THE CENTENNIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 4

THE CENTENNIAL

PERIOD OF CELEBRATION DATES FIXED BY COUNCIL Ist JANUARY TO 16th NOVEMBER (United Press Association! WELLINGTON. This Day. The period of celebrations for New Zealand’s centennial, apart from the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, will commence on Ist January. 1940. and close on 16th November in the same year, according to a decision by the National Centennial Council at its meeting in Wellington yesterday. Dates were recommended to the Government for adoption as national centennial dates. In the following list the name in parenthesis indicates the provincial authority responsible for organising the particular celebration : Sunday. 7th January. 1940: National Thanksgiving Day January 22. 1940: Landing of first settlers of the New Zealand Company at Petone. (Wellington). January 29 and 30. 1940: Celebration of Hobson’s arrival in New ealand. (Auckland). February 6. 1940: Waitangi. May 21, 1940: Proclamation of Sovereignty over South Island at Cloudy Bay. (Marlborough). June 5. 1940: Proclamation of Sovereignty over Stewart Island. (Southland). August 11, 1940: Firse exercise of Sovereignty over South Island at Akaroa. (Canterbury). October 9. 1940: Celebration of Cook’s first landing in New Zealand at Gisborne. (East Coast). November 16. 1940: 100th anniversary of separation of New Zealand from New South Wales. —A national holiday to conclude centennial celebrations. (National Centennial Council). NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY The recommendation for the holding of a national thanksgiving day on 7th January. 1940. is subject to approval by the churches of all denominations. Consideration is to be given later to a date for celebrating Abel Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand.

CO-OPERATION ASSURED

DOMINION NEWSPAPERS MINISTER PLEASED WELLINGTON. Bth December. ‘The necessity for having the full cooperation of all the newspapers of the Dominion in marking New Zealand's centennial will be obvious to you all. and I am pleased to be able to announce that such co-operation is assured.” the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, said when addressing the National Centennial Council to-day. “The heavy volume of newspaper clippings relating to the Exhibition and Centennial observances generally, which passes through my hands daily is ample confirmation of the desire of newspaper interests to make the observance of New Zealand's one-hun-dredth anniversary an outstanding success. The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, in addition to setting up a National Press Committee, has undertaken the task of producing a full-length Centennial history of the Press in New Zealand.”