WAIMATE BOROUGH.
JUFILEE CELEBRATIONS. CHURCH MEMORIALS UNVEILED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIMATE, Sunday. i The jubilee celebrations of the Waimate Borough were commenced to-day with religious thanksgiving services, and they will continue until Saturday next. The principal service of the morning was at St. Paul's Methodist Church —the first denomination to erect a church in the borough —where eight memorial windows were unveiled to pioneers and early church workers. Opportunity was taken also to" unveil a window in memory of Methodist fallen soldiers. The service was attended by the Mayor and council. The Silver Band, territorials, cadets and returned soldiers marched in procession to the church. The pioneers' windows were unveiled by- Mrs. G. Manchester, a Methodist pioneer. The soldiers' window was unveiled by Brigadier M. Gardner, D.5.0.. and that of the church workers by Mr. J. Bitchener, M.P. Monday's programme includes an old people's conversazione, and at night a torchlight procession and huge bonfire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 10
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