EAST CHRTSTCHURCH.
Mr Jclm Jamicson. Chairman. o r tho Soli-col Committer, and a meim.bc? erf the Education. Board, was the principal spraicr at tho colcbration at toe East Christchurch echo-;!. Mr Jamirson referred to the chnngn in. the status cf Now Zealand, (pointing out thafe th-a was a selr-governing dc-peE 1 :! 1 ?--? - cf tho British Empire. In tho minds of tho' great majority of the Rrrti-- public tho term "colony" implied a port of tho Empire directly admi-TiMcred l_* the Ho-ie authorities, ar.d the r-enno ''Dominion* gave these island-* a states of inr.re--i-.wl imparb-i**---. Ho read to tho children th* rcos-jasjo s:»n.t ouS on the first Doniinjen Day by tie Preimicr. Tlio fins was saluted, ard tho teachers distributed i'ho medab to the children. Cheers were ociren for the ohairman and tho hcadmat-tcr.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 10
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