FINE PROCESSION
CENTENNIAL WEEK OPENS IN CHRISTCHURCH PAGES FROM DOMINION'S PAST. DISPLAY IM PLEASANT SUNSHINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Holding the gaze of thousands lining the streets in brilliant autumn sunshine. a two-mile-long procession of floats, depicting pages from New Zealand’s past, moved through Christchurch in colourful cavalcade lids morning. The procession marked th? opening of the Centennial Week celebrations and was a striking demonstration of the remarkable growth made in the city and province since those early days when the pioneers first sot their hand to the work of building a nation. In range and quality of floats, it exceeded any spectacle of this nature previously seen in the slrecls of the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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116FINE PROCESSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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