More Info →Flag raising ceremony at Shannon School, July 1901

Object type:Image

Description: Mounted on green, embossed mounting board.

Written on backing board (glued to back of mounting board): “(2) Shannon School. Return to N. Clayton, Centennial Committee.”

Flag raising ceremony at Shannon School, July 1901. This ceremony occurred 12 years after the opening of the school in 1889. In this photograph an unidentified man stands by flagpole and adresses the crowd.

1 B&W photo print, mounted.

Information in 1949 Jubilee booklet (Acc.#1979.132.0002): First flagpole erected, 18th May, 1901 (replaced 21 June 1917). 18th July, 1901 the ceremony of hoisting the flag took place at the Shannon School. Among those present were Hon. T.Y. Duncan (Minister of Lands), Mr John Stevens (M.H. Reps.), the Horowhenua Mounted Rifles and the Shannon Brass Band. Speeches were made by Messrs Duncan, Stevens, Davis, Rev. McLean, Nation, Voysey (headmaster), and Lind.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”