OPINION News that businessmen in Napier had begun a service club in 1912 which would exist until the town’s population was 30,000 was not well received by a.
Napier’s main cause for civic celebration over the years revolves around it becoming a borough – which occurred in November 1874. This year we look forward.
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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.