OBSERVANCE OF EMPIRE DAY.
The movement started in Auckland for jctomieenitratinig; in Empire Day the two holidays ttat are now so inadequately celebrated on. that day and the Piince of WaWfe- Bdrthidlay- has been pretty generally endorsed thiyiighbuit the ciolliany, and has toad the* happy result of drawing from, thi& AictittgrPtemieir an. expression: of his views on. thlei subjeioti. (Mir Hall-Jones is evidently at one withi those who desire to sele Empire Day givenl its _truie importantee amd signifioanioe. '>Sp_eakin'gt at.'thie Mayoral banquet in, Ohristehlurch, he said' h.e claimed the assistianee of tihb Mayor, as he would claim it from other Mkyoirs tfchirougthiout tihei doloray, to make: thie Empire Day otf' 1907 a record celelbiralbion. W« have it on the authority of Mr T-. H. Race thiat in Canada!, whidhi hiad thlei honor of origimlaitiingl its deleibraifciom, the day is thie: gireateteid holiday of th!e yelar, eolipaingri e^em "Dominion: Bay," tlhe anniversairy olf the aiuorurtiition, of tiKe Dominionl The latffiir 1 iis the oeleasiion for miarking! the TTaitrio'fc pride: of Ciamiadiiains in .their .splendid ooulnitiry, 'tat, thie ifonmeir 1 emlbifaides a -wider, gjHamdler 'field in 'that it is thfe day dediidaitad Ho the Impen-iial senitimemt. 'lib a(s therefore ho^ed that the observainioe of 'Emlpire Day will to general th'rougiHouti Nleiw 1 Zealaaid and ifflte it will b:ei madle the o'doasion of sutih deilebirlaitioins as are worthy of the gveat day.
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10525, 25 April 1907, Page 2
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