EXHIBITION PROCESSION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2816, 3 April 1882, Page 3

EXHIBITION PROCESSION.

Theprocession will include the Trades and Friendly Societies, marching in the following order, (says the Lyttelton Times), viz:—Plasterers, bricklayers, hibernians, butchers, carpenters and joiners, druids, tailors, sons of temperance, oddfellows, orangemen, laborer’s union, stonemasons, carriers, saddlers, ironworkers, good templars (English), maories, foresters, good templars (American), fire brigades. The various bodies taking part in the procession will approach Cranmer square from Montreal street south, pass round the square: on the western side opposite the Deanery, down Kilmore; street to its junction with Victoria street -at the Britannia Hotel, where the plasterers will take up a position, the other bodies being ranged four deep in behind them in the order stated above. The exact position that each body is to take up will be in. dicated by flags, or some other distinctive mark, placed along the road from the Britannia Hotel down Eilmore street to Cranmer square, round the western side of the square past the Deanery, and along Montreal street south to the German Church, to- which it is expected the end 1 of the procession will reach.. The.bands taking part in the proc'ession will befplaced by the marshal at intervals between .the various bodies. The procession thus formed will march to theExhibitidn building by the following route: —Down Victoria street across the bridge to Colombo street; along that street to Cathedral Square ; pass through the square behind the the God ley statue; down High street by the Bank of New Zealand ; turn westward , into Cashel street to ■ Colombo street; down that street to its junction with St. Asaph street; >:tfaen westward up St. Asaph street to the main entrance;to the building. It is expected that the procession will be nearly a mile long four men deep throughout; and contain, upwards of 4000 persons. , ,' _ ,