EXHIBITION TO OPEN TODAY
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY LOBO GALWAY TO PERFORM CEREMONY (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 7. One hundred years of history will culminate in a fanfare of trumpets when at 2.30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, the Governor-General (Viscount Galway), in the presence of perhaps 50,000 people, inaugurates six months of nation-wide celebration in declaring open the great Centennial Exhibition at Rongotai. There, in a 40-acre field and at a cost pf ;g 500,000, is symbolized the whole romantic story of New Zealand’s foundation and development an<T the nation’s life in palaces and gardens of beauty and light, education and entertainment such as has not been imagined in these islands since the beginning of time,
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Southland Times, Issue 23969, 8 November 1939, Page 6
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117EXHIBITION TO OPEN TODAY Southland Times, Issue 23969, 8 November 1939, Page 6
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