ROSE DAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 6

ROSE DAY

FOR THE NURSES''MEMORIAL FUND. Many gardens in the Wellington district will yield their choicest blooms for the rose 'fete which is to take place at fiie Town Hall to-day, and patriotic gardeners in other districts are assisting with a veritable feast of roses and otTier flowers. A large plot in the centre of the hall is to be planted out with hundreds of gaily-coloured tulips; at the root of each of them there will be a prize. By payment of a small fee patrons may select a tulip, and if lucky may unearth a treasure. The garden is to be presided over by ladies, in DutcH costumes, and the blooms of one bed are to be specially reserved for the children.

The object of the fete is to he'p the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Memorial Fund which is now being raised throughout; New Zealand. The whole of the money raised is to be invested in the War Tban, and the interest therefrom will bo available for the relief of necessitous cases from time to time as they arise. ■ Already £2500 has been collected in New Zealand and invested in the War Loan. It is hoped that a sum of £10,000 will be reached—a fitting memorial to the patriotic and self-sacrificing spirit o"f our nurses. There will be flower,' produce, ice cream, lemon, cake, and afternoon tea stalls. The fete is to be opened by Surgeon-General R. S. P. Henderson, C.8., and the opening ceremony will take place at 3 p.m.