DOMINION DAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13710, 26 September 1908, Page 7

DOMINION DAY.

AT THE SCHOOLS. Tin? Tunas u Public Schools hold their celebration oi the lirst anniversary of Dominion JJiiy yoUiday atternoon, the auth--01 ities deeming if wise to be u day ahead of the duo date in order >to be sure of haviujj a good attendance of ehildmi. ifc.auuiul weather lavomcd- the outdoor bhe>. A (supply of commemorative medal*, had been Jitt'w aided to each school and t hoc .were distributed, each 1 child, ■ young and lemviug one. The medaL* arc .*ouiewhat . larger than a. sJilliitig, and from their ligiituess must be made of the modern metal luinitiiiiuiu. They are so light, indeed, that si is probable that, not a lew will Ih> cut into to see whetner they aro not really card boat d with a. metallic coat* injj. Un one side is an inscription, within two fern fiondr.—-" J'toenteti to the childten attending the. schools _ of the Doimn ion"; and lound the margin runs: " Xew Zealand proclaimed a Dominion, September 1907."' On the other ,<dde i> a port mil or the Kiii},' mot too uvll done), in a eitei!alkiut which am the I'niou Jack and the. Zealand surmounted by a ciowu; and toujid the margin the iiiscripLion; " Kdwaid "\" 11 of the IJriibh Dominions Kuig." TIMAIU; MAIN. At I he T;maru Main School the medalwere dist limited among th«» infant* in jheir loom, an<l at 2-50 the Maudard c!a*>.e<i av -cuiblcd in the playground, in charge of then if.j> ctive teacher*. '1 he chairui'in "i the committee Kcv. A. V.. Hum ;iddn»--d a f< w word's to the children. He told them of the differentIn'tiioii Kmpire Day and Dominion Day. th* former reminding them tlmt they w« re citizen- <>f a great cmpnc ; she latter ie minding them of their roponsibilUi' s to tlie laud they liv-.d in. He pointed out that the p!<> , 'pe;iiy id :< country depended n«n upon l.ind or flic pi<-rhi<> of land or m.'iitufncitir- -. but upon the men and nomen who inhabit'<i the land;. ;ittd a> tb.-y. the buys and abb of today, would be (!»• men and women of a few y<ai* liem-i'. w h«*n 1 in y mu-t take tie ir part in making th>- Dominion. They mu-t t»ik« >.ue th'ii that ih<-y did nothing to -lome ;he Dotiiinioji.' but JiMin u. do their duty ,1-. -ji od >iti/eti>. mi that X' w Zealand would !>•• t he-l»e!'.<! and tix- h»i>pi*'-r mini tiy for their hied in it. "Tii- 'hildi'ti th'-ii »:duted lin" ilag. the inni >' k iirre d>*f t iliuf' d. i-hiVf were (jircn im th.- Doiniiii-'ii. and the iit!i< i rt.'tii»iiy -n.b-d WAIMATAITAI A- W.iimit.ii'as tise i-iuldirn «cr.- >'! ..-»■ tn!>'*-l ii i.'oin of tii. - >i lin'il ;»«d in \ ir-t .-.; tjic !!,»-. w Ir.rh .! riot "ur-t hfrtf--krp' wr!i ►pre;i-i A f«-w p.i:<nt« a'fend in! U:>- irrruioisy. Til.- h- o!!iKi*!er, Ml \V«-'.d, in.t.l a ".hot? ;«ddrr--i to the chit do-!! rxpl.lining «iiv 'h«- cJiAiiS' 1 of titlf "... .„,■!. .<:■-!• \U;>,u b.id two k:i..l» ~' . ~!..!>:<•», »oiiv i" in,; ;iitn<' s f 'r" - -*iid mdf I *nd«-r.?. inakin- ],."» for •li'-tnvdvr" »- New Z-aiui-'; 1i3.l doi-.r : f ;;j .. r , : i •(.•,,,,; f , -*-r!-f -i<h!>!i«- from L,>n-icn. i\-:c :i n n..-.: vr had crdy -oi"-

nice, of the latter cbm. and wh*n «hey heard anything ot British colonies, the? 'tippospd "them all to be of the sime char acter ** 4 h='»- own The titte "Dominion' would prerent ihit e'ror being fflwk t* New Zealand The Mite had zi\en N<*tv Zealand a great impo+t»l*ce. -o much to that Prc'dent Roosevelt hrft? talked of paymg the Dominion a visit Mr Wood called for throe dicers for the Kraij the medal* were distributed nbout 550> and th's the ceremony, S»LIH LHOOL A th- School tb« headmaster Mr Valentine:, went through the roon.i aiid gi*c each class a -hon dddreS* minted t" the capiut\ of the children ni • I> ach bpeakmg to tiie elder*, he cspla'ned rite diff*rence« m th- ol titla Lolony" and * Dominion, ' *nd why he l?tt-r lnd b en substituted foi the former 11' pointed out the uifnculty of nnduig anoun to e\preti> a Kcjdcnt of th* Di» miniou, the equivalent of the "colonist ' o f a colony, and nitird the pupi i> to their linguistic ingenuity in -o'\nig t liar puzile lio a'so remarked tJi it th" erm ' < olomsf should uoi be dloutd to paa» iu f o obtaion because th" iounti\ had 1 dlj bveu made -niiai it now w v it. bj "he c irly ' colonists. ' Ihe children thy flag iheer»d the Dominion, the nieda'b vr-rt elis.ribulc 1. and the (school was then tu>m.fc<>td IHL HIGH fcUJOOLK At th*« Boy-' Nigh "School the b«\s wer-' paraded outride' about 5 jj m . ami were addr't-ed hi the headnntser, Mr Simmer... on thi chins* of the official designation of New Zealand fiotn Lolonj" to IK ninnoii' Ihe Go\caim nt atiachtd ton ciderabl-' important e to this ■ htngc. iml ord red an ofiicnl obsenance of the da"» of the change, beptanb l 26th, 19u?. »s an annual hobdaj, and requested il.ai all oehool childi n should .coiubl* and eel' bmc* the aiHit\<,f v aj2 in «-oni- lituug mann»i *■ As a further of iom mcmorating the change, medals hid b-n rtiuck for distribution to jfl clui dion lb? cehool tiiMgu wai iun up and tht> boys taluud it the emb eiu of Jv-» Dominion Medal's >une distributed to tho>-e and Mr Suunvtb sii-l tint otbeft> were to be sent to nil h\\s who h*d at the cehool Mtice die DonmiUjii was, d<-i!u»d At the Gir!e>* b'hfMil. the Lad* Pinmpd, Mu*» Watt, the pupils and ad dre-oed tlu'in on the f-übje<r Jhc National Anthem and othei j»atnotK* *onjj , > «cu» meda'fe «ei>- d>tnbu>ed, mid the reM o) the iftenioon a" a holiday