TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1914, Page 3

TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION

The above-named union has decided to take part in the coming Labour Day celebration procession, giving a trade display, and a committee is now very busy making the necesaary arrangements. In addition to giving the trade display the committee is publishing, oil Labour Day, a patriotic souvenir, containing prose relative to "The Power of the Press," " Caxton," "Labour Day," etc., and verse of a patriotic character. The brochure will contain the autographs of His Excellency the Governor, the Mayor, Cabinet Ministers, and other notables in Wellington. The booklet is to be sold for a small sum on Labour Day, and the whole of the proceeds is to he devoted to the Mayor's Patriotic Fund and the Huntly Relief Fund in equal pioportions. The caid containing the original autography is to be embellished with an appiopriate 1 bolder by a local artist, and either framed or bound in leather and submitted to auction at some patriotic function in the city, and by this means alone it is anticipated the two funds will be considerably augmented. The success of the 'dea as ti whoa is assurcid, for the reasons that six of the principal printing firms in the city have offered to print a poition'of the brochure free of charge, the men in the respective offices giving their labour, and the three local paper merchants f Cowan and Sons, Ltd.. Storer, Meek and Co.. and Gordon and Gotch) have donated the necessary paper to print the issue, and several firms have decided to insert advertisements.