TARANAKI'S ANNIVERSARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 31 March 1915, Page 4

TARANAKI'S ANNIVERSARY.

Taranaki, as a British settlement, im seventy-f our years old to-day. Much wat - er has flowed alongithc bcai of the Hhntoki smcc the first ships wcrs moored'ih tb,» offing, bearing to their new home-umfcr the Southern Cross the pioneers'of settlement of one of 'the fairest lands' -rver trodden by foot of Britain's enterprisinir and sturdy colonists. Some l pf thows men and women who were . welcomwl onlv by a few Maoris on the beacß' arestill with us to-day, but tW bamf of pioneer settlers is diminishing all" too fast. It is good to feel, however;- that some remain, and better still to know that these inen and women, whoTiiiva toiled to make this' a land of smilmj? prospect and prosperity, are being appreciated by the rising generation. If is not our purpose now. to review the-go-ings of those far-off days, nor to endeavor to picture the and tribiilstfon* of the people who laid the fonndati.irai of the comfort and prosperity we t&day ■ enjoy, but merely to express the hi>p'<j that the celebration of the anniversary will be marred by no untoward iiicfd-Vit, and that those old settlers who stilTanrvivc will retain for many years- «efc health and strengthto give us from thVir store of reminiscences more interesting facts concerning the history of the province in which we live. '