OPENING OF BROOKLANDS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1934, Page 9

OPENING OF BROOKLANDS

ORDER OF THE PROCEEDINGS. ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY. Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe will reach New Plymouth from Auckland to-morrow morning. Instead of the previous arrangement they will visit the show-grounds informally at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning and not that afternoon. From the showgrounds they will proceed to Brooklands and thence to North Egmont hostel, calling at the Lower Mangorei school for five minutes en route.

The proceedings at Brooklands on Saturday will commence at 2 p.m. when the Taranaki Regimental and New Plymouth Municipal Band conducted by Captain F. W. G. McLeod will play a selection of music. At 2.30 their excellencies will arrive and will be received by the Mayor (Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour), Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., and Mr.Truby King. - !•'•'. [ The band will play six bars of the National Anthem, after which his excellency will inspect the guard of, honour mounted by “A” company senior cadets under the command of Major V.! E. Kerr. The Mayor will then,present to their Excellencies the 1 representatives of the family of the late Mr. Newton King. After the presentation, their Excellencies will be conducted to the ceremonial dais by the Mayor, the chairman of the park committee, Mr; Smith, and Mr. Truby King, and the Mayor will ask her Excellency’s permission for Miss Lynette King to present a bouquet of flowers. Archdeacon Evans will offer a' prayer, while the assembly stands and two verses of Kiplin’s “Recessional” will be sung to the accompaniment of the orchestra. The Mayor will request the assembly to stand in silence ; for two minutes in memory of the late Mr. Newton King-and Mrs. King. Mr. Truby King, on behalf of the family will formally hand over “Brooklands” to the Borough Council in trust, for the people of New Plymouth. TheMayor, the chairman of the park committee, and Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., will' return thanks to the donors for their magnificent gift. The whole assembly will. stand and sing two verses of the hymn “Now thank we all our God,” accompaniment being provided by the orchestra. The Mayor will ask his Excellency officially to declare the park open to the cublic, after which his Excellency will address the assembly and -the Mayor will ask their Excellencies to accept a specially bound copy of the official souvenir of the opening ceremony. The choir will sing Jackson’s setting of Te Deum Laudamus, the conductor being Mr. R. L. Cooper and the assembly will sing one verse of the National Anthem. The Mayor will then present to their Excellencies the members of the New Plymouth Borough Council, the committee of the Pukekura Park, and all others on the official stand. Later their Excellencies and staff will be the guests of the Pukekura Park committee at afternoon tea. It has been requested that, all invited guests should be in their places at Brooklands by 2.10 p.m.