EMPIRE DAY.

Mataura Ensign, 17 April 1912, Page 4

EMPIRE DAY.

eHUISTCHUBCH, Apf* If I f.i • Vo, ;' Siit , lon wi * h »'«Wtf«r' atl Chrisifchweli about tho prapou*%,Mefbrat* fcmpir* Day on June 2?, 4*ti : combine* the anniversaries %f the ; J\i!i« s Coronation and Qvufcti Victoria'* i Diamond) ul.iloo, Sir Joseph Warded , that at the, Imperial Conference h«£had l*v R °l- '* Bho,rld bo «-lobrat*Nii the birthday of tho. reigning Soveiftpi. He wm still of that opinion, bpliK K ; that it wan desirable to have one KmeWl. n fixco „ t . 1 »rouglioHt the Kniphv. j When Qucon Victoria died gmpirJlfev ; was appointed for May 21, 1,1,1 Wn later on fc InR Edward passed av4y a d.fhculty arose about reco^nisi.,*' %i H ..rtlKlay. A* tlio custom thmuAont tho to„ UIro W an to rcco K nise the firtl.- • V , * h ! rf - ! K«'"E So^^i K „ Iftro be a danger of „ h.ukip^v "I J«'l>rf:iyK ii all i|, OSo dates w<*e t'„ ',' 7 M P"f d- It seemed to hhAhat he l,e«t pnuiuas to celebrate Kmpire A* on tho Kmg's Birthday a ,A «-han K e the date to the birthday .flJie future suc-osxor> the Throne. "Hi to* convinced that /Empire Day wonl're-<-oivo more enthusiastic and' unitedjinnport from the people-,- t|ico« B l,«ut|S* unpiro it somo arrangement otVOht hind was eomo to. V®