DOMINION DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 25 September 1922, Page 7

DOMINION DAY.

THIRTEENTH AN.NIW.ESAP.Y. Tt i.s fourteen years to-morrow *ince New Zealand, after a little over 50 years of representative government as - Crown eclony. and in the sec.M.rvr, „f its s'Xleenth parfiament, was proclaimed a d'omin.ion. At tbe time Baron Plunket w.a. (ion rnor, and Sir Josep.-i Ward wis Trin-e M ini.-=Vr. Sine* f'non Dominion Day h.i. been a recognised Ojwrnment and ban!, holiday, though no* accepted as a gt-iernl holiday. In accordu-ie with the comparatively re"--nt!v instituted custom of avoiding mid-week holiday breai.ks -wtoeriever possible by celebrating the event on the nearest Monday, tlhose Government a.nrl crnmmercia.l institutions that reooswlso Dominion Day as a hoKdav celebrated the event to-day. Tive courts and. leisatl offices, t*h» Stock Exchange, the i nis.ii ranee offices and most of the Government office." wecw closed, and .bunting whs flown on the municipal and Government buildings. Owing tn the arrival of the mail steamer from Vancouver the State shipping, customs ajid tourist offices remained open for business, nnd the fa-t that it is nn election ye<ar also kept the doors of the central elcot'or... bureau open for tihe grvater part of the day.