EXHIBITION PLANS.
OPENING IN NOVEMBER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. The Centennial Exhibition will be opened at Rongotai, Wellington, on November 8 oi this year by the Gov-ernor-General (Viscount Galway). The general manager (Mr C. P. Hainsworth) said to-dav that an invitation had been extended to Lord Galway by Hie exhibition directors as soon a-s the date for the opening ceremony inid been decided upon at a recent board mooting. A letter was received to-day from tlie military secretary at Government House stating that "Hie Governor-General would accept the invitation. The official opening of the exhibition will lie one of the most important and spectacular, as well as one of the first of the centennial celebrations at Wellington. It will probablv be the first occasion on which the Welsh Guards’ Band will play in public in New Zealand. Their arrival in Wellington is taking place probably oti November 2. The High Commissioner’s Office. London. has been requested to book them to travel by the Tamaroa, due at Wellington on’flint day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 3
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171EXHIBITION PLANS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 3
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