GUY FAWKES' DAY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 234, 6 November 1914, Page 11

GUY FAWKES' DAY.

NOVEL CELEBRATION. Press- Association. WELLINGTON, November 5. A general,effort was made by school children yesterday honouring the memory of Guy-;,' The money which ordinarily would be spent in fireworks "is being devoted to the relief of Belgian children. The suggestion which was first made in the "Evening Post, 5 y was eagerly taken up by | all the schools, and probably a very large siim will result. One-school collected £42, two £4O each, two over' £33, bne £25, and one £2O. LOCAL EFFORTS. Guy Fawkes' Day was celebrated in a; novel manner this year. A.cting on a suggestion! emanating from Wellington' many boys devoted their collections to the Belgian Relief Fund, instead of to the familiar object of purchasing commemorative explosives. Many of the boys kept assiduously to their task all through the day, singing a verse specially written for the occasion. At night there was a noteworthy absence of fire crackers, a proof that the efforts of the boys were no pretence. At Lyttelton a Darktown Band, in connection with the local defence force, assisted, and collected the sum of £8 18/2. •At New Brighton the children collected the sum of 25/-, which was handed to the headmaster of, the local school for "the-Belgian Fund v