Club for the day. On arrival there, chacun à son goût, as the French say. Some went exploring, others started a ground game, and Ryburn and A. H. Bogle exhibited their bushcraft and grew hot had dirty over the camp fire.

Lunch was spread under the trees by the energetic hostesses, who attended to their guest with tender solicitude. Records waving been duly preserved for posterity, an athletic meeting has the next attraction for the majority. Competition was keen and finishes were good right through. Faithful records of all results were not kept, but Millier was probably the "best thing" out on the day.

A great variety of other amusements, including a concert in the bush, occupied the hours till tea-time, when a large numbers whose duties had kept them in town all day arrived by train to enjoy the moonlight drive home.

On the return journey, a short halt was made at the Taita Hotel, the reason for which still remains a mystery, unless the drivers were offering a last chance of wiping out the reproach that it had been the "driest" picnic in their memory.

"Dry" it may have been, but it was the best outing the College has enjoyed for many a day, and we trust the same enterprise will be carried out again this year.