ANNIVERSARY DAY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 3

ANNIVERSARY DAY

Public Holiday To-morrow A holiday will be observed to-morrow in honour of the ninety-fifth anniversary of the colonisation of Wellington. On January 22, 1840, the first four ships with settlers—the Oriental, Duke of Edinburgh, Aurora, and Bengal Merchant—arrived off Petone beach, and that date has been celebrated ever since as the birth of New Zealand. To-morrow the Wellington Corporation tramways will observe the usual holiday time-table. Happy Valley, Melrose, Evans Bay, Brooklyn, Hataitai and Northland bus services will not run, but the Karori and Roseneath buses will keep a holiday time-table. Observation buses will leave the General Post Office at 2 p.m. Two cricket matches will be played on the Basin Reserve in which junior players will figure prominently. The Wellington junior representatives under 21 years of age will play a team of colts from the senior grade, and another junior team will meet an eleven representing the Wellington Mercantile Cricket League. The Kilbirnie Cricket Club will play two matches at Kilbirnie Park to-mor-row, commencing at 1.45 p.m., one against the Yorkshire Society and the other between the junior D team and the rest of the club. The team to play the Yorkshire Society will be: Christophersen, Clark, Cross, Dunn, Fear, Hastings, Kemp, Lee, Minifie, Reid, E. Ward. The Early Settlers’ Association will hold their time-honoured gathering at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon. The Wellington Caledonian Society will hold its annual picnic at Karori Park to-morrow.

Many city people will avail themselves of the opportunity to visit Picton and Blenheim afforded by the Union Steam Ship Company’s Waliine’s cruise.

The Wellington Racing Club’s summer meeting will open at Trentham tomorrow.