CORONATION DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 391, 16 April 1902, Page 3

CORONATION DAY.

PROBABLE OPENING OF RAILWAY, ARRANGEMENTS BY BOROUGH COUNCIL.. 'At the meeting of the Borough Council last night, the Mayor read .the following telegram, which he had received that afternoon from the Hon, J. Carroll John Town ley, Esq.-,-Mayor, Gisborne.. Your letter received on the subject Of the opening of our railway to Ormond at Coronation time. I have been in communication with the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones and Sir Joseph Ward on the subject, and I have urged that it should be so opened at that time. The occasion will be one most fitting in commemoration by our district of the Coronation of our King. I am pleased ,to inform you that both Ministers are favorable to the suggestion. Kind rcS<sXdS ' J. CARROLL. Continuing, his Worship said nc thought they could depend on the railway being opened Coronation Day, and they should set up a committee to make arrangements for the celebration. (Though it was only a short time before the opening of Parliament, no doubt one or two Ministers would come up. He hoped that the County Council, Harbor Board, and all other local bodies would cordially enter into the movement. In the Old Country they had for mouths past been arranging for the Coronation celebrations. There was not a great deal of time now in which to prepare, practically only two months, the day being a bo Cr Whinray, the Mayor said that Mr Carroll had said that he would draw the Minister s attention to what was required. Cr Whinray thought they should follow the matter up. , Continuing, the Mayor .said tlul■ U«. tide would be very suitable for an acquatic display at night. No do there would be an excursion m wliiCU the school children would join. Mi Matthew Hall had a list of those who were in the district before the mass .acre,, and they would be given the first carriage on the first tram. Cr Kennedy said they should have a ■ subscription luncheon at the terminus, where speeches could he made. it was resolved that a committee o. the whole Council he set up for the making of arrangements for the celebTniorcply to Cr Mason, the Mayorsaid he did not think there was any doubt that they would have the at - tendance of one or more Minivers. Cr Hepburn said that if it was any thing like the Nuhaka promises they •must not he too sure. Cr Harding said no doubt the occa sion would he a great one, and t-h-v should have the cordial assistance 01 all other bodies. The racing cluu.v Park Company, and A. and I . Sociej would, he believed, if approached, -ii do tbeir part. „ A Councillor : And the Fanners Mayor said he hoped the Coni mittee would set to work as soon a nossible.