A BELGIAN "FLOWER DAY."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 4

A BELGIAN "FLOWER DAY."

A movement lias been inaugurated by Mrs .C. Seager and Miss Hawley to hold a "Flower Day" on Christmas Eve, with -the object of providing Christmas gifts from the children of Christchurch to the Belgian children who are the innocent sufferers through this fearful war.

The idea is to have a sale of flowers of all kinds in Cathedral Square during the afternoon and evening of December 24, the sellers to be children, under, of course, the direction and supervision of an adult committee. "It is proposed to have gaily-decorated stands, and to make the occasion as attractive and picturesque as possible, and to appeal to everyone who has a love- of children and flowers—the best things in all the world —to give as freely as possible for the sake of those tiny little things who are having, their childhood blighted and crushed by the awful menace of war in the land across the sea.

A Christmas gift from children to children, via the scented pathway of the flowers ! No better, no prettier idea could well have been imagined, and when the Christmas season approaches, the time of "peace on earth, goodwill to men," one knows that the appeal will find a sympathetic echo in every heart, and an overwhelming response will be the result. Christchurch would not be Christchurch were it otherwise. Helpers of the movement will not be slow to band themselves together to make the necessary arrangements, and our Christmas preparations will be sweetened by the knowledge that we have helped in a cause that called so urgently for help—the great cause of the children, which not one of us would wish 'to disregard.