FOUNDING OF DUNEDIN
ANNIVERSARY DAY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , DUNEDIN, 23rd March. The anniversary of -the arrival on 23rd March, 1848, of the first ghips under the settlement scheme of Otago was celebrated at Dunedin yesterday. Of the 96 passengers who came by the John Wickliffe, only one (Mrs. Griffiths, of • Inchclutha) is alive to-day, and of tho 248 who came in the Philip Laing five remain. At the celebrations yesterday only one of this band of six pioneers put in an appearance—Mrs. W. -Allan, who is now in her 85th year. Services were.held in First Church on Sunday, and yesterday there was a gathering of old identities and their descendants in the Early Settlers' Hall.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 10
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115FOUNDING OF DUNEDIN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 10
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