FEILDING NOTION.
: KEEPING "KOWHAI DAY/' ;' %■ (By Telegraph-Special Correspondent.) : .; Foilding, October 10..-■' , ■ The colour scheme'' in-Feil'dihg - to-day was yellow. Mfln.vwohien./and children arid many of the shop windows' showed the beautiful ;yellow bloom of the kowhai, which bas' been suggested by the local Beautifying Society- Vas ! : New Zealand's national: ilowef. ', .This means' that- 'the suggestion has'been taken up enthusiastically as far as Feilding is concerned. .In some of tho churches on i Sunday, also, the kowhai • was largely . used- m the flower bowlsj- ahdMessons: on; the flower were ;given in the two -schools': in town and in tho Kimbolton School. Next year the Beautifying Society r intends to encourage people to .plantvkowhai. as' much as possible, to help to inake : the, tree popular,' and to provide-for future requirements. Mr.Guthrie, MJV took a box of kowhai bloom "to-day from the socioty to Wellington," so that it should bo "Kowhai night" ~in::the, lobbies this evening.; Passengers 'on;; the-trains';pass-' ing through. Feilding ' : to-day supplied theniSelves with blooms from: branches near the stations, and all seemed .to think the observance of "kowhai day 1 - a pretty idea.' .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 4
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181FEILDING NOTION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 4
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