CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
OPENING DATE ANNOUNCED GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO OFFICIATE I United Press Association! WELLINGTON. This Day. The Centennial Exhibition will be opened at Rongotai, Wellington, on Bth November of this year, by the Gover-nor-General, Lord Galway. The general manager, Mr C. P. Hainsworth, said yesterday that an invitation had been extended to Lord Galway by the exhibition directors, as soon as the date for the opening ceremony had been decided upon at a recent board meeting. A letter was received yesterday from the military secretary at Government House, stating that the Governor-General would accept the invitation.
The official opening of the exhibition will be one of the most important and spectacular, as well as one of the first, of the centennial celebrations in Wellington. It will probably be the first occasion on which the Welsh Guards Band will play in public in New Zealand, its arrival at Wellington being expected on 2nd November. The High Commissioner’s office, London, has been requested to book the band to travel by the Shaw, Savill liner Tamaroa, due at W llington on that day.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 6
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