BATTLE JUBILEES.
ORAKAU & SIOUTOA' iSLAK©.
(By Teleeraph.-Specia] GorrbssoiiJenW • Wangany!, March SI. Fourteen members of the local 'branch of' His Jlajesty's Veteran*? , . Asspciatiou left here' to-day for TCifkato to take part- in the celebration of tlio Jubilee of the fall of Orakau. Apixjpbs to the above, Jlr. H.-D. Baios, hi ffangftnui, one of the fow now aim iviq witnessed tlio battlo of Moutoa, Writes 'to ilie local Press urging that tfre- jutrifc* ef that' action, which comes iii May next, should ba celob.-ated in a fitting manner. • .llie battlo' was fought on. the island of Moutoa, fifty miles up tJm Wangaiuii. River, 'between friendly Natives and a party of Hauhaus, who -ffero qii their way to -sack Wanganiii, which w:is llieji in r>. defenceless state, Aucklantf, Match 31. The Bfon. James Allen will iinveil the Ornkmi Moiiiorinl • fo-roojTow, returning to Auckland on Friday, The Haft. Tff. 11. Horries left for Camiiridfie this morning. Ho will attend the■ Qrakan coiobratious, and will then return ifl Wellington, coming north azam on Sunday to visit tho North Auckland, district.. Tlio.Hon. Dr. Pomarc also attemis tho Oraliau celebrations, thiih'rciUrniiig t<s Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 8
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186BATTLE JUBILEES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 8
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