OTAGO'S PIONEERS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 89, 24 March 1931, Page 5

OTAGO'S PIONEERS

ANNIVERSARY OP ARRIVAL

DUNEDIN,'March 23.

To-day was celebrated the anniversary of the arrival in March, 1848, of the first ships; under the settlement Bcheme of Otag<£ ' Of 96 passengers who came by the John Wickliffe, only one (Mrs Griffiths, of Incbcluthay ' is alive to-day, and of 248 who eame- in the Philip Laing, five remain. At the celebrations this year only one of this band of six pioneers put in -an '■' appearance—Mrs W, Allan, now in her 85th year. Services were held in First Church yestiiftay, arid'to-day* there was a gathering of old identities, and descendants in the Early Settlers' Hall.