END OF AN EPOCH

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 5

END OF AN EPOCH

PRIDE IN MELBOURNE CENTENARY OF PROGRESS WEALTH TORN FROM BUSH SACRED TRUST HANDED ON SHADOW OF TRAM STRIKE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 11.30 p.m. Melbourne, Oct. 17. The Premier, Sir S. S. Argyle, in a special message on the eve of the opening of the centenary celebrations, said visitors would see the wealth of production wrested from what 100 years ago was primitive bush land and judge how the present generation was honouring its sacred trust handed down by pioneers from Great Britain.

“We must,” he said, “by our behaviour as hosts justify the good opinions expressed about us overseas. Let us enjoy the festivities to the full at the same time. Let us in our civic pride end one great epoch with the sturdy determination to make the second century even more brilliant an example of the success of British colonisation. The Duke of Gloucester arrives tomorrow at a city affected by industrial strife. The result of the tram strike to-morrow should not be serious on account of the fact that the tramways are usually suspended on the occasion of great processions. People will be able to reach the route of the Royal progress by train and emergency buses. CONGRATULATIONS SENT NEW PLYMOUTH WISHES The Mayor of New Plymouth, Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour, sent the following cable to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne: — “New Plymouth congratulates Melbourne on attaining its centenary. May your city enter upon a new era of prosperity and maintain its place amongst the leading cities of the Empire.”