WESTLANDGOLDFIELD JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS.
1 he committee in charge of the arrangements for celebrating the jubilee of tiro estlarui goldfields have issued a second circular giving an outline of the programme arranged, the transi tanalignments, part cu'ars of the proposed motnoriai to pioneere, and ieminisccncrs by some pioneers. | The jubilee eel. bration® will commence at, j Hokitika, on 'Wednesday, January 7 next, j when there will be an assembly at 10.30 I a.m. in Sewell street at the Sedtion statue, j A procession will be formed, and a stmt 1 made at 11 a.m. to Cass square. Here adI dresses will lie given by Cabinet Ministers, pioneers. and others, and suitable selections sung by a 'united choir. At 1 p.m. the pioneers will be omertainod at iunclieon, and at 2 p.m. school and nrlitary .sports j will bo held in Gass square. At 8 p.m. a I concert to (he pioneers will be given, and j there will also bo an entertainment at the | Princess Theatre. j. On Thursday, January 8, there will be a | monster picnic by excursion trains ro Lake - Mahmanua. and entertainments • at tho | theatres in the evening. On Friday. January 9, the forenoon will ibe devoted to visits to tiu> townships of Kanieri, Ilium. Stafford, amt Wiiimoa. in the afternoon the pioneers will be entertained at a'garden party, and a swimming carnival w-11 be held, while the evening will he devoted to social functions. On Saturday. January 10, there will bo an excursion to Ross, where a locallyarranged program mo will bo carried out, and at night there will be a d : sp!ny of fireworks at Hokitika. On Sunday. January 11. special services will be held at all the churches. On Monday. January 12, a v : s!t will 5o paid to Kumara, where a locally-arranged programme will be carried nut. Tuesday, January 13. is (Jrcynrouth day, I when loeal functions will he arranged. As the West-land Racing Club's annual mooting will be held on January 3 and 2, and the Hokitika Trotting Club's meeting on the 6tlr, it will he seen that tin* festivities will practically cover 14 da vs. It is proposed to mark (lie jubilee with a memorial to tho pioneer's. This, it is suggested, should take the form of a statue at the junction of Fit/.herbert and Stafford streets, in Hokitika, intersecting the north, south, and inland main roads. The statue will represent the figure of a miner in prospecting kit typical of tic pioneer day®, and 's estimated to cost £4OO. This movement is apart from the jubilee celebration®. The jubilee has a special interest to Otago people, as manv of tiro pioneers were from the Otago goldfields, and a good many of them found their way hack to Otago again. Ex-residents of the Const are invited to sen,! in their name® for includon in the pioneers’ roll, which will be published at jubilee time. The joint ®eeretar : es fare Mr A. A. Andrewe® (town clerk) and Mr D. J. Evans (count v clerk), both of Hokitika. The chairman of the committee 's Mr J. Gi'immond, who. it will be remembered, visited Ota.go to take part in (he Otago goldfield® jubilee celebrations.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 61
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