OLD COLONISTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 11 October 1906, Page 3

OLD COLONISTS.

REUNION AT AUCKLAND,

I'IiHSS ASSOCIATION , Auckland, last night. Thy reunion of old eo’-oniats was hold D-day, and proved to bo one of lbo most endinaiastiimily at rudud events of tbo arries. S tuo IiWO invitations had burn sent out ;o known pioneers, and GOO or 700 tf them rrspo idei 1 . S>. Audrow’s Church, where Bio procoedingn began at 11 am. with divine service, literally overfl r.ved with a ptrrimi of old unionist". Address™ were delivered bv tlio Bov. D. Bruoo, D D., and the Rev. W. Beatty, M.A The lattor referred to i)'. Bruoo ns tbo Presbyterian Bishop of Australasia, a man who had done for the IVrabyieti ,n Church what Bishop S.divyn did for the Anglican. The Itjv. j. A. Luxford rdso ! W loomed Dr. Bruoo to Auck-md.

After tbo pn.'ooedinga at the churo

move was made to the Onoral Hall. The Chairman reed a telegram from the Premier, staling: "Had my pubic duties permitted of my being in Auckland a! the present, I should have been vory pi aTsod in be present at t-ho gathering, as tbero is no class of people fur whom I have greater lospeet than tbo ell colonists, many ef whom have helped to lay ihu iouudation of nur happy oinntry.” A przo of £C, granted to tbo oldost colonist m terms of tbo will of the late Mrs MeLaugblnu, was awaided to Mrs D. Coe le.