CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 23174, 25 January 1939, Page 3

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

OPENING DATE, NOVEMBER 2 LORD GALWAY TO PERFORM CEREMONY [Pek United Piiess Association - .] WELLINGTON, .January 24. The Centennial Exhibition will bo opened at Rongotai on November 8 of tins .year by thu Governor-General (Viscount Galway). The general manager (Mr C-. P. Hainswortbl said today that an invitation had boon extended to Viscount Galway by the exhibition directors as soon as the date for the opening ceremony had been decided upon at a recent board meeting. A letter was received to-day from the military secretary at Government House stating that the Governor-Gene-ral would accept the invitation. The official opening of the exhibition will be one of tlie most important and spectacular as well ns one of tbe first of the centennial celebrations at Wei-, lington. It will probaby be the first occasion on which the Welsh Guards Hand will play in public in New Zealand. Their arrival in Wellington wid take place probably on November 2. The High Commissioner’s Office in London lias been requested to book them to travel by the Shaw Savill liner Tamaroa, which is duo at Wellington on that day. HISTORICAL DATA DELETION FROM OFFICIAL MAP OF TARANAKI fPioi United Piiess Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, January 21. The deletion of historical data from the large-scale official map of Taranaki recently prepared under the direction of the Surveyor-General was the subject of an objection by the Taranaki Centennial Council at Stratford today. Mr W. H. Skinner was quoted as saying that the computation of the data represented nearly a century of effort in field and office by surveyors and others interested in tbe preservation of Maori and early European history. it was stated that, the deletion was made because the data were not available for other provinces, and uniformity was desired by the department.