CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 114, 24 January 1940, Page 3

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

NATIONAL ROLL OF COMMEMORATION DISTINGUISHED VISITORS SIGN

The National Centennial Roll, or the Official Visitors' 1 Book at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, is becoming already a unique document and will eventually be not only a national autograph book of historical value, but the envy of all autograph hunters in the world. All the distinguished visitors to the Exhibition—and there have been many since opening day— have signed their names in the book. , The opening pages of the Centennial Roll contain the signatures of, first. His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, and Lady Galway. Major-General B. G. 1" reyberg, V.C., C.8., C.M.G., .D.5.0., signed the book on the morning of his departure with the First Echelon froir Wellington. Another signature is that the commander of the H.M.S. Ramillies, Captain H. T. BaillicGrohman. The Roll, instituted to commemorate New Zealand's first 100 years of progress, already contains many thousands of signatures. On signing, each person is issued with a numbered Centennial certificate specially designed to show Mew Zealand's century of progress from 1840 to 1940. The certificate certifies to attendance to the Centennial celebrations at the Exhibition, and after the Exhibition the Centennial Roll Avill be placed among New Zealand's historical treasures in the Dominion Museum, Wellington.