ONE HUNDRED YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 268, 12 November 1935, Page 6

ONE HUNDRED YEARS.

Peculiar difficulties face the adequate celebration of such, an important event as the centenary of New Zealand's birth. The conformation of the country prohibits the dominance of any one city where effort may be concentrated as in the case in other countries and States. Here each of the four cities has almost an equal claim and an equal desire to worthily celebrate the anniversaryThe resultant diffusion of effort, which cannot be avoided, makes it all the more imperative that the organisation of the celebrations shall be complete and effective. Last night's meeting in the Town Hall, when the Mayor of Auckland officially launched his four-year campaign, is a very happy augury for the success of a plan which will call for a continuance of the interest and enthusiasm then displayed. The gathering was a most representative one, the method of bringing the various suggestions under the notice of the city could scarcely have been improved upon, and the wide range of possible observances presented by Mr. Davis will give everybody all the mental exercise required between to-day and the intensive effort which will begin next March.