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No 101 : April 5, 1969

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Blenheim's Centennial Celebrations

(Photos: Peter Cooper Studio)

More than 2000 people gathered for a hangi at the Koromiko deer park recently (many of them in period costume and many sporting centennial beards), in what was the first of the celebrations held to celebrate Blenheim borough's first 100 years. These pictures were taken as many attending the event stopped at the memorial mark-ing the Wairau massacre on the Blenheim-Picton highway.

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The sign tells the story.

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A view of the gathering at the memorial.

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Lagging a bit was this old lag, Des Russell.

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Max Healy believed in travelling in comfort-on this veteran Raleigh.

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Dressed for the occasion were Spring Creek lasses, Dianne and Eileen Hayworth.

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Michael Pratt and Graham Fuller of Blenheim with moke.

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Three charming ladies dressed for the times: Dianne Sara, Mrs A.Russell and Janice Tuckerman.

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This rather villainous countenance belongs to Wally Burge.

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