MOTHERING SUNDAY.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—Permit, me to point out in connection with the reference to the keeping of “Mothering Sunday” in your issue of Monday, that the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Sunday is of IConunued in :.ex: column.)
American origin. The quaint and interesting customs that have for long been associated with Mothering Sunday are tvpically English. This day is always observed on the fourth Sunday in Lent, which this year fell on March 10. It always seems to me a pity that we alt do not observe that day, which is undoubtedly ttie historical and traditional one.—l am, etc., (j. R. BARNETT, Dean of Hamilton.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17711, 15 May 1929, Page 9
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