FIFTY YEARS AGO
PRIDE IN CALLIOPE DOCK The opening of the Calliope Dock 50 years ago to-morrow was marked by an interesting ceremony and the /pride that was felt in Auckland is shown in The following extract from the leading article in the Xkw Zkalanl) Hekax-d of February ]5, 1888: — • "To-morrow morning Auckland 8 great graving dock will be opened with all befitting ceremonial, and the event will be an historical point of no ordinary interest and importance in ur fjr land's progress. To many the dock will appear as the progeny of our ambitious rather than of our necessities; but even looked upon ia this light: in a young and growing country, it is a more hopeful sign to find commercial progress beckoned onward by the spirit of enterprise, than to find it curbed and checked by timidity and doubt. . "There is something ennobling in the thought that at this point, almost the remotest from the centre of the r<"j" pire, we see n community of Britisi citizens voluntarily providing a doc for the reception of Her Mai est} 3 ships, capable of accommodating tn» largest of them"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22963, 15 February 1938, Page 8
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