Michael Fowler: Mardis Gras festival farcical comedic performance
25 Feb, 2021 02:56 AM
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Crowds throng outside the Masonic Hotel on Marine Parade Napier for what is thought to be the January 1931 Mardis Gras festival. Photo Hawke s Bay Museum s Trust.
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Michael Fowler
Crowds throng outside the Masonic Hotel on Marine Parade Napier for what is thought to be the January 1931 Mardis Gras festival. Photo Hawke s Bay Museum s Trust. historic2.JPG
The annual Napier Mardi Gras festival began in 1913 and continued in one form or another for the next 80 or so years. Its founders, the Thirty Thousand Club, ran it for around 50 of those years.
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