PRINCE OF WALES’ TOUR.
’ ißy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RENOWN CANAL. PANAMA, March 30. To-day saw the arrival at Colon of the Renown. She was officially visited by the President of Panama to welcome the Prince of Wales. The Renown is now in the Culebra Cut ‘■all safe.”
ROTO It C A CELEBRATION S. The Maori festival of welcome to be given at Rotorua on the occasion of the Prince’s visit promises to he a spectacular celebration of some magnitude. Wednesday, April 28tli, is the due date fixed for the festival, which will take place on the racecourse, Arawa Park. Five thousand members of the Native races will assemble to take part in an event which will become historic among flic spectacular celebrations of the Maori people. Arawa Park in view of the Prince’s visit, is becoming a hive of industry (writes the Auckland “Star” correspondent). Thousands of feet of timber are on the ground and also hundreds of tons of firewood. Great progress is being made with the main stand, which will bo capable of seating 1500 persons. The old stand will ho reserved for the Prince, the Governor-General and their suites. Accommodation for soldiers ’n blue is to be found in the erection of a platform in front of the totalisatoi house. Two German 77 millimetre field guns have arrived from the flanks of the Maori memorial to soldiers killed in the war and they "’ill be placed on tither side of the grandstand during the Prince’s visit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1920, Page 1
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