Xmas Carnival To Be Revived: Full Week’s Gaiety

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 91, 17 October 1947, Page 5

Xmas Carnival To Be Revived: Full Week’s Gaiety

Whakatane plans to brighten the Christmas-New Year period this year with a carnival week oganised on the brightest possible scale. A meeting of over 30 delegates representative of town and district business, sports and social organisations resolved at. the County Council Chambers last night to revive the annual carnival, dormant since 1940, on a bigger scale than ever before. Mr R. T. Morpeth, president of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce presided and Mr L. D. Lovelock, town clerk and convenor of the meeting tabled the tentative programme recently published, which the meeting accepted as a. general basis on which to proceed. First move was to pass a formal resolution introduced 'by Mr C. F. Thomas, that a carnival be held. Thereupon, the meeting formed itself into a committee to carry out that purpose, with Mr C. L. Jordan as

chairman, Mr Lovelock as secretaryorganiser, Mr R. T. Morpeth as treasurer and. Mr C. Kingsley-Smith as publicity officer, and Messrs. A. J. Canning and J. Creeke official hosts.

The following sub-committees were also appointed to work out details of the various sections of the programme:—Xmas Eve Carnival, Mr R. Chapman and Mrs D. Cairns; New Year’s Eve procession, Messrs. Lovelock, C. H. Brebner, A. Abbott, H. G. Warren, G. Lodge and W. J. Simons.

Organisation of activities between Xmas and New Year will be left in the hands of existing sports and other organisations, when delegates will act with the officers appointed. Following considerable discussion of the probable cost of the tentative proposals, the meeting agreed that the raising of a sum of not less than £l5O to finance the project should be the aim. Twenty-five guineas were donated on the spot.

Further details are to be discussed by the carnival officers and subcommittee conveners on evening, October 28.