FOUNDER'S DAY MEETING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 5 June 1919, Page 3

FOUNDER'S DAY MEETING.

"DIGGERS IN BLIGHTY." ,'. The films to be shown at the .Founders* Dnv meeting in Che Town. Hall,, to-night, diould prove of exceptional interest, to ill returned men. The pictures of Sling will revive memoriesr of the hard gnielUnjs'in.tbe. "bull ring," and of 'the smartly execitod, but cordially' detested fTiocadi'.iv "Stunt,"- -which Grounded, off.-each ■jattalion'-s .imperfect day. l%p educauounl scheme at ■Hornchurch will be ■ illustrated" in a striking series of- films, ind many' will : bo astonished at th« thoroughness with; which the :,work: wa« pursued and the exc.ellenco of t,he result* achieved. Tho New Zealand-men'will ilso be. seen on 'their sight-seeing ,trip ii-round- Edinburgh, in the" Shakespeare Hut in*London—aptly decribed as th« Alecca of tlva "digger in Blighty," >ta Urockerihursv, ■ Cddford, and Boscombe. Two pictures of special interest are the "Diriklnis"' in Brocton. and tho famous Walton-on-Thanies. Theso pictures will commence sharp : at 7.30 p.m., and jjninediately following their projection- addresses "Will be delivered by. Sir James Allen and- General Richardson. Occasion will also b» taken of extending s welcome-to Mr J. L.. Hay, 0.8. F.," wh« hortly takes np ths general secretarr- ■ hip'"of "the Wellington Y.M.C.A. Mr Hay, who has for some time past been in chnrjtf of the Y.M.C.A. work in France ind Belgium, will be known to returned 'nen. and no doubt there will be a Urge number • present to renew acquaintance '■■nth with Mr Hay and the English camp. Miss Eileen Driscoll, Wellington's Jeadirifr .will* sing "When* Toil Oomc Home." and Mr George Holloway 'vV.ll accompany. "No" 'charge is 'beihu mde for . admission. The meeting, is .•itiar held 'to celebrate' the TSth anni» '"ersary of 'ho founding of the Y.M.C.A.