CENTENNIAL RIVER CARNIVAL
R.S.A. TO ORGANISE EVENT The Christchurch Returned Services’ Association will sponsor, in co-opera-tion with, the Municipal Officers’ Association and the outside staff of the City Council, a river carnival as part of the centennial celebrations. This was decided by the executive of the association last evening after advice had been received that a weir would be built at Armagh street and that the Canterbury Rowing Association would supply boats. Mr J. A. Bretherton said he thought the centennial celebrations gave the association a golden opportunity to show the public and its members the more serious side of its work. “There is our pension work, visiting the sick, the care of disabled servicemen, helping men to get settled on the land, and helping them to buy homes and businesses,” he said. “Too many of our members think our whole aim *and object is to provide a billiards room and have smoke concerts. Perhaps we could show some aspects of the work on a float.”
The president (Mr H. E. Batchelor) said that a float in the centennial procession would be expensive. The association was also co-operating in organising a display for the procession.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26125, 30 May 1950, Page 4
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