DOMINION DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 436, 15 September 1908, Page 3

DOMINION DAY.

At last night’s meeting of the • Borough Council the following . telegram was received from Sir Joseph Ward, Premier : “It is desired that the first anniversary of Dominion Day should be fittingly celebrated on Saturday, the 26th. In connection with this, the Education Boards throughout the Dominion are being asked to assist by having a muster of children at the respective schools at eleven o’clock in the morning of that day, to salute the flag and receive the Dominion medals. In the principal centres arrangements are being made for a military review during the alternoon. In other towns where Corps exist, it is also desired that 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 be of some assistance to you in framing your arrangements : At 11 o’clock, all schools muster in the Basin Reserve to salute the Flag and receive medals ; at 2 in the afternoon, march of troops through principal streets to Newtown Park, where a review will be held. —J. G. Ward.” A further message was received from the Premier, asking that business premises be decorated with flags. Crs* Jenks and Coley humourously suggested that the Mayor of Auckland be requested to return the flag supposed to have been sent during Fleet week ! It was explained that Saturday was a bad day for- business people to observe ; Cr Stiles moved, and it was carried, That the businses people arrange the matter among themselves.