CENTENARY PLANS
Dunedin Sets Up a Council By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, July 23. Tentative proposals for the celebration of the centenary of the Dominion were outlined by the Mayor, Rev. E. T. Cox, at a meeting of public bodies and social, religious and commercial organisations held this afternoon Subsequently the Otago Provincial Centennial Council, representative of all the bodies attending, was formed, and a smaller executive was set up, with the town clerk. Mr. G. A. Lewin, as secretary. The Mayor. Messrs. J. Sutherland Ross, J. J. Marlow and John Bennetts (Roxburgh) were appointed to represent the council at a conference of the national council to be held at Wellington on August 20. A committee was formed to make historical surveys of the province, and the heads of religious bodies were requested to .set up a special council to bring forward suggestions for the appropriate religious observance of the centenary. Local bodies represented at the meeting were asked to make suggestions as to the form which a provincial memorial should take.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 255, 24 July 1936, Page 13
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