Pioneer Park Memorial.— Stone for the shrine to be erected in Pioneer Park. Raincliff, as a memorial to the pioneers of South Canterbury, has now been sledged to the proposed site. Major Johnson told members at the annual meeting of the Pioneer Park Domain Board yesterday that he had covered tills masonry with bitumen sheeting to protect it from the weather. Pioneer Park. Raincliff, is an area of 94 acres of bush and grassland presented by Major P. H. Johnson in 1940, to (he people of South Canterbury as a centennial memorial in honour of the pioneers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23205, 19 May 1945, Page 4
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