NEW YEAR’S EVE AT WHAKATANE MARRED BY RAIN
The execrable weather the old year was ushered out with all the traditional rites and ceremonies at Whakatane on / New • Year’s Eve while new year was welcomed in with much enthusiasm. During the day a large crowd flocked the Strand, getting in some last minute shopping in preparation for anothe.r long week-end Towards eyening, the crowd became more jovial but their enthusiastic good humour was curbed by rain which developed into a fall. The programme arranged by the 'Carnival Committee for New Year’s Eve had to be cancelled, but an impromptu concert by Maori artists was held in the Grand Theatre, ■ carrying on till early Saturday . morning. Until the shops closed a gay -crowd romped in and out of each establishment to the accompaniment ■of the Whakatane Pipe Band. When the shops finally closed most of the crowd adjourned to the -Grand Theatre where they welcomed in the New Year with traditional enthusiasm.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 5 January 1949, Page 5
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161NEW YEAR’S EVE AT WHAKATANE MARRED BY RAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 5 January 1949, Page 5
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