{"id":36394,"date":"2022-02-16T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/?p=36394"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:27:42","slug":"commemoration-of-rewi-alleys-124th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/commemoration-of-rewi-alleys-124th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of Rewi Alley&#8217;s 124th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36461 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-527x395.jpg 527w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a-681x511.jpg 681w, https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/027f17cb29c113eab414581c8b9101a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>This event was held in the Rewi Alley public reserve located in Totaravale, on Auckland\u2019s North Shore on Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 10:30 am<\/p>\n<p>In spite of being a very wet morning earlier, and then remaining very blustery during the event, we had a good turnout of about 25 members and supporters including several leaders in the Auckland Chinese community.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly significant this year was the attendance of three members of the Kaipatiki Local Board (an important community arm of Auckland\u2019s Local Government). All three members gave well-researched speeches and, subsequently, we secured their support for the Local Board to commit to an upgrade and improvement of the area surrounding Lu Bo\u2019s bronze bust of Rewi Alley. This will be done in the Board\u2019s 2022-2023 financial year in time for the 125th celebrations. Last week, we received advice from the Deputy Chair of the Board that the Board has formally agreed to proceed with the work in consultation with the Auckland Branch.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:gallery --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This event was held in the Rewi Alley public reserve located in Totaravale, on Auckland\u2019s North Shore on Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 10:30 am In spite of being a very wet morning earlier, and then remaining very blustery during the event, we had a good turnout of about 25 members and supporters including several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":36461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36394"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36462,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions\/36462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}