Timaru Reaches City Status: 80 Years A Borough
(P.A.) TIMARU, This Day. Timaru was proclaimed a city on Friday, according to a telegram the Mayor (Mr A. E. S. Hanan) has received from the Department of Internal Affairs. The telegram intimated that the change of status would be contained in a Gazette notice on Thursday, and would become effective from that date. The announcement is the outcome of consistent claims by the mayor in recent months that the town has reached the population of. 20,000 required for city status.
Next Tuesday afternoon a ceremony will be held at Caroline Bay. the scene of the arrival of the first. Maoris, and later Europeans, in South Canterbury.
It is appropriate that Timaru should be proclaimed a city this year as it is 80 years since it was proclaimed a borough. The first European establishment at Timaru was a shore whaling station set up for the Weller Brothers, of Sydney, by Joseph Price in 1836. Sixteen years later William Barnard, Robert Heaton and George Rhodes took up runs known as “The Levels.” which marked the opening up of the rich hinterland of South Canterbury.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1948, Page 8
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