KATIKATI DOMAIN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6582, 8 January 1916, Page 2

KATIKATI DOMAIN.

CHRISTENING ANZAC BAY.

A Large Gathering.

A short tiro* ago the Katikati I Domain Board decided, owing fo the •'! increasing number of picnieeis and excursionists who annmlly visited ""' tt » wen town Heads, that Foine better ii •• -v-'on for their comfort wasnepdod i lyv.trordinglye^ about providing § a jetty and a shelter abed, nm\ on Thursday the two wera officiallyopen. Ed and the name "Anzac :< givpn to the bay in which tiny stand. This bay is prettily situated right at the Bowentown entrance, and from the promontory on the seaward sido | magnificent view is obtained. TTie) c t wharf "itself is situated on the eastera I side of the bay and just above it, a | i little inshore, stands the shelter Rh e{ ] | which is, however, something more 1 | thHn its nnme implies. It is rvor I thirty feet long, with one pud^parti. \\ tioned off and provided with an op^n ! ! fireplace for boiling wat:pr. a plpntifu] supply of which oa.n be obtained from a well close at hand. Tli^ main portion of the buildins:, which is some ten feet wide, makes au excellent wairiagf room, shelter shed, ln>ichpnn j room, or whatever other use to which \ it may be found necessnrv to put i\ 1 Tfc was evident from the state of the } floor that the c^nip population now I iat the Bay had been holding dances | there. || On Wednesday nft-pruoon tlin o I I Manuwai went to Katikati to he. in readiness to take the excursionists h from there to the heflds on Thwrdw. P She left shortly before nine o'cMclc on Thursday morning with ' a full # load, and many others journeyed to f) tlie heads in various ways The | | Manuwai reached tlie rendezvous I j about ten, followed 'immediately bva 1 iTauransra party aboard the Sybil, I who had had a pleasant though some- 1 what wet run of three hours from I town. §

Arrived at the b«>v the exmirsioirisffl I spread themselves in various direction* I and shctlv afterwards again f nf. the jetty, where Mr Qeo. Vesev | Stewart, chairman of the Donwin | TW"d, in a hnnpy s»pppch declare! <h« | Htynnd ch*»d o^pne^ anrl oonferrnd I tha name of Anzac upon ttebay. The I Bav.su id Mr Sfcawarf-. wnnW as | «n everlasting: mnnnmei^ to the hr«v« Ai'B riliao and New Zaxh^ hoy* 8 larx^B^ at Anzac. The letter* of I the word tco would »lways rflm'ndiw % of 'hosememorable dead". il A"stoo' for Wtra.H«, li NZ" for Npw ZfalamJ and "AH for" the. Allied caui^At#' .30 the visitnrp, aronnffwhom wr" Mr D Donnldsni, \f*\nr of Waihi, Mr n E M^craillßn, Mayor of Taurane^, Mf.HD M"rrooth, Town ( OlerJr, Waihi, Mr 0 Low?*. Secretary' of the Ta/nranga Harbour Board, and ATeosrs H Houfhev, T 0 Al*m<», Mr P; t.herbridge, of the X« fiVati Marine Tra.linj? Company. B C RobbiDS, and Captain Millar, Harbourmaster, WBW entemainpd at, *n excellent lonch by the Katikati folk.

During the afternoon the visitor" ft?ain gathered in tho shelter sh.ed, wd the foU^win!? toast list was honoured: —The Kin^. Army and Navy. Local Bodies, The Visitor?, the local Marine Service (coupled with *ho namo of Mr Petherbridge), Mr Hntchi&'on (the Board's rnnefir and the mioerintflndflnt of the work of Piectinc tho jotty and shed VTb« Press, and th« Ladies About 5 o'clock a ntarfc was made for liomn, cheet'«i beinsr exchanged as th^ Sybil, with the Tauranga parh', left, and a pleasant and memorable day nnded. The Sybil made the ran home outside the heads in slightly under two hours, and the party ..received the kindest of attention from Messrs Ingram and Afeugea ou both* tho run up and down. -;' . -