CENTENNIAL DATES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 7

CENTENNIAL DATES

RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY COUNCIL PROVINCIAL CELEBRATIONS. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY PROPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The period of celebrations for New Zealand’s centennial, apart from the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, will commence on January 1, 1940, and close on November 16 in the same year, according to a decision by the National Centennial Council at its meeting in Wellington yesterday. Dates Were recommended to the Government for. adoption as national centennial dates. In the following list the name in parentheses indicates the provincial authority responsible for organising the particular celebration:— Sunday, January 7, 1940: National Thanksgiving Day.

January 22, 1940: Landing of the first settlers of the New Zealand Company at Petone (Wellington). January 29 and 30, 1940: Celebration of Hobson’s arrival in New Zealand (Auckland). February 6, 1940: Waitangi. May 21, 1940: Proclamation of Sovereignty over South Island at Cloudy Bay. (Marlborough). June 5, 1940: Proclamation of Sovereignty over South Island at Akaroa. (Canterbury). October 9, 1940: Celebration of Cook’s first landing in New Zealand at Gisborne. (East Coast). ■ November 16, 1940: 100th Anniversary of separation of New Zealand from New South Wales..—A national holiday to conclude centennial celebrations. (National) Centennial Council).

The recommendation for the holding of a national thanksgiving day on January 7. 1940, is subject to approval by the churches of all denominations. Consideration is‘to be given later to a date for celebrating Abel Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand.