ST. PATRICK’S DAY
CELEBRATIONS IN WELLINGTON. (Pm United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 17. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated by a large procession, which consisted of jaunting oars (filled with veterans), brass bands, school children, and decorated lorries, with symbolic tableaux. At the athletic sports there was good competition and a successful gathering. At the national concert held in the Town Hall in the evening a mass meeting resolution was passed condemning the British Government’s policy of “frightfulness in Ireland,and recording sympathy to the Irish nation in the struggle for Self-Govern-ment. The hope was expressed that the people would soon be free to work out their own destiny among the free nations. A copy was cabled to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. /
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18197, 18 March 1921, Page 5
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123ST. PATRICK’S DAY Otago Daily Times, Issue 18197, 18 March 1921, Page 5
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