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Waimarino County :Peace souvenir celebrations held at Raetihi and Ohakune, in conjunction with Horopito and Rangataua townships. Official programme of three days' events, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday 1919. Waimarino County Call, printers and publishers. Designed by F & O Ltd.
- Date
- 1919
- By
- Waimarino County Call (Periodical)
- Reference
- Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1919-05
- Description
Programme cover shows the New Zealand flag and the Union Jack. At the top is a dove carrying an olive branch. Inside is a short text on peace, a list of the Executive Committee, the order of Sunday's proceedings (a church service), Monday's sports programme (including novelty races, a pillow fight, musical chairs, greasy pig, pony jumping) and evening entertainment (torchlight procession, free concert and dancing in the Drill Hall). Tuesday's programme included more sporting events and races, a baby show, and in the evening, illuminations and dancing. School children were to be conveyed free to the events in Raetihi and Ohakune from rural districts.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 224 x 120 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from Lawsons auction, April 2009.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- [Ephemera relating to peace celebrations after World War I. 1919. Folder 1]
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Offset photomechanical prints, Programmes, Booklet of 8 pages, 224 x 120 mm.
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