IMPERIAL PAGEANT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 4

IMPERIAL PAGEANT

FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND. By Tclosra-ph.—Press Association. Napier, September 30. The proposal to raise £&0,000 or more for tho Wounded Soldiers' Fund by means of a HawkoV Bay Imperial Pageant, which emanated from tho Napier 30,000 Club, is being taken up with great enthusiasm. To-day at Hastings delegates from Dannovirko, Waipukurau, Waipawa, Otane, and Napier held a meeting, and enthusiastically endorsed tho proposal to hold a provincial carnival at Napier. The various districts will elect their queens and the queen polling most votes will bo declared Empress of tho Carnival, which is to bo held' on December 27 and 28. Tho Empress will roign supreme, but each of the other* pageant queens and" their courts will be represented and each court will bo allotted a distinct period in tho history of tho British Empire. 1 . The meeting strongly affirmed tho principle of a national fund, and comprehensive proposals are to be drafted with a view to centralising the funds of the Hawko's Bay and supporting tho national fund principle. Mr. Godfrey Pharazyn, of Hastings, was unanimously elected president of tho executive, which is composed of dolegates from the several districts. ■ Tho meeting expressed a desire that all parochial differences should be sunk and that Ha-wke's Bay should norlc as one man. . _ Among tho donation promises is a fully-stocked farm and a motor-car valued at £900.

• At the meeting of tho Finance Committee 'of tho Wellington City_ Council a return was submitted showing tho amount which the council had foregone in rents for the Town Hall and Concert Chamber for entertainments given for patriotic objects, from the timo war broko out up to tho end of August. Tho amount approximated £1500. The return is to be supplemented by a record of what the rents of the City reserves granted for similar purposes .would have amounted to had tho grounds been charged for in the ordinary way, and also the amount of cohtribu'Uoitij jw.vnblc to those members of tlio J>ia2 to the frqfljjn