FRATERNAL GREETINGS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1813, 28 July 1913, Page 3

FRATERNAL GREETINGS.

HROH MOTHERLAND SCHOOLS. At the meeting of the Headmasters' Association on Saturday the following letter from the Rookery Boad School (senior, department), Birmingham, was reoeived, signed by the headmaster, Mr. Leonard Challenor: "To-day the staff and pupils of-this school have presented to the school a fine flag of New Zealand. This has been 'crowned' with a wreath of fresh, green English oak leaves, and saluted with affectionate pride in honour of tho land of the Golden South. A joyful part of our celebration is the sending of this fraternal greeting to you. It comes from tho Old Country—tho land of the Grey Mother of the Northern Seas— to tell you that we, the teachers and children of the largest public primary school in this city, pray that your own dear land may bo blessed with all the jilts which mako "a nation great and good. We pray, too, that tho time may never oome when the 'last, loneliest, loveliest' daughter-State of the Empire will sever the bonds of affection and respect by which the Motherland holds the Daughter to her. We rejoice this day not in vain boastfulness, but in glad thankfulness, that we are people of 'the blood,' members of tho same race as tho stalwart sons of the South." It was decided that the eloquent letter 6hould be received.