The Anniversary of the Colony.
“ A Pioneer Settlor of 1840” writes as follows to the New Zealand Times in yesterday’s issue : —Sir,—On the 22nd of this month (January) tho first settlers who landed from the Aurora on the beach at Petone, will have been here forty five years. This day should be maintained, and kept up with a patriotic feeling that it is the anniversary of the foundation of the British colony of New Zealand, and though the original pioneers are fast fading away, it is to be hoped that children, grand, and great grand children have a strong feeling of national pride, and that they will come forward and make some suitable arrangements for keeping the anniversary. The time has arrived when the descendants of the pioneer settlers should take the matter in hand, and as one of the arrivals of 1840,1 would suggest to mv voung friends that a sufficient number form themselves intn a committee, and do what their fathers have done annually, arrange to commemorate the anniversary of the foundation of the colony.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1655, 2 January 1885, Page 2
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177The Anniversary of the Colony. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1655, 2 January 1885, Page 2
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