CITY'S HISTORY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 150, 31 December 1928, Page 11

CITY'S HISTORY

;:f-'::A; ; (jgOTCiM6E's^&iN(s;K^ i^i:A"'UUle';:6arljr:-Hißtory/fo4-;;VVeilingtQa' was>giveii':tlip>YbMg'VAustr^ift':'L'6agiie. 'party 'by;'1 Councillor. ,W.^H.;-Bennett#at;. the, ■ civic (..welcome,.in ; ?,th'e;:>',T?owiif.'; Hail' /Concert', (jhambor' tp-dayv-- .;-.'•■ ?;.V ' i. • , ■'.;.:*'l :;'ha'v.e /been*-/ Avbn<|ering V.whether: 4he'rising generation'appreciates pyrhat their ' forbears1 ■'•ha.ye itdonevforV them in these two .countries,''! said .BennettJ *'Wellirigtoh-is a'little ; ;over Weighty years/ofvage;i;l was, born;«in: '•■^.ellington, and'have ■''grown ;%ithUj..\::'l.| can/remember the time when , this .har-.bom-/washed the' lines -of trams -'along Willis: street 'and.Lambton quay/.' ;iI have canghtiherrings ;from' ; the ;■ back'of Hhe Empire 'Hotel' yonder. ;ipn very site cutters and 'schooners Sused:; tor anchor'and; land : their;:; goods* bn:the foreshore ia. little -.near;'JJ!annefs street. Practically!'the.'whole- biisiness area -of; this 'city-has the sea, and it has been dpiiißJby men^and' women, who left homo .: and *coiuitry,; pleasures and ; comforts, to 'found>':'the most !outlying"post-of the,British;Empire. What was done in ; this New, Zealand and in this; Wellington >vas done by your^foi'bears'iii;that great coiitinqnt df.'.Australia.'V;i;'!i' r-:i:''-.:/;sVr; "■"''■' V,■';.;'■■-,,■';.;'■■-, . Councillor Bennett .thought that it was ,up>to theorising generations to acquire ■a. knowledge of the history ,of the country; in which they were born, so that they would be .'better fitted to carry .on the work of those ;'Who had gone before them. :;