HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.
Press Association. Hastings, May 23. The children of the local school have purchased a Union Jack to exchange with the scholars of Hastings, England. The flag will be saluted here at an impressiv e ceremony to be held on Empire Day, and then despatched to the historic town in the Motherland. With the flag will also be sent greetings from the local Mayor together with views illustrative of the beauties of New Zealand, Hawkes Bay in particular, for the purpose of the educational adornment of the school walls. The exchange of flags was organised by Mr E. Smithurst, Sydney, to promote Imperial sentiment.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9152, 22 May 1908, Page 5
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107HANDS ACROSS THE SEA. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9152, 22 May 1908, Page 5
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