ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-MORROW'S CELEBRATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 227, 25 September 1907, Page 5

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-MOR-ROW'S CELEBRATION.

A holiday for the school children and .Government servants will mark to-mxirrow, which will be the day from which New Zealand will date as a. Dominion, instead of a Colony. The business _people will close their premises :for .one hour, from eleven o'clock, as was done at the time of the opening of the Mariborough .Exhibition.

The school children will muster at th© Borough School at 10 o'clock, at which hour the cadets will also parade. At 10.15 o'clock the Mounted Rifles, Blenheim Rifles, High School Cadets and Garrison Band will parade at the Drill Shed; and at 10.30 the whole .force will inarch througUa town in the form of .a procession, halting in Market Place-

At 11 o'clock, in accoraance with the uaaivfii'sal .ai-angemeiit, the proclamation will be read by his Worship the Mayor, followed by the hoisting of th© New Zealand ensign. Short addresses will be given by the chairmen of local bodies, and the assembly, led by the Band, will sing the National Anthem.

Mr R. MeArtney has been appointed Marshal for the day.

In the afternoon a schools football tournament will be held; and Pollard's Juvenile Opera Company will give a matinee in the Town Hall.

Details of train arrangements are published.