EVENT ABANDONED
CAPTAIN HOBSON'S LANDING
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 23. On the score of expense, the proposed re-enactment of Captain Hobson's landing as a Centennial event was abandoned by the metropolitan executive of the Auckland Provincial Centennial Council today. A plea for its retention by the naval and military sub-committee was rejected, the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, stating that it was with considerable reluctance that the recommendation for its abandonment had been made. Colonel Dawson said the Navy would by very disappointed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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83EVENT ABANDONED Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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