PIONEERS HONOURED
A PICTURESQUE CEREMONY. (Per United Press Association.) / CHRISTCHURCH, December 15. In celebration of Anniversary Day, the pioneers were honoured at a public gathering in the Botanical Gardens on Saturday afternoon. Passengers by the first four ships had the seats of honour. The most picturesque part of the celebrations was on the old archery lawn. Seated there, some 600 pioneers, were honoured by the children. In front of the pioneers down the lawn came five children dressed in old-time costumes, the girls in bonnets, frills, furbelows and crinolines and boys in tight pants, swallow-tailed coats, brocaded vests and tall hats. These children, in the elaborate manner of a past age, walked gracefully in front of the pioneers, stopped where the passengers by the first four ships were seated and bowed and courteseyed before them. The children are descendants of Sir Charles Bowen, Judge Gresson* Bishop Harper and Dr. Barker. That pretty little ceremony was followed by a march past by the children of tht primary and secondary schools..
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Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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