COLONISTS' JUBILEE.
GERTRUDE AND DEVONSHIRE. The arrival of the colonising ships Gertrude and Devonshire at Auckland in February, 1863, is to be celebrated next month, Twenty people, some of them passengers by the vessels, arid others descendants of the original colonists, attended a meeting of the Jubilee Committee last evening. Mr. Charles Cooper presided. It was decided that on Friday, February 7, the anniversary of the day on which the Devonshire arrived, a gathering of colonists who immigrated by the two ships and of their descendants, should be held at Lake Takapuna. On Sunday, February 9, the arrival of the Gertrude will be celebrated by the attendance of the re-united colonists at Divine service at a church which* will be selected later. The Gertrude was one of the vessels which brought immigrants to the Albertland settlement, so that her passengers were mostly Nonconformists. Further arrangements were entrusted to a sub-com-mittee, composed of Messrs. Charles Cooper, William Blomfield, and H. Dunbar Johnson, Mrs. Mossman, and Miss Cotteral. '■''■' '■.•;.., :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15197, 10 January 1913, Page 8
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