THE BREAKWATER OPENING FESTIVITIES AT NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XX, 16 November 1895, Page 617

THE BREAKWATER OPENING FESTIVITIES AT NAPIER.

LAST week two pictures were given of the opening of the Napier Breakwater by His Excellency the Governor. This week we ‘ follow on ’ with a couple of views of the procession in the streets on that occasion. The Governor, it will be remembered, arrived at the station at 10.30 from Wellington, and was met at the station by Mayor Swan, the Councillors and the members of the Harbour Board. A very large procession was formed, the various local bodies taking part. There were volunteers, firemen, friendly societies, aud numbers of others, so that the affair was of quite an imposing nature. The weather was beautiful, and the opening passed off in the most satisfactory manner possible. The route taken was round the Bluff road to the breakwater. On arrival there His Excellency was escorted to a dais gaily decorated for the occasion. The Mayor apologised for the absence of the Hon. Mr Ormond, Chairman of the Harbour Board, who had taken such an active part in starting the works, and read congratulatory telegrams from the Gisborne Harbour Board. Lord Glasgow congratulated the district upon the breakwater having been carried to such a successful issue, and trusted the inhabitants would greatly benefit thereby. It gave him the greatest pleasure to declare the breakwater open. Mayor Swan, with His Excellency’s sanction, christened the wharf * Glasgow Wharf.’ Charts were presented to the Governor and to Captain Waller, of the Flora. The party then adjourned for luncheon aboard the steamer, where congratulatory toasts were proposed and drunk, and a pleasant time was spent.