DOMINION DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2195, 26 September 1907, Page 2

DOMINION DAY.

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMME. Completes arangements Have been made for the celebration locally of Dominion Day, and if the weather is fino a pleasant day should bo spent by those in holiday mood. READING THE DECLARATION. At 11 o’clock tho Mayor will read the oilicial proclamation of Dominion Day from tho fireball tower. Tho school cadets (under Captains Leslie and Olson) and tho senior puplis at the school (Standard 111. and upwards) will meet at tho school at 10.30 o’clock and march, to tho firebell. Thero will bo no parade of adult Volunteers, but tho City Band will be in attendance. SIEV WEIGHT MEMORIAL. Immediately after tho reading of the proclamation an adjournment will be made to Pool street, where tho Mayoress will unveil the fountain raised as a memorial to tho late Mrs. Sievwright and officially hand it over to tho Mayor and Councillors in trust for tho citizens. SPORTS FIXTURES.

At 10.30 a.m. tho final match in tho hockey competition will bo played, Kia Kaha meeting City. As both teams are running levol for tho Cup a good game is anticipated. In tho afternoon the rowing season will bo declared open, a small regatta being held to mark tho event. Full details in this connection wero published in our last issue. An alteration has been mado in tho crow to represent tho married men of the Gisborne club against the single men of tho club, which will now bo constituted as follows: G. R. Buscke (str), J. S. Dodds (3), C. Buscke (2), E. Swinnerton (bow). Rowers are risked by tho committee to bring their own costumes, and to bo at the boat-sheds at 1.30 p.m. The proceedings proper will commence at 2 p.m. with a procession which will be headed by the “Sprite,” the commodore’s launch, and the “Tuna” will convoy invited guests. At Victoria Domain in tho afternoon the cricket season will also be opened, a match Married v. Single being played. A team of junior footballors will journey to Whatatutu to try conclusions with the Whatatutu team which recently played against the Poverty Bay junior representatives at Gisborne.

An afternoon on the links will be spent by golfers. INDOOR ENTERTAINMENTS. The sale of work being held in the Salvation Army Barracks will be open in the afternoon, and the concert given last night at His Majesty’s Theatre will be repeated. MEDAL TO BE STRUCK. The Mayor and the chairman of the school committee yesterday received the following telegram from Sir Joseph Ward:—“As tho day will bo historical in the annals of New Zealand and of more than passing interest to the children, I have decided to have a medal struck in commemoration of the event for presentation later on to each school child throughout the Dominion. Kindly make this fact known at any function you may hold to-morrow.”

MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER. Press Association. WELLINGTON,. Sept. 25. The''Premier sends the following messago to tho people of New Zea-land:-“To-day your island home attains the proud title of ‘Dominion.’ This guerdons not alone the faithful efforts of the living, but still more the strenuous, hard, and courageous lives of many of our notable pioneers and colonists now at rest. New Zealand’s place to-day has been honorably won by the pluck, the grit, and determination of its people. May the lesson of our history preserve the purity of your race from every undesirable mixture, secure equal opportunity to all, permit no giving of privilege to any class, elevate your view of manual work so that the true dignity and ennobling influence of labor., bo Felt—o_nd shown in— a, contempt for idleness and extravagance. Trust the future of. our Dominion not to increasing wealth but rather to an ever higher manhood and womanhood, to a wider enlightenment and humanity, disciplined by the needs of industry, by temperate living, and by those healthy and beneficent tasks and trials that beset advancement, and which should be the price of all promotion in a free country. Let us be justly proud of the place we take to-day in the roll of tho King’s dominions, but lot us miiko this an incentive to something higher still—a true dominion in the head and heart of our own people.”