HAMILTON PIONEERS
ANNIVERSARY OF TOWN REUNION AT CAMBRIDGE [FROM OUB OWN COIIBESPONDENT'3 HAMILTON, Thursday Tho 69th anniversary of the foundation of Hamilton fell to-day. The settlement of tho town, then known as Kirikiriroa, dates back to August 24, 1864, when the 4th Company of the 4th Waikato Regiment, tinder Captain J. Steele, and comprising 100 married and single men, landed at the present site of Memorial Park, Hamilton. During the following year the regiment was disbanded and sections of land were allotted to the members. Those who remained formed the first settlers of the district.
Tho landing will be commemorated by a reunion of the Early Settlers' Association at Cambridge at noon to-mor-row.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 12
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113HAMILTON PIONEERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 12
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