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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 8

If a New Zealand city ever holds centenary celebrations it need not expect. any guidance from the Melbourne festivities on. the vexed question of the pronunciation of the word “centenary.” A Melbourne man visiting Christchurch was asked for enlightenment. His reply, bright, but hardly helpful, was: “The Duke of Gloucester called it both ‘centeenary’ and ‘cen-ten-ary' (accent on the ‘ten’)- The people of could not agree or. it, and it was fifty-fifty with them. They were given nothing official about it. I have called if. ‘centeenary’ because—well, I don’t, know, but I always call it ‘centeenary.’ ”