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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 11 August 1925, Page 19

£ Iby fcH* People,fertkelVcpl*' I smVT '■■ I- (W for J)eKvocrt.€y .Its peace must- t>« %2& sKaH no* periskfrom kh« Earth. pUnk«i hriislht4Fe»itMJahens jEftK JF 1 1 UL JKL, ILL/ I \C^// hundred years ago an English colony was founded After the Pilgrims had built homes for themselves the Mayflower I • • I at in North America, by a group of Puritans returned to England. Perhaps, the most moving picture in the* | / I known as the "Pilgrim Fathers." This was not the first collection being exhibited on our Fifth Floor in honour of the I ■*• sett^ement °f Europeans in the New World, as colonies visit of the American Fleet is the one entitled, "The Exiles." I //y jf/i had previously been planted by Spaniards, Englishmen, /// I s^^^\ Dutchmen, Swedes, and others. But the 102 men, women and It depicts some of the Pilgrims on a bleak, barren coast watching /// /// * J children of the Mayflower—those whose adventurous journey the departing Mayflower homeward bound over the sea. As I ////A 1 WaS tO cnan 2 e tne ace t^ie wor^ —were the first Real Longfellow so aptly describes the scene: — w/i>>x i I Americans. ~c ■n • t t 7•, • .1 . , ■ 7(1 / / (f\ /?7 ' oun-aiuminea and tvhite, on the eastern verge . / , C s V— 'll The Mayflower left Southampton waters on August 5, 1620, „, ~, , ' ~ 771 7771- - and after a dela y at Plymouth Harbour the little ship spent sixty- Gleamed the departing sad, like a marble slab in L I Cy**-L^fl /ss^' — five days of tragic menace on the trackless waters of the Atlantic. a graveyard :, I f\ was a voyage the glory of which will never die. Buried beneath it lay for ever all hope of escape. ,, I f\l \ IJ! ff "^* A ' * Many more Pilgrims settled in America, bringing with them the I v ■ — "~*^ s I|/ ij ■ t On November 9, 1620, the Pilgrims saw the shores of America. spirit of British law, the British ideals of liberty and justice, which I \ \ /'i *CB9 / n December 21 they landed on a rocky, wind-swept, snow-clad were afterwards embodied in the Constitution of the Republic I \ \ 11 SY I » • coast. They had come with little or no equipment for a colonial and the States which composed it. / | \ f 1 ' f life, with few provisions, no cattle, and no seeds. What were . I \simSsa V**v—• / they to do? Something like a miracle happened. The amazing growth of the United States from these scattered y^^^^^^ftS?/^- , ■'\ k settlements to a mighty nation of 110,000,000 souls is one of the T Q"^ V \ S \. They advanced inland and came to some mounds of sand, which, wonders of the modern world. And the history of this nation, [ Willi >v when opened, disclosed stores of corn, maize, beans and oil. A whose great defensive Fleet we welcome to our shores, is full of r \. little later they came to a deserted wigwam, and inside they found events that are as thrilling as any romance. Many of these /Oi \ cooking utensils, baskets, tobacco seed, silk made from grass, notable incidents may be seen in the Pictures now exhibited on lllwS^Sß \. rus^es to c planted. our Fifth Floor. it(snMisM Ik These pictures are not only interesting, but instructive. Competitors must not be over 14 years of age. IBJMIfLf ' lT\ especially to children. Parents should bring their boys and than one letter or essa may be sent by a competitor Jtf / / 30 ° words - on any P icture bein S shown:— " Send letters of essays to Competition, FARMERS' TRADING WJif\l|||( I f \ i^:-A Invitation to Urncers and Men or the rleet \ V_? V> ~ X ll a // // I c invite >' ou to %va through our Warehouse, which is the Do not miss the magnificent view of Auckland City and II Siill « W§o'- i I '// // jfl \/ ■ Si Largest Department Store in this country (The "Wanamakers" Harbour from our Roof Promenade. jl lt-1 *' lAIIP //' / fe^^^ll noL PUr s5 a t S o S thr£ ' cent^to^^sh'lmn™ '" ° r To reach ° UT Warehouse ' walk Up tKe right Kand side ° f i \ / I ''' "' III! // I New Tealand^madrßugs!' which nTakTLT the our Free Bus, which leaves every few minutes for our main I