GUY FAWKE'S CELEBRATION
POOR FIREWORKS DISPLAY With the last splutter of fireworks last night went another "big day" in the minds of 'nearly all juveniles. For the second postwar celebration of Guy Fawke's Day a number of bonlires were to be seen in and around Levin, but the elaborate protechnical displays which were the order of November 5 in pre-war days were absent. Fireworks were available in the shops, but they were not the noisy and spectacular types known before the war, while the prices placed a restriction on the quantity which the average child could procure. Gone were the penny strings of crackers which so delighted the young mind before the war, and gone were the fireworks which soun'ded more like an 18-pounder being fired than crackers. Few children will be content for long with "fizzers," which burn like hothing, more than a piece of magnesium tape. With an average price of 6d each, many of the fireworks were too expensive for a good display by a single household. Around the larger fires could be seen large groups of children, evidence that they are learning in a practical way the meaning of the word cooperative.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 4
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196GUY FAWKE'S CELEBRATION Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 4
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