BATTLE OF FLOWERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13716, 5 October 1908, Page 7

BATTLE OF FLOWERS.

A PRF.TTY SPL'CTACLF.. Sunny Jeifeey, peopled by many thousands of visitors, held its annual Battle of Flowers, the prettiest scene of its gala week in August last. The battlefield selected for this typically Continental fete was, as in ptevious years, th« two mile long marine drive that runs westward from St. Helier, Jeisey's capital town, at the foot of a. gentlv sloping and terraced hill, wh-c-h made a capital vantage ground.for the spectators,, The park and promenade parallel to the/ drive was also thronged. Twenty thousand was the estimated immberjihat joinedjirf the fete. ' -Happy. hundred lavishly,''and artistieaily-decoraled vehicles -were divided into eight classes. Particularly pretty, too, were the exhibits in th« children's: competitions. There were classes for four-wheeled and twowheeled vehicles, cyclists, equestrians, motor*, and emblematical cars. .Special prizes were offered for the best exhibit by visitors and by the farmers, as well as for the best wildnower decoration. The Prix d'Honneur was eventually won by a very tine exhibition ; n the fourwheeled class, representing a bride and bridegroom in a n claboratelv dec-orated victoria, i

Other'.chief prizes weie awarded 'to 1 a car repr.renting a May Day festival; to a i epresentation of "The Jersey Plough," drawn by six horses and accompanied by a party of husbandmen; and to "The Da'iry yueen," in wh-ch a live cow formed the central feature of a pieitilv decorated car.

A cease fire wgnal was followed l.v a parade of prize-winning exhibits, "the awards being handed to the winners by Mrs tiough, wife of the Lieutenant-Go-vemor.

In tli* evening tlu. M * front and pub lie parks were illumi'imed. ami after a lnojn.-na.le i-oiicf-rt bv. the hand of the Ist Kasr Surrey and thr Middlreex Hegiinem.s, a taiion was g'wn by live military baud*, und followed by a pvr<iU>.-]iuir display by Messrs I'ain. "

Oilier features of Hie day's prngramme in.-luded a confetti f.-te and' a grand ball in a pavilion pleasantly «iiu.tttd on lli<smi front near the public parks. Th,. f.;te in every way proved a great SUl ., v>s> and wa.4 gtntrally vuir.l t lie b. m „i th.' wven alr.-a.lv ln»kl.