HER JUBILEE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 12

HER JUBILEE

CANADA CELEBRATES A GREAT PROGRAMME

Plans for the nation-wide celebration of the Dominion of Canada’s 60birthday are maturing rapidly.

Friday, July 1, this year shouM * the most spectacular Dominion in the history of Confederation. J day there will be historic field-days, picnics, and military rt ' views. By night there will be _ ■ works, torchlight processions, 10,000 beacon fires stretching Cape Breton Island to Vancou'• Island. . , At noon on Dominion Day a■ •j*®! of guns will be fired from Parliam Hill, Ottawa, that will echo acr ®*L-‘j. country in salutes fired in thegreacities of the Dominion. lh A. The Governments of Great Bn - and of the other Dominions w** l represented in Canada, and inri® _ have been sent to the United »“••• and to the Republics of South Am to have senior members of th eir - % ernments present. There wiD Canadian-American feature of tn Z in the opening of the new Bridge between Buffalo, New n and Fort Erie, Ontario. The Caw** end of this span across the • River is the scene of the last conflict between British and States troops, 113 years ago* tirD The Diamond Jubilee c f* e a *toflal this summer is the first great n “ c . event of the kind since the tenary of 1908 was held at w to commemorate the founding city 300 years before. The Premier, Mr. Mackenzie has personally taken the mitw- . creating the national or £*sJJ* H: the Dominion Day festivities. guided the Bill to incorporate tional Committee through tn gQ g. of Commons recently, and at gestion of farmer-members the membership to several gjj: agricultural organisations. provides for £ 50,000 to meet mitee’s expenses. -