NATIONAL ROLL OF COMMEMORATION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 97, 18 January 1940, Page 9

NATIONAL ROLL OF COMMEMORATION

Tlie national centennial roll, or the official visitors’ book at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, is becoming already a unique document and Will eventually be not only a national autograph book of historical value, but. the envy of all autograph hunters in the world. All the distinguished visitors to the Exhibition—and there have been many since opening day—have signed their names in the book. The opening pages of the centennial roll contain the signatures of, first, his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway, and Lady Galway, Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., signed the book on the morning of his departure with the first echelon from Wellington. Another signature is that of tlie commander of H.M.S. Ramillies, Captain 11. T. Baillie-Grohman. The roll, instituted to commemorate New Zealand’s first 100 years of progress, already contains many thousands of signatures. On signing, each person is issued with a numbered centennial certificate, specially designed to show New Zealand’s century of progress from 1840 to 1040. The certificate certifies to attendance to .the centennial celebrations at the Exhibition, and after the Exhibition the centennial roll will be placed among New Zealand’s historical treasures in the Dominion Museum, Wellington.