Methodist Church Picnic

Image: Tauranga Heritage Collection, Ref. 0672/08

Handwritten on the back of this photograph are the words ‘Methodist Church Picnic, Tauranga’. Sadly, it is not recorded when or where the picnic took place or who these cheerful looking people are. However, a quick search of Papers Past shows that the Methodist Church Picnic was an annual event from the early 1900s into the 1930s. Popular locations for the picnic, which took place in January, included Yatton Park, Tauranga Domain and Otumoetai Beach.