SYDNEY FESTIVAL WEEK

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 2

SYDNEY FESTIVAL WEEK

Dominion to Participate Plans for New Zealand representation fn the great pageant of Sydney Festival Week, in April next, are now being made in Sydney. The pageant will be the outstanding spectacle of the final day of the gala week. Inspired by the success of the now world-famous pageant of the Sydney harbour bridge celebrations, the committee which was responsible for the celebrations has. under the name of the Citizens of Sydney Organising Committee, been constituted a permanent organisation for carrying out national events of a similar nature. Sydney festival will represent the committee’s first activity, and will be an annual affair. A meeting held at the Trade Commissioner’s office appointed a committee to suggest the necessary arrangements for presenting the float, and to submit a design emblematic of both islands of New Zealand. It was thought that ?i replica of a Maori war canoe, carried out in flowers, would appeal to all New Ze.".; landers. It is intended that Maori braves shall man the canoe, which will be of warlike proportions. The committee includes Mr. Louis J. Schmitt, the Trade Commissioner for New Zealand: Mr. IT. L. S. Havyntt, solicitor, of Sydney, who is a New Zealander by birth: Mr. Stanley N. Wright, a well-known Svdney theatrical identity, who lias New Zealand interests; Mr. D. S. Annantl. a well-known commercial artist; and Captain Collum, who is organising secretary of the Citizens of Sydney Organising Committee.