ROSE SHOW TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 2

ROSE SHOW TO-DAY

At 3 o'clock this afternoon His Excellency the Governor and the Countess or , Liverpool will open tlie Wellington Hose and Carnation Club's Rose Show in the Town Hall. • With a desire to assist in the urgent need of raising money for the relief of distress, the whole of the proceeds are to be devoted to the Great Britain and Ireland and Belgium Relief Fund and tho Mayor's Patriotic Relief Fund. The show of blooms pormises to be exceptionally good, as many of the foremost professional and amateur growers aro exhibiting. 'Hie Jlowo retail, in charge of Mrs. Willi© Tunibull, Mrs. Arthur Duncan, and Miss Duncan, will bo a special feature, and at this stall cut flowers, plants, and seedlings' will be ou sale. Messrs. Cooper Bros, are providing a large table of exhibits which they havo generously asked should be sold for the benefit of tho Belgian Fund. Mr. laird has given a collection of pot plants which are also to ho sold for the fund, and Mr. H. Waddell has also made a • presentation for tho same purpose. During the afte nooii au,d evening tho South Wellington Orchestral Society's orchestra will play in the Concert Chamber. At tho close of the show this evoning Mr. J. B. Harcourt, the president of the Club, will auction th« cut flowers and piiints.