"VIOLET DAY."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16308, 4 September 1918, Page 6

"VIOLET DAY."

i f lot Dny in Christhurch, and from an early hour a battalion of flower-sellers will offer their fragrant wares for salo in tho Square and principal streets of the cifcy £ strong committee has boon at work for ■ some time past, and so complete are ViolPt 1 " n^ m + r ts thpy h , avo that • Violet Day this year should not only t« ecl, P so 'ta predecessors. +ak lon , t<J the flower stalls, there i ?. a ca ke stall, a book stall (ut literature to please all taste# will be available) and a fancy stalL A novelty will be an oae stnll wflf b€r - °f th .,° "fytolt™ S'es'- ets tion. agam lr aid with an attracMiss Broadway has given an iced cake, decorated with viofots whiV,WH ra ? ec *. at tho cake stall, while a basST4 SSW-wffi 1 tioned in the Squaro during the day" 10 " excfted SU -f t v i ol f """Petition has exc'ted n groat deal of interest, and t is expected that th© entries in this department will bo a record in number. Hie public aro asked to sond in violets, primroses, and other Bpring flowers, freelv *3 B ¥ B r. 0 of this year'l Violet Day aro in aid of tho Red Cross Convalescent Hfome.