TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 8

TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION

Tho' ; WeHlhgt3n ,i Typbgraphica] Union has decided-to take part in the coming Labour Day, celebration procession, giving a trade 3Tsplay7 and a committee is i now 'very busy making 'the necessary arrangements. In addition to giving the .-trade"" , 'display, the committee is publishing, o'n.'Labbiir Day, a patriotic; Bouvdjiir, .opirta'ining prose relative , to "The;; Power'of "tiie -Press," "Cax ton," •"Labonr Day," : etc'.,- and verso of a patriotic character. The brochure will contain the-autographs of His Excellency- the Governor, the Mayor, Cabinet Ministers, and other notables in Wellington. The booklet is to' bo sold for a, small sum on Labour Day, and the whole of the proceeds is to he .devoted to the Mayor's Patriotic Fund and Huntly Relief Fund in equal proportidns. The card containing the original autographs is to be embellished, with an appropriate border by a local artist, and either framed or bound in leather and submitted to auction at some "patriotic function in the city, and by this means alone it is anticipated tho two funds will be considerably augmented. The success of the idea as a whole is assured, for the reasons that &ix of the principal printing firms in the city have offered to print a portion of tho brochure freo of charge, the ir.sn in the respective ■ offices giving their labour, and the three local paper merchants (Cowan and Sons, Ltd., Storer, Meek and Co., and Gordon and Gotch) have_ donated the necessary paper to print the issue, and several firms have decided to insert advertisements.