N.Z. CENTENNIAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 2

N.Z. CENTENNIAL

MEETING OF COMMITTEE COMMITTEE REBOOTS A general meeting, of the Opotiki. District .Centennial Celebrations .Committee was held in the Mission 11aIL recently, tlie mayor, ..Air. G. S. -Moody, presiding over a good attendance ot: members. The minutes of the previous, monthly meeting were" readl and eonfirmed. " A number of apologies for absence was received, . Mr. Moody stated J>bat .the main business of the meeting was To receive the reports 'from the conveners of the sub-com-mittees. R.ev. Hampton reported in connection with the Clnuvh services committee. He stated that' the ministers had. decided to. hold a 'special thanksgiving service in tin* Regent Hall on. the Sunday preceding tlie opening ot the local celebrations. It had been, decided that tlie collection at the service be devoted to a memorial in memory cf Rev. Voikner. -is convener of the pageant committee, JMi:. A. S. do Mon talk repotted that arrangements were well in hand. Owing to .Mr. \\. Steven’s absence, the secretary reported on the progress in regard to the iv- forming pb the town: band-... The sen el ary said that the prospects of a. good hand being. Termed appeared Very might. > As .convener of-the air pageant. Air., F. J. Short -reported that Air. J. D. Dicker had been i‘n touch with the Auckland Aero.Club to make the llec-

cssary arrangements. Air. FI. Hoi, as convener of the. Maori committee, .presented a list of his committee members and informed, the .meeting that the ' Maoris would give their lull support to the celehra-

tions. x Air. C. Tabh reported in connection with the sports committee,’ and handed in tl>e names of committeemen. Hesitid that his committee would do ad. they could to arrange suitable spens. fixtures. Airs. C. J. Fox said that she and. her committee would give all pnssiole assistance and advice, in connection with the catering side of the eoleor.-d tions. - 'I lie secretary reported that the badge, publicity and stock drive committee wcie working satisfactorily. Air. A. G. Sveve.nsen, who lias been, elected convener of the entertainment committee, said that he did not eons idler a committee would be of much assistance to tlie executive, and In* proposed that it queen carnival be held to raise, funds. He offered to convene a queen carnival committee. Itwas resolved that a queen carnival be held and that Air. Stevenson’s offer be accepted. 'The secretary reported that he. had had an interview with a representative of Qvrnival Organisers Ltd., 'Auckland, and! that the compaiu offered to conduct the whole cf the amusement section of the local celebrations. The committee decided pot. to entertain the proposal. ' v ln conniption, with the air pageant it was decided that in the event of Saturday, I'drd. Mhrch being an unsuitable dlate, owing to this date being Easter Saturday, that Saturday, -March 3(1 be ap T X>lied for. Two additional -members, Messrs, ile Montalk and 0. Tabh, were elected to the executive. The representatives of the Women’s Institute were given authority' to elect their own convener to set up a committee to carry out the necessary arrangements for the special women s institute day to be held on -March 2. Rev. Hampton advised that the (Young Farmers’ Club had undertaken a tree-planting • scheme and lie suggested that it should he recognised as a Centennial scheme.