SHIPS OF THE EARLY DAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 6

SHIPS OF THE EARLY DAYS.

CELEBRATION AT TAKAPUXA. Arrangements for the jubilee celebration on Friday of the arrival of the ships Devonshire and Gertrude, in 1863, j were discussed at a well-attended meetI ing of the general committee last night, Mr. Charles Cooper presiding. It was decided that the hour for the luncheon.! (at Lake Takapuna) should be 12.45 i pjn., and that photographs of groups i should be taken immediately after lunch. A suggestion that Mr. Justice Cooper, who had been one of the Gertrude's company, should be asked to preside at the luncheon was unanimously ap-j proved, and it was decided also to ask! the Mayor of Auckland and the local i liifeiobers of Parliament to take pan in ! the proceedings. A contribution to j the funds was received from Mr. E. B. I Parsons, of New Plymouth, who intimated that physical infirmity prevented i him from visiting Auckland on the j occasion to foregather with his old ship-mates of the Devonshire. Mrs. Tug-by and Mr. Win. Fallon were added to the sub-committee, tousisting of Mrs. Mossman, Miss Cotterell, and Messrs. Chsie. Cooper, Wm. Bloomfield, and H. Dunbar Johnson, and the committee was empo-weied to make arrangements for the holding of a memorial service in the Pitt Street Methodist Church next Sundaj afternoon, and to invite the Rev. W. Gittos and ministers of other denominations to assist.