CENTENNIAL WEEK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6

CENTENNIAL WEEK

ARRANGEMENTS WELL ADVANCED DISPLAY OF OLD ARTICLES. MEMORIAL TABLET TO BE UNVEILED. All sub-committees reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Mastertoil Centennial Committee that arrangements were well in .hand for Ihe M'asterton celebrations from March 10 to 1(1.

It was stated that the retailers had agreed to dose their shops at noon on Thursday, March 14. The chairman, Mr T. Jordan, reported that the display of old photographs, furniture and equipment in retail shops would be of great interest. It was hoped to have a local Centennial memorial tablet ready for unveiling on the principal day of the celebrations. The following bodies had notified their intention of giving their co-opera-tion in the celebrations: —Girl Guides. Legion of Frontiersmen, Women's National Welfare League, Solway College, Flunket Society, Hadlow School, Masterton Horticultural Society, primary schools, Wairarapa College, St. Patrick’s School. St. Bride's Convent. Opaki School, Masterton Savage Club. Territorial units, Maori race, R.S.A., and Beautifying Society. The New Zealand Founders’ Society wrote wishing every success for the local celebrations and offering to give any assistance it could.

PERIOD COSTUMES PAGEANTRY IN OPERA HOUSE. REQUEST FOR CERTAIN DRESSES. One of the features of the Centennial celebrations in Masterton will be a pageant of period costumes to be presented in the Opera House on Monday evening, March 11. At yesterday's meeting of the Masterton Centennial Committee, the Mayoress, Mrs T. Jordan, advised that many early period dresses had been secured but she would like to be notified if anyone could supply dresses of the period in the early nineties and from 1918 to 1924. If these could be provided they would complete the period marked by the Centennial. The charge for admission had been fixed at Is.