One of the items rescued from Churchill Courts was an EPNS bowl with the following inscription
AAC
Orphans Annual Outing
Challenge Bowl
Presented by
The Waikuku Beach Improvement Assn
30.11.1935
For Girls
Relay Race
It was competed for from 1935- 1956, except for 1947 and 1948, between St Saviour’s Home, Nazareth House, St Joseph’s Orphanage, the School for the Deaf (van Asch School) and the Presbyterian Girls’ Home.
With the help of Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers it has been discovered that this annual outing was provided by the Automobile Association, not only in Canterbury, but also in South Canterbury and Otago. Pines Beach and Kairaki seem to have been a favourite destination in the 1930’s.
If any one has any family stories about these outings, then please contact the Diocesan Archives and information will be forwarded to the other institutions involved.
The names on the cup are:
| Name | Date | Institution |
| A Boult | 1954 | School for Deaf |
| A Henry | 1952, 1953 | School for Deaf |
| A Rogers | 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 | School for Deaf |
| Adele Whitcombe | 1944 | St Saviour’s |
| B O’Neill | 1950 (Capt), 1951 (Capt) | School for Deaf |
| B Rowling | 1951 | School for Deaf |
| Beverley Cavanagh | 1955 | Nazareth House |
| D Frederickson | 1954 | School for Deaf |
| Doreen Boal | 1955 | Nazareth House |
| Dorothy Hillyer | 1938 | St Saviour’s |
| Dorothy Irving | 1939 | St Saviour’s |
| Dorothy Rawson | 1956 | Presbyterian Girls Home |
| Eva Wright | 1949 | St Saviour’s |
| G Signal | 1954 | School for Deaf |
| Ida Reriti | 1940 | Nazareth House |
| Jean Dempsey c | 1946 | St Joseph’s Orphanage |
| Jessie Nisbet | 1941 | St Saviour’s |
| Jill Taylor | 1941, 1942, 1943 | St Saviour’s |
| Joan Shefford | 1943 | St Saviour’s |
| Joan Bowring | 1946 | St Joseph’s Orphanage |
| Judith Hepburn | 1956 | Presbyterian Girls Home |
| June Greenwald | 1936 | St Saviour’s |
| Lena Hillyer | 1941, 1942 | St Saviour’s |
| Leslie Cosgrove | 1955 | Nazareth House |
| Lorna Feary | 1949 | St Saviour’s |
| M Hanson | 1950 | School for Deaf |
| Margaret Ballantyne | 1936, 1937 | St Saviour’s |
| Margaret Bennett | 1939 | St Saviour’s |
| Margaret McVicar | 1940 | Nazareth House |
| Margaret Smith | 1949 | St Saviour’s |
| Marie Hepburn | 1956 | Presbyterian Girls Home |
| Marie Thian | 1944, 1945 | St Saviour’s |
| Marjorie Crump | 1935 | St Saviour’s |
| Marjorie Shand | 1941, 1942, 1943,1944, 1945 | St Saviour’s |
| Maureen Frawley | 1940 | Nazareth House |
| Melva Oates | 1955 | Nazareth House |
| Melva Smith | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 | St Saviour’s |
| N Swiggs | 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 (Capt) | School for Deaf |
| Ngaire Irving | 1937, 1938,1939 | St Saviour’s |
| Noeline Burns | 1935 | St Saviour’s |
| Pat Drayton | 1949 | St Saviour’s |
| Paula Darrach | 1940 | Nazareth House |
| Phyllis Coutts | 1945 | St Saviour’s |
| R Rowling | 1952 | School for Deaf |
| Rawhinia O’Brien | 1946 | St Joseph’s Orphanage |
| Robyn Silk | 1956 | Presbyterian Girls Home |
| Ruth Hillyer | 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 | St Saviour’s |
| Ruth Lawson | 1935 | St Saviour’s |
| S Stebein | 1950 | School for Deaf |
| Sadie Samson | 1935 | St Saviour’s |
| Teresa Ford | 1946 | St Joseph’s Orphanage |
| Trixie Simmons | 1936, 1937, 1938 | St Saviour’s |
| V Maybee | 1953 (Capt ) | School for Deaf |