CENTENNIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 11

CENTENNIAL.

PROVINCIAL ENTITY. POVERTY BAY'S STATUS. REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL. A report will be. presented to the Auckland City Council on Monday evening by the Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, 011 the conference of the. National Centennial Committee, which was held in Wellington last week. It is understood that the Mayor will announce the date on which he proposes to reconvene the adjourned Auckland conference to consider the establishment, in accordance with the decision of the National Committee, of an Auckland

provincial organisation to ensure a basis of co-ordination for the provincial effort. In connection with the Government's proposal for the establishment of provincial organisations throughout New Zealand to ensure the adequate celebration of the centennial, it has been decided to regard Poverty Bay as a separate provincial entity, with its own provincial organisation. When the matter was before the National Centennial Committee it was considered that Poverty Bay should be given individual status, and that the district would respond readily to the general idea of providing a series of celebrations which would conform to the co-ordinated Dominion plan which the Government had in view.