Holiday High Jinks

Gisborne should be a bright town this Christmas. Plans are afoot to celebrate city status with a variety of attractions and entertainments which should delight both local residents and visitors.

The city is well placed to cater for an influx of visitors, and also to provide the effort required for the celebrations. Improvements to the beach camps, new lighting on the promenade at Waikanae, the completion of the Churchill Park Camp and the new pavilion at Waikanae, and a number of other innovations should ensure that the beach resorts are at the peak of their form. The Jaycees and the Retailers are well ahead with a programme of entertainment at the beach from Christmas to New Year, to be followed by a further week's programme more especially for the children. Later, national archery and junior tennis championships are to be held here, and the Amateur Athletic Association will be holding a championship meeting. Other fixtures may include annual motor cycle sports, swimming carnivals, and surf life-saving contests. As a highlight of the celebrations, a proposal has been made that the city should stage a procession of decorated floats, similar to that held in 1952, culminating in a display at Childers Road Reserve.

Such a programme, staged at the height of the holiday season, would certainly put Gisborne "on the map". The successful fruition of such ambitious plans will require the keen support and enthusiasm of the community, but past successes have indicated that Gisborne can rise to the occasion when required, and have a lot of fun in the process.

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One of the floats in the 1952 procession. (Photo, E. T. Doddrell)