MANGAWEKA CELEBRATES
Mangaweka celebrated its Centennial last week, writes "The Post's" Wanganui representative, and the organisation displayed reflected great credit on the promoters. Pioneers who arrived when the district was heavilyclad in bush, a Maori party with a gaily-decorated "canoe" lorry, decorated cycles, motor-cycles, wheel- • barrows, old-fashioned cars, old horseI drawn vehicles, and riders on side- ■ saddles paraded the- streets, finishing ) at the school grounds, where a sports ■ programme had been arranged for the children.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 10
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75MANGAWEKA CELEBRATES Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 10
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