QUEEN ALEXANDRA DAY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 3

QUEEN ALEXANDRA DAY.

THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT. (fkosi oub own , correspondent.) LONDON, April 17. Queen Alexandra T>ay has been fixed for June ii-lth, and the celebration this year will bo on an even greater scale than previously. Tho conimitteo aim at selling 5,000,000 wild roses.

A meeting of tho committee was held yesterday, when New Zealand was represented by Mrs Herbert to whose exertions so much of the" success attending tho Dominion's pitch in Whitehall last year was due Mrs Alington is now busily engaged in getting together a strong bandof New Zealand ladies foi v Rose Day. Tho 3>ominion hns been allotted the whole of Whitehall, the Strand as far as the Hotel Cecil, and a pitch at tho Mansion House. The ladies, who will invade the streets as sellers of roses, will bo dressed in white, with white or light-coloured hats trimmed wii-h wreaths of the emblem of tho day, their own contribution to the funds. These wreaths vary in price from Is 6d to ss.

There were about 15,000 Alexandra Day women and girls in London last year. This year it is expected that there will bo nearer 20,000. A featuro will bo a motor-car floral procession, in which several hundred motor-cars will probably take part. The cars and their drivers will be docor/ited with and a charming epectacle should rosult.

Last year, £24,608 was collected uj London, whflo £25 ; 000 was tho total realised in the provinces. The Contra] Committee in London supplies the Alexandra roses, baskets, sashos, and ool-lecting-boxes to tho local committees. "Rose I>ay" secures a doubly charitable result, eince tho flowers aro made by tho cripples and blind inmates of the Cripplegato, Clerkenwell, and tba money collected goes to hospitals.