ARBOR DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 866, 16 July 1910, Page 2

ARBOR DAY.

Pnii Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board has issued a circular to chairmen of committees and headteachers throughout the Board district, in reference to the celebration of Arbor Day on Wednesday next. The circular states : ‘Tn view of the important lessons which the occasion may be made the means of teaching, the Board has resolved that Arbor Day, Wednesday, 20th July, shall be fitly celebrated at the schools. Committees will doubtless make such arrangements as will suit local circumstances, but the Board beh'eves that some such programme as the following will prove generally acceptable : (1) Assembly, National Anthem, saluting the dag. (2) Addresses by the Chairman of the Committee and other gentlemen.

(3) Rtssons by the teachers on the value of trees as private and national assets, as modifying climate, regulating the supply of water to rivers, and as objects of beauty.

(4) Songs and recitations by

pupils. (5) Pupils present to the school, pictures, books, curios, specimens, seedliugs or other suitable gilts. (6) Besson by teachers or tnends ou the methods of treeplanting.

(7 ) The junior children under the lady teachers will ornament the walls of the class rooms with the pictures, and the senior pupils will proceed to the play ground to plant trees (all the tools necessary for doing the work would need to be at hand).

(S) The Chairman to declare the rest of the day a holiday. (9) The parents and the general public should be invited to attend and the occasion might perhaps be signalised by a little social function at the school.”