Remember Father On Sunday

Northern Advocate, 31 August 1938, Page 7

Remember Father On Sunday

Next Sunday will be Fathers' Daya day set aside throughout the world for tlic commemoration of fatherhood.

Mrs John Bruce Bodd first conceived the idea of Fathers’ Day, when, in 1909, she sought ways and means of paying some kind of tribute ' l o fathers all over the world. Starting in Washington, the idea soon spread throughout English-speaking eoun-. tries, particularly in America and England.

Establishment of more intimate relations between fathers and their children, and also the impression upon fathers of the full measure of their parental obligations, arc the principal ideas behind the observance. Unlike Mothers’ Day, which has become universally recognised. Fathers' Day is as yet comparatively little known. Last year.- however, definite steps were taken to put this annual event on a sound footing and results disclosed that the public , will respond as widely to a Fathers' Day as to a Mothers’ .Day appeal. Throughout Australia and, New Zealand, September 4 has been selected for the observance this year, and there is every indication. both in Whangarei and in other centres,- that there will be widespread recognition of the occasion. At with Mothers’. Day, so with Fathers’ Day has come a thoughtful gift-giving custom. This year, at last, fathers all over the world will be receiving from their children —grownup, or still at school —gifts or other tokens of respect and appreciation. Nothing can compensate for a father’s years of work and careful planning for the sake of his children; it is one of these obligations undertaken cheerfully and without any thought of selfish gain. So on Fathers’ Day, the world thinks of the men whose offspring are now coming forward to shoulder the greater responsibilities of life: and in some small way, those children will, no doubt, seek to show their appreciation.

Mr. G. Brough, of the staff of Dalgety- and Co. Ltd., has received notice of his transfer to the Auckland branch. ’