EMPIRE DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3766, 30 May 1907, Page 2

EMPIRE DAY.

An Appreciation of Mr Adams.

From the Feilding Star which, by the way, is edited by the Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, we clip the following :

“The farcical method of celebrating Empire Day throughout the Wanganui Education District has simply been for the teachers to close the schools and allow the the pupils to wend their ways wherever they please, merely knowing that they have been given an extra day’s liberty. The Chairman of the. Board has had in contemplation the abolition of this method of observing a day which should be a marked one in the lives of the children as celebrating the greatness of the Empire over which the Great White Queen reigned for so long, and the substitution of a series of lessons appropriate to the occasion. But in this he has been forestalled by Mr W. Adams, headmaster of the State School in Foxton, whose method of observing Embire Day at his school is an object lesson tor all the district.” [The Star then publishes the programme carried out by Mr Adams.]

The Star concludes: “We heartily congratulate Mr Adams upon the splendid manner in which he has worked out the true idea of Empire Day, and trust that the lesson he has taught will not be lost to the rest of the district.”