FLOWERS IN THE CITY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 2

FLOWERS IN THE CITY

FOR THE PATRIOTIC FUND. On Saturday, botli in tlio morning and.in the afternoon, tlis city seemed to be alivo with flowers and vendors of flowers, and whatever end of the town one might chance to find oneself in, they were sure to be met with, the loaded trays and baskets malting lovely centres or colours that carried with them an atmosphere of delicately intermingled fragranco. Anemones that made a blaze of gorgeous colours, rhododendrons, delicately pink, white or purple, masses of primroses, cream, palest yellow and pink, violets, wattle, lilies, early magnolias and endless bunches of white and yellow narcissi offered strong temptation to passers-by till it became quite an uncommon sight to see anyone who did not either wear a button-hole or carry bunches of flow-' ers in- their hands. Motors, with flower-sellers, dashed hero and thero to different stations in the streets and practically the whole of the city must have been traversed in this way. This is about the third or fourth time that the ladies of the Star Boating Comraitteo have held a sale of flowers fir the benefit of the Patriotic Fund, and on this occasion Lady Godley had arranged for a very large supply, the greater portion of the ilowers arriving from various outlying districts, Hawke's Bay, the Wairarapa, Manawatu, and elsewhere._ As a result the ladies of the committee hr.d a very busy time, as well as their assistants who were either working with them at the Star .Boating Shed or else selling the flowers in the streets. The list of thoso who donated flowers for the sale is as follows:—Her Excellency Lady Liverpool, Lady Godley, Mesdames R. S. Abraham (Palmerston North), M. R. Dalrymplo (Bulls), W. H. and F. S. Simcox (Otaki), H. Y. Lethbridge, Liolen Abraham (Palmerston North), R. L. Levien (Feilding), F. S. Hodson, A. Strang (Palmerston North), Temperly (Palmerston North), Goring Johnson (Palmerston North), John 0. Bidwell (Featherston), Walter Strang (Palmerston North), Paul (Karaka Bay), J. G. Wilson (Bulls), Gear (Porirua), and Miss Gear, J. Barton (Trentham); H. D. Bell, Trower (Uppei Hutt), Sydney Johnston (Takapau), lan Duncan (Waikanae), J. Birch (Mai'ton), W. Barton (Feathe-rston), W. J. Martin (Martinborough), S. G. Watson (Lower Hutt), W. and C. Bidwell (FeatherEton), D. and V. Riddiford (Lower Hutt), H. Hasßell (Porirua), Plimmer (IChaudallah), 0. Johnston (Karori), S. Kirkcaldio ' (Karori), N. Kirkcaldio (Levin), M'lntyre (Levin), Hayward -'Siower Hutt), R. Keene (Island Bay), W. Stead (Hastings), Gibuon (Silverstream), Ewen (Lower Hutt), E. Riddiford (Orongorongo), A. Roberts (Lower Hutt), Purdy (Lower Hutt), Treadwell (Lower Hutt), F. Nolson (Hastings), J. Crosae (Hastings), Toswill (Hastings), Oswald Johnston, John Kirkoaldic, W. Wallis (Johnsonville),,C. Izard Hurrell (Kilbirnie), .Balcombe Brown, Steele, Drummond, Mies Johnston, Miss Skerrett, Miss Mollie Lynch (Psraparaumu), Miss ;E. Williams (Frimley), Hon. J. Duthie, Messrs. E. J. Hill, Chapman, Archibald, B. Ling (Otaki), Schwartz, Broderick, B. Smith, E. Howell, C. Hill, C. B. Trimnell, Belloyuc Gardens, .Mason's Gardens, and the School-children of Paraparaumu. ... . . The committee was very grateful to the following for lending their inotor-cars":f-Lady Mrs! Fulton, Miss Pearson, Messrs; Biicholz, E. Johitston, Wallace, and Richardson; and to Messrs. Craig and Co. for the loan of bowls, Messrs. Guerney Bros, for baskets, and Magnus, Sanderson and Co., for flower-tins. The amount realised at the sale was £87 Bs. Id., included in which is £10 L7s. Id., from the sale of buttonholes to the "Savages," who were raided at the "korero" on Saturday evening. The total sales from flowers to 'date is £154.