FIRST COLONISTS
ANNIVERSARY OF ARRIVAL. DUNEDTN. March 2.3. To-day was celebrated the anniversary of the arrival in March, 18-18, of the first ships, under the settlement scheme of Otago. Of 96 passengers who came by the John W ickliile only one (Mas Griffiths, of Tnehclutha) is alive to-day, and of 248 who came in the Philip Laing, five remain. At the celebrations this year only on of this band of six pioneers put in an appearance, Mrs W. Allan, who is now in her Both year. Services were held in the First Church yesterday, and to-dnv there was a gathering of old identities and their descendants, in the Early Settlers’ Hall.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1931, Page 2
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