AN APPEAL,
TO THE BOYS OF WELLINGTON - FOOD INSTEAD OF FIREWORKS. Dear Boys,— l bear sounds of the approach of the sth of November, when crackers, double-bangers, and rocket* are all the go. Now, I would like to suggest to all Wellington boys that this year we consider it a crime, to be punished by us, for any boy to send up his pennies in noise and smoke when the children — "boys and girls of Belgium" — are wanting milk and bread, and homes ; and that in every school of Wellington hand to the teachers the money we worry out of mum and dad for fireworks to go to tuck for the boys aid girls of Belgium. How doee it strike you, boys ? Let the girls in if they want to come. Now, to get down to business and make a start, and a challenge to all the other schools. Will Mount Cook "kick off?" If so, I will start the ball rolHng with half a guinea; and if you boys do not come out on top you are not proper Mount Cookers. But whofi the war is over, and our friends are in their homes again, just won't we have a night of it! We will make the timid stay indoors, or look through the windows at the bonfires, etc. — Yours till then, UNCLE TOM. 27th October, 1914.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 8
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228AN APPEAL, Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 8
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