DOMINION DAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2290, 8 September 1908, Page 2

DOMINION DAY.

FIRST ANNIVERSARY. The Government intends that Dominion Day shall be fittingly celebrated, and yesterday the Mayor (Mr. \V. D. Lysnar) received the following telegram from the Prime. Minister (Sir Joseph Ward): —“It is desired that the first- anniversary of Dominion Day should be fittingly celebrated on Saturday. the 26th iinst., and in connection with tills the Education Boards throughout the Dominion are being asked to assist by having a muster of the children- at the respective schools at eleven o’clock in the morning of that day to salute the llag and receive Dominion medals. In the principal centres arrangements are being made for a military review during the afternoon; in other towns where There are corps it is desired that the volunteers should turn out and have a military ceremonial. I should be glad, therefore, if your Council and the citizens would co-operate with the Government in making the ceremony in your town or district a successful one. The following programme which is being arranged for Wellington may he of some assistance to you in framing your arrangenets: At eleven o’clock all schools muster in the Basin Reserve, salute the Flag, and receive medals; at two, in the afternoon a inarch of the troops through the principal streets to Newtown. Park, where a review will bo held.”