Still In Service Mr A. E. Gibbon, of Hamilton, chairman of the New Zealand Red Gross Society, suspects that some of Wellington’s top hats have had long lives. In reminiscent mood, he told a Red Cross meeting in Wellington that he was “perfectly sure” that some of the “stovepipe hats” he saw at the Royal garden party in Wellington in January he had seen previously—on the heads, of dignified Wellington citizens on their way to church at the turn of the century. In those days, he said, there was a regular top-hat procession along the Terrace on Sunday morning as families went to church.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27308, 26 March 1954, Page 10
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